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Show OMAHA BEE ADVERTISES UTAH AND HER RESOURCES Article by Governor Wm. Spry on Possibilities of Our Great Commonwealth. Friday, January 27 was Utah Day at tho land show being held In Omaha, Neb., and tho Omaha Bee had a largo special edition advertising Utah and her resources. Among tho nrtlcles published pub-lished by that paper was ono by Governor Gov-ernor Win. S,pry that is of such a high standard that it to worthy ot reproduction. repro-duction. It follows: No state In tho union has been more richly endowed In Its splendid and manifold resources than the state ot Utah. Its mines, literally inexhaustiblo treasuries of gold, silver, copper and other mtalls, In 1910 reached a production pro-duction of more than $88,000,000, and wo may say that Its mountains have scarcely been scratched, with overyear over-year its production of raoro than shrdl year Its production Increasing by ro-markablo ro-markablo and astonishing strides, Its llvo stock added to the stato's wealth last year moro than $20,000,000, and though young In Us manufacturing advancement ad-vancement and holding out countless opportunities for factories of every kind it still produced at homo tho valuo of $18,000,000. Its stores of tlra-bor, tlra-bor, coal and Iron which for tho pro-sent pro-sent aro conserved for a little while In out of tho way places will presently present-ly bo known across tho world, as they can easily supply tho needs of America Amer-ica for a hundred years. Our farm crops, of which wo shall speak mostly hore, In 1910, totalled In valuo nearly $33,000,000 .and yet not a tltho of Utah's measureless tracks of rich, loamy, sagebrush land, lying In Its beautiful mountain valleys has yet come under tho domain of ngrlculturo. In spito of tho production ot nearly $33,000,000 of our mineral resources wo may say that In future our agricultural agri-cultural and horticultural Interests will bo so much greater than our mining min-ing interests that tho latter, great as It Is, will be very small In comparison compari-son . Cache Valley's Riches. Cncho Valloy, on tho north, with Its quartor of a hundred thrifty towns of intelligent, Industrious citizens, nearly all of whom own their own homes and cultlvato their own farms has an area ot 1,100 squaro miles; Its population popu-lation Is 25,000; Its assessed valuation, valua-tion, $8,059,000. According to J. C. Hodgenson, agronomist of tho agricultural agricul-tural college, Cucho Valloy, with 100,-000 100,-000 acres of dry far wheat, produces an average of thirty bushels to the acre, whllo Us bannor crops yield as high as sixty-two nnd one-halt bushels bush-els to tho aero. Here, as everywhere In Utah, aro raised threo crops of alfalfa, al-falfa, from 1C0 to COO bushels of potatoes po-tatoes and twonty-flvo tons' of sugar beets, its orchards not uncommonly per ncro. Yet Cacbo Valley Is by no means equal as a fruit district as tho . : ' other portions of Utah farther south. Only n few years ago a largo portion of tho splendid lands now under cultivation cul-tivation in this valley were sold by tho stnto of Utali nt from $1.25 to $2.50 per nrce, or tnken by tho thrifty American citizen as a homestead entry, en-try, from tho bounteous hnnd of our national government. Today countless farms aro paying net Interest ot W per cent on an Investment ot from $150 to $2,000 per acre. This Is only representative of the condition, moro or less, In ovory county coun-ty in Utah .Webor county, with the junction city of Ogden ns its principal princi-pal city ,1s large enough and rich enough, with natural resources sufficient suffi-cient to make It almost an Independent empire. With a present population of 38,000 remarkably energetic, Industrious Indus-trious nnd thrifty people, Weber county coun-ty could easily support many times its presont population. Only a few years ago some of the lands which today nre valued at $1,500 and $2,000 per acre woro covered with sagebrush, scrub oak, or other natlvo shrubs, and were considered ot ltttlo valuo until the wlso hand of Industry showed what might bo done In fruit culture on the rich fertllo soils along tho base ot our mountain ranges." . Salt Lake City's Prestige. Salt Lako City occupies a still moro Important position In tho great basin. Looking down from the west upon tho beautiful valloy which It