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Show r on, and the only way to get thess - thins I to advertise. In this du find age, the merchant who baa a - more full of good bargains and never tellg tbo people about them, never t advertises, In noon relegated In tbo t hands of it receiver. Just so witb cities cit-ies nnd states. If they do not lu some? L way attract capital and men. they I will rapidly decay, and will Le lost In i this present day race (if keen conipo- tition betwen communities which are ' bidding for the homo buililtts and i captains of industry. The progress of a community, as of u person, consist i In looking fir opportiinlti is w ii h which to inako a tit ill greater progress. Thanks to the last legislature, a lull ' Was passed W hich allows dibs and count leti to appropriate inoui y for ad- . vertiHlng and publicity puipos. Tbo poi.plo of every cotiiiiiiiniiy should t.ike advantage of this, and bIiouM j aid tbo Dc elopllieiit l.cu'.ue, first t0 j advertise the resouri-eu of the Main i far and wide to iroate the impiiiy; j and. Boenmi, to s -nd tbo lmiuirer booklets and literal nro explaining truthfully utid acciir.it' ly the adv.ui-tagos adv.ui-tagos (lie diflei.-nt districts of tbo state have to ofler Ibe prospect i o liOllli si eker. Hi)-;'-1 In re. ten, Is where ' the local newspaper may be u puw.-r for good. It Is Hiitpitsiug the way tbo home paper is mailed to distant friends, and hundreds of people have thus been Induced to u tile in the different dif-ferent towns of our Mate. A community commun-ity is largely judged by the upto-datedliess, upto-datedliess, now. i due: s and enterprise of its newspapers. H lilbrts the piogresslveness of the locality It rep-resents. rep-resents. '1 he editor hhotlld l ev r overlook nn opportunity to sin;; the praises of bis town and exploit Its ut tractive resources. Not only tOiould I his be done fur the eflee; that It may have on il'.i pes ihle lion resbb lit reader, but for the education of bi.s hotm1 readers. Your ciuntuutiity may bo rii h In rosourciH and yet no matter mat-ter how much outsid" advertising It gets. If the lumie people are tlli.lpplo- ; (dative, indifferent mid imount of the possibilities of their district, it will have a tendency to dlseoiirago ttio new settlor who has cuini' l this Htate, and frighten away the pros- j pe tive one. Let us then as lni'iubi-rs of the j I'tah Press Association n alie that the future development of this st.ito Is more or less In our hands that a coinmuiilty Is judged largely by the character mid appearance of Its nevvs-pnper; nevvs-pnper; that It is for us to load the people of the towns wo represent to a discovery of the hidden treasures that lie in the mountains and vaJleys of our prolific (state. Wo must forever for-ever decry indifference and pessimism pessim-ism and exult local patriotism nnd optimism. Ix-t this be ever our unfailing un-failing duty ait we labor band in band with the Ik'velopment League for tho upbuilding- tif this great utate. UTAH'S MHIIES RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES WHICH AWAIT COMING OF CAPITALIST CAP-ITALIST AND HOME BUILDER. A State Rich In Possibilities, With Products That Go to Satisfy Every Human Need, Which Has Room and Lands for Thousands. P.Y JACOII COLK MAN, fait Lake City At the quarterly meeting of the I'tah Press Association, In Id in this city April 10. the follow Iiilt address was delivered by Jacob Coleman, editor of the Juab County Times: Mr. President, members and friends of tin- Utah PiesH Association: 1 am asked to tell in 10 minutes tin- resources of the Hi uto of Utah V.' by. Mr. President, it would talc more than ton minutes to enumerate too different, products that can be raised on one of our city lots where I live ut N'cphl. And ns for tin-Mate's tin-Mate's resoutces, It would require a biHik as largo us an unabridged dictionary dic-tionary to list the thousands of Utah's products that go to natisty utmost every human need. Ours is a ma kih lieu tit s'ale. It is an inland empire within whose boundaries bound-aries of nearly S.i.uoo square inile.i, sixty-seven states like Khude Island, or two Ohios and one Delaware could bo more than comfortably ll'ted in, and would not cover lis vast an a. Heboid He-boid its majestic mountains, whose snowcapped crowns rival lu grandeur Pike's Peak of Colorado or the Alps of Switzerland. Now bore In the world, except the Innermost recesses of Kussla, can nub beauliiul coloring of mountain fuliage be found us during the tiuiumu days in our canyons and dells. Where on the globe, except lu Utah, can a hike bo found where the bather can