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Show i HELPING OURSELVES H RJONKY at this time (f the year is tiirht in t his H locality, where our onlv means of getting H back the cash that is being drained from the dis- H trict continually all the year round for merehan- H disc, Liberty Loan Bonds, Red Cross Contr'bu- v tions, Thrift and War Savings stamps and cert'Ti- fl cat.es, and the various other necessities, luxuries M and patriotic activities, is from the wool and live- M stock marketed, and as a result the banks are B- having a hard fight to keep the legitimate and B vital business of the county moving, without do V ing serious injury to their customers. All three H banks are compelled to borrow at this season of L the year to tide business over until the sale of H wool at shearing time. B- Under these conditions it is difficult, indeed, to H finance or promote any kind of a new enterprise H among us. But in the face of all this it seems to H us that our citizens owe it to themselves and the m yood of our section of the country to do what they reasonably can to encourage and aid the Iron Coun- B ty Coal Company in their effort to develop an - important industry among us one which in a B few months, if it succeeds, will change the entire B aspect and financial atmosphere. Coal, is the most B important and vital commodity of the world to- P day. This is a fact that is being driven home, day B by day, and is beyond denial. Coal is going to do B more to win the world war than any other one Hf- thing .food not excepted. Without the vital en- B WW stored in coal, no nation in the world could HL produce munitions of war, or transport them to H where they must be used in order to be effectual. H Man power would be absolutely useless to this or H any other country removed from the battle front, B without the energy of coal to move them. The H lack of coal in the Eastern State this winter has H meant a loss in manufactures of many millions of H dollars. The country is crying for coal it must H have more coal; and yet here we have billions of H .tons of it lying dormant and undeveloped. B Coal is one of the chief commodities which B supply needed and important tonnage to the rail- B roads, and has made many of the railroads of the B country prosperous, besides paying enormous div- m idends to those engaged in its production. That H is why the (iovernment a few years ago withdrew H coal deposits from entry. H Unless President Fred W. Weeb of the Iron B County Coal Company and all his connections are V' cheats and fakirs (which hardly seems probable, R in the light of their standing and credentials) the B much talked of aerial tramway will he built during B the next ninety days, and the property opened on H. a scale which will warrant the building of a rail- H road to the property, and which will mean more H to this section of the country, than anything ever H before Attempted hen . This is the program tm announced by Mr, Webb during his stay in the B city yesterday morning. B During the balance of the present week only, B a limited amount of stock in the company is being B offered to local people on very advantageous con B ditions. and arrangements have been made with jH both the banks in this city to receive subscrip- ht. tions to the stock, and for the giving of terms. Y within reason, to responsible parties. It has al- V so been arranged) we are informed, to allow all B moneys paid for stock to remain in the custody of B the banks until it is needed for the payment of B development work on the property. 1 There are a great many men in Cedar City and H vicinity who can well afford to invest money in 1 as promising and stable an enterprise as this, par- H ticularly when it will be a direct benefit of such K magnitude to this particular section of count iv, H and it looks as if this were the psychological mo- m meat for them to act. People in the northern part B of the state, and in fact in many parts of the H United States, are subscribing generously for the BH stock, as an investment, pure and simple, not- Hf withstanding another section of the country far B removed from them will reap the principal bene B- lit of the great industrial activity that will result. B gBMSfr'-' -- - Surely, then, men having interests and property here can see a double value to be derived from an invstment in the stock. We trust that in the present instance, aR in many others on former occasions, the people of Vnr City and Iron county, will be found to be patriotic, enterprising and ready to do their part for the support and encouragement of any worthy object which promises to promote the welfare of the country and people at large. m |