The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

for healthfulness, no city in the territory
is its equal As summer resort it has
many advantages where another city only
has one, and these advantages are already
recognized.
Logan has ample hotel accommodation
The demand is heavy because the transient
population is great.
There are two places of amusement, the
new opera house, with seating capacity
of 800, and the Reese opera house, with a
seating capacity of 500.
1t has a semi-weekly newswaper-the
Logan Journal
Food is exceedingly cheap.
In the last twelve months Salt Lake has
dropped s25O,OOO in Logan-more than in
all the other cities in Utah put together.
may state, incidentally, that we have
no anxiety about being left out in the cold
by railway. Any road that can afford to
leave Logan will only make way for an
other.
REALTY AND BUSINESS.
There is abundant room for new bust
ness in Logan. Rents are astonishingly
cheap.
The highest price paid for any business
property in Logan is 800 per foot Logan
people do not value any business property
at over $3.50 per foot. A failure in business
is almost an unheard of thing Almost any
business seems to thrive here, as well as
the butcher industry does the world over
do not think any capable person could
make false step in almost any reasonable
venture in Logan. And this is not said
because those already embarked here are
lacking in any respect, but that all seem to
thrive.
l have never been in community where
young men were accorded greater recogni-
ton, or where so many were in prosperous
circumstances as in Cache valley generally
and in Logan particularly. That this state
of affairs exists is a compliment both to
the young men and the aged.
Homes are cheap. Full city lots can be
purchased, according TO location, from $3.50
to $1,000. The latter figure is extremely
high for residence property. Smaller par
GELS of ground are at proportionate figures.
1 have sold good six-room lumber, adobe
lined, house, with pump, well, barn, trees,
ETC., improved grounds, good location, six
blocks from the business part OF the city,
for s., 900, and the seller deemed he was
well paid This lot contained over two
acres of ground.
There has, in some directions, been a
marked increase in values; but, taken all
in all, the existing population, modern con
veniences, business done, and future pros
poets, no other place in Utah offers equal
inducements for bona fide settlers to Sc
cure homes at little cost. The disposition
of the people is to encourage the incoming
of such, and to discountenance the bargain
and sale of real estate for purely specula-
tive purposes. There are those, however,
who are encouraged to speculate for this
very reason.
There is little doubt that Logan will be
large milling centre, the design to erect
grain elevators indicating as much.
It is an economical as well as a physical
impossibility that the water powers of Cache
county, and which are almost exclusively
restricted to Logan, shall not be made
available for manufacturing purposes at
an early date audit is to take advantage of
these opportunities while they yet remain,
that the organizing of so many companies
for the Inauguration of varied industries is
taking place.
The introduction of an extensive electric
lighting system will be followed in less
than two years by the operation of electric
street car lines. In less than six months a
plant with capacity of 1000 lights will
be in operation in Logan.
The city will be bonded for additional
water works systems and the extension of
water mains.
The making of streets is being vigor
ously prosecuted and will be continued
Logan is essentially Mormon town. 1t
will continue to be so. And no individual
with ''carpet-bag'' written all over his
countenance will live to see the day when
he can claim that ne forced the dominant
party into municipal improvements. In
these directions Logan, for her population,
has been in the van for years.
Not only will she continue to be the
prettiest city in Utah, situated on the lev
elest valley in the Rocky mountains; but
she will be the best regulated, have the
most advanced municipal improvements
and be inhabited in the future, as in the
past, by the best people.
The future of Logan is not speculative.
She has no fever. Her development will
be rapid, healthy and enduring, and Logan
only wants the class of people who will
help along this kind of progress. Such
people will come to Logan and Logan will
give them pleasant homes, afford good
business opportunities and furnish profit
able and healthful employment.
We have but commenced to move.