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Show GOOD ROADS. - The trade and finance review, issued by the National Copper bank of Salt Lake says: "Of all the forward movements begun for the development of Utah, there is no one of more real importance or more far-reaching in its effects than that for better wagon roads. A study of the growth of any section of this country will reveal the fact that population pop-ulation and improvements follow the roads, just as they followed the rivers when the country was a wilderness. Of what use to tho farmer to produce a big crop yield if he cannot quickly and easily haul it to market? If we but make good roads, there will follow a rapid increase of the percentage of lands under cultivation. Almost 'any state in the union would consider itself blessed if it had the materials at hand for road construction which Utah has in millions of tons. The right to use convict labor, as grantee! "by the last legislature, legis-lature, means that we can now construct splendid highways at a nominal cost. "If we of the inlermountain states will but make the most of the vast resources within our borders, foster and build up our established estab-lished industries, add new ones as needed, and exemplify the redwood red-wood in our growth, the future of ten or twenty years will discount by far any picture that our optimists of today might paint." |