dntitiiily float oil such buoyant waters? wa-ters? While at temliii'-c school we studied of the wonderiul natural bridge In historic Virginia, but our slate can show the Virginian four such bridges, with which his woull appear as a 1 mi dlum t i.ed culvert in comparison. ' And the no-tals and minerals of ' Utah what an endless variety! I have It on good authority that, "Of all the metals and minerals lu human 1 use, tin is perhaps the only one not found in workable quantities within 1 tho borders of Utah." Let us briefly ' run over a part of the endless list. 1 Alum is found In Utah and Salt 1 Luke counties; aluminum in Davis and Morgan counties; antimony In Pox L'lder, Piute, and Garfield counties; ' agates in largo quantities and great 1 beauty in Kniery county; arsenic in 1 Washington and Iron counties; bis- 1 muth in Juab, Sanpete and Morgan 1 counties; copper In Juab, Millard and ' vaft Lake t OHntleB with llingliam as 1 tho greatest copper producing camp ' in the world. Utah's great quantities ' of coal and iron, while now conserved lu out of the way places removed from a railroad, could supply America fur .lOO years to romo. Oil is found 1 In Sun Juan. Uintah, and other coutt- 1 tb-B. Mr. Charles I). Dickenshet ts, a ' recognized nil expert of Is Angelas, ' who has Just completed a thorough ' Investigation of the Utah fl -Ids, stated 1 tho other day. "Utah will, in my judg- ' inent, approach If It does not excel, ' Pennsylvania as an oil producing 1 Htate, ns well as In tho development ' of Iron nnd steel manufacture. There are almost Inexhaustible do- ' posits of Iron and coal lu Utah. Wp 1 will soon be calling Pennsylvania ' 'The Utah of the Last.'" In Iron county there Is an Ideal com- 1 blnatioti for the manufacture, of steel. 1 One of the most remarkable d. Kisils 1 of iron ore In the world Is stored here. ' Pxperts declare that the e tire 500 Olio,, nan tons In sight. And to smelt the ' I on and manuf icture the M"oI, there ' are In this same county, veins of coal ' uo feet in thhkiiesH. A railroad Is ' now being constructed, branching off ' the Salt Lake It'mte at Lund, and go- ig through Iron county to Utah's ' Dixie. We. therefore, expect to wit 1 ness a great influx of capital and pup- ' illation to this region of minem! inlr- ' ucles. Put this is not all carbonate of ' soda by thousands of tons is found in 1 Salt Lake county; quicksilver in 1 Sniis-te county; garnets in Too.de 1 county; gold In Salt Iako, Juab. Tooele and other counties; granite in Salt Lake, Juab. Sanete and every oher county In the state; gypsum 4 in Juab. Sanpete. Sevier and Washington. Wash-ington. I will say that at Nephl, in Juab county, we have a solid ni'mn- t tain of gypfum; one mill Is grinding i out InO tons per day; another mill t Is being p'aniie. the coming summer, J I and we have mountains enough of tt j t to keep five or six mills going In- t definitely. jl In (Jarfleld and Kane romrles there t are millions of f.-et of g d tiuilof ; awaiting the advent of a railroad to haul Ii out. Mountains of marble are j i also found On the Silt Lak- Route i at Mills, not far from Nephl. the own jl ers of a moun'aln of marble have re- i reived assay tes's showing It to belt cau il to the Vermont or Italian m ar- j bit s. They are ins'a!ling machinery. ! i and irf-t -paring to ship carload lots to j , eastern manufacturer. Mountain of t onyx, adjudged to ls the finest in the ( world, are found in Utah county. i Mica, nitre, oolite, opals, silver, an! i phur enmich to supply tbe world in i Millard. Ik-aver and I'tah countb-s; i Great Salt Lake could also supply i the world with salt without evei missing any; then there are tho to paz, tale, alabaster, amethysts, asbes tos. and nearly a hundred otber me tals und minerals that I might men turn, which but await the efforts ol man to extract them from this great Nature's storehouse. The mineral output of this state last year was more than J.'U.OOO.OOO, and its mountains have only been scratched on the surrace. Tbo live-stoik live-stoik industry produced a little over two-thirds of this amount, and its inanufactures about half. And ol-though ol-though our farm products produced an amount equaling that of tho mineral min-eral ou'put, yet In view of the fact that we have twenty two million acres of arable lands with only about one lenth under cultivation, and only about one forth th under irrigation, with the new enthusiasm for the soil, in the future, out agricultural and horticultural intensia will be many times greater than all of our other various lines of industry put together. to-gether. This state has room and lands for hundreds of