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Show Good Times Coming-. "The darkness which overspreads the .business world is not nearly so dense as many feared and not a fow hoped it would be," says the Deserct News. "That tho great depression of tho pas1 half a dozen years is not relaxed nltd-gotber nltd-gotber yet and that we are not on the verge of a mighty boom aie patient facts, and as relates to tho latter' proposition woonglitnll to be truly glad of it. Booms aro so surely the precursors of stagnation and that the obb tide follows the flood tide, and do a whole lot. Of mibchibf, in the way of inculcating extravagant and dishonest methods besides. Let us have no more of them, but in their stead a condition of thing which comes of and remains by the proper cultivation of our immense icsources and a steady, profitable profit-able market for all surplus. With gold being discover ed almost everywhere, with lead steadily climbing tlio upwaid ginde and promising to reach the top notch, and above all with bountiful harvests in nil lines', it could scarcely be otherwise thaYiffhat borne tiling of a letting upiin the strain should,, occur without much further dehiylwAj great deal of this sort of thing might come to us and still the pressure that has been upon the bones and sinew o' tho land not be altogether removed. But it is being loosened surely, ai'd ere tho year is past, promises to let go a little more, perhaps considerably, and this is very gratifying. If it will only keep on so until the last vestige of the really hard times we have been undergoing under-going shall have disappeared from the land, it will be ever so much better than if the revision came all at oiijkt affi without reasonable warning." |