The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25
WHAT CONSTITUTES GROWTH?

4 qu'shed.
4 WHAT CONSTITUTES GROWTH?
& mere increase in the population o.
place is not sufficient to entitle it to
the credit of being live and growing
city unless this increase has beeD
brought about as result of the enter
prise and labors of the men and institu-
tions, pu olIc and private, of that town.
Cities grow, without progressing, but
they never progress without growing
With this fact IN view, it is the objec
of this article to show that Salt Lake
CITY has advanced and progressed
during the past year in all material
Ways and that it has grown both in
DO ulation and in Importance follow as
inevitable results.
THE NATURAL ADVANTAGES
aof Salt Lake are entirely too numerous
to be mentioned in detail. The site Of
the city is one of the most beautiful il
the world, and beauty is not the only
advantage in her situation. Surrounded
by extensive stretches of country whose
agricultural and mineral wealth
naturally look to her either as a market
or as shipping point, she stands the
queen of q vast territory, whose riches
are untold and whose future greatness
is as sure as the coming of another day.
In summer, Salt Lake with her green
trees and beautiful foliage let down in
the Emidst Of the rugged snow-capped
peaks of the Wasatch and OQuirrh
MfNNTrn fnY 10 I Hn hill Ia
set in a cluster of rough diamonds.
From any point in the city the beauti-
1Ul mountain scenery can be viewed,
while from any elevated position the
great blue salt Lake can be seen sire tch
ing out toward the west until it is lost
with the setting sun.
THE CLIMATE
admitted by all who have ever lived
here to be one of the .pleasantest and
most healthful found on the globe.
There are four distinct seasons-a de-
lightful Spring, filled with flowers and
sunshine, as free from clouds as the
life of child Summer, rich in fruits
of all kinds. warm enough, though not
excessively hot; an Autumn, in which
the hills and mountains clothe them
selves in garments of a thousand
delicate colors, shades and TINS; a
Winter that stores away the summers
water in the form of snow in the noun
tain Businesses, gives sleighing and all
the pleasures of an ideal holiday season.
The good things that have been spoken
iand written of our climate would fill
he CHRISTMAS HERALD. Drs. Hamilton
and STANDARD, in their report to the
Chamber of Commerce on our climate
say among other things;
Upon this basis of reasoning We
can make the plain statement-and it
cannot be controVerted-that we as in
dividuals, and as a 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
swear and tear" in Utah than any,
where else in the inhabitable globe.
With a fair endowment of brains as
working capital we can think faster
with brawny arm, backed with Inherent
energy, we can expend more force with
ess fatigue and render at shutdown g.
day and quarter. for a days work
without unusual effort
on THE SQUARE.
Salt Lake City in the way it is lid
out, as well as in other respects, is
tnietly On the square. The broad
streets run at right angles to each other
in the direction of the cardinal points.
The blocks in tbs main part are torty
rods square, perhaps too large for bI7si-
ness purposes; bot it is more thai
probable that ere long these will he ont
IN two By streets running north and
south, which will then render them If
The utmost convenience The blocks
IN the northeas tern part Of the town
are but twenty rods square. The town
Is not SO compactly built as are most
cities east and west of US, covering
somewherein the neighborhood Of nine
square miles; bat the more centraf NOR.
ton is rapidly building up, and in tbe
past few years some very fine bns5Lissq I
blocks have been erected, and the citv
cannot be said to be lacking in the ~
tributes of metropolis. Two features
of the city have been greatly admireJ
by visitors, the luxuriant shade trees
Which line our sidewalks, and the