thousands of settlers. U can ofler the would be honieseeUcr nil the essentials for a homestead that he Is looking for. Utah has an Ideal temperate climate. According to the recent report of President Joseph P. S'niith of the M"iiiion church, tho birth rate is MS per one thousand, tin! highest in tho world, nnd the death ratu 9 per one thousand, the lowest in the world. It has a soil that has excellent fertility, fer-tility, and. us Professor Merrill told the Califoruiaiis recently, ours is a much deeper soil. It gooB without saying say-ing that our Irrigated farms can im-duee im-duee much larger crops than the famous fa-mous wheat fields of tbo Mississippi viilb y; and even our dry farms with the new Hcientillc methods of cultivation, cultiva-tion, can produce yields from 25 to 40 per cent larger than the average crops of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Illinois. The doubt us to tbe success nf dry farming Is forever dispelled, for last year, which was the driest lu the history of this new agriculture, there was not a failure recorded where prowr methods of cultivation were employed. The people who are fanning Mutt" lands are. in three years, making them pay for the purchase price, cost of breaking up and culttva-lion. culttva-lion. Vou can produce 80 cent ?o dollar wheat at a cost of less than 2J :ents per bushel. The uUalfu raised on our irrigated lands Is recognized us the greatest of til Wage plants, and with butter nt 10 cents per pound, with $50.00 not in uncommon price Sot the meat of a liog. with prices of beef extremely hig'li, as a consequence, Utah people ire fast recognizing that fortunes cun lie mado In these Industries. Then, too, w.luit state can surpass js In fruit raising? Name, If you an, a land or fruit show that that Horticulturist, J. Edward Taylor, has not carried oft tbo prlz.es and tnv idiles? At Sacramento, at Albu lucrque, Council muffs, we were oil liroud of the tributes paid to the uil ?xcelled quality of our fruits, nnd as v!th grape nuts, there Is a reason. Mr. Smurt. of the P.. Y. U., states: 'There are five fundamental reasons iv hy Utah and her sister sta'es or Horrid Ho-rrid west can raise superior fruit and ire destined to become a fruit producing produc-ing center. Thee are: First, soils comparatively rich in itotafh nnd jihosphoric ueld; second, a water sup ply under the control of the orcbird-Ist orcbird-Ist the key note In the Intelligent production of fruit buds; third, four months of continuous sunshine, which means maximum food production ihroiiKh the foliage and high color in ibe fruit; and, fifth, a dry, clear atmosphere, at-mosphere, the most jMitent. fungicide III existence." liecause of these fru t producing qualities In our soil and illmate, our farmers an- rapidly discontinuing dis-continuing the giowlng of alfalfa nnd ereals for $2.1 per acre, and are raising rais-ing fruit Irom $'.00 to $l.0oo per acre. It would take un hour or more to tell of the better -than California climate cli-mate of Utah's Kl.xle, her cotton, her ligs, almonds, pomccraliltes, and her beiries and vegetables that will be iirought by the new railroad to our markets three weeks earlier than Cal-fornla Cal-fornla can supply them. The mag-lihVent mag-lihVent orchards and berry patches if Utah valley, the endless varle'y of 'ruits raised In Ilox Elder and Davis entities, the new apple orchards of .'ache and hundreds of others that ire being planted out In this state ahere the Jonathan Is king and the Alberta Is queen all might be do- urihed to you, but even then only a! mall fraction would be enumerated if tbe almost exhaustions resources f this "IH-Ity made stort hoiiw." j Put. g ntbiuen of the Press Aso j latlon, we might as well not have hose rich endowments and latent vealth. If we are going to keep these hings to ourselves and "bide cur Itiht under a bushel." if we could ako care of all of our products, this nlcht be well; but the reent xpu-1 athm and capit.il in this state could ' iit dream of ut.liztng In a thousand eirs Hie untold rewturcs of this rasl -upire. Ajt well might an ant ittempt ti remove the bricks and itnii. a from a dilapidated dwelling i.nii. We neil hundreds of thousands thou-sands of opu!.Vion to h"lp "lltkle iur soil that it may laugh bounteous larvcsts." We need capitalists to stablish a glass factory, to use our. dllea sand, wbii h is 90 per cent pure; j -ereal plan's and starch factorla to onsume our grain and potatoes; j nool'-n mil! to manufacture the! wenty million pounds of wool annu i illy produced; plants to handle our j mountains of sulphur, potteries for jut clay deposit, and ao on and y |
