| Show I I PROSPERITY WILL ENDURE E Harlow N. N Higinbotham one of the tue merchant princes of ut f the country cou tells the Chicago Journal wh why the prosperity prosperity prosperity pros pros- pf the American nation nallon will be bo enduring And his belief is Js that the foundation of all our national riches the basis for all our hope Is agriculture You will be Interested in tho views of a merchant who Is also a n. keen observer A fertile fertile soil well tilled is a gol gold l mine turning S g out out pitying paying la ore oro all the time and 1 see Iee no possibility of oC an anything any any- thing but growth of oC pro prosperity while great developments In this line are arc going on There are arc no real crop failures these days das Once farmers did not know how and when and what to grow climatic influences were not so well known own and wheat was sown where corn should have ha been planted Now each year car there Is better bettor knowledge of agricultural conditions better machinery to harvest e t crops crons and more plentiful labor Mines s are arc al also abo o being worked better with Improved cl machinery capable of oC getting ore more quickly quick to the and Into the tho merchantable condition Railroads arc 10 kept working at or beyond their capacity to tl tim the these c c products to market and merchandise back to the smaller centers in a broader circle Including the cotton cotlon belt beU western wet west em ern mines mes the fertile Pacific slope and the tho great casen n st t there is a varied production growing gro greater andr and greater r ater each year ear year Some of or this area is s merely in the flat stages of or development In addition while a n. good man many railroads ds and industries were started with Co foreign reign capital a rapidly growing proportion of or these are 0 owned ned at home Export trade also continues to make great strides farm products leading and more equitable rates giving the farmer a greater share on export stuff sture than formerly In manufacturing and mercantile lines JInes conditions con- con never were better factories arc aro working to their capacity and forward sales of ot merchandise are the heaviest le t ever over known Even speculation over which I think improbable with recent well-timed well trust and life lire insurance agitation Is powerless it seems to me to overthrow overthrow overthrow over over- throw a prosperity so firmly grounded Curbing of or predatory interests also is going to re redound redound redound re- re to tho the general benefit and help to continue continuo an era of or prosperity through 1907 and beyond It is In our opinion one of oC the reasons why Utah will vill never suffer SUrrel from the effects of or a boom Back of or orthe the tremendous and gratifying growth of the tho mines back backof backor of or the advance In the population of or the city is the fact tact that this state has been farmed for half a century and the tho foundation of oC substantial provision of oC food tood stuffs has been made Other cities may rise and other cities may tall fall But Salt Lake is secure Other states may go forward on th the Impetus of or a mining boom I But the tho growth of or this this c city and t this ls state Is secure because tho the substantial quality of the thc farmer lies at the base of every days day's achieve achieved S meat ment |
