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Show UTAH. Utah has a right to be grateful for the blessings bless-ings of the last year. She has prospered in every field of industry. Farming hns always bpen a mint to the farmers, but this last year they must have received quite ?800,000 from sugar beets alone. So much land has been diverted from ordinary products to supply the demand for beets, that ordinary farm products are high, some out rageousty so. To buy a turkey lor Christmas was a terror for a poor family and still the farmers of this valley might have supplied 5,000 turkeys and never ielt the cost. There are awes and acres of old worthless apple trees in the valley. Had they been pruned, grafted and attended to five or six years ago, they would this year have yielded easily $400 per acre. But this is a diversion. diver-sion. The mines during the year kept up their old reputation. If the precious metal mines have fallen off a little, the deficit has been made up in lead and copper, and the increase of the product of these metals will within a very few months be greatly increased. The product from Mr. New-house's New-house's Cactus mine will be 1,51)0 tons per day, an altogether new producer. The sheep men have done splendidly, the cattle cat-tle men not so well, as beef on foot is low. This we believe is due to middle men, as the retail price has advanced rather than fallen off. But as a rule there has been a marked advance along all the lines of industry and there is no other state In the Union where the home market for every product is so good as it is in Utah. The state has been healthy where tho water has been kept pure and needed sanitary precautions precau-tions have been attended to. The outlook for the material progress, of the state was never so bright before, and thankful for the blessings of the past the people can turn to the future with confidence increased and all exultant with hope. |