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Show a jr r HELP THE TOWN. Everything points to a rapid development of Provo to a wonderful expansion and the establishment of many needed enterprises the natural and acquired advantages of the city warrant and make desirable. Everything Every-thing points in this direction, but there can be no satisfactory accomplishment accom-plishment if those who wn the land that is unimproved refuse to build themselves, or sell at least a part of their holdings to those who will do so aiid on terms that will encourage the improvement. The man who sits upon up-on a waste place, refusing to develop it or allow anyone else to, not only presents an obstacle to his own financial finan-cial advancement, but is a detriment to surrounding property owners, for if one part of a town, largely owned by the' do-nolhing class, lags in the march of improvement, some other part, where the owners of the land are liberal and enterprising will certainly get. the benttit-of it, letYVlng the" first to wait the still greater building up of the city to add values of its real estate, and which under a different policy, would have reaped the immediate gain. If you have two lots, then, and can find a purchaser for one of them, at .a fair valuation, who will put a substantial improvement upon it. sell and thereby add almost as much to the value of t lie remaining lot as you sold its male for, while pocketing the j amount of the sale. In this way, not by refusing to build or sell to those who would, cities are built up and real estate made valuable. |