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Show THE CITIZEN 4 The Paid Circulation of THE DENVER POST Last Sunday Was Bondly partly cloudy with rising temperature. theb:ENV PRICE FIVE CENTS 60 PAGES 244,866 THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Denvers DENVER. COLO.. SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 5. 1926 us, ovf a 325,00')-- MIEA fF VMM Of) SALT LAKES OPPORTUNITY SALT LAKE PAPER URGES It is a common saying that opportunity knocks at every mans door at least once during a life time and those who are able to see what they should do at the particular time are the ones that succeed in this life. That time has come to Salt Lake City and to this State! Will the people rise up and grasp the golden opportunity make of Utah a vast empire, or will we remain as we are and be saColorados Efforts by tisfied with what little we have here? There are three big zones in the United States that must be fullr developed if the country is to continue to grow. Building Moffat Tunnel Are Praised There is the great industrial and manufacturing zone along As Great Aid. Atlantic seaboard. This zone extends westward some seven or eight hundred miles and it is here that the factory wheels grind out tk manufactured products of the nation. Who is going to control the vast resources of the imperial There is the great agricultural zone, extending from the borden Rocky Mountain region? The east has been trying for years to make this territory tribuof Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, containing another large strip land some seven or eight hundred miles wide, with the great tary to it. California and the Pacific coast are trying to do the same thing, by tying the Rocky Mountain section like a tail .to river and its numerous tributaries flowing through it and near her kite. the center. These big rivers not only provide cheap transportation How would it be for the. people of the Rocky mountains to but great power as well for industrial and lighting purposes. refuse to become tributaries to either the east or the west, and get Now we come to the third zone of which our state is a part--il is the great Rocky Mountain Zone, the most important zone in Amtogether among themselves to control their vast riches for themselves? erica, yet the only zone that for some reason has been overlooked The Post has, for a, mighty long time, been arousing the busiremains undeveloped. Without this zone, our two zones to the ea nessmen and manufacturers and the men of vision inthis section of us would fare very badly. to tii c importance of among the Rocky Mountain states; Why is our zone so important? Because we produce practically Now from Salt Lake City comes a vpice preaching the same all the gold and silver used for coinage for our money; because seen and has the the has vision, there doctrine. Someone caught all the copper, lead, zinc and other metalliferous deposits produce in true its situation light. essential in the numerous manufactured products of this nation anf in Lake Salt Tn an editorial in The Citizen. City, published of the world. We have the largest mountains of iron in the world an' to Utah lure to California, sirens people the efforts of California the work fields alone coal Utah can are our supply unsurpassed. on and to tie Utah as a tributary to California, .are commented with sufficient coal for many years. Our mountains contain the only pointedly, and the writer says: available timber supply in the country. Our mountain streams an But on the other hand, were Salt harnessed with immense turbines that produce thousands of elects takers thoroly aroused to their Rocky OPPORTUNITIES. cal horsepower, and we have just started. Some of the largest w Mountain responsibility, they would the Mot join hands with. Denver-thru fields of the world are being opened up within this zone. Nowhere l at tunnel and pledge themselves in rich minerals, Ideally situated, "to .develop the Rocky Mountain the United States, or in the known world for that matter, can the coal lands and oil, timber, and agri. When, a Los Anregion. be found such a field of metalliferous and carboniferous eposits .uee siren comes up and whispers culture. j we have. in your ear Tou want io look.oiit.foi we with and Denver Shall join a stift Denver; theyre- going to rurt Yet we are unorganized, each one going his way and n twopj railroad into the Uintah basin and the intermountain states and form litionW you, icii rake ail tnc business irom ideal is conditions. It better to their an coi ing ' together intermouna an or of become part them: Gift out of here. you big .Los cotf for I.'U or exploitation by the financiers of the other two zones. The can kidnap you! Angeles siren, tain league? Denver is mighty Interested in the in among us and dictate their own terms and we must acr :)t We say we will! Mountain the of Rocky development' sii ;le obp What does our Commercial club cannot go into their territory and dictate the price of a dates, and Denverites are not-- made without our products their hands would be tied and ur I0! up of way station . timber and from yet it? about say the prob. any sensible angle you weigh Ieui. it is directly to, the interest of What does the daily press have would have to look to Europe for most of their supplies of Denver to have, the In analyzing this situation, THE CITIZEN came to to say? Salt Lake 'City sion that if the Ripvanwinkles in this intermountain country , Now is our opoprtunity to place "The people of Colorado .have bonded) tfieniselvc to the extent of some 13 and took advantage of their unique situation they won le up industrial the Lake Salt upon City million doltars to build 'the Moffat ers and not followers. We put our thoughts into print an tunnel, which is headed in the direcmap of the intermountain states. tion of. Suit take. Does that mean proved magnetic. The Denver Post took un the battl cry is This the place! the they only want to go as far went a step farther than we did. The Post endorsed all w it Lets go! Vlntah" basin? Rubbish! Denver is " in an editorial upon the subject under the caption of developin' ' ' I to to Join Territory the of Missif-sipp- i am! co-operati- on -- , Ipr-ev- er - - , on 1 . . .. |