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Show GREAT OPPORTUNITY One of the greatest opportunities opportun-ities this state has ever had to show its natural resources and the great business opportunities opportuni-ties i which lies awaiting for someone to grasp is the Trans-Mississippi Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress Con-gress which will be held at Salt Lake City August 27-30. There will be prominent men from all the states in the union, from all the leading business enterprises coming here for the purpose of prmoting the business busi-ness enterprises of the West. Eastern Capitalists are looking west now as the only great field open for new business oppor-tunites. oppor-tunites. Utah with her rich j fertile soil . and great mineral j belts yet undeveloped and the j vast tracts of land yet uncultivated uncul-tivated stands out foremost! amoung the states of the west for men who are seeking business busi-ness opportunities. Utah will entertain hundreds of just such menduring the next twp mSnthe who are coming west for the purpose of joining in the great development movement cf the state. The county commissioners of Sanpete County did themselves honor when they assisted in contributing to the state fund which is being given for the entertainment of eastern people peo-ple at this congress. The two hundred and fifty dollars given giv-en by this county is only a small item when we take into consid eration the amount of taxable property the state has created for Sanpete by establishing the Jewish Colony in the southern end, which makes an increase of about $26,000. This in a few years will be very much greater. That great Barrier of prejudice pre-judice which has been such a stumbling block to eastern people peo-ple desiring to come to Utah is rapidly fading away and people are beginning to see things as they are. When one has once lived in Utah they always have a longing desire to return. |