The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-24
HAVE WE THE WILL


management, is attracting marked at
tention towards this much-neglected
region. The car is laden with speci-
mems of the valuable minerals which
abound in our mountain businesses, Of
the rich agricultural products grown in
our peaceful valleys, of the varied and
beautiful articles of commerce made by
our enterprising factories. of our ro-
mantic and inspiring scenery which
gives performances without charge
every day, Sundays included, ard of
the wonderful attractions within our
borders which are destined to convert
our country into delightful rendezvous
for the health and pleasure-seekers of
the earth. But soon there will come a
time when the fund which keeps the car
going will run out, and then It Will bs
called home and probably be sidetfaeked
in some convenient locality te ALLOW
residents to view its interesting exhibits
for while, and then what? When the
car has fulfilled the mission of its USE
fitness aud we no longer see the need OF
an exposition on wheels, what then
sill bsceMe Of the choice collection OF
specimens i contains, and where then
viii visitors go who are DESTROYS OF
learning something more of our mar
veIous resources than appear on the
surface? We ought to have per-
manent Exposition building here. L
needs no ghost to come from Wichita
TO tell US that. And if We have one, we
will build it ourselves. We may boom
our country and solicit capitalists to IN
vest their money in establishing In
dustries here, and they may come and
build factories and provide rapid transit
and develop natural gas, but there VIII
be no excessive shower OF foreign cap
itsI To mt into a Chamber of Commerce
nor an Exposition building. We ne dr.t
count on that. True, we are expecting
foreign capital to do great deal for US,
Int we must do something for our
selves. Already the charge is made
abroad that we appear to lack
confidence in our own representations
because we do not show our faith by
onr works-becaase we do not ourselves
launch some of the big enterprises
which we say to others there is money
in Perhaus there is a truth in this
that st,ngs. There may be. But is /.
not DossIb,e that the several schemes
heretofore discussed, like the building
of a road to Los Angeles, the rrectlon OF
two million dollar Chamber of Com
merce building, etc. have had q
tendency rather to daze Us by
the enormity of the undertak-
ing than to induce the loosening
of our purse strings? We are not all
Goulds. or Huntingtons, or Staptords,
or Badlams. A two million dollar en-
terprise may be only side issue with
them. but with US, who have made our
little nile by hard knocks, the contem-
nlation of possible results rattles and
nnneryes US. So that we hastily decide
instead of risking so much money IN
the big ventures, to send out an exhibit
of onr marvellous resources as attract
ing the attention OF capitalists and
those seeking homes in the
west and confne our own pocket
money to cheaper investments. Well
here 10 an enterprise that is modest and
low-priced. The advantages to accrue
are nerhaps not so great as those of q
railroad, but it is necessity neverthe-
less and would prove of incalculable
benefit to the community and be a
source of pride and qualification to
avery citizen of Utah. Let US have q
nermanent Exposition building. Any
nav let US have some talk about one.
What are the chances? The Territory
has an ancient and honorable society
founded by legislative enactment, which
has for its object the promotion of the
industrial arts and the development oil
home resources. Last winter the City
of Salt Lake donated to the Territory
fen acres of land. elgibly located, as a
site for the erection of an Exposition
building conditioned upon an appropri-
at;on of 10000 by the Legislative AS
seubIy. then in session, towards the
carving out of the project. The Legis-
Iature. net to be outdone in
nu0lic spirit, promptly made the
REQUISITE appropriation, prescribing
that the sum be disbursed under the
direction of the society aforesaid and
then elected new beard Of directors to
manage the society's affairs consisting
Of representative men from the Terri
tory. Let us see who they are: John
3. Winder, Francis Armstrong, james
A. Bean, Nelson A. Empey, Hector w
Haieht, James II. Moyle, Smith Parker
John D. Peters, William Il. Rowe
Charles Read, Arthur L. Thorn as ane
3. NJ. Weller. The public have beer
sdvised from time to time OF the doing