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H" r VOL. XXII. Twelfth Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 19, 1913 5 Cents the Copy No. 14 ?
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flfl LcROY ARMSTRONG .... Editor
m "GO IN AND POSSESS IT."
H That's what the Lord told Abraham to do,
H when that original mover "out west" camo up to
H the Land of Canaan. And that's what tho same
H Lord is saying to us people of Utah in the
H twentieth century, as we look at the region be-
H tween St. George and the Grarid Canyon of tho
H Colorado.
H I see my other old friend E. D. Woolley of
H Kanab has been in town with his perrennial pro-
H ject of opening up tho country so nenr us, and
H yet as little known. Woolley is ono of tho land-
H marks. He knows tho land from tho end of tho
H railroad to the bed of the river, and has been try-
H ing for years to get Utah interested in taking ad-
BH vantage of tho situation. Ho is an enterprising
MB party, too, and proved it years ago by stringing
H a cable across tho Grand Canyon and taking pass-
H ongop over in a car that swung and glided half
H a mffe above the tossing, roaring, raging flood
H bol&w. Ho knows tho Utah side of tho Grand
H Canyon is tho scenic side, and that it is more easy
H of access than is tho southern bank. Ho knows
H that wonderland can bo made tho Mecca of a
H million tourists through Utah, if our people will
mm only establish a roadway from our frontier to
H tho point of attraction. And ho knows that land
H to be so traversed is richer in timber and as
H promising in soil as any in all the state.
Hj Wo of tho central and northern portions of
r Utah aro so busy wq don't pay deserved attention
H to tho mighty possibilities of that country of tho
B south. But the valleys are thoro. The soil and
fM tho timber and tho minerals aro there. And there
H are' tho hidden and forgotten records of a race
H that perished before Babol was builded. There is
H no region on tho continent so rich or so varied
H in possibilities for material development and
H scientific study as is Southern Utah. And if Mr.
B Woolloy can have his way, tho beginning of
B "going in and possessing" will bo made by opening
an auto road from Salina to tho Grand Canyon.
That will mean an extension of tho Rio Grande,
for there is a wealth of tourist travel won by tho
Santa Fo to the southern and less impressive side
of tho Canyon that might more easily go by
Marysville, the present southern terminus of tho
railroad. And it will mean tho building of a rail
road through St. George an enterprise that has
been too long delayed.
PREPARE YE THE WAY!
There is a good deal of significance in the faot
that Now York exceeds London, and easily sur
passes every other city in the world in tho total
value of its imports and exports tho foreign
trade. The Tribune notes the late reports, show
ing that the city called by Tennyson" "this earth's
greatest mart was exceeded by more than two
million dollars m 1913 by the American port of
Now York. The fact is amazing.
Do not for a moment believe that it is a
transient or accidental eminence. Tho soeptro of
London has been taken away. Tho logic of tho
human race has mado tho metropolis of the
western continent tho commercial capital of the
whole round world. There may bo recessions
from that high-water mark. Thoro may bo years
in which London will excel. But tho weight in tho
balances of nineteon-twolve marks tho fixed fact
of America's preponderating power. The lead then
recorded will be increased.
And that is not a fact to interest New Yorkers
alone. It is tho passing of commercial pre
cedence from tho old to the new; from tho
grown to tho growing. It is caused by the com
bined activity of all Americans. It is tho sum
ming in total of every day's industry of every
citizen of this great republic. It is the result
in somo measure of every merchant's enterprise,
of overy manufacturer's courage, of every rail
road magnate's prophetic policy, of every farmer's
labor on his grudging acres. It is the sum total
of tho American forward march I
It is not local to tho Atlantic seaboard. .It is
tho fortune of every nook and corner of tho coun
try. It is tho concern of every freeman between
those oceans. You men of middle life go to your
home towns, and find them grown. Teachers who
know Salt Lake ten or twelve years ago camo
hero convention week, and stood amazed at this
oity's growth. Those who ride on railroads con
stantly see addod areas of plow land wherever
they go. Tho United States is marching on.
Men of Salt Lake, tho passing of London by
Now York means your share in tho signiflcient
contribution. It moans the increasing importance
of Salt Lake as a city, as a centre, as a factor of
power and influence in the general advance of
tho nation.
This must bo the Ono Big City of the moun
tain region tho trade metropolis of all that realm.
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FOR THIS I WOULD MAKE ANOTHER H
MISTAKE.
Tho Specator, Portland, Oregon: My esteemed M
friend, LeRoy Armstrong, who makes Goodwin's M
Weekly tho most entertaining publication in Salt B
Lake Gity or for that matter in all Utah con- H
fers neW and unnecessary honors on a one-time M
celebrated gentleman who was known over the M
length and breadth of tho land as "Brown of m
Calavaras." Tho lamented Bret Harto discovered fl
Mr. Brown of Calaveras reading a paper on phys- , J
iology before the Society upon tho Stanislaus, WM
than which it will be remembered that fl
Nothing could bo finer or more beautiful to see
Than tho first six months' proceedings of that ' 1
samo society ''iM
Till Brown of Calaveras brought a lot of fossil M
bones H
That ho found within a tunnol near the tenement m
of Jones. ,HJ
Then Brown ho read a paper, and ho reconstructed M
thcro ,m
From those samo bones, an animal that was ox- H
trcmoly raro; M
And Jones then, asked tho Chair for a suspension H
of tho rules J
Till ho could provo that those samo bones was H
ono of his lost mules. . H
Then Brown ho smiled a bitter smilo, and said H
ho was at fault. H
It seemed he had been trespassing on Jones' jH
family vault: M
Ho was a most sarcastic man, this quiot Mr. 1
Brown. .1
And on several occasions ho had cleaned out tho M
town. 1
It may bo recalled that Mr. Jones took um- M
brage at the rather pointed suggestion that ho H
was an ass, and began heaving rocks at Brown; H
and it is hero that Mr. Armstrong permits him- "1
self to show too much partiality for Brown, who M
is represented in the latest issue of Goodwin's H
Weokly as tho man who rose to a point of order, M
"when a chunk of old red sandstono took him in H
tho abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, H
and curled up on tho floor; And tho subsequent H
proceodings interested him no more." H
It was not tho sarcastic Mr. Brown who met H
this cruel fate; it was Abnor Dean of Angel's, and H
it is generally believed that the stone that laid H
him low was catapulted from tho Brown fist. H
Of courso, to somo it may not seem worth H
while to make so muoh ado over Mr. Armstrong's H
mistake, and that probably neither Brown of H
Calaveras nor Abnor Doan of Angel's will pro- H
tost. But it is worth while; because LeRoy Arm- H
strong has hitherto shown that ho is not only im- H
peccable, but infallible as well. And when Mr. i B
Armstrong proves that ho is peccant and fallible, H
too, no ono should lose the opportunity of telling H
him so. Something, too, is duo to historio ac- H
ouracy. H