The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

ture 81 degrees, according to the obser-
vations made by the government dur
ing q period Of over twenty years. The
climatic conditions are most favorable
to those afflicted with throat and luns
troubles, not only because the extremes
of temperature are moderate, but be-
cause altitude and the salt breeze from
Great Salt Lake aid recovery.
GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE CITY.
At the present time the poulation OF
Salt Lake City is conservatively esti-
mated at 1000. Considered in detail,
the city viii compare favOrably with
any other of it's size in the country.
It's founders laid it out pom a generous
plan, making the blocks ten acres in
size. the lots 165 feet front by $50 feet
in depth, n the streets 49, feet wide.
No change has since occurred in the
lines originally drawn except that the
lots haze been divided into smaller par
GELS, but all that human effort could do
TO make the city beautiful has been
done. There are trees and lawns every
where within its limits, and the city is
threaded with over 100 miles Of shaded.
broOk-lined avenues. In the business
portion the streets are paved with Utah
asphaltum. and substantial cement
walks leads through the residence por-
tons. In 1880 the city entered upon a
season Of municipal improvements
Which included the construction Of
everything necessary to public health
and comfort, and these improvements
arc still going on. Since their COM
mencement. q great system of sewers,
with q gravity outlet five miles long,
has been placed in operation, miles Of
sidewalks and street paving lave been
put down, a great public build
ing which cost over a million dollars,
and which is classed among the
fnest public structures in the west, has
besn constructed and completed, and
many other similar advantages have
been secured. Salt Lakes population
has doubled since 1888, and its building
operations since that tine represent an
enormous outlay. The city now boasts
OF many fine business blocks, n these
blocks, it is gratifying to note, are all
occupied and en- a paying basis. Salt
Lakes growth - not dependent entire
~ upon the east, although, of course,
it receives every year an infiuS OF pop
ulation from distant states where either
business or climatic conditions are IN
favorable. Being in the cesier of q
vast region wherein large operations
are conducted in mining, stock-gTowing,
and other enterprises, n having a
perfect climate, the Great Salt Lake
hot thermal springs, the lowest death
rate of any city in the nation, good
p0DllC 0CitOO-S, AlC StCld1 tO4iOlItOIlSs
beauty OF location and environment,
and many other essentials of a perfect
home place, it naturally attracts to it
wealthy people who desire TO give their
families these advantages. and who can
carry on their enterprises as success
fully from Salt Lake as from the place
of their location. So it is thai while
adverse national financial conditions
have interfered with emigration to the
west during the past few years, Salt
Lake has been steadily growing. 1t is
essentially the home city of the inter
mountain country. Every miner who
realizes his hopes invests his money
here, and the city is filled with stately
homes and business buildings which
have been dug" from the mines of
Utah and adjoining states. AS a place
for permanent homes no city in the
west can compare with Salt Lake. The
advantages it offers are legion. Prop
erty values are not exorbitant. the rate
of taxation is moderate, almost every
creed in Christendom has its church
here, a perfect system OF electric rapid