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Show THE CITIZEN 4 Today we have vast of clatcritc, gypsum, gilsonite, tungsten, oil shale, illumiradium nating gas, asplialtum, potash, borax, bismuth, carnotite, ores and many other minerals not thought of years ago. Governor Dern said right in eastern Utah close to the tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande AVestern railroad and to the Green river there has recently been uncovered deposits of potash, that of competent engineers inform him will make the potash deposits means Germany look like a small thing. AVc all know what this to the future of the west and we must not have our resources tied up in a lot of hampering bureaus in Washington. The remedy for the Rocky Mountain states as Governor Dern pointed out is organized under the banner of the League of Rocky Mountain States. With a united front that such a league could present the rights of the west could be protected, its industries released from the control of a few bureaucrats in Washington and the states given such an industrial boost as they have never enjoyed or even dreamed of. "With all this publicity going on for an intermountain league, at this writing not a daily paper has even mentioned the matter in this city. The entire town is talking about it. The big dailies to the east- of us are devoting pages of space in news items, but here, what is the matter? People are rushing the news stands to get the Denver Post to get the news and on Satinurdays our office works overtime supplying The Citizen to terested people. We cant just print enough papers since we touched a match to this big skyrocket and we are going to have an intermountain league now whether our daily papers copper, zinc and a! few other, tilings. de-jios- its . all such storms as that which recently destroyed the citv, we still say that man must be a gamester to tackle such J dertaking. When we recall the floods at Farmington and "Wj many of us shudder at what might happen in this city 4 a cloudburst occur in City Creek canyon. The business 4 is backed up against the mouth of this canyon. We hope will never be a cloudburst, but one can readily see what happen if there was. Seldom does man consider the elements when huildj; home. He Appear s to squat at the most likely place, for instance the many farmers who are living practically u the dykes of the Mississippi river. The river bottom is rising and the dykes are getting higher. Some day the; will be reached, and then Svliat? We fear to think about th !,v suit. It is all a gamble with man and he is always willing to a chance wherever there appears to be a place where make a good living. Tli v( t . lie S . since TELLS STORY OF FIGHT - like it or not. Tin? Pacific Coast has become alarmed and the news is being sent out that invitations have been issued to western public officials for a conference to be held October 14. The Salt Lake Tribune' of Thursday morning gives a detailed story of the proposed conference, but says not a word about the proposed inter- mountain league. Our interests can never be linked with the Pacific Coast states. We can never compete with them in prices. They have the cheap water rates; we have the high freight rate. Railroads are charging big tariffs, telling us that it is impossible to compete in rates, and the people of this state have paid millions of dollars in freight rates in access of what firms on the coast have paid or will pay in the future. Then we have 600 miles of desert between us and the Pacific Coast, which cannot be developed and which will remain arid probably for all time. Some scientist may discover some formula to create plant and animal life on a desert, but until such time we must just forget it. To the east however there lies between us and Denver a series of mountain chains, separted by fertile valleys. In the valleys big crops can be raised because of the productivity of the soil and the many fresh water streams flowing through the lands, and in the mountains we have stored, as already stated, the numerous metals, coal, iron and oil, so essential to our in- Had all the people of this city gone to the Pantages fe and seen the weekly review of motion pictures now showing, ing Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey at work-itheir trai: quarters, there Would have been little Dempsey money in inoug mil V city. Tunney stands out so much better in his gymnasium than does Dempsey, that if one did not know both men, 1 heard of them and was to pass judgment upon the trainic pictured, Tunney would be the unanimous choice. See the pit and draw your own conclusions. The result of the fight clearly foretold in this weekly review Pantages picture. GOOD RACING Manager Kyne of the race track is to be greatly cot mented for the orderly way the horse races are being promt The present meeting is a grand success, and the State Fail sociation will be greatly benefited from this meet, which will several big bills which otherwise would have to be met by taxpayers. That our people like horse races is no question. the track will convince the most optomistic. A ih vis Oil regu NURSING THE TAXPAYER legis If farmer association officers have their way, several of present laws will be changed and new laws added iliat will on 11 P crease tax expenditures by many thousands of dollars over present and we will be no nearer to perfection than we are to The only good result that we can see in sight are a f( w extra Ms dustries. litical jobs for wise men who know more about rolled litic We must look to the Rockv Mountain States for our future. the end of the month than rendering good services. United we will advance, but singly we only become the pawns In speaking of educational campaigns that should be ca- of i of the well organized eastern sections of the country. non, Die word propaganda should be used. The iV nnerst ttai We ask the businessmen of this community to join with us got tired in mowing down the weeds and now w ll shove tloi they to boost the intermountain league that means so much to Utah. expense upon the people of the city, if they have the v way. can Dairy products are to be graded. AVell someth .ig 01$ pon but DARING MEN lie done about it. If we had a good law there wouh bo pas grade of butter and but one grade of milk. How can you get good and poor milk from a ci '? Daring men build and live in the face of death. Cities have been built at the foot of volcanoes, land has been reclaimed mit the milk from a jersey herd is richer than froi "a 011 river bottoms and Miami, built on a level with the sea, which herd, but it is all good milk. city was demolished by the infurated winds and rolling tidal AYliy cant we purchase the same kind of butte in tlifij: waves the other day, are all lessons of mans daring. ket now that is made on the farm? Not being satis1 oil 6 Millions of dollars of property have been destroyed at the market with strong and inferior butter, tin se that to rebuild. Probably the conminds would place a tax upon butter substitute.-- so Miami, but the people are going Si cement of struction portland concrete, reinformed with steel may poor man must eat the rancid and nauseating butter grad1 solve the problem and provide security for the people against ter if you please. I 1 1 1 |