Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16

to be followed BY other transcontnenta roads From
and they headed hher The survey stage past
Construction time has arrived Building is under way. 1t
will not be long before will hear the toot of Western
Pacific locomotive pulls into Salt Lake with its human
and other freight transported the Serras and
the desert And simultaneous with its coming will be the
ability to board passenger train of the Mofa road and
make flying trip towards the Atlantic seaboard the
shortest railroad route Utah that civil engineering has yet
devised But that is not all. The long promised steel via
duct will year the side with the and
make pedestrianism safe More STILL The Deseet News is
assured that many other splendid improvements be
made in the coming year,
Bank clearngs have reached their highest mark this
year. Business conditions npreccdentedly sound Fail
tires have been few and far between Well stocked stores
and patrons with money buy more nearly the general
rule than at any previous similar period The herdsman has
found fair market and the hocknaser has received top
notch prices for his wool The arzan and the aborer have
both had work good wage Peace and plenty have pre-
vailed and the has been entirely free from the plaques
and calae that have vexed the inhabitants Of the earth in
some other sections
OF Idaho one can only speak or write encouragngy
Surely is her star ustrous Peans Of praise
ing her vast possibilities being sung all this broad
land lust now she is enjoying most rapid and remarkable
growth Immense public and private irrigation projects,
completed and in process of completion, causing her
waste places be transformed into eemng FARMS orchards
and gardens Her thirsty prairies everywhere being
made moist and prolific through the system Of modern r
CATION Great canals and the country while
laerals and other waterways carry the egvng fluid to
the remotest spot OF fertility.
In mining too she is showing to the world that she has
right to be taken into account among the larger mineral
Her record this year will eclipse her greatest prev
H.
Of timber in her northern territory bids fair to become
the big lumber producing region OF the northwest The dis
covery of large coal beds the building Of railroads,
power and electric lighting plants the founding of new
towns and the establishment Of industrial activities all pro-
claim era Of prosperity
Perhahps state west OF the Mississippi has received
more attention in 1905 than has Nevada II would seem that
the curtain which fell with the closing of the famous Com
stock mine has again been lifted to reveal the marvel
mineral wealth that lies practically untouched within her
confines. AS the discovery Of gold sent fortuneseekng
thousands into California; and the fame OF the Comstock
district populaodrawing magnet in the days that
gone; and Virginia City Phoebe and Eureka
conure with in those times So too Goldhed,
Tonopah and Bulfrog magic today. The story of
what these mighty camps doing in the way OF adding to
the worlds wealth reads like romance and so
Complementary and accurately given by any newspaper
it is in this Issue OF the Deseret News. The chronicle of
what they yielding welnigh deies belief. 1t would
that all the gold of tabled Ophr and the riches OF
Potos to be surpassed by OF Nevada modern bon
anzaS. New towns spring up in night. Railroads are
building in all directions spirit OF hustle is in the air.
Nevada is on the BOOM Utah is much interested in her
splendid growth and glad to many OF her people turn
ing to the soil as OF making living, we'll pur
suing the calling Of the miner With few reclamation pro-
ects such as the Truckce-C Carson enterprise successfully
lo., J,1 ft,rin THAR
millions of gold and silver her destiny will be more certain
and her days bright than any Comock enthusiast ever
pictured