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Show A NEW EMPIRE TO BE OPENED The Beaver Valley to be the Grandest Spot of Utah. That Is what It meuns not only the opening up of 15,000 to 20,000 arcrei of the rich Beaver valley land directly direct-ly on completion of tho first reservoir unit of Messrs. Moody and Snow's great project, but ultimately Uie successful suc-cessful development of in nil proba-llity proba-llity JS0 000 to 200,000 acres of what Prof. Merrill designates the richest and best land of Utah. It Is a mogul-flclent mogul-flclent undertaking. Tho wonder of It is, says Beaver County Nows, that th'.s groat body of land has been permitted per-mitted to Ho unfilled and neglected all these years. Ton years ago A 1) Lewis made a filing No. 1 in tno stnte engineer's office, the first under rtah's now irr'gatlon law, but In nbil ity to make others see its lie lid. ie-sulted ie-sulted in the project being abandoned for tho time belug. Since then others , have tried and complications and entanglements en-tanglements resulted that only now are being cleared so that success is assured. Everybody here should give tho new owners royal and loyal welcome wel-come vigorous, substantial support In every conceivable, posslblo way They are entitled to it. It requires of high order to spend their own men ey to tho extent of $500,000 to $1,000, 000 oven with which splendid possibilities possi-bilities of success assured. Let there be no time when they havo cause to feel that all of us aro not giving them loyal, enthusiastic support. Thoir success su-ccess and prosperity means success nnd prosperity for all of us. Thero is no doubt about Beaver county taking front rank ns ono of tho most prosperous sections of tho entire Itocky Mountain West. Not only on-ly our agricultural possibilities but our wealth of natural resources tho great gold, silver, copper, lead, sulphur and other mines and the In-credltablo In-credltablo wealth of our granite, marble mar-ble and other tine building Btones, tho lime pud the cement will entitle us to this high rank. Every section of Heaver county has untold possibilities. While coming from Minersvllle recently re-cently Mr. Moody very eloquently ex-presed ex-presed this thought. That day he had measured tho water ho had seen tho land, tested tho soil, examined tho granite and had been told about tho mines and their marvelous richness, of their production of $70,000,0000 to $100,000,000 In the last fifty years. Ho said: "'It Is plainly evident that this is ono of tho richest sections of tho world, but 100 years after we are dead and gone they will only have begun be-gun to scratch the ground and will havo Just begun in all probability to reallzo tho wonderful possibilities of Beaver county." |