Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-04

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must, for awhile. be trifie more OF strife
than IL necessary DO the proper conduct OF
public affairs imour newest state.
What qtsh Has and Is.
Comparatively fey people in the usually
well-informed SAst n1ave anything like an
accurate idea s6f zthe Living, up-to-date
Utah. With AM area exceeding eighty-two
thousand square mikes its population in
1895 was 247,sa4 OF these hustlers after
fortune 1851 sos wef3 males and 12O.52l fe-
males; 14, S25 dhatfFe and 81, 400 foreign
born; 25,9s5 were white; ST. were colored
ana 76S were Chinese. The number Of
and OF these nearly eighteen thousand we're
free OF fncumbrance. Fully four hundred
and seventy thousand acres of land were
under cultivation. *hile nearly three hum
pasturage, Oh which, with trifle of as
sistance from the sinfenced rdLges out in
the hills, nearly half d million cattle
horses and swine roamed and grazed; not
70 mention the two and halt IN. Hons Of
sheep which in 1894 produced nearly q mil
hon dollars worth Of wool.
Minerals and Railroads,
Then there are the mnes-gold. silver,
lead and copper beng the Principal prod
ucts. although the mountains OF Utah have
within tne.r bosoms every known variety
OF mineral The output for the past year
was something to be proud Of: SILVER, seven
and quarter millions OF ounces; god, over
eishty-oIe Thousand ouLCes; leau, more
than s.xty-six m,iI.on pour os; copper over
eAsAt hundred and ntly tnousanu pounus;
IN all valued at nearly seven ana quarter
mAAlohs OF QouarS. vi the cOaI ana STATE
anu lfoh aA0 aspnalIum that were mueu
ana or The lumDer that was cut and mar
a AAan
featuring ADDS largely to the wealth. OF
Otah and MAKES prominent contribution TO
the annual product OF more than thirty
miiilon dollars.
Inc railway facilities are excellent and
continue 10 improve and extend. Inc k.o
Ifdnoe ana W estern mas something Like
i've INJURED niles or track, WAtn Equipment
good enough to pIease the most 1asI.ulous
traveller, the Union Paclnc has q miieuse
trine III excess OF i've hundred; the Cen
tral RACINE the Utah Central and lhree
1hiilor roaos aud suncient to make the ag
sfesate nearly 1ouItee hundred Mules.
vi coieSeS ana schools and banks there
Is suihc-ency Tor the present, and there is
no lack Cf those necessary institutions In
Whlcn the amcted and the criminal may be
cared Tor. Of scenery anG climate there Is
no end.
The City Of the Saints.
Much might be said Of Salt Lake City.
1t would be difficult to say too much. A
spot CT nountain-shaded desert in 1Si7, it
Is now one Of the most delightful places of
residence on the continent and. as a direct
result of statehood, growing with marvel
Gus and profitable rapidity. am. not a
professional prophet, nor, so far as am
aware, do l come of prophetically in
clined family, but ] venture the assertion
that Salt Lake will within twenty-five
years become the Chicago of the far west,
distancing Denver in the holly contested
race for commercial supremacy. That
others are Of like opinion is daily being evil
denced, for there is steady accession to the
number Of epitalists-great and small
who make Salt Lake City their earthly
abiding place. With the eye Of faith they
see that time when the present population
of sevsnty-five thousand will be multiplied
over and over again; when every lot on the
hundred miles Of wide and shaded and
stream-curbed streets shall be built upon;
when the best Of western enterprise shall
center in the one-time city Of the Saints.
and every producer pay tribute to our new
est states metropolis. Then. too, Salt Lake
City has great future as a sanitariunl.
Even in the city's heart there is more of
pure air than can be found in any other
American ceEter Of populate while down
along the eastern shore of the Great Salt
lake Is atmosphere which will to many an
ailing mortal prove to be the breath of life
There is one thing in Salt Lake City that
makes a Washingtonian feel small and an
Ger NO matter how much he may adj
mire Utah's capital. he contents himself
with Washington's superiority until he gets
glimpse of the magnificent municipal
Observation-Disclosures fine, modern in all
that the term implies: cost a million dollars
and looks as II 1t had cost twice as much.
Expecting a Big Rush.
With the coming Of springtime and the
unfolding Of summer there ia likely to de-
velop a wave of migration Utahward. There
Is authentic information sufficient to make
that probability a Gel tainty before the state
celebrates its first Fourth of July. From
all parts Of the country and from many
foreign lends inquiries have been pouring
In at a great rate, and there Is even now a
perceptible and increasing stream of new
corners meandering around in search of
suitable location. A majority of the recent
arrivals appear to be interested in mining,
SO look out for big boom in stocks. Prep
arations are everywhere being made to re-
ceive and direct the multitude which is be-
heved to be on its way, and efforts are
being made in Colorado to intercept and
capture some of the people who promise to
be among the most desirable Of the ten
derfeet." All the railroad men look for a
big rush. but they are ready for it. The
Burlington, the Denver and Rio Grande
and the Rio Grande and Western have
made every needful preparation to handle
the increase of business; the two last
named roads have fully eouipped them
selves with Pullman tourist cars, in which
one may sleep for less than half the tariff
which prevails in the better furnished
palace cars. This concession to a loudly
voiced western demand for low sleeping
car fares is very popular and the cars are
well patroniZed.
For PrOtc ction and Silver.
Politically, Utah is republican. The I'M
folding of that fact was a surprise to sew
eral shrewd politicians who are not repub-
| lioans, for the impression prevailed quite
generally that Utah would be decidedly
democratic. Salt Lake City is thoroughly
republican also, and is likely to be so-as
| Is the state-for twenty years to come. At
least. that's what some Of the Salt Lake
republicans say Everybody in Utah be-
lives firmly in protection, SO Utah's repub-
licanism is not to be wondered at Every
body buys goods of Utah manufacture in
preference to the imported stuff, even if the
homemade product should chance to be
less satisfactory; possibility that is, as a
| rule, very remote. On the momentous cues
ton OF finance Utah is for silver; first.
last and all the time" cry some of the en-
thusiastic ones. Perhaps the opening IN
Of half dozen big gold camps-that at
Mercur promises to be the johannesburg
n ho of<,