The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-25
TO 1.-THE STRANGERS WITHIN OUR
GATES"

There is host of strangers within our,
gates this morning.. and no doubt good
many queries viii arise in their minds rel
alive to matters and things, which this ar
ticle may in some degree clear up
You are in a town laid out and built up
by the Mormons, and prospecting under
their government. They bid you welcome,
and hope you may have a royal time.
Our population is close upon forty thou
sand according to the best estimate.
We have ten banks, chamber of com
merce, big wooden factories, a NAM
moth shoe factory, hosts of pros
porous merchants, two theatres, an organ.
lied army of real estate men, three
breweries and one newspaper.
One of our business houses, Zion's Co
operative Mercantile Institution, does a
business of four or five millions annually,
and regularly pays 10 per cent on million
capital. 1t is a Mormon institution, but
large quantities of its stock are held by
non ormons.
The electric street railroad was pushed
through to its present success by the nerve
of Hon. Francis Armstrong, mayor. of thes
city
Two big railroad enter our city, several
others are about to do, and half dozen
radiate from it.
Ogden, lively young city, of ten thou
sand or twelve thousand population lies
thirty eight miles to the north Of US.
Provo, Utah's garden city, a city of 5000
is situated fifty miles to the south
Park City, the home of the great Ontario
mine, which has paid its stockholders
ten million to twelve million dollars in divi-
dends, is in the mountains thirty miles
east of us.
A system Of sewerage is now being
pushed to rapid completion under the
orders of the present city council.
The Great Salt Lake, the dead sea Of
America, bath in which is unrivalled by
anything on the globe, is within twenty
miles rail connection
Hot sulphur springs baths are Within
easy reach of the city.
Onr fire department if excellently equip
ped and has great record for efficient
service.
Our police force though undistinguish
able from the rest of humanity, is wake
full and vigilant. The present conflict be
tween the sovereign people and the police
relative tie the DOMINIC Of uniforms, will
subside when the police are convinced it is,
the proper thing to do
The beautiful water you drink comes
from mountain stream, City Crack canyon,
a drive up which will repay you for your
entire trip. A system of drive wells will
still further add to the city's water supply
Business property on Main street Is
worth from one thousand to one Thousand
five hundred dollars per foot.
The Tabernacle one of the largest places
of worship in the world is open at O'Clock
this afternoon. It contains a great pipe
organ, built entirely by native hands with
native materials.
If you keep your eyes and ears open you
will see that there is here, big earnest
class of Mormon and Gentle alike who are
striving for peace, harmony, mutual good
will and the building up and prosperity OF
our community. That is the class The
HERALD takes pride in representing.
Without keeping your eyes and ears
very well open you will see and hear
another class-rampant, free Of hatred and
malignity. I'D own with the Mormons''
their only cry, their only object to grind
down the Mormons and disfranchiss THEN
so that they may obtain control of the fat
offices the general prosperity has created
From this class proceeds the alarmist dis
patches, the lies and the false reports with
which the land is filed regarding Utah
and the Mormons. They have brought
troops here once and had them quartered in
the streets of Salt Lake, where there was
as much necessity for their presence as.
They would repeat the same thing to
morrow if they could This is the class
represented by the Salt Lake Tribune.
The Tribune, you may perhaps be aware
is better known by the title of the Daa,e
DtstGnced, name which it has won in its
race with THE HERALD.
THE HERALD, you may have heard, is
Familiarity dubbed 1.-The Giant of the
Rockies" The reason is, that it is by all
odds the largest paper published between
the Missouri river and San Francisco Its
advertising patronage is from 40 to so per
cent. heavier than that of any other paper
in Salt Lake, as today's issue will fully
testify.
The celebrated Broadhcad dress goods
all warranted, at D.. L. Davis, formerly
Barnes X Davis.