occupies with 100,000 peoplo, aro tho mines, mills and smelters ot Bingham, the greatest copper camp In tho world; to tho cast of It Is Park City, with a valuation of $100,000,000; farther, to tho south, Is tho enmp of TIntIc, with a valuation no loss than Park City; It Is surrounded by tho mines of a hundred mountains which look to It as the smelting and milling center; the products of 40,000,000 acres of tillable till-able land pay trlbuto to It and tho herds of a thousand hills. Not between tho Pacific coast nnd tho Missouri rlvor Is there a city which commands a position so important; not botween tho savago painted landscapes ot the Grand Canyon of tho Colorado and the borders of Canada Is thero a possible rival; so commanding Is its position as n mining, manufacturing and agricultural agri-cultural centor that It Is Inovltnbly marked as h city of destiny. Progress from Pioneer Days. In tho early days ot Utah's history, her handful of hardy pioneers sottlod In small villages nlong tho mountain streams. They woro far from transportation trans-portation and had not tho world-mar-kot which they novo today. They clung timidly to tho banks of tho streams and raised a llttlo wheat, a little fruit, a few vegetables, and enough hay for their horses, sheep and cattlo, each supporting, In nn Independent way as best ho could, his own family. Indeed they seemed almost afraid of tho boundless empire which stretched around them. Our mountain vnltoys In those days seemed too far from tho thoroughfares of the world, and even Daniel Webster would have loft us a thousand miles away trom tho western confines of tho nation. In time, of courso, theso brond areas woro pastured with sheep and cnttlo. With tho advent of tho railroads Into Utah, nnd tho spanning across her zones of tho great transcontinental lines, however, tho farmer began to crcop out cnutlously from the green banks of tho streams until ho learned that without Irrigation theso vast empires em-pires of untitled land might bo made to yield, with tho proper cultivation, ten, twenty-five, forty, bushels ot wheat por aero. This has been accomplished accom-plished successfully for many yenrB. but Its meaning is just out. Today dry farming is upon tho tonguo of ovory business man In our cities, every clerk nnd crnftsmnn, every politician, jfiW. chnnt, banker, speculator, wage-earner and mining man is looking with ns-tonlslunent ns-tonlslunent upon a movement which Is swooping us nil. with onthuslnBin Into In-to nn entorprlso whoso possibilities nro unlimited. For tllxty years our tardy farmer hugged tho mountain Btrenms wltlj his munll area ot land, farming for tho fnmlly, llttlo dreaming dream-ing that about him lay an emplro so brond and magnificent that ho could not grasp Its meaning ,nny ncro of which would produce, with propor cultivation, crops 50 per- cent larger than tho average crops of Iowa, No-braska, No-braska, Kansas nnd Illinois. Not until un-til It had sent Its lusty children Into Moxlco, Canada, Idaho and Colorado In search of homes; not until for a quarter of a contury a few of Its progressive and wlso hands had grown ri:h upon farms which could not bo reached by tho irrigation uuen; iioi until lis northern neighbor, Idnho, had demonstrated a hundred limes what profit and what Inspiration could bo drawn from the cultivation of vast areas with tho gas and steam tractor; not until, within our own state, a score ot progressive men had placed magnificent tracts of sage-brush land under cultivation with horse nnd machine ma-chine power, drawing down 6normou3 prot'.isj not until a panic cnino to rouse us out of our lethargy, did thn business men of our stnto begin f-i'ly to appreciate that our agricultural wealth should represent to us nn Income In-come of u halt billion dollars a year, outwelgl MiF by twenty fold all tho aggregated ag-gregated wcnlth of all our othor Industries Indus-tries . Atractlons of the State. This brings up to tho mention of some other counties besides Cache, Weber una Salt 'Lake. There are twenty beven counties In Utah, aU of which hold out tho best of opportunities. opportun-ities. Box Eldop nnd Morgan aro un-oxcullf un-oxcullf c ns fruli and fnrmlng districts. Tooelo county, with a preclpitnt'on second to no other county ,hns a future fu-ture beyond our present calculation, not only as a farming and fruit raising rais-ing