The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-07
SENIOR 70 JENSEN.
The Garden City Promoter Writes to
the County Recorder.
Salt Lake City, Utah, April 6.

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Mr.. J. c. Jensen, County Recorder Salt
Lake County, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Sir-As you are a public servant for
the taxpayers of Salt Lake county, 1, as
one of such taxpayers. claim the right
to demand of you a public explanation of
your letter that appeared in the Salt
Lake Herald of April s. 1897 / claim the
right. sir, as a resident and taxpayer
or Salt Lake county to ask that you
through the press of this city define the
boundary lines OF what you refer to in
your letter, as in the same section of
country From my boyhood to the
present time. have worked hard in up
building and improving lands lying lin
this same section Of country" Every dol
lar l have ever received from the sale
OF property, or otherwise. has been spent
IN giving employment to the labOrinE
classes and purchasing from the mer-
chants material used in improving this
section of the county. Today we should
be thriving community but for the
causes that gave you an opportunity to
feed at the public crib-the demon eliza
ton of silver. When ! cast my vote for
you. as Bryan man, l thought l was
voting for its reconciliation, and the
bringing back of our one time prosperous
over the river" and not for a county
recorder. who, because the client of an
eastern gold-bug law firm has probably
not gotten the better end of the bargain
in his official capacity casts reflection
over our section of the county. You say:
As county recorder it probably comes
within my province to decline to know
ingly become accessory in the consum-
nation of fraud
If you We're honest and sincere in this
statement, why did you send the Tribune
of March Is. 1897. to the Chicago law
firm, when, as county recorder. you could
not help but know, that, so far as
that article referred to Garden City, 1t
was not true You well knew at the
time that the deal referred to in the
Tribune did not embrace any Garden City
lots. but an addition one mile south of
Garden City's south boundary line. BY
so doing did you not knowingly become
accessory to a fraud? By your con-
tinued silence are you not an accessory
to a fraud. when you allow TO go I'M
cCntradicted the Herald article of April
5. 1897, which article was inspired by your
letter. and which article you well know
to be false, so far as it refers to Garden
City2
Referring to your records you will find
the original Garden City plat "A" to be
owned, principally. by over 200 residents
of Salt Lake City. among them many
prominent business men, Personally |
do not own Garden City lot outside of
the five lots upon which stands my $4,000
residence. Your records will show the
principal owners of plat "B." Garden
city, are among the largest taxpayers
in Salt Lake county; people whose bust
ness standing and integrity is beyond
question.
OF the Lining deaT' know nothing.
nor do I know any of the parties con-
nected with the same. 7 do know. how
ever. Lining or the parties referred to
in your letter did not trade for Garden
City lots. So far as 7 am concerned.
would not trade 100 Garden City lots for
the best farm in a country where a man
has to get INTO a cellar ev/ry time a
cloud appears. TO avoid being swept from
the face of the earth by n cyclone.
I am interested as every taxpayer
should be. in building up Salt Lake
county. On the west side we were af-
fected in the same proportion as all
other localities, by the depression that
came uDon the country. Slowly but
surely the country lying between this
city and the lake is being built up. Such
destinations as yours will retard the
growth for a time. but as homes. sur
rounded with gardens. orchards and laws.
spring IN from time to time, our section
viii be considered equal with any other
part of the once arid desert that faced
the brave pioneers, who opened the way
for such as you and me.
Should YOU still be under the impress
sion that it is within your province. as
county recorder. TO act, unsolicited. as an
appraiser of land values in this section
OF the county" and as you are so de-
sirous of not becoming an accessory to 4
fraud. I urge upon you to take a drive
with me "over the river" ] will show
YOU thriving orchards and gardens viii
show You that, with the present method
of cultivating and drainage. it only re-
uuires the viii TO make the west side as
productive as any in the valley.
EDWIN W. SENIOR.