Show utah has day at the show In oratory and song bong the wealth and attractiveness of utah which is is so BO handsomely represented at the land show were ly exploited yesterday by a spleet select following of the sturdiest diest and most prominent young men of that state it was utah day at the land show and the re representatives pre senta tives of that state gave one of the most interesting programs yet arc presented s 2 ante d the principal speaker was wae clinton D ray bay of salt lake city who drew a beautiful word picture of the vallys valleys vall ys and mountains lakes farms and cities of his state the program was opened with the utah state song sung by a chorus of line fine looking men M en from that state who are here in connection with the exhibits Music was also given by the hawaiian singers W D livi who is widely known 1 as an all agricultural d ersan r I e I 1 V an address 1 of a 1 do M iray 1 A an 1 c b 6 Z t 6 if ea Sf VO P eS that exists in his is slate sif and 0 y also took oco occasion aslon to pay cow coni aliments ments in behalf of the state of utah to 0 0 rosewater Kose water g general n manager of tile show mr reson ped in a few well chosen words after which the principal address was delivered by clinton n T D ray who sa said id in part tk great as ha has been the progress we have made in the building up of the gre great grat at empire of the west we are just beginning bp ginning to feel tile the solidarity of the exhaustless hauet haust less possibilities of wealth which unite the interests int rests of omalia omaha and salt lake city of utah colorado colo rado idalio idaho california alifornia 0 and nebraska with all the other great states of the west we vve tire are just beginning to feel fe el that t ie ic building up of our furnis farms in utah will build ap this city of omaha that our int interests rests are mutual that thab where wo we progress you progress that where we falter you falter WEST FROM OMAHA history repeats itself fifty four years ago my people among the hardiest handiest har diest build band of pioneers that ever set out to establish a sovereign state started west from council bluffs and hewed their way through trackless mountain wastes for days clear through from the missouri river across the broad plains of nebraska and wyoming and over the continental divide down into the great basin babin where they established in the midst of tho the beautiful mountain valleys of utah an empire of wealth which has lead rapidly to the building up of the great west all glory ta those sturdy men and all glory to the pioneer not only who blazes the trail through the desert and the forest but to the the of industry of thought tho the pioneer such as luther burbank who makes it possible by the genius or scientific work to make possible the cultivation of millions of acre which shall feed humanity for all time all lionor honor to such men as prof shaw prof buffan dr and all the men who hive lent their genius for the advancement van cement of science wherever it will redound to the benidt of humanity let us pay our respects and tribute to such men as have conceived and carried out successfully this great enterprise the omaha land show let us not forget that such men Ps as rosewater Bose water and paisley with their av associates so clates are the men who 1 b haste as 1 on 1 n t they h e i advancement d y a neeri of chiv v as e J wr ia th gigantic gigan tid p plan n 0 co ij ing the th e great states af f the nesb in a movement which shall ultimately ti bring them to a tug of war in bif pulling ili i n g till all the wealth and power of the american people which is possible to use in the building up of omaha and salt lake city of utah and the great at west LOOK TO THE FUTURE let us not forget however ii our eagerness to build an all empire that it will be forever built in them the li likeness kenes of its Jo founders let us kee keep p our eyo eye upon the far future and while we are r striving to build the greatest commonwealth on earth let us deaver endeavor en to build it right let us select if possible and encourage thi the se settlement of our country by the strongest the est the cleanest and the best bert blood of the american continent and the world we shall build after our own likeness take the philosopher blindfolded into the schools the universities the churches the manufacturing houses and the business places placer of salt lake city or and lie he will tell you without meeting a man the manner of people that you are everything in your great city is suggestive of largeness bargone ss of greatest ideas great business enterprises your yo ur architecture is gothic in its style suggestive of the bigness of youth yet not quite fine enough in n some instances the temples and cities the churches and schools the gardens gardelis and farms of utah suggest magnificence ense clet cleanness inneSS and artistic beauty while all of our great west is stamped indelibly with the words power coti courage rage and astren us unity ity 6 overlooking looking salt lake city are the great mines and smelters shelters sm elters oi Bingham of the greatest mines and smelters shelters sm elters in the world we produced last year in copper congor lead silver ai gold altogether our output out put h iu the stole state of utah has added to tile the worlds mineral wealth i the mines of utah represent an all aggregate wealth of neara nearly yet it must bu remembered that agricultural utah with its i ts acres of an yell h ch are as rich an I 1 fertile as any lands in the world in the not bisti distant fant future will represent an aggregate wealth twenty times larger than all the other industries of the state we put out last year pounds of sugar cans of fruit our manufactured alt cles represented at value of I 1 we p planted ant edfast last year I 1 fruit trees which chich in six bearc W will ill represent a value almost incomprehensible ible Ph progress OGRESS IS BUT BEGUN with all al the wealth that the mines of utah have produced our mountains of metal and mineral of gold silver copper and lead our mountains of gypsum our hydrocarbons hydro carbons and oil ou our r coal and iron have scarcely been scratched in garfield county we have a hundred square q aare miles of coal with an average thickness of ten tell feet W we e have enough iron to supply the needs of america for half a cent uary we have millions of feet of vir gill timer through which lias has never yet echoed the puff of an engine utah pro produces products ducos more alfalfa seed than any state in the union its climate its moi moisture its conditions and its soil con editions are perfectly adapted to the production of this most valuable article our ilea heavy vy storms come in the winter at tile the moment when our alf alfalfa alfe is in bloom the air is warm and our fields are disturbed with gentle breezes which perfect the ion and fertilization of tile the seed which is impossible to our damp climates A little too much irrigation or any at all in fact is apt to make our alfalfa grow too thrifty and its seed will not mature it is P a law of nature that fertilization or productiveness of progeny is encouraged by some difficulty in the struggle for existence ex exi stance istance tile the rainfall is sufficient on our sagebrush lands without irrigation to produce alfalfa and seed better than any other place in the world tile the enlarged homestead act section 6 offers you an opportunity in utah to take acres of government land rich fertile prolific sage brush land in our mountain valleys and you are not required by the government to reside upon it it is only required aliat you cultivate 40 acres within two years and forty acres three succeeding years thereafter ter when you ate are entitled to tho government patent 4 the people of utah are an enlightened patriotic friendly friel idly people we welcome any and all of your hardy industrious people into our mountain valleys we need you to help build up lip one of the greatest empires that ever been known in tho the west ward march of civilization our beauties of climate the beau ties des olour of hiir to and cities the att attractive neBB of our abma al mountain valley val leyB our mountains olinta ins 4 t nd id lakes the gen ius of poetry has scarcely edly ae b een eh able to describe in Tennys onys agle bugle song lie he has described utah the file long light shakes across her lakes and lier her wild cataracts leap in glory |