The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-11

1tal Is the mission or our Cham Der.
We are more favored in our work
than any other community in the
United States, tor we have only TO tell
the truth concerning our resources. the
naked truth without any coloring, to
ultimately attract universal attention
Other communities that cannot claim
1.-THE OF our advantages have attained
a wonderful industrial development by
fabulous descriptions Of their natural
blessings. If they have succeeded in
attracting population and capital by
the distribution of imaginative litera-
ture, what may we not EXPECT to do by
tn diffusion of truthful information
Q noerning our lakes, our valleys, our
mountains and mines, our minerals, our
climate and the manifold blessings
which every citizen knows cannot be
exaggerated. Some time ago, a num-
Der of Denver citizens paid rs visit,
and while here, one of them said to me {:
"It 1--WE had slice of your Great
Salt Lake near Denver we would
have a population of half q
million Of people in five years. ~
If Denver would why cannot
we with the whole lake? Considering
the progress made by other commune
ties on the merits they possess, our
Great Salt Lake with our Warm and
Hot Springs should alone suffice to
build community here of one hun
dred thousand people. We should
have that population now, and not be
waiting for it. There are over fifty
thousand invalids in Colorado. who
went there in search of health attracted
by the advertising of It's Italian skies,
and the curative properties of its eli
mate for consumption, asthma, rheu-
matism, skin or blood diseases is not
equal. much less superior to ours, not
taking into consideration the healing
and MIGRATING properties of our lakes
and springs.
The time is not far distant when these
facts will be better understood.
THE INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED BY OUR
CHAMBER
has already had its influence and effect.
aud to-day hundred people are talk
ing of Salt Lake to the one of a wear
ago. A gentlemen l met at the Walker
House, few days since, told me, al
though q citizen of Denver, that IN
Chicago ten persons were talking Salt
Lake TO one that was talking Denver. A
gentleman from Iowa who bought a
little property here, remarked that if
one out OF every twenty who talked of
Salt Lake and expressed desire to To-
cate here would come, our citizens
would all have their hands full attend
ing them. In the last twelve months.
[ have answered over l 800 letters of in
quiry from nearly every State in the
Union and from foreign countries.
have been away from the city several
times, and have met, in the Chamber
and elsewhere, thousands VINO are
favorably impressed with our prospects
and hundreds who volunteered the in
formation that on the trains and where
ever they travelled, people were talking
Salt Lake. l have received dozens of
letters of inquiry in reference to the
establishment of industries. Most of
these, however, were from parties
established elsewhere, and who expected
some compensation or inducement for
removing their plant to Salt Lake
These will come to US after while, for
they will discover in the natural ad-
vantages here afforded compensation
for the sacrifice and expense OF NOV
ing.
The results actually achieved by our
Chamber are worthy of special con-
sideration, and indicate not only the
character of the work done, but gives
promise of the brightest future.
Ny success in securing replies to let
tiers of inquiry has not lteen very
flattering, but | have received some
which prove beyond doubt an extra
ordinary growth both in business and
population. The records of the County
Recorder show that millions of dollars
have been invested in Salt Lake during
the past twelve month, more than ever
before in the most prosperous year of
its existence. The county and city are
indebted to US for a large increase of
revenue resulting from the establish
ment of new industries, an increase in
population and the appreciation of
values.
SENT LETTERS OF INQUIRY
to all the banks, with the exception of
the Bank of Salt Lake which was estab-
lished during the year. Mr.. Dooly,
cashier of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Bank,
told me personally that as the demand
for money regulated the amount OF
capital on which he did business he
could not make correct estimate of
the increase, ana tnat the altered con-
dition of his business was SO great and
so much in excess of previous years
his statement, were he to make one,
would not be credited. Such state
ment in view of the enormous amount
Of money that was put in circulation
ast spring is very extraordinary, and
should make Mr.. Dooly one of the best
friends of our Chamber.
The following l received from Mr..
Mccormick:
"Dedr Sir-In reply to yours of the 5th
instant, inquiring into the probable in
crease OF business in 1888, over that of 1887
will say that in my opinion an increase of
% per cent would be safe estimate. l
arrive at this conclusion partly from the
thst has taken place in my
own business during 1888, aud partly from
the nota BILE increase in my customers &C
counts 1 estimate an increase OF from
( 900 to 5000 in the population during the
same period. Very truly yours,
W MCCORMICK.
The Walker Brothers of the Union
National Bank also wrote me an answer,
winch l have mislaid in which they
state that their business for the past
year showed large increase, without
estimate lg the percentage, over the
year previous.
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