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Show I e Published Every Saturday f;Y GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. 8CHEF8KI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: the United 8tatee, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Including postage six" to all foreign countries, within the Postal nonths. Subscriptions ip for In C, $4-5- -er 0 yr- - F TD TTflTO Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as sscond-clas- s mattsr, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Aet of March S, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 18 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah BEHIND ROCCCY RfflOUEOTAON'OJSAGljE That Idea Originated Salt Lake By The Post Is Winning Approval Publication Is Strong for Plan. rom All Sides Comes News IF TAT Salt Lakes Future, the Denver paper has had a front page story advocating an intermountain league of all the states that are in and are adjacent to the Rocky Mountains. Have you stopped to consider what such a league means to iThe Rocky Mountain League of States for mutual benefit is going this intermountain country! nis with a whoop worthy of its great import to the people of the It means that we can secure any kind of legislation we deFrom all sides comes news that the idea, originated and promul-e- d sire at Washington and at home; it means the development of by The Denver Post and Mr. F. G. Bonfils is receiving universal a region which up to the present tune has been entirely overjroval. Ae of the boosters is The Citizen, pays it high tribute on its record of looked; it means a big real estate boom; it means more facinfluential magazine published in achievement for over thirty years. It tories and it may eventually become the greatest industrial cenLake City by the GoodwinsWeek-Publishinsays editorially: ter of the United tSates because of its numerous and overof In Just how The Denver Post felt issue its Company. to mber 18, this paper reproduces about the matter may be seen from whelming resources; it means a large bank clearing house its front page the original story the big headlines across the front transact all intermountain business. on the League of Rocky In fact, it means the birth of a new nation. page published on September 5 and by The Denver Post on reproduced herewith. It shows that How great this nation shall become depends only upon the mber 5. Besides reproducing the The Post and Mr. Bonfils are up and will of the people. e from The Denver Post, the Salt going all the time and never lose an In this intermountain territory where there are no earthpublication gives a strong edi-opportunity to boost Denver and the boost to the proposition first entire Rocky Mountain region for quakes, no cyclones and the best climate in the country, indusated by Mr. Bonfils. that matter. try may flourish to the fullest extent without interruption from The i ini It g led Moun-State- s 1 declares that it is anx-t- o do lor Salt Lake what The for Denver, iyer Post has done a great happy and prosperous lint I6 sa5s it will follow The Post in taking a broad view and a look into the future for the of all the people in the y Mountain and plains territory. Ret us set out of our holes, says Walt Lake paper. We have been mating us put B to action long enough. Let tho suggestion of Mr. Fm onfils and The Denver Post and ttnize this intermountain country. e are millions of dollars waiting , f someone. Will Utah be one of the elopers of the new empire or are going to sit back and Let George Citizen mu-benef- it I. ' it? toe Citizen gives for The Denver Post originating the idea and It will be remembered that when The Denver Post started in Denver that city had about as much life in it as we now find in this city. But the owners of The Post could look into the future and they woke up the people and the city began to grow Notwithstanding . that Salt Lake City is about ten years older than Denver, yet the latter city contains nearly as many people as we have in our whole statet The Citizen is trying to do here what The Post has done in Denver wake up the people to the many golden opportunities for those who will get in on the ground floor. This vast Rocky. Mountain Empire can be established. It is here. All we need work in to do is to get together, harmony and for each other's benefit and the thing is done. MUST JOIN LEAGUE J Wien The Citizen advocated that Salt Lake City and P?. toother and develop the rich country of about m W 1.llle er , Den-S- et 700 h lying between the two cities, we did not know at tK.t we had discovered a i i gold mine. The Denver -- ady developed the gold nline,, and ever since the got a glimpse of The Citizen carrying the editorial, the elements. This is Gods country, and the person who once lives in it can never be happy elsewhere. The nations greatest treasure of gold and silver is stored here; the biggest silver and copper mines of the world are grinding out great wealth and untold riches. Governor George W. Dern of Utah is in Denver and has enthusiastically discussed a proposed intermountain league with F. II. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver Post, and Charles Boettcher, influential financier of Denver. Governor Dern is as enthusiastic over the big idea as is The Denver Post and has pledged himself and his state to stand shoulder to shoulder with Colorado and all the other Rocky Mountain states in a common fight for their rights. Without united action the west has not been able to obtain justice, said Governor Dern after lengthy discussions of the problems with F. G. Bonfils and Charles C. Boettcher and The time has now others at the office of the Denver Post. come to quit idle gesturing and to present a united front for the common benefit of all the Rocky Mountain states, which means Governor Dern pointed out many all the public lands states. points of value to the states concerned. He said that if the west does not unite for self protection, it will soon have nothing left worth uniting or fighting for. The vast importance of our mineral rights is only beginning to be recognized and the theory that they are for the benefit of all the people of all the nation is too silly and absurd for words. The day was only recently that we thought of mineral as being confined to gold, silver, lead, o |