The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-06
A STEADY INCREASE.


The feeling now prevalent is that
the calamities of that time impede our
progress no longer. And that we may
now confidently look forward to a sea
son of great prosperity in Utah. The
city made no great advance in either
population or investment during 1895,
and yet all the time it received a
steady increase of both. This may be
attributed to several circumstances.
The fame of our public school system
having spread abroad many families
from neighboring states removed here
on that account. The revival of min
ing interest has been the means of at
tracing both people and capital and
Salt Lake has gained materially there
by
The promise of statehood had its
part in the progress made, inducing
many to settle here in the belief that
much prosperity. and material ad-
vance in values would succeed the adj
mission of Utah TO the Union. Some
little speculative investment in real
estate has occurred. The real estate
activity. which characterized the close
of the last decade did not reach an
extreme great enough TO leave Salt
Lake as it did many other cities of
the west. PROSTATE at its close. The
then contracted were fairly
out of the way before he panic of 1893
set in. The fact of our passing through
that panic without material disaster
gave the confidence to capital which
resulted ia some of this form of in
vestment.
NATURAL GAS.
Early in the year the city was con-
nected, by pipe line, with the wells of
1a1- CHI So
fuel and illuminant is now generally
throughout the city, and
is rapidly taking the place of coal in
economy.
Within the past month a new high
pressure well has been added to the
other producers, and prospecting is
still going on.
our people took this great gift. from
with the same equanimity with
which they have received all of their
other blessings.
The announcement that the gas was
at our doors ready for use produced
not so much as one additional pulse
beat. or even the suggestion of enthusi-
asm-
To the board of directors the arrival
Of the gas, however, seemed an event
Of great Importance TO the city, and
t was unanimously of opinion that our
good fortune should be heralded !
abroad and made the means of at |
-racting investment and people to the !
,ity Encouraged by the assurance Of |
he press and of the representative of /
he Associated Press that widespread I
would be given to the fact !
( an adequate local celebration was !
held, the chamber made and earnest |
.ffort to interest the public in the plan. /
The opportunity was a golden one. and 1
he advertisement to the city, from the |
would have been worth |
many times its cost Think what we 1
would have gained from a free notice |
or several days upon the telegraphic |
page Of every daily newspaper in the |
United States. Soliciting committees /
we're promptly put upon the streets, /
he press was kept alive with the sub I
ect. and every possible effort was
made to awaken public interest. but 7
lfter two weeks of persistent effort .
o obtain the needed assistance, and I
We did not ask for much either it was
ound that the people were obdurate
md that they turned deaf ear to all
argument and persuasion. So nearly
complete are the two great enterprises
or transmitting electricity generated
" water power into the city, that we
nay claim the arrival Of this mower, its
pplication to our varied wants, among
he achievements of 1895. There has
,een some activity in building during