The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-10
WHEN WILL WE Do TT.
How Eastern Towns March
On to Glory.
COUNCIL BLUFFS AND OMAHA
The "Slow' City Council, but It Can
Run All Around Our Own
A Query.

OMAHA, June Especial to THE
HERALD. Council Bluffs offers 1000
to any individual or company guaran-
teeing to erect hotel that will cost
$50 600. This is not offered as part
subscription. 1t is a bonus, out and
QUITO per cent. of the gross amount.
Council Bluffs has population of some
$4,000. Salt Lake City has a population
approaching 5000 with advantages
afforded by nature that Council Bluffs
never had, and never will have.
Here is question. If Council Bluffs
merchants, who must depend on the
overflow of population from the Omaha
side of the river, can afford to give o
bonus of $4,000 for a $150,000 hotel,
how much ought Salt Lake merchants
to be willing to donate for hotel cost
ing the same amount? Or,
Are the Council Bluffs merchants and
business men noodles, having more
money than brains?
If they find it good investment,
why not Salt Lake, which has infinitely
more need OF a hotel, and which has a
larger population and an incomparably
brighter future?
Either Council Bluffs business men
are fools in offering this bonus and Salt
Lake men are wise, or Council Bluffs
business men are wise in their day and
the business men of Salt Lake are
we'll, not breaking themselves up with
enterprise.
met an old Salt Laker to-day. Talk
ing about the prospective work to be
done in Salt Lake City, he said: You
will never have anything done there e
until you get a new City Council. "
City Council"
II know it. That is why 1 spoke. /
read your papers. They have been try
ing to work up courage enough to spend
$4,000 for sewerage, but can't muster
it. Considering
THE WEALTH REPRESENTED
in the City Council, in both parties, il
does not look very inviting" urged
that action was being taken, that there
delay was due to the desire to make nc
mistakes; and that there was no dispo-
sition to retard public improvements
but he checked me off with the remark
1T need not take these thirteen mer
long to find safe and perfectly homes
way to spend $4,000 in needed public
improvements in Salt Lake. If the
disposition were there, the way would
verv soon appear. want to go back tc
Salt Lake, but can see nothing so fal
to draw me there. Oh, yes; you've go
a great future. No one can deny that
but it will take different class of mel
from money-lenders to make it." Anc
he walked off and left me. wa
"speechless, entirely"
For the comfort of your readers,
will tell you something. There is not
town in the United States, unless it be
small one in Oregon, where thers i
what might be called a genuine rea
estate boom.
THE REAL ESTATE BOOM
fell here last July. and has never re
vived. Yet 100000 worth of building
will be done in Omaha this year, an,
fully Is per cent. more than last year
There is not street have seen OF
which some improvement is not bein,
made-paving, or sewering, or layinl
gas or water mains, or laying a cabl
road, or rails for car track. And side
walks are being curbed, streets half
blocked with building materials, anC
life and push visible everywhere; ano
yet there is no real estate boom. AND
real estate offices are being closed anC
men are glad to go out of the business
But Omaha is growing. Propertie
are adorned with the modern legend
For Sale" Men are making failures
business thrives, and the poor they al
ways have with them. But there IS NJ
boom.
But no man can drive around Oman,
for half an hour without having rootet
immovably. the conviction that tn
people of Omaha are not afraid of them
selves. They have unbounded conf
dence in their own future. "By thei
fruits shall We be known"
And when man lays out an addition
even if it be four or five miles out, PEG
pie do not laugh at him. His owl
fellow citizens are not the first to tr,
and break him by calling hin an ass
Others may do it, but not the citizen O
Omaha. at home, he is sure of coun
tenance, and his grit, energy, and de-
termination are applauded, admired
and endorsed.
Talk about vacant land in Salt Lake
It is not circumstance to what the,
have here. And yet we are told Their,
can be no boom in land where there il
so much. Here an addition is laid ou
one, two, three or more miles from tn,
business centre. The lots are sold, ana
the first thing one knows, the stree
cars are run out to it; then, withou
Faiting for a densely settled popula.
ton, the streets are paved, and the cit,
is found on hand doing everything i
can
TO INDUCE POPULATION
in the new quarter, and to provid
accommodations so that there will b
no drawbacks. The gas and water ar
put in, and later, even at the expens
of few cobbles being uplifted, the sew
erage connection is made. And here
too ne0nlp find fay1It with tba - J;n..