The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-28

and business of the vast coun-
try lying between the mountains which
fringe the Pacific and the mountains
of the Continental divide, is beyond
question. Its geographical location.
railroad connections and large tribu-
tary domain insure its future. AS a
place to live it is one of the most
charming cities in the Union. Hot and
warm springs are found within the
city limits; it is near to the shores of
the Great Salt lake, and is certain to
become famous health and pleasure
resort. A recent writer INDUCES in the
following description of a bath in this
inland sea:
For those in search of health and
novelty no more attractive feature can
be found, here or elsewhere, than the
new worlds greatest marvel, the
Great Salt Lake. The beneficial and
pleasurable effects of a bath in this
inland sea are so unique that none
with the necessary leisure and means
can afford to debar themselves from
its enjoyment. In these days of fast
and inexpensive travel the means and
leisure are at the command of almost
every one. It is an experience that
will enrich the inner life of all who
undergo it, an experience which will
live longer in the memory than any
wandering in foreign lands, to float on
ocean, like the flotsam and jetsam OF
the greater seas, with a sense of per-
feet safety and strange eXhilaration.
But this pleasure is not the only object
of a journey to the shores of the Great
Salt Lake; the marvellous beauty of its
environments, the exquisite coloring of
the far off mountains that fringe its
western brink and rise. mellowed bv
distance into softest tints, from it's
cool, irridescent depths; the massive
grandeur of the nearer snow-capped
range that stretches from the northern
to the southern horizon, and shelters
the fragrant valley from the blasts of
winter and the heats of summer; the
green, inviting canyons that seam its
side and lead upwards through the
mighty hills to fairy land of eternal
verdure, rushing streams and water
falls, and shady GOODNESS; all these,
and other unenumerated charms, offer
themselves alike to resident and
stranger. sinner. saint and pilgrim"
The climate of the Salt Lake valley
is the most unique in America, and
leading physicians are now giving it
preference over all others for the
treatment of diseases of the throat and
lungs. There are no great extremes
of temperature, the presence of the
Great Salt Lake makes itself felt in the
softneSS Of the air, and residents enjoy
the anomaly of a sea breeze 1000 feet
above the tide. The beauty of its To-
cations and of its environments COM
mends Salt Lake city as a place Of
residence. 1t is situated in an elbow
OF the Wasatch mountains, and from
many portions of it view can be had
covering one hundred miles of the
Salt Lake valley. The streets are 1872
feet wide and are lined with strea ms
of running water from the mountains
and fringed with wide-spreading trees
The city has about eighty miles OF
electric street railway, which furnishes
excellent means of reaching its resi-
dence portions, Fort Douglas and other
interest suburban localities. The buSi-
ness streets are paved with Utah as
phaltum, and that the sanitary condi-
tons are excellent is evidenced by the
fact that the death rate in 1894 reached
the surprisingly low figure Of 500 per
thousand population. During the past
five years large amount of building
has been done A building for county
and city purposes has just been COM
pleted, which for beauty of architec-
ture is not to be compared with any
other public building in the west. This
structure stands in the middle of ten
acre square, near the business center,
and cost complete about S1,000.000. No
better evidence of the substantial
character of Salt Lakes business con-
diaiphs can be offered than TIE fact
thai during the recent financial PANEL
Wheb banks We're crumbling all Overt
the nation, the city not only did not +
baveR single bank failure, but there
was Not SO much as the suggestion of a