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Show WHY NOT HERE IN SOUTHERN UTAH? (CoH tinned from first page) Around us anil beneath us are fields of mineral . (rases oils, unexplored Indications and cutcroppings of the various elements are very numerous anil remind one of n lot fC Unabridged dictionary whose pages are Indexed Walt only the hand and eye for reference. ihi n again, the blue sky, alternately bedecked with hea y storm clouds, the lofty mountain, the valleys of the several Western state?, ha! its effects upon the i liaraeter of these people who live amid ami liencath them. The character of the normal person from regions is as readable as a book. They arc deep, reasonable and as free natureil as the air they breathe. One of our Utah poets interprets it thus: I thank Thee, Lord, that Thou dost lay These near horizons on my way; If I could all my journey sec There were no chasm of mystery, No veiled grief, no changes sweet, No restful sense of tasks complete. I thank Thee for the hills, the night, I'.ii every barrier of my sight; For every turn that blinds my eye! To coming pain or glad surprise. For every bound Thou lettest nigh To make me look more near, more high. For mysteries too great to know, For everything Thou dos't not show. Upon Thy limits rests my heart, .Its safe horizon Lord, Thou art. In conclusion allow me to again draw your attention to the comparison compari-son which was given in the columns of The Record from my pen somewhat over a year ago, between our Immediate Imme-diate section and that of the vast man ofacturing center of Itirmingham, Alabama. That city is located be tween two ranges of low monuntains. Those in the south are filled with al.K'r iron and the mountains in the north are stocked with lime and gypsum gyp-sum These ranges are nine miles apart. In a period of six years, 1010 t 1C, the population increased from lltli.lIH.-) to 194990. In a period of fifteen years the smelters and steel rolling mills, everaging from one to four million dollars in equipment each, now number seven in the district dis-trict of "Greater Birmingham." It is thirty miles from a river (Cahaba) and these mills and other industries receive their water from surface wells or it is pined from the Alabama River. u distance of seventy miles. Now. when some one suggests that there is not water sufficient for the establishment establish-ment of plants and smelters in our district, let's remind them what others have done am) what we can do. With the opening of Zior. National Park will come a rapid change of conditions con-ditions and thought. Let us brace our feet and cut out all wild-cat speculation. spec-ulation. Protect and encourage the capitalist when he comes among us, remember what others have done, we can do; and least of all, prove that southern Utah has opportunities, ag- , nculturally and industrially, which the world has not dreamed of. |