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Show HOW IS IT TO BE? There are great days for Utah in the near future fu-ture In an Industrial way. The mining situation Is more filled with promise than ever before and the promise is of developments so gigantic' that those who have been given glimpses of that promise, prom-ise, stand awed in the presence of the possible realities that to them seem certain when a little more shall have been revealed. The road from Los Angeles is expected now in eighteen months or two years. Those who ought to know best predict pre-dict that by the time the connection shall be made between Riverside and Callientes, in that same year, the output of the mines of the state will be in the neighborhood of $50,000,000. Think of a state that adds that much, in one line of business, to the world's newly-created wealth. That does not include the iron or the coal of southern Utah. The great state of this Union, the state that gives the greatest ratio of employment to men; that from raw material mixed with brains yields the greatest returns, is Pennsylvania. Her prominence promi-nence comes from her iron and coal and oil. Suppose Sup-pose she could add to them $50,000,000 from her other metals, what would she bo? Well, Utah H has moro iron than Pennsylvania she possibly has H more coal, she has beside such deposits of other j H minerals and metals, that it is clear that all that , H is needed to make more than a second Pennsyl- ' ' vania out of the state Is to continue its develop- ' ment. Another road is forging its way from the ' east and that will make available a region larger '1 than is the state of Connecticut, which is prac- H tically now a closed book. That will add to tho IH output of the mines, that will extend greatly the H area which can be cultivated. H There is hereafter to be a closer husbandry H of the waters of the state, a greater economy In ' H its use, a great expansion of cultivation. With H all the people working in harmony, with the H thought grounded in the hearts of the people that H this is for all time to bo a steadily expanding H American state, the profits from the mines would H in great part be invested within the state, and it is not hard to estimate tho glory that would be. H It lies with one organization nere whether tlw ) H hope is to be realized or not. If the promises of I 3893, '94 and '95 could be kept in good faith there I M would not be a bit of trouble. Utah would be the M empire state of all this inter-mountain region; it would draw to it the successful men and the M trade of a country a full thousand miles in diame- ter, and this city would glitter on the face of the desert, until to the new-comers eye it would seem M as did the vision of the New Jerusalem to the en- raptured vision of John. How is it to be? H |