The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-16
MONEY FOR THE WEST.

We arc glad to see that Mr.. james
C.. Berrvhll banker Of Des Moipe'
aud a director in the Nevada Dougla'
Copper Company, Expresses subston
tally The samo ideas about the devel
opmcul OF this Western country that
have appeared heretofore in she col
umns of The Tribune. lie thinks that
when the Presidential election is over
there will be abundant money come
from the East TO develop all this
Western country. and that Salt LAX,
City will he one Of the prominent
places to get advantage from ths food
Of Eastern money. We believe that "a
bo absolutely true, and We believe
therefore, that Salt Lake City AMI
Utah will receive very large accessions
of population, good citizens and good
workers, "a. the same time.
The tide OF emigration has been from
east to west ever since Che settlement
Of America. This tide at times has
run like "A mill race. and has trans
ferred immense bodies of population
and built UP splendid States almost in
a decade. Coming to what is known
as the arid region OF the United States.
this immigration passed through the
central localities to great cXtcnt
and went onward TO the Pacific Coast !:
first TO Oregon, In the early fortles,
and then TO California. after the dis
covery of gold in that State. The
riches OF Oregon and Washington and
the trade of Alaska have built up two
great commouwealtbs in the Northwest
California was built up primarily on
the gold fields, and afterwards on the
climate of the Southern part
of the State. The struggle was to get
TO the coast, and the interior OF all
this region was neglected. For decades
there was hardly any stopping in Wyo
ming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, or
Utah save for the incoming Of Mormon
contingents. Then the discovery of great
copper mines in Montana supplemented
the early gold discoveries there, which
did not add much to the permanent
population. The great copper discov-
cries called in a large permanent popu-
lstion. and the great resources Of Mon
tana began TO be developed throughout
the Ssate
In Idaho, the wonderful irrigation
projects gave the State the greatest
of any State from 1900
to 1910. In Utah, it was not so easy
as in Idaho to find great easily irri-
gated areas, and Utah did not keep
up correspondinglv in development. But
there are immense opportunities in
Utah yet. and one great enterprise,
planning the taking OF water from
Green River and recIaiming thousands
IF acres of land along the Green River
valley, will add much 10 Utah e popu-
alton and wealth. There are also
great opportunities in the storage of
water in many places in Utah, and in
he more scientific and sparing use OF
water in irrigation. When the idea
passes away, as it certainly must pass
away, that the best way to raise crops
s TO use all the water possible, Utah
will enter upon a new era Of develop
nent. The very reverse should be the
-ule, to use as little water as possible
o grow and mature crops. There has
,een great waste of water in the past
n irrigation here, and there is great
waste now.
The immigration which has flooded
he Coast States in the past must now
urn back upon the interior regions,
md Utah will get its full share of this
oHex immigration. We look to see the
state develop in the next ten wears in
way hitherto uudreamed of, and Salt
lake City soon TO become IN population,
wealth. and Importance, the great me
ropolis which it inevitably must be- |
ONE as the center of region reach
ne from the Sierras to the Rocky
o the Mezicap line, In all this re
ion, salt Lake City being the center
# an area thousand miles III extent
Il every direction, there is no place
or a rival to this city in commerce
md trade. Here is the center of all. |
md here is found the agricultural pos
utilities, the mineral wealth, the rail. |
Dad facilities, and the foundation for
he great city OF the Western United
states. That Salt Lake City must
necessarily overtake and pass Denver
We consider certainty, and that the
'tate of Utah will take on new life |
md growth within the present decade !
sc have not particle of doubt. All
igns point to Utah as the objective |
,oiut, the place where the most can
'e had in the way of development and |
If return on investment; and when !
his is SO. the result is absolutely sure |
VIThN GIT uAT roD nDrcrDr.,n