The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-20
WHAT SALT LAKE OFFERS.
THE CITY,s ATTRACTIONS AND RE-
SOURCES BRIEFLY STATED.
What 1t Offers to the Tourist-Its
Street Northumberland Gas
Considered Commercially - In
creased Prosperity to Come.

The chamber of commerce is pushing
along the good work of advertising
Salt Lake and Utah, and the secreta-
ry is kept busy answering the numer-
Gus letters of inquiry that continue
to come in in increasing numbers.
Judge Colburn has just finished the
following letter which is now publish
ed for the first time and will shortly be
scattered broadcast over the country:
Salt Lake City.
1t is always interesting. To the
reader of history it is the spot where
civilization planted its first outpost
west of the Missouri. To the tourist,
it is the city of temples, architectural
curios and the center of the religious
system of the Latter-day Saints. To
the pleasure seeker, its salty lake-big
sister to that other one in the Holy
land-its tuning springs and shady
drives and temptat tons irresistible To
the man with money, its swelling pro-
portions and rich tributary country,
awaken dreams of profits to come. To
the Invalid, it promises a new lease up
on life, and drinking deep Of its ex
hilarating air, he finds his strength re-
newed
The stranger, whoever and whatever
! he is. is enraptured with it's charms.
He enters it with JOY, departs from
it with regret, and delightful memoir
les of it Hnger with him wherever he
goes. The fortunate resident, whether
saint or sinner loves it with intensity,
and time cannot cure him of the infat-
uation. To him it is the one spot-the
place par eXcellence'-the true
home, sweet horne;;H and when from
distant wanderings his returning foot
steps bring him in sight of its lofty
spires and temple tops, and he sees
again its environing peaks. there
comes to him a peace that passeth un-
| derstanding.
Such is Salt Lake-nestling in an
elbow of the picturesque Wasatch-
aptly termed "The American Alps"
! towering above its head, are the
snowy SUBMITS which ward off win
ter's rigors, and stretching away for
miles from its feet, is the far famed
valley of the Great Salt Lake. check
cred with farms and filled with the
MONIES of husbandmen. The climate
is genial, the skies above it are sun
ny, and the air it has. comes pure
from the mountains
In truth. Salt Lake is call wool and q
yard wide in every particular. 1t lacks
nothlng In equipment. 1t is well and
economically governed Its million dol.
lar city building, finished in Utah
onyx, is model of architectural ex.
cellence. Two electric light and one
| gas company supply light to it, and
natural gas for fuel-think of it! ma
turaI gas, drawn from a group of wells
seventeen miles north of the city, is
delivered everywhere within its settled
limits. It's business streets are paved
| With Uath asphaltum, and there are
over one hundred miles Of well kept
| brook and tree lined avenues one hun
dred and thirty-tWo feet in width. The
city owns its own water system-val-
ued at three million dollars. and the
melted SHOWS of the Wasatch are de
1iyered thereby to residents at rates
little more than normal, and yet the
annual income from this source is am.
pie to pay all of the interest on tbs
city's bonded Indebtedness
Two competing companies operate
eighty miles of electric railroad, an(
you can transfer anywhere. The great
structures of the Mormon church are
| here, and these, and the quaint resi-
dences of Brigham Young and of other
early religious leaders, are sights wei
worth seeing. The annual tax rate is
q mills, the assessed valuation $35, Co.,
0GG, and the annual death rate 891 pei
thousand Of population.
In a commercial sense, the city lev
les tribute upon the entire inter-moun
tain domain. 1t is the railroad center
of the same region, and for that mat
ter, is the mining, financial, education
al, social, art, religious, and every
! other kind of a center thereof Those
who visit Salt Lake never regret hay
ing done so. Those who intend t.
visit it have pleasant experience il
store. Its present population is $4,000
and it is growing every day. There
are no vacant houses or stores to sug
gest business dullness. There are ne
+ signs of a departed BOOM but every
sign of a coming one. That it will al
no distant day become one of the grea
centers of trade, population and wealth
of the country, no one we'll informed
will deny. You know Utah will nov
soon enter the Union as a sovereign
state, and that Salt Lake is, and vii
ever be, it's capital city. When new
| states are born, new enterprises ar
inaugurated therein, and new money
and new people seek it, and then there
| follows a season of great prosperity
and everybody makes money, and ev
erybody is happy. 1t will be so il
Utah. 1t will be so in Salt Lake-yot
just see if it isn't.
E f. COLBURN.