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Show PEOPLE KM ; 10 HOSPITABLE 00 MRS. SHAY TELLS OP HER VISIT VIS-IT TO CEDAR. DESCRIBES THE CITY AS SHE SAW IT. WAS DELIGHTED. OO (From tho Sterling Bulletin. Kan.) Mrs. Shay returned Sunday, after a very novel three months' experience exper-ience - Cedar City, which is just1 on :h) border of the desert lands of Utan. Cedar City Itself was one of the real wonders and delights of her trip, ' for, although thirty five miles from a railroad, it has an electric white way that actually stays lighted, from 8 p. m. to 5 a. m., moon or no moon. They have electric signs for tho stores, public drinking fountains, a Carnegie library and school buildings build-ings equal to our own here in Sterl- ing. Store buildings are even bet-( ter than our best, business blocks and free camping grounds that are absolutely MdeaW for they have a well equipped kitchen and bath room i with hot water that is at the dis- t' posal of and absolutely free to tho weary tourists. They have but one, l tho Mormon, church, that seems to t' be tho center of everything, as oven tho streets of the town are number- ed from it. It has on its grounds ;,, the huge town clock, a band stand, il -where they have a good band con- cert every Sunday afternoon, and V they have converted two old school ji buildings into dancu halls which I they govern and maintain for tho t pleasure of their young people, and fsy - here also tho Ludies Aid societies of the church have rooms equipped with ten or twelve sewing machines and here they sew for Ihe poor and needy and they' had just finished fourteen woolen comforts for the new County ho pit-il as their dona tion. On this church yard too stand some very rare specimens of the native pine and cedar trees, some of which are nearly as large as our r cottonwoods. jf Just now they aro enjoying all tho L thrills and very good prospects too pr for tho Union Pacific railroad, which ;fc have promised to build immediately !P and simultaneous with their advent tho iron mines will open up and they actually claim that they have enough iron and rteel in a thirty mile strip rto supply the world for a hundred years, and in this strip Mrs. Shay and Reuben, with othqrs, have taken out what has been named "Tho Shay Tlaccr Claim". , ! They also have coal in abundance i '-' which sells at $4.00 per ton and they raise peaches as large as I grape fruit and the highest- grade of fancy grapes sell at one and two L cent3 a pound. j if The railroad company is complet- tt ing a 9100,000 hotel building in Ce ll , dar City and expect to make of it j a a scenic center of that truly mar- jjk velous country, and Iron county is ;2 perfecting the mountain jroads 'so Ij, ' that you can go 12,000 and 15,000 r? feet up into the mountains on per- ''f fectly safe and perfect roads. !j The climate is delightful, the P . homes really elegant and the people m wonderfully kind and hospitable. |