The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-20
SALT LAKE CITY
The Queen of the American
Continent.
A FEW OF HER RESOURCES

Briefly Mentioned for the Renefit of the
Strangers Now Within Utah's Domains
We Ask Investigation.
Ochres.
Marble works.
Iron paint works.
Cattle on 10000 hills.
Mountains Of granite.
Water power unlimited.
Plenty of room to grow.
Fertilizers inexhaustible.
Portland cement factories.
Artesian wells at 125 feet.
Sheep in thousand valleys.
A guitar and mandolin factory.
Wonderful wells of natural gas.
Hunting-large and small game.
Pure ice in unlimited quantities.
The finest vegetables in the world.
A peaceful, quiet, orderly community.
Five shelters in the Salt Lake Va, ley.
The finest medicinal springs in the world.
The most orderly communities ever seen.
The best farming country under the sun.
The most commodious boiler works in the
west.
Gilsonite, a big future for which is in
store.
The largest mercantile house west of
Chicago.
Abundant evidence of the existence of
petroleum.
another one.
The prettiest trout streams and shadiest
canon hooks.
Gypsum-millions of tons-an inexhaust-
ible supply.
Sash and door factories, and planning mills
by the score.
No cyclones, floods, earthquakes, labor
riots or anarchists.
The best site for large city ever gazed
upon by mortal eyes.
Gold, silver, lead, anthony, manganese,
jewels, copper.
Overall factories, turning out carloads of
The most healthful and novel watering
place in the world.
Book binderies and job printing establish
ments by the score.
Pure water from the mountain tops
Drive wells by the hundreds.
Trunk factories-the goods produced &C
north, south, east and west.
proprietary medicine establishment
with great future before it.
One of the best systems of electric fire
alarm ever erected III America.
The best newspapers, population consid-
cred, of any other place known.
a sugar company which will soon have it.
factories in active operation.
The only remnants of the great buffalo
herds that once roamed the plains.
Numerous sampling works, kept busy BY
the output from our mines.
Less police than any other city of $4,000
people, and less use for them.
A hearty welcome for the enterprisins
stranger WHO means business.
sRccll salt for the billion-the extent O
the supply is yet to be learned.
Wide streets, shady sidewalks, lovel,
lawns and Tue contest OF homes.
The orld-famed Utah potato, which i
sought after both east and west.
Twelve banking institutions whose com
bined capital reaches into the millions.
Tanneries doing an extensive bushes
and unable TO supply the demand.
Every mineral known to the world, saw
tin, ana indications even of that.
Floral establishments whose business ex
tends 500 miles in every direction.
Lime of superior quality, and mountain
upon mountains Of limestone.
a silk factory, operated on small scale
but doing most excellent business.
White lead works yet IN their infancy
but which give the best of satisfaction.
A thousand conveniences that are enioye
by no other state or territory.
Gas works, giving an excellent quality G
gas, and at most reasonable figure.
Frost in high attitudes in mid-summe
ana blossoms in winter in low attitudes.
Elegant houses for public amusement:
which have held the stars of all nations.
The greatest number of talented must
clans Of any community Of similar size.
A dozen first class -four mills, whose prt
duet is famous both at home and abroad
Steam laundries that are patronized b
all surrounding cities, states and territories
A sewer system in course of construction
which will be completed within ninet
days.
Railways branching in all directions, an
the big lines of the east pointing directly {
US.
Entire counties of iron-enough TO sur
ply the universe, and then have some TO e.
port
Photograph galleries turning out wor
that will stand alongside Of Sarony's {
FalB's.
The finest vegetable raising area in tn
United States or any where else, for ths
matter.
The finest livery turnouts in the Unite
States-away in advance OF any OF the tel
rltories.
Stocking factories giving employmer
to many hands. The goods go out IA ever
direction.
The only genuine asphalt mine in, tt
United States. The beds cover many mile
Of ground.
Artists who can "paint all around'' an
of their brethren in the western states an
territories.
a telephone exchange second to none