The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
SALT LAKE IS THE CENTER.
More Reasons Why Capital
Should Come This Way.
1T is UTAH'S CHIEF CITY.
Natural and Artificial Elements to be
Found Here.
Every Advantage that Anyone Could De-
sire-A superior Situation in
Every Respect-Utahs
Various Industries.
O happinessi our beings end and aim.

The truth in the poets song is the basis
of all morals and all philosophy. To at
tain the greatest happiness has been the
problem of all philosophy since men be-
gan TO think.
Leaving aside the distractions of the
philosophers homilies and turning to
the practical book of every day life, we
find the highest and fullest happiness
concentrated in the home. There focuses
the efforts of human existence. The in
fant's life has the home for its circumfer-
ence. Old age has it for its centre. Youth,
ambition and impetus, flies furthest from
its influence; but when most distant from
the land of birth, is nearest the new home
of its own creation. The old is the pat
tern OF the new. Home influence is a
force as constant and irresistible as gravi-
tation itself.
Upon man, the head of a family, de
wolves the responsibility OF selecting tina.
location for the home which most nearly
possesses all the elements that make life
pleasant. These elements may be classi
fed as the ''natural' and the artificial
THE NATURAL ELEMENTS
to be sought ale those which contribute
to health. These rure air, pur,
water. bright sun ne. autiful seen
cry. For the lac OF thes nothing else
can make amends
The artificial ele aents are those which
society provides. While rec agent Il
go where he pleases, u err are limitations
upon every man to which even consldera-
tons of health almost have to give way.
However enchanting the scene, however
10 I0N1ODr3 ting the
breezes, one is forced to make his nom
where he can find remunerative employ
ment for his sp, cial abilities. Many Z
seaside or mountain resort IS a verltaoie
paradise of beauty; yet 1t remains little
more than the temporary abode OF wealth
and fashion because it oilers no means b}
which the average citizen can earn sub
sistence. To the ordinary worker II Is as
inaccessible as if it never had existed. il
IS. then, OF vital importance to the home
seeker, that the place which offers him
health likewise offers him means OF en-
ployment whereby he can support HIM
self and family.
Yet even remuneratiye service anG
healthful surroundings do not of them
selves make the ideal place for home.
Modern society has imposed other needs,
quite numerous, the satisfaction OF which
are essential to the perfect home. Oi
these the most important are churches,
Dortation. protection from crime, gOOC
neichbors. and cheap food, fuel and cloth
lug.
In what manner and degree does Sail
Lake supply these requirements OF the
ideal hOme-site?
Before spade was planted into the soil.
before roads marked the landscape, be
fore brick or board had been fashioned
into an habitation. the site upon which
Salt Lake stands bore
EVERY NATURAL ADVANTAGE FOR a HOME.
Well may the devoted followers OF
Brigham Young believe that more than
accident of mere human agency guided
him to the place which ended his Journey
across mountains and desert. Where else
will be found prettier spot? The piano.
rama spread to the eye by snow crested
mountain, green valley and cleaning
lake, has nowhere a superior in beauty.
If it lacks the miniature plcturesqueness
OF Alpine Switzerland or the Riviera, it
SURPRISES them both in sublimity and
grandeur The water flowing over gravelly
beds from mountain spring and melting
snow, or springing from the surface OF
the plains in artesian wells, gives the
purest OF drink and supplies moisture
to vegetation. WHAT would not
be given for such a boon by
our many American cities whose water
which empty the sewage and offal? In
Salt Lake the air is constantly stirred by
the gently currents from the mountains,
pouring down through the canyons,
scattering impure gases and disease
germs, The blasts which sweep the
plains of Wyoming and the Dakotas,
sitting man and beast With sand or be-
numbing them with cold, are, before
reaching US, broken and tempered by the
ranges of mountains. The dryness of our
atmosphere, moreover, mcderates the ex-
tremes of winter and summer. BY an
hours ride TO the westward one can
plunge into the cooling waters OF the
Great Salt lake, or by a two hours
Journey in the opposite direction sit
down by a snow bank in the middle OF
July. In winter the hot springs take the
place of the lake, being both pleasant for
the bath and beneficial to disorders of the
skin and blood. The trees which line the
streets of Salt Lake serve to cast q de-
lightful shade and to beautify the summer
with their verdure, or the autumn with
their brilliant foliage. To the aesthetic
eve the brilliant skies. richly colored leaf
age. lofty crags, winding streams. snow
capped peaks and sheeming surface OF the
broad lake make a scene of unrivalled
loneliness.
THESE SUPERIOR NATURAL GIFTS
conduce to health, vigor and longevity.
The resident of Salt Lake receives a glow
and inspiration from his climate that pro
mote both mental energy and bodily act
ivity. The variety Of employment offered
by Salt Lake is OF the most diversified
character, and can be referred to only in
a general way. Segregated from the rest
of the world, the pioneers of Salt Lake
were thrown upon their own resources.
The result of this early influence is TO be
seen in the numerous small manufactures
which under ordinary circumstances do
not find Judgement in western cities. A
spirit of independence and self-reliance
has also been stamped upon the commun-
ity by this early training in the school of
odvereitV