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and the semi-arid regions, the people of the great 

 plains, the people of the mountains, approach the 

 problem of taking care of the physical resources of 

 the country in the spirit which has made Utah what 

 it is. You have developed your metal wealth won- 

 derfully; and your growth is not a boom growth 

 it is a thoroughly healthy, normal growth. During 

 the past decade the population has doubled and the 

 wealth quadrupled ; and labor is employed at as high 

 a compensation as is paid elsewhere in the world. 

 Although you are not essentially a mining State, 

 in the last year you marketed thirty millions' worth 

 of ore; and again you showed your good sense in 

 the way you handled it; for you paid five millions 

 in dividends and you invested the balance in labor 

 and surplus. The effort to make a big showing in 

 dividends is not always healthy for the future. 

 Here you have shown your wonderful capacity to 

 develop the earth so as to make both irrigated agri- 

 culture and stock-raising in all its forms two great 

 industries. When you deal with a mine you take 

 the ore out of the earth and take it away, and in 

 the end exhaust the mine. The time may be very 

 long in coming before it is exhausted, or it may be 

 a short time; but in any event, mining means the 

 exhaustion of the mine. But that is exactly what 

 agriculture does not and must not mean. 



So far from agriculture properly exhausting the 

 land, it is always the sign of a vicious system of 

 agriculture if the land is rendered poorer by it. 

 The direct contrary should be the fact. After the 



