Show I 1 SOME BIG THINGS COMING southern utah is certainly com ing into her own in the near future and add it 1 is the purpose of this article to touch upon some of them a I 1 little itt t e many y yeara ears ago pits pica bangham young clr predicted diled c that southern utah would be th the a head and not the tell tail end of this thio state and there would be one continuous city from cedar to carowan parowan at that time it looked like a far cry and to some perhaps only the expressed thoughts of the dreamer but it was no idle dream as 1 is pla plainly i aly to be seen at this pre sent time tim a it if one will but take a casual glance over the country and note the proxie pro giesa ss that has been made in the last decade we are now confronted with some of the big events of the count coun trva rys development if the newspapers are to be credited with any authority and according to their reports they see seem to get hold of those men who are at the head bead of the big ent enterprises and are able at least to rake up a good deal of enthusiasm if nothing more ere from the herald republican com comes esthe the story of one mammoth venture that has as its object the development of this and washington county u n ty on the south in the matter co 0 of a by putting down a system of artesian abelis and other irrigation schemes and then putting in an electric railroad from the dixie country to connect either with the salt lake route or the orem route south of salt lake for the rapid transportation of fruit and other commodities in the least possible oble time then if the colonization scheme carries out as anticipated it will be the means of bringing into these a the greatest influx of him home seekers this section has ever experienced and be the means of developing the resources of iron icon county as could be done in no other way next to this is the plans of the irrigation company recently in salt lake for bringing under cultivation the vast tract of land in parowan carowan and the rush lake valleys that at present are lying idle and no one reaping any benefit except perhaps the sheep men who chances to go over the land on once e or wice a year these great opportunities tuni ties are ale lying idle for the want of the touch of capital to develop them and now let us whisper something in your ears in bold faced ape fol foi many years we have heard of the vast wealth of our great iron tron deposits and how they are going to bring a railroad into this section they will do no such thing of themselves just yet but wait we are not through yet the companies holding the ti it alto tie to those vast deposits are in no hurry to do much with them until the time is ripe and are only holding back till that time and then they will come in fast enough and they w will 11 not ask the pe people 0 ale to help build the road either they must be sure of their grounds before venturing on such eh an enterprise and when the 0 other ah er great sch schemes es enumerated begin to take form and mater alize then we may look for rapid developments in the iron industry and not net before when any railroad can see justini cation for cowing coming into a section of country they will not ask the people for donations and help in the way of depot sites etc but will come in as any other business proposition and pay for v hat they get the theoroe proe poste roust idea of asking the people ofa of a community to contribute towards the building of a railroad into a district is IB self belf evident that that company has box but little backing and la is a give abway ay that we may look out f for r as beai being g rather a snide affair As against the above items it looks ruch much better better to us ua to see these large concerns coming into ithe the county to look fit at the opportunities wherein lies the best beat investment for their money and they are not asking king the people to give them certain grants giants of land or any special privilege leg es be but just a chance to invest their money if the proposition suits suit them we need before a railroad I 1 is a larger agricultural development and an output that will justify a road coming in and by raising an abundant surplus of agricultural crops and be able to ship out quantities to other points and prove to the outside world lairid or at least this state that we are aeve to our opportunities p port unities and are making the most and encourage agriculture to the highest point possible there is absolutely no excuse excess for us here in iron county being behindhand behind behin dand and cri ing hard times when we have one of the greatest commonwealths in the tt estern states and only waiting development the block in the wheel of faster progress is due to t efto causes directly the first is the individual and the second the body politic if we may be pardoned for the term es specially ally in the lack of unity of effort in the first case can if it be the individual is a poor man he is handicapped for lack of means anil and cannot do as he would like in faster development and if he be a land glutton he will hold onto that which he claims and be afraid of doing too much for fear of the fact that he ha will not reap real sufficient cent returns for the he expenditure in the second case the tack lack of unity is the great bar to progress in that selfishness enters into the question too deeply to be easily eradicated and consequently progress from rom a public standpoint la is very much retarded and the mass esmust be ie held back from the very thing that hat would go to help the condition and be a betterment generally when the farming fraternity get beyond the stage when they must ak the merchant from both standpoints to set the prices then he wl will 11 begin to get out of purgatory As it is now the merchants ts sets seta the price both going gains and coming and t the he producer must abide by the consequence and take just what he can get or what is offered what a bright bight dawn it will be when the far mer can say aay you can have my grain at so much per ton and no less lem and other products in proportion agriculture is ia the one great thing that must bring iron county to her proper plane of imminence emmi nence and the other things mist follow fellow up else how would we feed the other enterprises if we do not produce enough for ourselves 7 |