The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-03
DO NOT KNOW
ABOUT STATE
Legislators Have No Conception
of the Resources of the
State.
RICH COUNTY PEOPLE
KNOW NOTHING OF SOUTH
Neither Does Dixie Land About
What Cache Valley Pro
duces; Why?

In the room used as a courtroom. next
10 the quarters in the city and county
building where the house OF representa- =
uves meet every two years, Il number
or men were In discussion during the
last session OF the Utah legislature. 4
few OF them were members OF the house.
but the majority were men who had
gathered from various parts OF the state
for the purpose. at least In most cases
avowed. 10 work for the special interest
Of their section of the great state OF
Utah one man commenced 10 praise the
section OF the state from which he came.
He did not eXaggerate In the least. but
he insisted time and again that he was
talking for the state at large. One OF
the other men present asked him what
he knew about Rich county and It's re-
sources. The man admitted that he
thought that Randolph was the county
scat, but did not know the namS of an
other town In Rich county. nor what the
industries or that county were.
Did Not Know.
Il confess my ignorance" said the man
from the south part OF the state. but
Will you please tell me something about
Washington. Grand, Wayne. Garfield or
San Juan countless" The man from the
could not name the county seats OF each
OF these. much less the other towns in
these counties. He did not know OF
the natural wonders in San Juan coun-
"; OF the mountains OF rich ore in
southern Utah; OF the great forests which
government officials have declared have
over four billion feet OF timber ready 10
be cut and hauled TO the market II there
were but railroad.
Ignorant OF Utah.
This man did not know that there is
iron ore enough in one county in Utah
10 relay every foot OF railroad track there
10 furnish steel for more than many
skyscraperS az there has been so far
erected In the United States. that there
Us coal enough in the state of Utah to
generation at least. and that the deposit
has hardly been scratched. that there is
gold and silver. copper and lead In a
thousand mountains In the state Of Utah
that only awaits development
What State Needs.
know that there were thousands and
tens OF thousands 81 fertile acres in Utah
that only awaited the right kind OF peo-
pie TO make them productive. But the
whole situation was summed up In few
words from the man from the north part
OF the state when he said to the repre-
sentative from southern Utah: Il re-
gret to say that have never visited your
II is a hard trip. You have no railroads
down there and ] do not cnre to make a
ride OF hundred miles or more by stage
or team to part OF the state in
which l i've
Said a member OF the legislature. one
who has been born and reared in Utah
and who perhaps has seen as much OF
the state as most men in IL: And you
never Will zee this state, and neither you
nor ! nor any one else will ever have an
Idea OF the possibilities OF this state un-
III every county is tapped by railroad
not only tapped. but sridironed by rail-
roads.
When that day comes you will see
that Utah rs the richest state In the
union In more ways than one, and when
that day comes YOU will find that health
seekers Will not go 10 Florida or Call
fornia: that men of money will not seek
investments in other states. but viii be
ready and willing TO put their money
In investments in Utah. But this time
will never come until Utah has more
railroads than IL has today" With the
knowledge which he had OF what the
state needed there is little wonder that
this man voted against the proposed bill
for railroad commission In Utah at
the last session Of the Utah legislature.