The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-08
IT rs INEVITABLE.
The Sentiment Concerning
Salt Lakes Destiny.
A GRAND STATE OF THE UNION.
Former Salt Lakers in Cleveland,
Ohio-How the Country is
Advertised Abroad.

The sentiment expressed in my pre-
ceding letters is unchanged. Contact
with men acquainted with our Terri
tory invariably brings out one opinion
l have met here Mr.. George F. Prescott
formerly manager of the Salt Lake
Tribune, a thorough newspaper man
who is now manager Of the Plain
Dealer, one OF the best paying proper
ties il the west under his direction. ]
understand that Mr.. l.. E. Holder is
also interested in it, and you can readily
conceive, with the push that is in these
two gentlemen, that the Plain Dealer is
making rapid strides TO the front, and
under their hands is already a fine
paying property. What l wanted to gel
at though, was the fact that Mr.. Pres
colt, (perhaps as fully posted regardiBg
US as any man can well be- says that
Salt Lake City is destined to be great
city. He furthermore says that We have
the best climate in the United States.
He loOEs back with pleasure upon the
tILt4C IC llfSu III DdtU LdhS SlIN, anu
says his family still seem to feel as
though there was no place like it.
Mr.. Holden told me that Utah would
in the Union, her resources, her
being almost uuexcelled. Ia fact he
said Utah was
WITHOUT A RIVAL
so far as abundance of resources was
concerned in the Rocky Mountain
region. With the advent of railroads.
natural growth of population, change
in condition and unity among men of
means to build up, would make Salt
Lake Cit7 one of the finest and most
desirable places to reside in in the
country. His wife and his family have
not forgotten the place and have not
given up the hope of residing
there altogether yet, although that thy
have a very lovely home short distance
from this city which overlooks the
broad eXpanse of Lake Erie and It is
surrounded by one of the most delight
fol gardens imaginable. Mr.. Holden is
putting up one of the finest hotels west
If New York, the Hollenden. 1t is
certainly the most imposing looking
of business character IN the
city of Cleveland. In its appointments,
and in every direction it indicates the
presence of Mr.. Holden with his refined
tastes and thorough going tendencies.
have no idea what it will cost, but it
will take mint of money. There is
little doubt, however, that it will be a
paying investment, and for old times
sake it is destined to become the rendeZ-
vous of all Salt Lake people visiting
this charming city.
Cleveland is increasing in population
at the rate of about 10 per cent. per
annum. She is beginning to put on
modern airs and her manufactures are
growing with astonishing rapidly. She
is a wealthy city,
In these times it behooyes city that
wants to forge ahead to WORK night and
day. Wherever you turn you find the
q ovantages of the various sections of
this country set forth in the most at
tractiYe aud captivating manner. One
never goes into railroad office without
finding something about Colorado
$ prings, the American Trossacs, Wich
ita, the garden city of Kansas, Ore
goD, California, Denver, Montana.
Georgia, the cities of the northwest,
and even Canada herself. They all put
forth in general terms, but many of
them do more. They getsome national
affair to meet their within precincts
and boom the business for all it is
worth, bringing together at the one
point as many thousands as cheap
railroad fares and assurances Of a de-
Iightful time and other inducements
can assemble. Tbs plan counts, 1t is
not alone attractive tor the people i'm
mediately concerned in getting to the
point designated, but the rate offered
form an lnducement for others and
they go thers, and if the place has any
merit about it, it will find advertisers by
the thousands. Untired tongues will ex-
tol its advantages and the fever for
like trip spreads from family to family
and from city to city until by the
next season it takes good deal to con-
vert many from the determination
previously formed to visit that spot.
Moreover many of them invest ard
themselves are interested in boosting
up the section where their pecuniary
investment is located. So it goes
have seen in more places than one