The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26
JUBILEE YEAR REVIEW. !
By Judge E. F. Coborn Secretary of the Salt Lake Cham
Der OF Commerce.

come true. The Lake Bonneville Land
& Power company, our latest acquisi-
ton of aggregated eastern capital, is
already we'll along with the work which
when completed will give us the great
est irrigation system under corporate
management in America, one to cost at
least $3,00O,0 and redeem from desc
lation a portion of our state as large
as all of Rhode Island.
BUILDING OPERATIONS.
This has been a good year for Salt
Lake. L am told the building opera
tons have even exceeded those Of 1890,
and that the city has grown is a fact
which none will dispute. when it is
realized that all the houses are rented
and the cry for more is not appeased.
THE RAILROADS.
The segregation of the Oregon Short
Line from the Union Pacific railroad
which occurred early in the year, and
which was followed almost Immediately
by the establishment of the general
offices of the company in Salt Lake,
was an event of the utmost Importance
to the city. The new management Sc
lected we'll known Salt Lake loving men
to preside over the several departments
OF it's business, and with these appoint
+
ton that the system would be operated
so far as it consistently could be in
the interests of Salt Lake and Utah.
During the six months of the existence
of the road as an independent system,
nothing has occurred to weaken this
conviction.
The opening of the Ogden gateway
almost Immediately placed Salt Lake
directly upon the line of the north
]
passenger travel, and the effect of this
/ travel upon our business interests has
j already been quite marked. Then, too,
| our iobbing trade has been materially
! increased by reason of the segrega-
/ ton and Salt Lake now reaches into
! Oregon for business, and the whole
northwest region has been added to our
trade domain.
ON TO DEEP CREEK.
From private information I am made
/ to believe that 1898 will witness the
opening of rail communication with the
country towards Los Angeles, and that
the whistle of the locomotive viii break
| the long silence of the Deep Creek
country. The Deep Creek road will
stimulate the growth of this city as
! did Fort Worth the building Of Den
yer. Nothing then can stop our prog
/ ress-not even the Indifference of oul
own people, which is, and | fear always
will be, the one great impeachment to our
progress.
WHAT IS NEEDED.
In view of these statements, dear
reader. don't you think it is pretty
nearly time for us to quit bowling about
hard times and get up and do some
/ thing? If you will compare the min
ing dividend payments of other states
with ours. you will find that our mining
dividends are about so per cent of our
mining capitalization, whereas Colo
RADIO with all her boasting has paid less
than % per cent on her total MINING
Capitalization. If this is a fact, is it
wrong to say it is a fact? Rather, is
it not wrong to suppress it? No bust
ness ever succeeded that was moi
pushed. and no city ever became great
except, at least in part, through the
! agency of it's own people. We have the
best city with the best climate and
the best attractions in the best an6
richest state in the west, and all we
need to do to send it into a career OF
unexampIed growth and prosperity, Is
to push it and tell of its advantages tC
those who live in less favored local.
ties. There was merit in the cry OF
| the old woman at the barn-raiSing,
push. and if YOU can't push, pull.
Pushing and pulling is what we need
We have had a little of one and g
great deal of the other in the past. A
few people have pushed, God bless
them, and a great many people have
pulled, but they pulled the wrong way
so that the pushers did not make mucf
Roadway. Pulling, if it is pulling back
is a bad business, but from the pleas
ure some people take in doing it yOT
would suppose that it was the Creates
fun in the world. There are less thar
90 men in this community who, if they
would, could inaugurate and keep alive
here a movement which would bring
thousands of people and hundreds OF
thousands of dollars into Salt Lake. oh
for some exhilarant, some intoxicant tt
liven up their brains and put vim ant
vinegar into them which is needed
EDWARD F. COLBORN.