The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
ABOUT THE OUTLOOK
For Trade and Commerce in Salt
Lake City.
ALL THE SIGNS ARE FAVORABLE.
The Chamber of Commerce Estate Prices,
Buyers and Investments Question of
Population Reasons for Big Growth.
eY HENRY W. LAWRENCE, PRESIDENT OF THE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

No man who has lived for decade in
our city, and been familiar with the status
of trade for that length of time, can for a
moment doubt that we are on the eve of a
great awakening in business affairs-an
awakening which will amount almost to a
revolution. The changes which have oc-
CURED within the past few years-it might
almost be said within the past year. or even
six months-changes in land values, rents,
property improvements, and the volume of
general business, have been almost start
ling. But marked and decided as they are,
1 believe calm review of the whole field
will show that they are but the prelimin
airy signs of that agitation which attends
the birth of a new metropolitan city; in
short, that Salt Lakes ''turn has come"
POPULATION.
There is steady growth in our popula-
ton at present; and my estimate of our
population today would place it at from
6hirty-three to thirty-five thousand, al
though it may be more. 1 do not regard it
as visionary to state that it will increase to
sixty or seventy-ive thousand within the
next five years.
l do not doubt that the present influx
has been largely due to the labors per-
formed by the
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
in advertising Salt Lake city and the
general resources of our territory. We
sent out car loaded with an exhibit of the
products of our community, and the car
was visited by thousands of people in the
large centres of the country. We have
also spent great deal of money in issuing
pamphlets and in having articles pub
lished in the different newspapers
throughout the United States, draw
ing attention to our natural resources and
to Salt Lake, as an inviting field for the
investment of capital Then, too, we
maintain permanent exhibit in the cham
Der of commerce which attracts the atten-
ton of visitors, aud they can see at a glance
the great variety of products which we
have in the territory. By this means we
have made the outside world to know that
we have resources to sustain a much larger
population than we have at present. The
directors of the chamber of commerce still
hold public meetings and continue to dis
cuss measures relative to the trade inter
ests of our city and territory; and on
special occasions all the members are
called together. A recent move made by
the chamber has been the Incorporation of
q board of trade, which organized for
the purpose of putting up a building suit
able for the meetings of the chamber. It
was made a separate company, for
the reason that all members did
not feel that they could afford to
subscribe to erect a building; but the
new company was composed chiefly of
members of the chamber of commerce, and
few others were induced to take stock.
We now have the building under way, and
and it will be completed next year. The
chamber of commerce has the privilege of
buying this building in three years at cost,
with reasonable interest added. 1t is
designed to hold the meetings of the cham
Der of commerce in the upper part of the
building; and the lower rooms will be
rented for business purposes with suitable
offices attached.
BUILDING AND REAL EsTATE.
The chamber has lately taken up the
question of our deficient facilities for hand
ling the great number of business houses
and dwellings which will doubtless be
erected next year. The following adver-
tisement was published in the daily papers;
and it is hoped that the emphasis which
the chamber gives to this subject will have
the effect Of inducing further investment
in the building material industry.
NOTICE TO PRODUCERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF
BUILDING MATERIAL.
Salt Lake city is experiencing an unpreceden-
ted growth, and from present indications more |
costly residences and business houses will be |
erected, and more street improvements made |
within the next two years than have been in the |
whole past life of the city. In view of which |
the chamber Of commerce hereby calls public |
attention to the fact that Notwithstanding the |
variety and extent OF our natural resources we |
are deficient [and illprepared to meet the ex- |
listing and fast increasing demand for all kinds |
of buildings and street improving materials |
Wemeed additional plant and machinery for the |
production or manufacture of ornamental, |
pressed and common brick, tile, sewer pipe |
iron and wood pipe, building stone, particularly |
cut and dressed stone, lime, plaster OF paris, |
cement and other materials for sidewalks and
pavements sash, DOORS and ornamental wood
worn: cornice and ornamental sheet iron work.
and roofing materials We earnestly recommend
that persons fam1al with and engaged in the
above and kindred lines of business take imme-
date steps this winter TO supply the urgent de-
mand for such products which is already upon
us and increasing with every passing day. They
maybe sure of growing market at remunera-
tive prices.
By order board OF directors,
HENRY W. LAWRENCE, President. |.
To my mind, one of the healthiest signs
Of prosperity is found in the fact that a
spirit of Improvement seems to be moving
among many Of our old citizens, and all
classes are represented in the list of our
substantial builders for this year and next;
and this heavy building, l think, will do
much to keep up prices of real estate; in
fact, we have got to go to work and i'm
prove our property now if we desire to see
those prices maintained. do not regard
them as being inflated; in fact, they are not
so high as they are in Portland and other
places on the coast, though those places
are, of course, weather. than we are here
Salt Lakes building can only be retarded
by the difficulty in getting material. We
are badly prepared for a building boom
here Just now. The crying need is for
brick and for all kinds of building stone.
The man who will go into the business of
making good brick without doubt will be
successful, as there promises to be a
steady demand all through next year. We I
have plenty of good clay soil here. The {
main trouble has been that the men who
have hitherto engaged in the bust {