The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-23
FINEST IN THE WORLD.
It's Dryness, Elevation and
TOnicity of Air.
REMARKABLE STATEMENTS.
I'VE Live In Natures Sanitarium, are
Subjected to HeAlthfnl Influences,
Under q Cloudless Sky"


Beyond all considerations are thos
reaching down with the most vita
objects in life, and which every maj
who builds home where he wills, be
cause of his choice-that is, one who's,
residence in any locality is not en-.
forced-must hold paramount. Thil
consideration is that Of healthfulness
In the very nature of things it is simply
impossible that Salt Lake City shoulc
ever be an unhealthy metropolis. En-.
joying, as it does, one of the most ever
and temperate climates known to thu
Rocky Mountain range, and possessing
the main virtues of a semi tropics
region, together with the chief features
that recommend harder climates, il
must always recommend itself to those
who seek a home, not because it will
furnish employment and the nece ssa
ries of life, nor because it furnishes q
field for the rapid accumulation OF
wealth-but who desire a home in the
section the climate of which embraces
the most desirable features of desirable
seasons. The air is light, the nights in
summer cool, and during the warm
summer days the heat is tempered by
the breezes sweeping from ice-felds
of the bleak mountain peaks,
while the deteriorating effects
peculiar to tropi al and semi
tropical chimes are never experienced
here. There is just enough-or q
bare semblauce for brief seasons-of the
regions of winter as experienced in the
northern and eastern cities to give tone
to the system, elasticity to the step,
freshness to the cheeks, healtbfulness TO
the form and brilliancy to the eye. The
dry summers admit o: excursions into
the mountains for weeks st a stretch
without fear of drenching transforms.
Once within the scared depths of these
mountain raVines, no matter what may
have been the heat Ct the day, the cool
breeze signing amid the quakiugasps,
among the pines and balsams,
carrying the murmurs of many
stream with them in their course, and
passing over the enduring SHOWS of
ages, reaches the weak and WORKOUT
being, rehabilitates his tagging spirits,
and he lays him down to sleep at night
the warmth which an abund-
ance of covering affords, and rejoicing
that the Creator of all has ever afforded
some method for the restoration OF man
worn out in the struggle to leave
name among his fellows. Night after
night in midsummer has the writer
lain amid the murmuring, waving
pines and shigering aspen leaves with
buffalo robe for mattress, a blanket
for feather bed and an oVercoat for a
quilt of down; while the couch upon
which we lay was the never-Wearying
earth; while the walls which encircled
US were the eYer-enduring hills, and the
canopy spread above was the boundless
universe of sky studded with stars of
brightness aad illQmin-
ated by q moon undimmed with the
density OF humid hemisphere, In
limited way, these features are ehioyed
by Salt Lake City itself. Spreading ont
from the mouth of one of those CANYONS
" ravines, all parts of the CITY derive
The benefit of the cool drafts of ~.
which forever find their vav in tb a
Itks q refreshing spirit
ao own toe cary, as and pass out into the
any which opens from it. The stu
alton of the city is such that it has
natural drainage, the water
running to the southeastern part.
thence away into the Jordan, which
skirts the west side of the city, and
finds its way into the bosom
of the great inland ocean of America
the Dead Sea of the Desert-the Great
Salt Lake.
In a recent exhaustive discussion of
the climate of Salt Lake by the eminent
Drs. Hamilton and Stand
art, we find the following remarkable
statements, based upon q consideration
of dryness, elevation, and tonicity of
the air, which play so great part in
rendering a climate desirable and
health giving:
Upon this basis OF reasoning we can
make the plain statement-andl 1t can
not be controYerted-that we, as indi-
vidusls and as people-subject to the
manifold blessings so lavishly bestowed
upon the section where we live and
have our being-can work harder and
accomplish more with less wear and
tear, IN Utah than anywhere else IN the
inhabitable globe. With fair endow-
ment of brains as working capital we
can think faster; with brawny arms
backed with inherent energy, we can
expend more force with less fatigue and
render at shutdown a day and a quarter
for a days work without, unusual
effort. We can eat and assimilate
more and sleep better IN Utah than
the average man elsewhere; in brief.
while We cannot exactly subsist
and live upon 'rsrified air and
hope we do claim that under
the stimulus of local conditions of
climate, etc., we can return other
things being equal-in thought and
force. more and better WORK than the
average of mankind in less fortunately
endowed localities.
1--WE LIVE IN NATURES sANITARIUM;
we are subjected to healthful inhuen-
ees; we dwell under cloudless sky. In
the locaIization of the most favorable
climatic properties-drYness, GOODNESS
and diathermancy of the atmosphere,
We find the ideal climate.
THE effect of our local climate upon
diseases in general is modifying. The
,t,znuer heat is not debilitating, the dry