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Show m EXCELS li II TIGS . . Utah has I approximately 3,500,000 acres In cultivated farms; vas the first state in the union to adopt irrigation; irri-gation; has 5,000,000 acres of land that can be placed under cultivation and bo irrigated from natural streams; land open to homestead entry or can bo purchased pur-chased through the state board of land commissioners. Utah's .best crop: Healthy children; population per squaro mile 4.7; schools and colleges second to none in tho United States, SS per cent of the state funds being expended yearly for educational edu-cational purposes; cllmato ideal, no extremities in temperature. Utah's labor well protected; conditions condi-tions of employment carefully safeguarded; safe-guarded; injured employes cared for and compensated. Utah was- tho third stato in the union un-ion to confer upon women the right of suffrage. Utah is served throughout by electrical elec-trical energy, produced at minimuni cost from innumerable mountain streams. Utah produced more sugar beets to tho aero than any other stato in the union: hna approximately 4 per cent of all the sheep in tho United ( States; harvests 50,000 acres or more of or- ' chard fruits; produces 16 per cent of tho total alfalfa hay crop in tho Unit- tM ed States; ranks second in' the pro- duction of silver, third in lead, fourth . in copper, sixth in gold, and with suf- ' ; ficicnt development and railroad fa- cilitles (now has 3355 miles of track ' ; constructed and in operation) would be able to supply the coal, Iron, cop- per and salt requirements of tho Unit- j cd States for a hundred years. Utah is now producing alunito (pot-ash), (pot-ash), found .no where else in the ; world in commercial quantities, except j' i in Germany; our supply is practically tM unlimited. i -, IH Utah's undeveloped resources offer J today greater opportunity for safe In-vestment In-vestment of capital than any time in ; our history. Our yield per acre per : v year dry farm crops "will more than re- "pay the cost peracro of land clearing, J. IH planting and harvesting. (j |