The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-05
A SUMMER CAPITOL.
The Advantages Possessed by Salt
Lake for It.
OUR ADVANTAGES OVER DENVER.
Salt Lake Has Many Attractive Features Pc
culiar to HerseIf-The Gem City of
the Rocky Mountains.

extracts: 1T is not. then, OUT Oh pace u
inquire, what section of country and what
city present the most attractions and ar
best fitted by reason Of climate and Othe
natural and artificial advantages to become
the location of the seat Of government
during the summer. For obvious reasons
it is not at all likely that the mass Of the
people will consent that it shall be located
on the Atlantic seaboard The people Of
the middle, the southern and the Pacific
states would be sure to oppose any move
meut to locate il there. The larger and
more pretentious cities of the Mississippi
valley-Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati
Louisville indianapolis and Kansas City.
for instance-are out OF the question, for
they are as hot during the summer, if not
as unhealthy, as Washington. Besides,
their common antagonism and jealousy
would leave them TO fight each other to the
death in an attempt TO select either. Man
ifestly the choice must be between some
point in the northwest say Minnesota, and
some point in the Rocky mountain region,
say,
COLORADO or UTAH.
The climate of Minnesota, during the
months of the summer solstice is cool and
bracing certainly, and its transparent,
placid lakes are admirable in their way.
But that is all. There is no variety in its
scenery OF in its climate. In fact, both af-
ter a little while and so soon as the sensa-
ton Of novelty has passed, become monoto-
nous. The state is in no sense central to
the country, or to the transcOntinental
lines of travel; but, ON the contrary. it is
ON the extreme northern border-off to one
side, so to speak. Outside of St. Paul and
Minneapolis, it has no city sufficiently
large and well-improved, sufficiently
metropolitan and cosmopolitan, to
make it particularly desirable as place of
residence for private persons, much less as
a point for the location of the national
capitol for part of the year. Then these
two cities, which in point Of fact are one,
are the commercial rivals of Chicago and
the other tiOuriShing cities that cluster
along the western shores of the great
lakes, and any attempt-any proposition
eVen-to select either of them for so great
an honor, would arouse storm of OppOsi-
ton that would delay the contamination of
the movement indefinitely. These are the
advantages and drawbacks to any point in
Minnesota or the northwest.
All of these advantages and many others
beside, and none of these disadvantages,
are to be found in Colorado and Utah, we
mean more particularly
DENVER AND SALT LAKE CITY.
They are both very nearly on line with
the centre of the country north and south
and east and west. The geographical cen
tire of the continent and the geographical
centre of the state of Kansas are nearly
identical. They are on the line of travel
both ways. Theirmeans Of communication
with every part of the country are many
and admirable. The climate of both is I'M
equalled. The climate of Florida OF south
ern California may be better adapted to in
valids; but for healthy persons that of the
central portion OF the Rocky mountains is
unapproached. Mountaineers who live
near or above the snow line and become &C
custOmed to a temperature resembling that
of winter, may call il too warn; but
it is in the highest degree exhiIarat-
ing and bracing during summer to
the majority of people Then it is in easy
distance by railroad lines, which work
their way in safety and comfort, through
the grandest and most magnificent scenery,
10 dizzy mountain heights, from which the
snow never disappears and where ice forms
every month in the year. Every part of
the country is interested in the develop
ment of its resources. Its relations with
the great trade centres Of tue east are i'm
pOrtant and intimate.
THE STREAM OF WEALTH
in the precious metals which it pours out
continually-greater than that of all the
lCoJ VI CllC NOuAlLg NOLAIbAl4JNs SALlNI SOG
only an indication and a promise of what it
it will be-aids materially to keep in mo-
ton the complex business machinery of the
world In the years to come, and not very
distant either, it will be as highly cultivated
as opulent and as cosmopolitan as the
most favored portions OF the east. Tens O1
thousands visit it every year, seeking
health at its wonderful mineral and medi-
cinal springs, and pleasure in its sequest
cred and charming mountain parks, its
sparkling and gem-Iillc lakes, its deep and
dark canons into which the suns rays
hardly penetrate, and its busy, busting
mining camps-and every year the number
increases.
Denver is a well-improved and beautiful
city unquestionably, Notwithstanding the
short time that has elapsed since its fOun-
dalton. Coming upon it suddenly after a
trip across the treelesS and arid plains, in
midsummer, is like coming upon a beauti-
full and blooming oasis amid desert wastes.
But in natural advantages as mountain
resort, it is
NOT TO BE COMPARED WITH SALT LAKE CITY.
Every advantage that it has, Salt Lake
has in a more marked degree, while the
latter has many attractive features pecul- |
lar to itself and which is safe to say no |
other mountain town III the world pos |
sesses. 1t is located in a valley Of wonder |
full fertility. Fruits and flowers and Vege- |
tables grow in the greatest perfection, and |
mature in the proper season. Surrounded /
on every side by mountains, it is pro |
tected from storms and violent changes of |
while its air has the purity |
and invigOrating effects natural TO its alti- |
tude and its surroundings. Its proximity |
to the lake from which it takes its name, |
affords its inhabitants unequalled salt |
water bathing. 1t thus combines in a re
manner the agricultural pro-
of the most fertile valleys |
Of the lOwlands, the geniahty of
climate of its land locked situation, the
most exhilarating and bracing mountain
air and bracing salt water bathing of the
most favored seaside resort. 1t would
from the beginning have outstripped all
other mountain cities, except for the pecu-
liar religious faith which rested upon it,
INVESTMENT, BUSINESS AND POPULATION.
But ifit should be made one of the capitols
Of the country, that order of things would
be changed. The power of the church
would be modified by the greater power of
the federal government-iust as in years
not very long passed, the power of the
same hierarchy yielded successfully to the
greater power of the state governments of
Iowa and Illinois Polygamy
has ceased to exist as an active element in
government, and will become among a small
minority Of the people of a great
state and great city a matter of specula-
1--we faith or mere historic tradition-a
state endowment by the creator with every