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Show I bushel more in San Pete County for j our wheat than we could before, this, will be growth for in will add to the purchasing power of our resources. If we can get a market for the rock i which is in the bosora of our hills, this will make a healthy boom for. it will give labor to the unemployed. If the timber which is growing in our canyons, and the salt which can be found within our County in almost al-most inexhaustable quantities can find any outlet, then let the boom come, but the real estate boom, without any increase in our resources re-sources and out-put we do not want, for the'reason stated, there is nothing noth-ing behind it, and although with every spcies of gambling it may for the time exhiliarate, when the intoxication of the moment leaves it finds us more depressed and in anything but a healthy condition. The land is with the last holder, unimproved, worth no more than it was in the first place, the only person benefited being the principal gambler, the real estate boomer, who sold it for several times what it was actually worth, and got out with the "swag." When the boom comes, let it be a healthy and natural growth. BOOM. With the advent of railroads in the County, perhaps two of them . traversing it from end to end, the Register anticipates more prosper-pus prosper-pus days for San Pete, but does not for a moment hope for the .success, which in this Western Country is palled a "Boom". Booms, as they are generally understood are an unprecedented un-precedented raise in the price of real estate, and often with nothing to back them more solid than the wind of the "boomer", who in plain Janguage is a gambler in this commodity. com-modity. A piece of real estate may rise in j price through the efforts ( of parties - who are in the business, ' from one hundred dollars to ten times that fimount, in a day or a week, and in a month double itself, and the ."boomer" in consequence get rich thereby; but unless there is a solid y something behind it, unless the pro ducts of the place in which the real-- real-- ty is, situated has increased in value or amount so that the community is richer thereby; there is no reai benefit ben-efit to the community, and consequently conse-quently nothing to i support the j boom and as everything, like water, finds its level, the boom collapses and depression takes its place. Money Mon-ey spent in property, unless it brings a fair return is illspent. ""T ' True some persons spend hun- dreds and thousands of dollars upon j a dwelling and it bring no return jjut the pleasure of living in a hand some and comfortable home, but the money so spent gives employment employ-ment and creates labor, puts more money in circulation and is of more benefit than any number of wildcat real estate speculations. We want progress and growth in pur county, but we want it of such j a nature that when it ccmes we know will be lasting in its nature and a real benefit. If by the adit of I8il r94 we can et nv cetits per |