. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . rthings usually found in a city. Ogden has a world all its own, and dominates it with an en-ergy that stops at no effort, and acknowledges no criterion butsuccess. The city is to be one of the most important in the In-ter-Mountain region, and is well worth investigating as a placefor investment. Ol, There are others—Provo, Logan, Brigham City, Springville,lying among the farms and orchards—and Park City, Bingham,Eureka, Stockton, Marysville, perched high among the mines. Provo and Springville, typical ag
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . rthings usually found in a city. Ogden has a world all its own, and dominates it with an en-ergy that stops at no effort, and acknowledges no criterion butsuccess. The city is to be one of the most important in the In-ter-Mountain region, and is well worth investigating as a placefor investment. Ol, There are others—Provo, Logan, Brigham City, Springville,lying among the farms and orchards—and Park City, Bingham,Eureka, Stockton, Marysville, perched high among the mines. Provo and Springville, typical agri-cultural towns—almost cities, in fact, forthey have municipal improvements of thehighest order—are importantpoints upon the Denver & RioGrande and thrive amazinglyupon the trade of the produc-tive Utah Valley. Provohas nearly 8,000 population,and Springville is a close sec-ond. Around these little cit-ies is perhaps better exempli-fied than anywhere else in thestate, the perfection of Utahagriculture. They are at thevery center of the granaryof the state and in the midst. Packard Library, Salt Lake Citv. J GLIMPSE O F UTAH page twenty-two of a population enjoying ttie highest degree of Of the mining camps, Bingham, Park City and Eureka, onthe Denver & Rio Grande, have a place in the history of mining,earned b}^ two generations of production. Upon their pastachievements and present activity Utah may well rest her fame asa mining state. Of the four hundred millions dollars or more ofstate metal production, these three camps are entitled to a creditof at least two hundred and fifty million dollars. To visit themis to find bustle in business, and to see tramways high in air car-rying processions of ore-laden buckets to mammoth mills. Sucha visit will well repay the sightseer. It will give him a compre-hension of mining and its importance which he can never get byreading. The Denver & Rio Grande makes these centers of themining industry easily a feature of th
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