The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-17
From Which One Views the Great
Salt Lake.
THE VISION ONE OF SPLENDOR.
The Choicest Spot for Home-The Aristocratic
Residence Site of the City---Salt
Lake Valley.

Is given below, and the distribution of them
will do good for Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE CITY.
There is but one opinion in regard to the
future of Salt Lake city. Every one who
knows anything about the place feels as
sured that ere many years it will be the great
city between Denver and San Francisco, and
IN many respects excel both. Its climate,
its fertility of soil, its wealth of minerals.
ITS sulphur and soda springs, its wonderful
supply of raw materials for manufacturing
purposes, its fresh and salt lakes the
beauty of its location, and many other CON
.5lderatlOns give assurance Of its prosperous
future. 1t should be the supply centre for
western Colorado, Arizona, Nevada,
southern California, Idaho, part of Mon
tana, and southeastern Oregon. 1t has in
eXhaustible deposits of coal and iron,
the basis of all manufactures. 1t
has mineral wax, asphalt gilsonite,
bOraX, alum, sulphur and salt within
a few miles, and on the line of the
railroads. The valley in which the city is
situated is large and fertile enough to raise
table supplies for a community the size of
New York, and the attractions of city
lakes and mountains should alone suffice to
build up a community Of quarter of q
million people.
But it is objected the conditions
have all existed during the past
forty years, and have not suficed to
make Salt Lake a prosperous or populous
city. True, but while these conditions eX
istsd, they were little known or understood
even by the people themselves, and local
issues prevented d favorable consideration
of the material advantages. But the world
moves, and the realities Of yesterday be
come the memories of to-day. The citizens
of Salt Lake have awakened from
the nightmare which has benumbed
their faculties for quarter of a century.
and are now earnestly endeavOring to enter
upon new career which will bring pros
perity and development.
The railroads which have entered Colo
RADIO during the past five or six years have,
all, representatives in Salt Lake city,
striving for the freight ana passenger
traffic of Utah and the western coast. Salt |
Lake cityis the objective point of all these
roads in their progress on the Pacific slope |
and another few years will see these rail |
roads within the borders of Utah.
Salt Lake city is the metropolis of the |
territory, where the executive and all the |
federal officers are stationed, where the |
legislature holds its sessions, and where |
the second most beautiful fort in America |
IS lOcated. The difficulties of the past are |
hardly worth the consideration of the pres |
ent. The social features Of Salt Lake have |
been entirely changed in the past few years, |
and no longer present any startling phases |
to strangers and visitors. Churches of every
denomination are well filled on Sabbath, |
and in the outward appearance Of things !
there is nothing to distinguish Salt Lake |
from a staid New England town. The citi-
zens are peaceable and industrious and |
have spent S25 600 during the past year IN an |
effort to convey to the people OF the United |
States q correct understanding and in
preston of their material advantages, |
and of their desire to attain the de- |
gree of development to which the |
advantages entitle them. Utah has not the |
money needed for the development of its |
resources, but it is safe to say that there Is |
no sDot in America which affords the same !
onn6rtunities for lucrative investment. |
When the prejudice which exists IN the |
minds of uniformed strangers toward the |
and its people is dispelled, and cor |
rect estimate is formed of the actual sit
nation. thousands will rush to Salt Lake |
and it viii astonish America by its extra |
ordinary growth in wealth and population. |
Salt Lake city is enjoying to-day degree |
of prosperity unequalled IN its past history, |
and is on the threshold of a still greater |
prosperity because Of the universal after |
ton it is attracting.
' CoLBoRN, SKINNER & Co.
Salt Lake City.
4 VISION OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE.
Yonder lies the Great Lake, Americas
mysterious inland sea, glistening IN tie
sheen and simmer of Utah's gold and pur
pie suns It, The silvery ripples on.its bosom,
though dazzling to the eye, are poison
to the parChed lips, and IN It's waters,
which cover an area of $500 square m les
no thing of life exists save what the
microscope is necessary to discover. Ma
ture has wrought wonder here emDle-
matte in itself of her mysterious ways. Its
grandeur so ennity and stiffness inspire
the beholder with awe, and its origin and
source the speculative and scientific mind
have sought in vain to discover. II the
remnant of a primOrdial ocean, how has It's
character remained unchanged during the
ages that the oceans ebb and flow nave been
marked on the sands of the Pacific slope,
thousand miles away! There are no noun
tains of salt upon its margin, and during the
seasons course it drinks increasingly from
Utah's mountain streams and rivers.
What a field for the poet and the artist;
For the latter in the changing colors ana
the variety of view, for the former IN the
thousand legends which imagination may
aptJV associate with the history Of It's past.
Thus far it has not been much celebrated IN
prose verse, but ere many years have pass
ed it is destined to become the most famed
spot in America, and the pleasure ground
towards which the multitudes will rush
from the Atlantic and the Pacific.
The mountain which seems TO pound the
from its depths, and the other mountain to
the southwest is also an island, both OF
which are plentifully supplied with fresh
water, drawn apparently from the same
source as the brinY waters OF the lake
itself.
0The point on the shore at the south end
is Garfield Beach a glorious summer resort,
and at the north end, beyond the tamou
hot springs. is Lake Park the favorite
natatOrium and pleasure ground OF citizens
and visitors. In all there are twelve
islands which lie before US, three of which
are quite large and used as orchards and
pasture grounds. Five others are smaller
but cover several thousand acres, and the
others are barren and not susceptible |
of cultivation, What pictures of grand |
eur and magnlncence will be painted along |
these shores in the future none can tell |
but the happiness and comfort and pleasure |
to be found here in summer homes viii !
soon alter the aspect of the surroundings
and draw capital and population to the |
shores of Great Salt Lake.
That valley which stretches in front of
us westward from the city to the lake and
south to the Oquirrh range of mountains,
and along the Wasatch range in the
shadows of which we stand, into Utah val
lev. distance of thirty miles, is the view
which captivated Brigham Young and his
followers when they first emerged from
FmigratiOn canon, over there beyond Fort
Douglas. 1t is Salt Lake valley. The
foliage which spreads itself out at our feet
over an area of two miles square, embOwers
fine CITY. the modern Zion. What parallel
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