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Show M x r So Much WorfeAhead r npHBRB will be milch public worktor the people . r ofi" d." here, and especially the Commercial Club, ! ' to put through this next few months. A big i ypj struggle must be made to flx permanent head-' head-' ? quarters for the mining congress in this city. For '6 , three years Denver has acted as though it cared fc (GJ nothing for it, but whon the effort shall be made to withdraw its headquarters from that city Den- '' f ver will wake up and make extravagant offers to 1 1 retain it. It ought to come here, for this Is the I mining center, while Denver at best merely flanks I the great mining section; but Denver is a fighter f when any advantage is to be gained, and unless , Salt Lake prepares to make a better sho'w'ing than ' iScuver can, this city will lose the congress. L. Then the hosts of the Grand Army of the Re I public will be here next summer, and they must be received and entertained in such a way that ) when they go away each unit of the host will be an advertising agent for Salt Lake and Utah. It is a big undertaking to receive and entertain that army, but it will be worth all that it will cost and 1 much more. Their faltering and solemn march I ought to be such an object lesson as will impress - this people as they have never been impressed, for they will represent the skeleton of that other host, that in the strength of their young man- Af4 hood held native land as dear enough to die for , if' need be and so "they went rollingon the.foe, i and burning with high hopes," but only a part re-. turned, the others "lie mouldering, cold and low." 1 It ovill bo Salt Lake and Utah's duty to steady the faltering step3 of the veterans that will come. 'f Their long march is almost ended; final taps and ' the silence is Just beyond them. The Dry Farmers' congress is anotner thing to prepare for, and as yet the public does not half p appreciate its importance. A gentleman from Montana was talking here last week and we heard i him say: "Tho farmers in that beautiful chain of 1 valleys east of Butte, those valleys that run down to and merge with Yellowstone valley, had about i1, broke themselves trying to bring water upon their lands to irrigate them. Last autumn they determined deter-mined to give dry farming a trial; they ploughed $ and planted their crops, and this year they have harvested about the biggest crop on record." " Anyone who saw tho products of dry farming at the late state fair must have obtained an impres- f slon of its possibilities, and the amount of land , in this state that can be cultivated that way ex- m ceeds tenfold all that can ever be irrigated. I Then there is a vast amount of local work to see to. On Monday last the trains on a new rail- ! road west began to move. That means that tow- v ard the close of next year thore will be a new through road, running its trains from this city to San Francisco bay. These next twelve months H will be groat months for Salt Lake. Hi |