The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-10
THE 400 ON UTAH.

''The Chicago 40O,'' a monthly illus
trated magazine now in its third year.
devoted to society club-room and
travel, gives special space in it's May
number to illustrated articles on Salt
Lake and Denver, and Colorado and
Utah gold grottoes-Mercur and Grip
pie Creek.
1t gives one full page of half-tone
engravings of the city and county
building, the temple, an exterior and
interior view of the tabernacle, and
views of Garfield and Saltair bathing
pavilions. In addition to that it has
fine cuts of the Knutsford, and Dolly
block, and one of Brigham Young's
schoolhouse.
The accompanying article begins:
Salt Lake City today stands upon
the threshold of it's most enhancing
era, and it seems a pity that Brigham
Young, it's founder, might not have
lived to see its fiftieth anniversary
next year, or its momentous entree
into the new century four years
hence. Surely it has already sur
passed in Importance ana beauty his
widest dreams of 1S47.
And the following is from the clos
ing paragraph:
The progress of Salt Lake City in
the past, remarkable as it has been
when its situation is considered, is as
nothing to its immediate future, now
that Utah has succeeded to statehood,
if the business men seize the oppor-
tunity that confronts them and en-
ploy it in accordance with the west
ern ideas and energies that obtain in
commercial Chicago and cities of its
class Not only do the reigning tusi-
ness men of Salt Lake City seem to
timidly recognize their opportunity,
but the city board was in proximity
of notwithstanding to the
Tribune editorial-on the morning of
my arrival. However, Salt Lake City
at present is no exception to the gen
eral list of hard times victims, and
this condition-not lethargy-is doubt
less the true cause of her seeming pas
siveness. A revival of commercial
confidence and realty valuations and
a change Of administration will speed
lily redeem Salt Lake City's wollted
pace. The leading press of Salt Lake
City comprises the morning Tribune
and Herald, the evening Deseret
News, and the Saturday Argus.
Half of the page devoted to Mercur
is filled by magnificent cut offs the
great mining camp, the best we have
yet seen, and in part this is what the
writer says:
when Brigham Young and his
weary followers founded Salt Lake
City in the Utah desert, just half
century ago, they little dreamed that
countless millions of gold lie buried
in the mountains hard by, but no such
fol 1,,1o E,,I 70 Of +Ia
comprehensive wealth has preceded
the discovery and development of the
Mercur mines in the Camp Floyd dis
trict not fifty miles or three hours
from the celebrated tabernacle and
temple of the historic saints. I have
photographed and brought to Chica-
COS doorway, as it were, the very
heart of the mountainous Mercur dis
trict wherein alone it is no manner of
extravaganza to assert more than
enough gold is banked by nature, to
pay off the Indebtedness of the world.
estimating the latter at the widest
possible limit. The Mercur discoveries
and developments, in fact, have cleo
trified the mining and financial
worlds, and the renewed Chicago fer
vor in the popular trend of the times
sufficed to induce The 400 to undertake
the trip and task that are outlined
as feature of this number.
These notices in these eastern publ
cations, mentioned here and in the
remarks headed "All are talking o,
Utah." should be encouraging to the
people of this state. For it means if this
kind of talk goes on. that Utah will be-
come known, and once known, no
power or earth can stay the tide. of
population and prosperity that will
come with Il. Our present population
wants to brace UP to meet that which
is going to come to US, bid it well
come, and make ready to join with it