The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
PROUD PLACE NOW HELD
BY UTAK'S METROPOLIS
Great Strides Made In Every Material Line During
the Past Year.
Acknowledged Commercial. Financial, Educational and
Artistic Center of Great Region.

The progress of Salt Lake during 1899
in every material line that makes for
the upbuilding of a great city has won
for the Utah capital the right to be
known as the metropolis of the inter
mountain region. Her population has
now increased to so, 900, and in the field
of commerce, finance, education, soci-
ETY., wealth, literature, politics, art, re-
ligion and amusement, it is more than
ever the natural center for this great
region.
AS in the old days every road led to
Rome it has now grown to be true
that every road in Utah, southern
Idaho and Wyoming, western Colorado,
eastern Nevada and northern Arizona
leads to Salt Lake City. There are
convincing reasons for this which grow
stronger with each passing year, and
brief review of these reasons will never
lose its interest.
What Nature Has Done.
No other city on the American con-
tinent has more that appeals to mans
sense of the beautiful. With the snow
CAPPED peaks of the Wasatch and
Oquirrh standing ever in sight as mute
guardians against the tempests from
without; with the beautiful valley of
the Jordan sweeping away to the south,
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with the evidences of industry and con-
tentment; with that magnificent inland
sea of salt that beauties the land
scape, tempers the heat of summer and
furnishes a resort of health and pleas
ure that viii never have a rival; with
the streams of crystal water that are
liberated by the rays of the sun from
the letters of frost in the canyons and
gurgle and sing of their freedom as
they carry wealth and happiness TO the
people in the valley below
Work of the Founders.
The streets of the city are the adj
miration of every visitor from abroad
Compared with the crooked and mar
row streets OF cities in all parts of the
country, the magnificent thoroughtares
of Salt Lake appeal with great power,
not to the tourist alone, but 10 the
student of sociology as we'll The main
city was laid out by Brigham Young.
Each street was made the uniform
width of 1872 feet. This gives a fine OPP
portunity for parking at the sides,
broad sidewalks and rows of shade
trees, and these, together with the
streams of running water, add much
10 the beauty of the city. In this re-
spect the Improvement has been con-
siderable during the past year, though
it has attracted but little attention.
The growth OF the old trees and the
planting OF new ones, the better care
of the lawns and drives, the improve
meut of sidewalks, the better sprink-
ling and sweeping of the streets, have
all had their influence in adding to the
superior attractiveness of the city. a
newcomer is struck with the fact that
the poles-telegraph telephone, electric
light and street car-are in the center
of the street. and the novelty is GER
tainly pleasing The telephone COM
pany during the year began putting its
wires underground. 1t will be FORUM
ate if this example is generally fol-
lowed.
What Appeals to Tourists.
For many years tourists passing
through Salt Lake have visited the
Temple, the Tabernacle, the Bee Hive
House. the Eagle Gate. the Lion House,
the Carlo House, and other less I'M
portant points of historic interest They
still continue to do so and viii so con-
tinue in the years to come, partly be-
cause Of the peculiar architecture of
the buildings. partly because of their
present associations and partly because
of their historic value: but no tourist
of recent days is satisfied until he has
seen. in addition TO the above, the
beautiful new homes, the parks, the
pleasure resorts, the magnificent pub
lie building. the hotels and the modern
business blocks that decorate the bust
ness portion of the city. A ride on the
street cars upon the benches and foot
hills of the mountains affords a piano.
ramic view of the city. the valley and
lake that stirs the blood of the most
prosaic and creates an impression new
er TO be forgotten.
Health and Pleasure Resort.
Salt Lake has become justly re-
nowned throughout the length of the
nation as q resort Of health and pleas
ure. This renown was never greater
than during the year just closed. Thou
sands from all parts, wcrn in the fierce
battle of life or broken in health, found
refuge within our gates and took on
new energy as a result of the pure air.
the pure water and the salt and min
eral baths that attracted them. The
altitude of the city. 250 feet above the
sea-gives a light atmosphere and a
pure air that prove wonderfully bene-
fetal to people in delicate health, while
the mountain chains on all sides pro-
vide certain barriers throughout the
year against storms. The salt baths of
the lake have lost none of their virtue
and hundreds of thousands can testify
TO the benefits derived from that
source during the past year. Never be-
fore in the history of the city was the
value of these baths so fully recog-
nized and rarely if ever did so many
strangers from over the mountains find
their way to Saltair and GarfieldS
Beach. These salt baths are recon-
mended by all physicians who have
tested their merits as a cure for many
nervous diseas es. When are added to
the medicinal value OF the baths the
sunshine that never fails; the pure
light air; the enlivening music, and
other attendant pleasures. it is little
wonder that the fame of these baths
has gone out over the country and that
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Value of the Springs
The hot and warm springs of Salt
Lake furnish a natural means for the
cure of rheumatic. stomach and kidney
troubles that IS being recognized more |
fully with each passing year. The wa |
tiers of these springs contain such in