Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1913-06-13
FRIDAY. JUNE 1s. 1913.
The Necessity OF Greater Loyalty.


o praise ones home town, is about the creates
actor in it's development is declared by thos
Who have given the subject of community de
,elopment careful consideration. This Il
,iven particular emphasis in the following extrac
rom an interview published in a Salt Lake paper
lad with W. w. Armstrong, president Of tn
National Copper bank of Salt Lake:
..a.y Salt Lake lacks but one thing necessary
to make it the most vigorously growing city
of all the west and one Of the very largest in
the United States within few years. That
one thing is not manufacturing, or more agri-
culture, or more jobbing, or bigger business
blocks or more railroads. We do need these,
but they are coming now through the pres
sure of events and will come faster. But we
need more boosting on the part of our citi-
zens. more general and accurate knowledge
of our own resources, stronger enthusiasm
showing itself upon the surface and more
strenuous assistance in the work of building
this great intermoutain state of ours-the
one like to call the intermountain empire.
EacA man mist learn to spend more money,
not in daUertiSing his oWR business, but in ad-
UertiSiR0 tie city and Me-iRterm0Antain empire.
lie must learn hhat il is tie best Investment he
cur Wthc.l nc HUVt u UONUt//Ut SUOJCCt /W
adDertiSing-a marvellous story TO teH
If man says that there can never be
great manufacturing centers in the west.
because of high freight and wages, retort
that these are secondary matters and must
yield to the influence exerted by the coinci-
dence of agricultural areas wonderful for fer
tility; export supplies Of coal and iron unsur-
passed west of the Rockies; waterpower which
outranks hundred Niagaras; metal clays,
woods and chemicals to be the raw material
of every line of manufacture. and great and
rapidly growing market in Asia, and on the
Pacific coast of both North and South Ameri-
ca. There is never doubt in my mind that
Salt Lake City is to become one of the very
greatest of manufacturing centers The thing
is inevitable. No other city can show such
varied wealth Immediately tributary to it.
Few other cities have such future.
Do you realize that the metal output of
Utah is greater than that of Colorado. New
ada, Idaho, or California? Do you know that
3per cent of all the copper produced under
the United Staes flag any where is mined
within twenty miles of Salt Lake City,
and that over half of the blocked-out por-
phyry copper of the world is here? Do you
realize that the Utah Copper company just
across the valley moves each day third as
much dirt as Uncle Sam handles on the Pan
anna canal? 1t is doing the work without
fuss or excitement, vet its payroll is practi
cally equal to that of the whole camp of
Cripple Creek in it's palmiest days. Do you
know that 100000 tons of gisonite, the best
paving and roofing material known, are on
the direct line of the Moffat road now being
built between Satl Lake and Denver? Do you
know that large timber, asphalt and coal sup
plies are there?
Do you realize that more than 5000, 600
sheep are raised near Salt Lake City, and
that they are worth more than our whole min
eral output. Do you know that our agricul-
tural conditions are ideal for darying and hog
raising and that our output along both these
lines is increasing by leaps and bounds?
Do you know that the very finest of
fruits and grains are grown in the inter-
mountain country with its rich soil and ideal
climate? Do you know that the climatic con-
ditions of the Grand Junction fruit district
are duplicated over and over in Utah. and
that the soil is the same, minus the vexing
shales and hardpans which are the bane of
the Palisade country? Do you know that the
more than 80. 600. 600 acres of the finest wheat