The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-16
WHAT SALT LAKE OFFERS.


HoSpitalS-Six.
Libraries-FIVe.
TheatreS-Three.
! PopuIation-70,00n
Alt1tude4.24O feet.
| Churches-Sixty-four
Street Railways-Three.
| Medical Societies-Eight.
Fire Departmental men.
/ Labor Unions-TWenty-four.
Police Force-51 patroImen.
/ Gold Output, 1851, 622,50O.
( Parks-Five. Acreage, 5000.
| Silver output, 1865, $4,000
Mineral Output, 1851, 131, 692-
! Electric Light CompanieS-Four.
Building and Loan Associations-Six
Railroads-Ten. Miles in Utah, 1859. 16.
/ Hotels-First-class 3; second-class, Z.
/ Live Chamber of Commerce-234 mem
bers.
Principal misunderstanding, manufacture
/ ing and agriculture.
Sanitatton-Excenent. Fifty-eight miles
/ of sewers. Gravity system.
Banks-Public, IL; capital, 81, $50 600.
Private, s. capital, S2,000,0O0.
Death Rate-SO9 No epidemics. No
tuberculosis Deaths, 1895, 567. Births,
| 1.01S.
Transactions in Postoffice, 1895, SO. 1874 900
/ letters, papers and packages received and
/ delivered.
Music-Instrumental, five bands, twelve
orchestras. five guitar and mandolin
clubs, seven drum corps.
Climate-Splendid. Mean temperature,
| SIG. Sun shines 324 days every year,
! Mean annual rainfall, 1879.
Music-Vocal, Choral society, 400 voices;
/ Harmony Glee club, Orpheus club, 40
voices; Tonic sol ia and Union Glee
! clubs.
! Commercial Builders and Traders ex-
change, JoDberS' association, Business
Mems association, Demurrage association,
! Clearing House.
Newspapers-Daily, 5; semi-weekly, 3;
weekly, Ii; semi-monthIy, 4; monthly g.
The Herald, leading daily of the inter
mountain region.
Water Works-Owned by city; value,
So, 900, 900. Supply never fails, being de-
rived from mountain streams. System of
irrigation supplied by waters from Utah
lake.
Schools-Public. "a; teachers, 20. State
I university. mining academy, four colleges,
/ two shorthand and typeWriting colleges,
| two business colleges, one normal col
| lege, two schools of physical culture five
private academies, two kindergartens.
Food SuppIy-From 1896 farms, 1854
of which are unincumbered and on which
in 1895 $721, 229 was expended in buildings.
There are 467,162 acres under cultivation
/ The value of the property of the city is
$35, 100000; of the state s104, 758. $50. The
value Of the property per capita in the
I state is S503.S8.
I Summer MISUNDERSTANDING and Garfield
/ beaches, Is miles distant on the border
1 of the Great Salt Lake. Only twenty
minutes from the city to the finest bath
ing in the world. Brighton at an alti-
tude of 1000 feet, thirty miles distant,
reached by rail and stage On the
shores of the beautiful Brighton lake
Park City, Bingham, NIercur and Eureka,
/ the greatest mining camps in the world:
! delightful places in summer; all con-
| venlent by rail.
Railroad fares from and to the city:
| New York Observation-Disclosures. SCI 90
Denver ............-....-------.- 1S 90
san francisco ....-.-........,.,s.......3 81 30
New Orleans ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 so
Portland ..s......................... 30 90
Fares to Utah Points:
/ 6lnSnan .........-.-....-.......S 1 70
I Mefcuf Observation-Disclosures. 8 %
| Park Clty''''..'. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 80
| FroVO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ] 80
Morgan Observation-Disclosures. = %
Logan '........... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 80
! Ogden ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. / so
Corlnne ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1 p