Show STATE HOUSE AND GOOD There Thero is la oYer every reason to believe th the legislature will wm adopt a a. Joint memorial memorial me me- morial moria-I to congress asking for tor the tho grant of ot two or three million acres o of arid land to tho the state of ot Utah to ho be e. e sold and the proceeds applied equally to tho construction of f a R. capitol building building build build- I ing and tho the Improving improvIng- of or the roads of or ortho tho the state Correspondence ha had with members of It congress lends color to tho belief that tho the government will grant at least two million acres The land weare we wo are TO informed can cnn bo be sold for at least two VO dollars an acre It seems reasonable reasonable reason reason- able to that the tho state may realize realIze real real- I ize Ize two dollars an acre from froIn this source and that a So capitol building can bo ho erected without expense ense to tho the peo peo- pIe and that a large Iorge amount of ot mono mono money can be bo a added ded to the fund for tor the building of ot good roads tho the project promises promise BO RO much of ot benefit to the government that thero there should bo ho no objection to tho the plan Men fully acquainted with the tue project declare that in ten years years' time tho the arid lands of or the state will have lave diminished by half hale under the operation operation opera opera- tion Uon of or this measure Dry farming hav tho effect in a D. very few tew cw years to make tho now arl arid tracts more habItable hab habitable hab- hab so 50 that thoro there wilt will be bo homes nn and villages where there is la now nothing hut but sagebrush And this land Intervening intervening intervening inter inter- between tho tracts dedicated to S. the illo J state for tor this sale an and the tho conso- conso I mont cultivation will come Into demand demand de de- dc- dc mand by tho the actual settlers settlers persons persons who now could not hope to reside upon tho ho land while perfecting title It will make millions of or acres available for tor actual and profitable homestead entry Improved roads too will wUl vastly In Increase Increase In- In crease tho tim desirability of ot all tho the land remaining unsold Many now isolated settlements will be bo connected and farm properties will Improve in condition con- con by tho the very presence of or the roads in their neighborhood as the profits of ot farming will increase with Uh tho cane caso of oe reaching market And It Is not easy to measure th the benefit a a. capitol building would bo be to the tho state Nothing will so completely erase the tho memory of or that old Salt Lake Lak Tribune lie that Utah is a a. community community ity of ot criminals No ono one passing Salt lake Lako no one ono visiting the city and seeing the now state house will easily believe o Utah should hould bo painted black blacken on en the map of ot the tho nation Besides It will be economy for tor the state to own its own homo home County and city need all the room in tho the Joint building Tho The scattered offices of ot tho the state here and everywhere about town will b bo bG a assembled under tho the states state's tat 3 own root roof as aa they should boo bo And tho in 1 its every department will take lake its stand with tho best and foremost fore tore most moat o oC the nation the worth and tho work ot of it have earned it a I. I place laco I |