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Show THE UTAH EXHIBIT. Only a few days more remain before the New Orleans Exposition will be reopened. re-opened. The' progress which seems to have been made in preparing Utah's ex hibit is satisfactory when the very short time in which to prepare it is considered. It is scarcely a month since General Conner Con-ner was appointed Commissioner for Utah, and yet in that time a very great deal has been done. Utah need have no hesitation in comparing her manufactured manufac-tured and natural products with the products pro-ducts of other: parts of. the Union. It would be idle to expect that Utah's exhibit ex-hibit of manufactured products will rival those of the older States, but in her natural nat-ural products she need have no fear of being surpassed by States old or States new. The exhibit from Utah should be such as to give the world some idea of the resources of the Territory, and its capabilities of future development. The primary object of all expositions is to show the resources of the country in which they are given, and to compare them with those of other countries, coun-tries, and to encourage commercial intercourse. inter-course. And this should be the aim so far as the Utah exhibit is concerned. The agricultural and mining resources of the Territory are unsurpassed, and that which the Territory needs is capital to develope these resources; but if people do not know what the Territory's resources re-sources are, they will have no desire to develope them. Nor is it reasonable to expect capitalists and investors to com J to. Utah to see what her resources are, j unless the people of Utah do something j to make known these resources. Far more good comes from universal exposi-tions. exposi-tions. than people generally think, ; for they are the world's work in miniature. I Let all who can contribute to make Utah's ! exhibit worthy of Utah's resources, and the display at New Orleans will be as bread cast upon the water. In conclusion we would say that the fare to New Orleans will not be to exceed a cent and a quarter per mile each way, thus placing it in the power of all to visit the great Exposition. |