The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
SALT LAKE HAS NO KICK.
That Write Up in the Union Pacific
Publication,

Publication,
At the meeting of the chamber of
commerce directors ON Tuesday night
the Union Pacific folder, just from the
press, was mentioned, and attention
was called to the fact that the notice
given to Salt Lake city on page Ga was
more brief by few lines than that
accorded to Ogden on the same page,
and some severe criticism was made
over the alleged discrimination" The
parties making the complaint must
have examined the publication very
carelessly, otherwise they would have
observed that in another part of the
folder an entire page is given to Salt
Lake, giving this city more extended
notice than is accorded to any town
mentioned The "write-up" is as fol-
lows.
Since the first pioneer trod the val
leys OF what is now the territory of
Utah. Salt Lake city has been her COM
mercial and social center. To the last
syllable OF recorded time, under what
ever conditions. Salt Lake city will
continue to be the commercial and So
cial center of. the territory. Many rea-
sons conspire to confirm this is a fact.
Viewed as Salt Lake city now pre-
sents herself to the strangers eye. no
deSolation that brooded over these val
leys when, in 1S47. the pioneer band
reached it's final hating place. The
greater part Of the pioneers first gaZed
on the Great Salt Lake, the Dead Sea
of America, on the 24th day of July of
the year named.
The story of the development Of Utah
is a record of severe but unfaltering
work, of priyations, and all the ills
nj ieo G
1000 miles from the furthermOSt out
posts of civilization. The tale Of one
city is practically the tale of all The
departure which led to these barren
wastes was not from we'll worn paths
into those that were known but indff-
! ferently. 1t was an utter Abandonment
| of all Travelled ways 1t was launching
upon desert as wide. as inhospitahle
| as unknown as the great waters before
I the skill Of man had sounded their
! depths, measured their distances and
marked out a way by which the trav-
| eler could tell, with unerrfng certainty,
| where he was.
| Salt Lake city was the pioneer of the
! great west, and growing out of her ex-
| istenceS directly and because of her
| has been the civilization and develop
ment of the entire intermountain re-
| gion. Not that the section would have
|
but certainly that it's settlement would
| have been Indefinitely delayed Her
! Importance as an advance guard. as
| inducing the habitation of the great
west by proving that it was habitable.
as a great factor in its civilization
| cannot be denied: and, as the years
grow older, it, becomes more unmis-
| tably evident that she is naturally and
geographically in a position to COM
nand, commercially, the allegiance
| that she is entitled to az the author of
intermountain business and social
civilization. Another reason for this
prominence isa largely due to it's early
settlement prior to the discovery OF
| gold in California; and the peculiar
views Of the founders Of the city drew
| upon them the attention of all classes
But these people made the desert bios
som, and transformed the great valley
| into a garden The cardinal maxim OF
the Mormon creed is agriculture, and
while the tilling of the soil has beer
/ carried ON SO strenuously all these
years mining has not been followed
The development of the mines in Utah
has been principally the work of the
Gentiles, and its mineral wealth at this
I time is largely controlled by them
4 Possibly Ogden, Omaha or Kansas
City have chance for kick oyer this
/ matter. but not Salt Lake.