The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-20
STILL TALKING UTAH.
The Herald Manager and the
Worked He is Doing.
SIOUX CITY AND SALT LAKE.
Less than Half Our Resources
and Attractions.


is certainly a pretty place. if they do
have but three months every year
July, August and WINTER" as one in
nabitant put it. | found that Sioux
City did not particularly like Salt Lake.
and was not especially anxious to have
Salt Lake City doomed there, the rea-
son being that good many Iowans
had already put large amounts into
our city. But We were trested NOR
than kindly. Sioux expects to be the
town OF Iowa, and one Of the great
towns of the western country. 1t does
not like the notion that men of means
will leave a growing olty OF $4,000 in
habitants TO invest in another city. O.
great deal further west; CT 30 900 in
habitants. Like Omaha, Sioux City has
been built up within the last five years
1t CLAIMS to-day to have population
equal to our own; but is much more
m )dern, not only in its appearance, but
I its conveniences.
Sioux is situated at the corner of four
States. and presumes that it will some
day be the central jobbing point for
DAKOTA, part of Wyoming, Iowa,
Northern Nebraska, and other sections
Mr.. ] ackson. a gentleman quite familiar
| with Salt Lake and Utah generally
was very decided in his belief that
Sioux would be much larger city than
Salt Lake. though ne looked for decided
growth also at Salt lake. He SAID
Sioux was IN the centre OF tremend-
Gus corn, grain and hog raising coun-
| try which must centre at Sioux City.
| Furthermore, be commended that il 1890
Sioux City would kill as many hogs as
omaha, which is now running hard for
| the third place as hog destroy.r aud
| packer aud that in 1895, be o-Iieved
Sioux City would kill TWO hogs for
| Omaha's one, and have population of
| 80 900 TO 100 ,00J. This hog killing and
| packing business means, of course.
very large soap factories, lard factories
and, with the wheat producing feature
of the section, Sioux claims she will b.
| the centre of the vast milling indus
| triel. These are
THE HOPE OF SIOUX.
OF course, she is on the Miss ,uri
River, but at point great deal higher
than the river tratfc, and she does not
look for much from that source. She
certainly cannot expect ever to become
a residence city, from choice of people,
her climate Is so thoroughly wretched-
as hot as sh9ol in the summer and as
cold as the North Pole in winter, and
sioux City has but three months in the
year. | am unable to see. for the life of
me, how any man as in elligent as Mr..
Jackson is. can reason himself into
fifth in S,oIx City with her limited OPP
Dortu1ities, as against Salt Lake City
with her abundant resources, Ter
climatic advantages. Der Opportunities
for misunderstanding. her natural attrac-
tiveness and her thousand and one
other deligh full, comm endable and al
vantageous features. But elouX City Is
pretty now. Her streets are paved, she
has lovely little hotel which cost about
a quarter of million, toe Garretson,
one of the most modern and neatest
structure in the west. She has motor
lines, cable roads. She is laying out
additions, and in every way assuming
metropolitan al duu
Her corn palace last year drew 400
0C0 people to Inspect il. 1t was paid
for and gotten up by private suhscrip-
ton. and the amount of money it cost
would have, [ am half inclined to be-
lieve, scared half the Salt Lake mer-
chants to death, but every man in
Sioux City contributed, and it was the
biggest thing that go-ahead little place
ever had, and perhaps the most profit
able. This year company has been
organized to build a corn palace, with
capital stock of 800 900, and it is ex-
pected every citizen liz business will be
on hand to help move the thing along
They expect to bring in a million of
people to see it this year, and they are
not at all delicate about telling a Sioux
| CITY business man, who doesn't seem to
favor their methods, that he must come
and be hand in glove with his fellows
in helping forward the
GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY,
even though his individual notion is
that the plan is impracticable.
Sioux City has a!so sewers and water
works. The water is not from the
Missouri but from seyenty-fve artesian
wells that have been sunk within rea
>onabie radius from each other, and
from which the water is pumped into q
general cistern or reservoir. Its fire de-
partment is on a paid basis, and it has
two stations with all modern appliances.
Fine residences are being built, and, as
| everywhere else, men of means are
seeking the high points en- the bluffs
and putting up elegant homes.
Rising on the high bluffs of the
Missouri, Sioux gives opportunities for
many fine city effects From these
bluffs several points Of charming pros
pect are visible which, at this season of
he year. coupled with the broad,
sweeping Missouri, present a very pleas
| ing and delightful appearance.
1t would do Salt Lake City people
good to come to Sioux City and see
what this little town has done in the
way of improvements, and [ doubt if
they would much longer have affection
for the oftentimes tedious methods of
our own. Nor do l hear people com
plain of the rate of taxation, though
suppose many do. The demand is for
improvements. The determination is
to build city and surely if commun-
ity of enterprise and grit and resolution
and generosity can do so, Sioux will be
city. But she will never be like unto
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