The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-03
ONLY THE TRUTH.

delegations from Salt Lake are hoy
east, and others will soon 60 for To-
purpose CT advertising the resources o
this city and Utah Territory, and givinl
the people Of the sections visited an idel
OF the advantages OF Salt Lake and Utah
as places for Investment and residence
TIE HERALD has one suggestion to Of
fer. aud that is, shat they will confne
themselves literally to facts. By this
We do rot wish to be understood as i'm
plying that the gentlemen would do
anything else.
Our reason for referring to the mat
ter at all is found in little
pamphlet which is being distributed
with the compliments of the Salt Lake
Chamber of Commerce" and which
SurpoTt5 to be q statement of facts
aid notes" about this city. The name
Of the author is not given, nor why the
thing was issued, but it goes out under
the ostensibIe sanction of the Chamber
of Commerce, and therefore carries
with it degree OF reliability Or
authority to which the matter is not |
entitled. Many OF the assertions IN it
are absolutely false, dates are incor-
rectly stated. figures are wrong, auG /
there is unreliability running all |
through it. The first statement ~ the |
pamphlet is incorrect. giving che date
of the founding of the city as July 23d,
1847. The dates of the arrival of Gov
ernor West and the completion of the
D. & R. G. W. railway are given, but
nothing is said of the arrivals of the
eleven other governors who preceded ,
his presebt ExcelIency, nor of the build
ing OF other railways. Among the i
things which Salt Lake is reported as S
having are ''l20 miles Of streets 1872 feet
wide and 80 miles of street railway" g
We would like to know where these o
streets are. sad doubtless the receiver q
in the church suits will want to learn
who has been secretins four-ffths of the
street railway. tits to be hoped that the 8,
president of the Street Railway Com "
pany will not be compelled by the ii
courts to make good the missing miles OF
OF line. Then it is said that salt Lake &C
has no bonded debt" which reads T
strangely enough by the side of the "
AUDITORS semi annual reports, and the T.
setting aside of a percentage of the to
'lty's revenue twice year for redeem &C
ng municipal bonds. "a flowing well ar
VI natural gas has been struck inside az
he city limits, may be true literally, tir
'ut 1t is false in the impression sought vi
o be conveyed. Fruits, average fo,
ield per acre: Apples, 80 bushels; m
sars. 70 bushels; peaches, 100 Is,
ushels; plums, 162 bushels; apricots, wr
f6 Bushels; cherries, 70 bushels grapes. 81,
28O bushels" Where were these oc1
cures obtained? Who did the measur- cit
lgY Where are the orchards and vine ~,
ards from which this average weld rel
ar 2cre" was gathered? ~. VIII
Now, The HERALD doesn't want to ye
e any of this kind of booming for Salt viii
axe or Utah. If the truth will not thu
Ltice people, then let US go along as the
e have been going. Let it not be said put
anybody that he came here to find tio1
ings not as they were represented;
no one be able to say that he was 7,
ceived and miSled. The strict truth Rer
il do all that the city requires, and Nil
ore than the truth will react on the pon
wn to its injury and disaster. The