The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
OUR FAIR VALLEYS.
How They Are Pictured in a
Recent Publication.
SALT LAKE WITHOUT A RIVAL
1t Is the Assured Railway, Financial, Manu-
featuring, Educational and Social
Center of the West.

From the Rio Grande Western railway
there has racently been issued brilliant
little pamphlet called 1.-THE Valleys of the
Great Salt Lake, 1t is profusely Illus
trated, and taken altogether, it is an limo
walton in railway literature in this part OF
the world. The writer has stuck to facts
and of this city he has the following to say:
Salt Lake city is one of the most beauti-
fully located cities on this continent. 1t
possesses elements of beauty in such yari-
ETY. and of such superior character as are
not found in any other one city In America.
To the tourist, the pleasure seeker, health
seeker, or to the man of means who is look
ing for new location or for a place in
which to make an investment Salt Lake
city presents greater attractions than are
today presented by any other growing city
Of the United States. There clusters about
Salt Lake city matters of historic interest,
which are peculiar to itself, and will
always be a source of interest to all classes
of people.
When the emissaries sent out by the
Mormon church, after their removal from
Illinois and Missouri, returned to their
people and reported that in the discharge
of their work they had selected as their
future home the wonderful valley Of the
Great Salt Lake, they rendered a service of
inestimable value, for which they should
ever be rewarded with the grateful remem-
brances of their own people, and also of the
gentiles, who have since learned to appre-
ciate the wisdom these emissaries dis
played in making the selection which they
Gid. Without doubt there is no place where
there can be found such a harmonious in
termingiing and blending Of the elements
which constitute a foundation for the up
building of a prosperous country with a
~,
hlblted in this great inter mountain coun-
try, consisting of Utah, western Colorado,
northern Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, eastern
Oregon and Wyoming, with Salt Lake city
as the natural, the established and the as
sured railway, commercial, financial,
manufacturing, educational and social
center. That Salt Lake is without doubt
(and without rivaD the metropolis of this
vast and productive section of country,
which is yet IN its infancy, is a truth which
is self evident.
To the seeker for health, pleasure or
profit there is no more attractive point than
Salt Lake city. From out of the foot of
the Wasatch mountains, which form the
background Of the picture just presented,
How numerous thermal and mineral springs
whose medicinal and curative qualities have
long been, and.are constantly being, prac-
tically tested by invalids from all parts of
the United States. Hundreds of the pres
ent residents of Salt Lake city. who came
here in search of lost health, are to-day liv-
ing, sound in body and health, testifying to
the wonderfully beneficial results of the
springs, the baths and the climate of Salt
Lake city, which latter for lung and bron-
chial troubles is pronounced by eminent au-
thcrities TO be unexcelled, and by gentle
man who has made close study Of the sub
sect and whose observations are based upon
practical experience with cases in Salt Lake
city, her climate is very highly recon
mended for people afflicted with heart dis
ease or troubles of a nervous character
The bathing at the various warm and hot
springs possesses wonderful curative prop.
critics.
Members of the leading religious socie-
ties or organizations can find here, in flour
ishing condition, the representative
churches and strong congregations OF theiG
respective sects. The talent in the pulpits
as well as the services and the music Of
our various churches are up to the standard
of eastern cities.
Salt Lake city is one of the best amuse
ment and theatrical cities of its size in the
west.
Salt Lake is noted for being one of the
best hotel cities in the country, and in order
TO meet the rapidly growing demands of tn,
travelling public there are now under con
struction two immense hotels of 300 room
d
lars apiece.
There are in successful operation in thi.
city manufacturing establishments of tn
following character: Boots and shoes
knitting and overall, silk, wooden an
paper mills, tanneries, confection cries
fence and mattress factories, cracke
factories, show case makers, stone works
brick yards (witE splendid quality of ella
for building, for fire and paving brick, i
hon ufi ta1
works, roller grist mills, cigar factories
vinegar factories, soap factories, salt re
filming works, chemical works, glass works
wooden work establishments, printing
book binding, hthographing, brewery, etc
etc. The statistics show that over seve
thousand employees are engaged in thes
various industries. There are splendi
fields here in all lines of manufacturin
which have been found profitable at any
the manufacturing centers of the east.
The wholesale business of Salt Lake cit
was il round numbers last year six millio
dollars. This, like the manufacturing bus
hess, presents splendid field for develoI
inent ii any department TO be mentioned
Otside wholesalers are just now begil
ming TO appreciate the fact that Salt LAX
city is destined to pe the next great con
mercial centre in the westward march
empire. and almost daily new mercanti
enterprises are being established either Q
retail or a wholesale scale, and numerou
firms engaged in the retail business al
branching out as wholesale establishments
As to her public improvements, Salt Lal
city is far in advance of many other CITE
of her size in the east Besides having a
inexhaustiblly supply of pure and whole
some water, she has one of the most tho
ough systems of electric lighting, both al
incandescent, to be seen in the Unite
States, all of her streets being brilliant
lighted all night.
In addition to a very complete telephon
system, consisting of over five hundred il
sEruments, the city has an American Di
trict Telegraph messenger service.
Her gas plant supplies good quality
gas at prices usually prevailing in cities
her size. In addition to the present con
pany there is now applying for franchi.
company which proposes to furnish q;
for light, fuel and power purposes at
very low degree, so low in fact that 1t w
be cheaper for manufacturing and dome
tic purposes than soft coal. of which latte
by the way, there is an inexhaustible SUI
ply and of very superior quality to the SOU
and east of Salt Lake city. For small,
manufacturing institutions, such as do n
care to invest in separate power plants.
for large ones who find it more profitable