The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-06
AT SALT LAKE CITY.
Utah Has Mineral Wealth, Climate
and Fertility Unsurpassed.
HER ADVANTAGES COUNTLESS.
A Tale Told by Two Orphans---In the Min
neapolis Tribune---An EndeayOr to be
Fair and Truthful.

| Especial. Farewell to the sand storms
and adobe hotels of Pueblo! Welcome the
plains of Zion and the streets of the New
Jerusalem, or, in the palmer United States
vernacular, Salt Lake City. Here we found
birds singing in the trees, and the foliage
at least making an effort to look green. The
sky is bluer than Kansas city real estate
man, and the air tic6les our nostrils like
Apollonaris water that has been charged
for the export trade After driving out to
| the hot springs under the fatherly protec
ton of Major Erb, the veteran Boniface of
the Walker House, and taking plunge in
solution of birthstone and steam, one feels
like speaking good word" for this highly
favored and richly seasoned community.
There are two crops which never fail in
all these booming states and territories
west of the Missouri, viz: climate and pros
poets. But Utah seems to have both of
these, with mines and agriculture thrown
in. Colorado has her climate and mineral
wealth, including coal and petroleum. Utah
has Colorado's sunshine,
MORE MINERAL WEALTH, MORE FERTILE
FIELDS,
an elevation of 1850 feet, the shelter of
massive mountains, with rarified atmOs-
phere tempered by the purifying influence
of $500 square miles of salt water. The
mercury has touched 100 degrees three
times in twenty-five years and sank below
zero just thirteen times in the same period.
Why is it, then, that this oasis in the
great Wasatch range, with the richest
mineral deposits, the most equable tenn
perature and the grandest prospects amid
the great chain of western territories,
should be so little known and so backward
in coming forward! This question is an
swered in the past and not the present of
the great Mormon Arcadia.
Utah is now approaching the dawn of a
new prosperity. Capital and population are
merely waiting for the reckoning signal to
develop this beautiful valley and its mag
niticent resources. Indeed the tide has
already set in, but the swell is yet to come.
SALT LAKE CITY Is THE CENTRE
of grand empire whose area is greater
than all the New England states combined.
There is no city nearer than Denver on the
east, Helena on the north and Log Angeles
on the southeast. 1t is compactly built,
with broad avenues 100 feet in width, bus
mess blocks that cover ten acres, beautiful
shade trees on every street, and has pop
ulation of $4,000. The great Wasatch range
towers above the city, its snOw-clad peaks
standing like grim sentinels on the horizon,
as our guide book says. The Great Salt
Lake is plainly visible from the more ele-
waited residence sites. The lake is ninety
miles in length and forty miles at its greatest
breadth. From its depth rise several
mountain islands, on some Of which the
finest fruits and vegetables are grown.
The lake contains about II per cent of min
eral salts in solution, its specific gravity
being greater than that of the Atlantic
ocean. This wonderful body has no known
outlet, although several rivers and numer-
Gus mountain streams are continually flow
ing into it. From May to October
ITS WELL KNOWN BATHING RESORTS
are crowded with tourists and health seek
ers. Bathing in Great Salt Lake is CON
side ed the finest in the world, the water
being so dense that the human body will
float on the surface without effort. 1t will
surprise many northwestern readers to
learn that all the religious denominations
are well represented in Salt Lake City
St. Marks Cathedral (Episcopalian) is the
finest structure and contains the largest
and wealthiest congregation of all the
Protestant churches. The city has excel
lent public schools and numerous denomi-
national institutions of learning.
The Great Salt Lake basin possesses a
climate perhaps unequaled ON the western
continent, anu is OF quality most highly
conducive to longevity. The atmosphere is
tempered by almost perpetual sunshine,
while fogs and mists are unknown. The
average humidity is 43 per cent. At Phila-
delphia it is % per cent. The basin enjoys
immunity from high winds and severe
electric storms, and is a sanitarium in the
highest curative sense. The property of
exhileration born of purity and rarity of
atmosphere is a specific for consumption,
and thousands of invalids have found com
plete restoration or prolonged life
N THESE ISvIGoRATING SURROUNDINGS.
Utah has population of over POO, 900. Her
mines, only partially developed, produce S1O,-
900, 1000 annually; her farms over s., 0O0, 900,
and her factories 9,000,0 900. Her wealth in
live stock is S29,00O,000, and in property
over S2O0,000,0O0. Wheat and watermelons
grow side by side, and grapes fraternize
with Lima beans in the same vineyard.
Utah fruit is sold in San Francisco at a pre-
MUM over California fruit. Utah potatoes
are listed as delicacy on the menus of the
swell hotels of New York and Boston.
Utah has more coal than Colorado. A road
is now projected from Salt Lake to Los
Angeles to give her a western outlet, and
market wherein she may sell Goals which
now come from Australia. Utah'S silver
mines are the richest on earth. In iron aud
lead her mountains are ineXhauStible, and
her mineral resources are the most varied
in character of any country on the globe.
u tabs prospects are also enhanced
in no small degree by virtue of her friendly
relations with the railroads within her ter
ritOry, particularly the Denver & Rio
Grande Western, which by liberal and jul
dicious advertising is spreading Utah's
fame and glories throughout the entire
United States. Many thousands of people
from all points of the compass visited Salt
Lake City and the surrounding territory
during the past year, and while hundreds
remained to cast their fortunes in Utah,
thousands returned to their homes to dis
seminate among their friends the knowledge
they obtained in regard to this favored
region.
Visitors are well repaid for the entire ex-
pense of their journey 10 Utah by their
ride over the Denver & Rio Grande, which |
is becoming famous as the ''Scenic Line of
the World,'' extending as it does from Den |
yer and Pueblo through all the grandeurs
of the Rocky mountains; but so much has
already been written of the Grand cafion,
Royal gorge, Marshall pass, Castle gate,
and other prominent scenes along this line,
that any further description would seem
uncalled for. THE Two ORPHANS.
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