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Show j THE PERMANENT CAPITAL. i Just now ihe location of the perman- ! ent capital for Utah is a live question, i This eeesion of the legislature makes i the selection of the site and it is only I fair that the fulleet. information as to I the relative merits of the competing points be placed before it. Of course j Provo is in the race for choice, and we feel anxious that her claims, which are many and great, be placed before the legislature in a strong, truthful light, i The committee having in charge this presentation is fully competent for the ; discharge of the duty placed upon its shoulders by the mass meeting the I other evening, but we desire to help out in this enterprise in every honor- ! able way possible. Surely in a matter ! of this kind geography will cut no in- ! considerable figure. In this respect I Provo has the advantage of any of the ! competing points. She is far nearer j the exact center of the new state than ; is Salt Lake, her most formidable rival. She is practically, and for this ; purpose, really the railroad center also. The two main and most important ; lines of rail run through the town, east and west and south, thus giving access I ' from every point of the compass. There ! are two other lines projected through ! her borders and - will inevitably be ' built, thus increasing enormously her railway facilities. She is in the very heart of the population of Utah while ; other points are all at the extreme limits of the territory. The future ac-j ac-j cessions to the population of Utah muBt all be planted, or nearly ; all, in the' nearer neighborhood j of Proyo. Tne future farms to be S opened, villages, towns and cit!s3 must be planted in this lovely valley t or to i the south, east or northeast" ct this i city. Of course, ap a commercial point, ! Salt Lake city will in time grow to j large proportions, but the countrj in her immediate vicinity and to the j north and west of that point can hope I for but little from the future. We are j building the permanent capital for the future convenience of the people; for the convenience of people unborn and j also people now living in eastern i homes who will flock here when the diadem of the new common-wealth j flashes upon her fair young brow, and of course we cannot afford for any rea-I rea-I eon to so place our permanent capital I at any other than the most eligible spot within our borders, i Here are found all the advantages which Salt Lake city lacks. The heart of population of the territory, the cen-j cen-j ter, geographically Epeaking, with j lovely surroundings,rich surroundings, with a benign and healthful climate, with the utmost profusion of sparkling, wholesome water, near inexhaustible j coal deposits, surrounded by lovely 1 Bcenery, sitting on the borders of the j loveliest lake of pure, sweet water in all this wide expanse of mountain j country. As if this all were not i enough we have a site of thirty acres of land on a commanding elevation j which with a very slight ex- penditure can be made into a garden of beauty outrivaling the Gardens of Gull where they bloom by the calm Bendermere, to give the territory ter-ritory without a cent of charge. We bave also thousands of thousands of lovely building sites upon which stately i homes will be built surrounded by every i circumstance conducive to the comfort j and delight of those who might come j here attracted by the capital. I Added to all this, Provo is the school center of the territory and it must in the near future become the manufact- j uring center also. Our people are in- tellisent, courteous and hoepitable. We have churches of all denominations, benevolent instituions, a social organ-j organ-j ization not inferior to many of the ' eastern cities of larger pretentions. 1 In fact and in short we have a wealth j of vast and unapproachable advantages ! which other competing points cannot Tival. We depend upon these for our I success in the race and doubt not that I the legislature will take account of l them when it proceeds to make up its , verdict In this case. |