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Show UTAH'S RICHES UNMEASURED S;ilt liko Kouto Ollicinl DiH-lari-s Kt-Miiirccs Kt-Miiirccs of State Surpass Imagination Opportunities which Utah is overlooking over-looking were discussed briefly this week by Fred A. Wann. general traffic traf-fic manager of the Salt Lake Route, who is in Salt Lake on a short visit. Mr. Wann declared that the wonders won-ders of Utah in the way of scenery and opportunities were hardly yet known. "In my opinion, the resources of Utah have hardly been scratched." said Mr. Wann. "If someone had told you old-timers thirty years ago that there was a mountain of copper cop-per within thirty miles of Salt Lake that wovld one day be sending to a mill tens of thousands of tons of ore and that the mine would be paying pay-ing a dividend of over $1,000,000 a month, you would have considered him a fit subject for a state ment"' hospital. Yet this has been done. "If thirty years ago anyone wo'il1 have declared that'some day ir from ten to thirty bushels of wl-e;-'. could be raised in Utah witho it rigation he would have been laughing stock of the irrigation f ;r ers of the state. A few yeirs s. every school geography had u ;!-ture ;!-ture of the natural bridge in "'.i . ia and we all thought that !: writhe wri-the one real natural bridg-n 'r. m. world. Today we know that : bridge in the east is so far ... -.-r shadowed by natural bridges in Sir: Juan county that we wonder ;f v,: ever thought of it as a nitur..l bridge. A few years ago it was believe: that this state did not offer opportunities oppor-tunities for the investor, the lifin.-seeker lifin.-seeker and the farmer in many o: us counties. Today we are lo-rim that there is not a county in tho state that does not offer untold opportunities. op-portunities. "While Utah is one of the richest mining states in the union, ii !.- only Just coming into its own ami at that the mining posslbilitio;- of this state cannot be told by any iiju'.i "With its climate, its scenery, its resources but hardly touched, T't-h is destineo to become one of the greatest states in the union." Mr. Wann said that the business of the Salt Lake Route was good and that Utah could depend on the railroad to lend every possible assistance as-sistance in the future development of the state. |