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Show H fLack of Community Interest B Last Saturday ovening a meeting of the com- H mercial club was lield at the city hull: pardon us, Hj we should have said an attempt was made to hold H one. The failure to do so was not due to lack of H representation by important industries, but to lack H of numbers. Those great dispensers of knowledge, H the nowspapcrs. were represented by eager corres- H pondontu, ready to spread abroad the momentous H achievements of the commercial club, if there Hj had boon any. Then that great enterprise for the Hj - comfort and convenience of the people the tole- H phonowas abunJantly represented, too much rc- H presentation under the circumstances, for there H was no opportunity to demonstrate the "talking" H points of tho business. The necessaries of life, H such as food, clothing and tho like, were capably H represented by II. II. Lunt, who was prepared to H enter into a discussion of the "high cost of liv- H ing," and other equally important questions of H great concern to the public, and was only prevent- H cd from doing so because no one was sufficiently H "concornuu" to come out. And then, lastly, the H waterworks department was represented by Wa- H m tcrmastcr Samuel F. Leigh, whose thorough un- H derstauding of the needs of the citizens of the H city caused him to believe that water would be a H profitable question for even a commercial club to H discuss, especially in a dry town. H In view of the response to the secretary's call H for a meeting of the commercial club, which has H remained in a comatose state for several months, H it would seem that the people of Cedar City have H very little interest in tho question of sidewalks, H electric lights, a road to Lund, tho care of Normal H students, or the county fair. H ' Four years ago Price, over in Carbon county, H had a few moro than a thousand inhabitants, three H two-story brick businoss buildings, and a .brick '-w-nooni5tniumg. 'Theseconsti'tutod tho" buildings H worth mentioning, the remaining business struc- H tures being low framo affairs. H In addition to tho abovo improvements, the H town had a nowspaper that would havo been a H credit to a city of 10,000 population, and a livo H commercial club,- in fact the commercial club was H tho liveliest thing around tho town. Tho club oc- H cupied the second floor of ono of the brick build- H ings and had it furnished with tho most modern H furniture, oak tables, leather chairs, a ladies' re- H ccption room elegantly furnished, and other feu- B turus which clearly indicated that the men of that H town woro bent on getting anything that came H thoir way. H Today Price is tho most rapidly growing little H city in the state. Within four years it has built a M $50,000 court house, a $00,000 modern hotel, an H academy, nearly a score of modern buildings, has H Bix hotels instead of two, and will soon erect a $30,000 high school building. H The achievements of Prico can bo duplicated H by many other towns, provided they havo as eiti- H zuns men with the same determination as the men H , who are directing tho destinies of that ontorpris- H ing city. H As to what our citiaons will do, only the fu- M turo can toil. There are opportunities a plenty, B but progress will ho slow and uncertain unless the M people themselves aro willing to devote their time H jiM onurgios to their development. |