section, but for tho splendid smelting smelt-ing and mining developments which aro coming, and shall come, to It. Utah county, with a population ot 37,942, with an area of 2,342 squaro miles, tho presont seat of ono of our greatest national Irrigation projects, tho Strawberry Valloy Irrigation canal, which will cover 50,000 acres of land unsurpassed in tho world, is a district dis-trict especially adapted for fruit culture, cul-ture, sugar beets, alfalfa and gardening garden-ing projects. Davis county has a population of 10,191 and is tho gardon spot of tho state, and tho fruit, gardening and canning center. Millard county, with a population ot 0,118 and an area ot 0,774 squaro miles whose principal town Is Fillmore, the first capital of Utah, holds out unrivalled unriv-alled opportunities for farrang, hog, sheep and cattlo raising. Eastern Miliary Mil-iary county alone, having 250,000 acres of sago-brush land, which at ono time was a waving field of bluo grass, wild flax and thistles, with soil deop, rich and prolific as any In the world, can support a population ot 100,000 peoplo. peo-plo. Halt of this magnificent area within a year or two will bo provided with water from tho greatest river ot tho Groat Basin, tho Sevier. To tho cast of the Irrigation cnnal aro 100,000 and moro acres which will produce, without irrigation, an average of seventy sev-enty bushols to tho ncro of wheat t.enty bushels of ryo, forty bushols or corn, 200 bushols ot potatoes, from two to threo crops of alfalfa, and is especially adapted for tho raising of alfalfa seedt tho climate, soil and mols turo conditions being peculiarly adapted adap-ted to this Industry. Inf fnct, for the last six or soven years It has been common for fnrmers about Flllmoro tc produce from $30 to $125 worth of alfalfa seed per acre. Along tho bnso of tho mountains upoa streams which urry enough water for 30,000 acres in a district unsurpassed anywhero In Utah, Colorado or Washington for tho production ot apple's, peaches, pears, cherries, strawberries and any other fruits common to tho mountain stntes, whllo tho opportunities for diversified farming and hog raising, especially, are unsurpassed anywhere. Nephl, In Juab county, is a thriving, prosperous young city, surrounded by tens ot thousands ot acres ot dry farm lands, which nro making her peoplo not only prosperous, but In many instances wealthy. Each County a Kingdom. Kvory county In Utah has Its own advantages. Iron and Garfield counties, coun-ties, while offering mnny opportunities opportuni-ties for fnrmlng Investments nt lvrlcos entirely Incommensurate with tholr values, will no doubt In tho not distant dis-tant future become tho greatest Iron mnnufncturlng centers of the western United States, whllo In Gnrfleld and Knno counties there nro millions of feet of saw timber ot tho very easiest access. In Washington county, Is a seml-troplcnl district of 2,100 squaro miles, which Is only waiting tho nd-vent nd-vent of a railroad, when It will supply sup-ply the stato of Utah nnd Bhlp to tho eastern markets fruits nnd vegetables of all descriptions threo weeks earlier than California or nny othor statu west of tho Missouri river. In fact, so manifold aro tho resources re-sources of Utah In tho mining, manufacturing, manu-facturing, horticultural and stockrnls-Ing stockrnls-Ing way that wo can only touch lightly upon them nt best. Last ot all, Utah Is tho land of opportunities. Sho has twenty million ncrcs of land waiting to do Its work for tho good of humnn-Ity. humnn-Ity. We Invito tho worthy citizen, our American brother, whorovor ho niny bo ,to come nnd build a homo within our empire. Wo nro n homo-loving people. peo-ple. Wo love Intelligence, patriotism, art and lonrnlg. Wo hnvo splendid schools In every town nnd vlllago In our state. Wo nro an Industrious, friendly peoplo. Our mountain valloys aro tho most beautiful In tho world. From tho plue-cUd summits, eovfired nlmost with perpolunl snow, como the cooling breezes In summer time, whllo our broad skies aro clear as tho skies of Italy ,nnd when tho Bun goes down below our western horizon, llko a drop curtain, is painted in gorgeous ' H colors ot red, purple, bluo and gold a , J 1 jYflV scouo of beauty which makes an ov- ! JBBBBB enlng In Utah forovcr memorable to iBtfffltl tho stranger. WILLIAM Sl'HY, Governor. !'H Salt Lako City, Utah. 'H |