The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-10
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Salt Lake and Her Advantages
As Viewed From Afar.
THE NEEDED ROAD TO THE WEST.
rush and Business in Cache VaIley-Improve
ments the Watchword-The Granary
of Utah-General.

MALAD CITY, Idaho, March Especial
correspondence of THE HERALD After
many years of patient waiting and isolation
1t seems that Malad city is about to come
10 the front. A corps of Union Pacific en-
glneers are now surveying new line, and
everything indicates that the main line of
the Utah & Northern railway will soon
RUN THROUGH THIS VALLEY.
Whenever this is done, and all its resources
developed, Malad will be among the most
fertile and richest valleys of Idaho Terri
tory, From the banks of Bear river to the
northern boundary Of Oneida county,
stretches an immense tract of arabic land
which will in a few years sustain vast
population. This country will necessarily
be tributary to one of two cities in Utah
ogden or Salt Lake; which shall it be. Og
aen, II Is true, has some advantage in dis
lance, and a great deal of advantage in
enterprise. While Salt Lake merchants and
capitalists are wasting their time in quarrel
ing among themselves, the Ogden people are
energetically pushing their interests in
every direction; and it would seem that IN
less the capital city bestirs itself it will
eventually become an insignificant tributary
itself. As matters stand to-day Ogden is
naturally the great distributing point for
southern Idaho, and will remain so until
the Los Angeles or some other western road
IS built. For years Salt Lake City has held
THU TRADE OF THIS SECTION OF COUNTRY,
and with a railroad to the coast it might
continue so to do indefinitely. But without
such a road it must soon lose it all. When
1t IS understood that twO-thirds of the goods
consumed in southern Idaho are western,
d. G., California products, the Importance OF
western road will be more apparent to the
people of Salt Lake City This feature of
the case hardly seems to have entered into
the calculations of the projectors of the Los
Angeles road, and should be another incen-
tive to urge It onward.
That Ogden fully realizes the situation, is
apparent from the fact that an effort is be-
ing made to have its advantages fully adver-
tlsed in the Idaho press. l am reliably
informed that the Idaho Enterprise the lead
ing paper in southern Idaho, is about to
publish a series of articles showing up the
rapid growth and advancement of Ogden,
its superior facilities and the supposed ad-
VaDtages it possesses as distributing point
OF the full scope of these articles l am I'M
Informed, but apprehend tits an advertising
SCHEME FOR BOOMING OGDEN
and capturing the trade of southern Idaho
Salt Lake will make an irreparable mistake
if she allows her rival to quietly absorb the
commerce of the most prosperous portion Of
southern Idaho and northern Utah.
It would seem that Salt Lake men are
sadly deficient in a knowledge of their sur
roundings. They have been straining their
eyes toward the south and the west so long
that northern objects no longer leave an i'm
preston upon their retinas. Had they lived
in Malad valley year they might begin to
realize that the progressive and enterpris-
ing element Of southern Utah is steadily
i.
thousands of Utah people have located
themselves on the immense plains and in
the rich valleys of southern Idaho. This
population, whose wealth and numbers in a
few years hence can hardly be conjectured.
will ultimately be tributary to
SOME MIGHTY ISTER-MoUNTAGN CITY.
Shall it be Salt Lake. or shall it be Ogden?
or will some other great metropolis spring
up to eclipse the twain! In these days of
steam and electricity cities are not the re
suit of ages; but the work of a day, as it
were, and the slow and prOsy can never
hope to keep pace with the ceaSeleSs, active
energies which surround them. To-day
thousands Of people in Idaho are keenly
watching the race between Ogden and Salt
Lake, and though the truth may bevery IN
savorv to the latter, still the fact remains
that betting is in favor of the former, and
that Salt Lake hackers are growing weaker
and fewer every day, and IL Will require
no considerable amount of rustling to
restore lost confidence.
The question now is will Salt Lake be rel
egated to obscurity or will her people awaken
to their true situation soon enough to wrest
from Ogden the advantages it has already
gainedl Is it possible that the pride of Salt
Lake will submit to the ignOmOny of being,
in Utah,
A CITY OF THE SECOND MAGNITUDE!
And all from lack of enterprise and
pushl / hope not. hope that her people |
will see where their real interests lie. |
hope that ere it is too late the Los Angeles
railroad will be an accomplished fact, that
the great Midland route will be opened, that
an abundant water supply will have been
obtained, that an effective sewerage system
will be in operation, that cable railroads |
will traverse her streets; in short, that all
things needful to make of Salt Lake City |
the inter-monntain metropolis, will have |
been done.
LAECELoT.
LOGAN LIGHTS.