The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-22
SWINGING AROUND
DENVER.

most beautiful city in the west"
MOL do not think Denver is the
most beautiful city in the west!
msn't Denver the most progress
i've CITY west OF The Mississippi?"
Undoubtedly it IS.
rDenver has a grand future, don't
YOU think 500"
That depends altogether upon
how one defines a ''grand future.
ia severe but unsuccessful strug-
Gle 10 maintain its late and present
rate OF progress may, by termed s
grand future, then it will uHques-
tionably be hers; otherwise not.
The stranger in Denver is plleo
By such Questions and cOnundrums
"a The q owe from the time he
enters the place until his departure;
and II he be an 0bservant person,
and q student Of western industrial
and urban history, mis- answers WIli
be similar to those indicated. Eleven
wears ago, this writer was some
what familiar with Denver. A
pbOom" was tEen setting in, and
tho place was beginning to assume
naughty airs. The ''city" was a
thriving town, not unduly prosper
Gus. yet living on a strain and to its
fuI caoacity. Some of the wise
ones were predicting disaster for it
in the then near future. The
trouble did not come, and the town
continued its advance. Thousands
we're spent in advertising; the
climate Was lauded, the scenery
pictured and praised, and Oppor-
Fun,ties for remuneratiVe invest
rneDt exposed to the world. Con-
sumptiYes and asthmatics focked
bither, sightseer5 came in droves,
and the rich brought their money
bags in search OF the twelve or
eighteen per cent. returns from
iu1icious handling Of their ducats.
More railroads were required to
accommodate the rush, and they were
constructed. More stores and hotels
and boarding houses were needed,
and they were forthcoming. And
Denver was at the height of her
capacity. The strain coulo not
have been maintained many
months longer. Indeed, the creak-
ing of the Himsy structure was al
ready sounding threatening notes
In the ears of the wise, when Lead
vile came with its carbonites and
horn silver. In all America there
has been nothing like LeadVille.
We do not know how many mil
lions it has yielded up of Its silver
substratum, nor is it required 70
write figures with arithemetical eX.
actness. We simply know that
Leadville saved, if it did not redeem
Denver. 1t - more 1T trans.
formed it fr0nt ,vergroWn west
eTn town into re magnificent
City,-a young giaE of the west
thai hangs its head only in the pres
ence of half d dozen American
cities. The millions that LeadYille
gave up we're united with others
frem the east and emptied into Den
yer, where they Wer9 formed and
fashioned into stately mansions
into literal palaces, into lofty BLOCKS
Of brick and iron and stone; into
long streets and in fact into every
thing that an intelligent, active
and energetic American community
numbering G5,C00 can possibly re-
cure whether for comfort, convent
ence, display or style. The stores
and hanks of Denver are as solid
As elegant and as expensive as those
of Chicago, or New York. The
residences would excite wonder and
admiration on the avenues and in
the fashionable suburbs of our great
cities. Her opera house is the most
costly, the richest in structure, fin
isn and Ornamentstion, the alto
gether most magnificent and best
in the United StateS--a country that
brides herself upon the possession
Of Gne theatres and gorgeous play
houses. Everything in Denver has
Teen begun and is being continued
upon scale Of magnitude and
grandeur that does credit to her
peoples tastes and ambitions, If not
10 their wisdom and forethought.
If things were to continue as they
have been for the past ten years
before the babes of Denver reach
their majority Chicago would
be proud to clasp hand:
With her young sister Of the plains
san Frau cisco be aWed in the pres
ence Of the Rocky Mountains me-
tr0p0lis, while the slOW-going cite!
Of the Eastern and Middle State
would stand aghast as they gazed
up here towards the backbone Of
the continent. But this sort OF
thing cannot continue. 1t is I'M
natural; it is improbable; it is i'm
possible. America is not going tC
Keep on working for Denver and
deV1ting her energies aad efforts to
ine building up of city out here in
the mountains for which there can
0e no possible use during the pres
ent generation at least. We are all
haole to mistakes in judgment and
mucn more 80 to errors in 'guess-
ilgi and with this saving sugges
aon' am willing to risk my reputa
tlon as Yankee, by declaring II
hy pest guess" as Justice Twiss
would say, that Denver has about
leached The limit to her remarka be
ealser' She IS Oyergrown and un.
SieiIy' She has lived and built