The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-18

cute 20 mai completion a railroad that
WeGio bind IN enduring Wedlock the cities
or SAT- Lake and Los Angeles. There has
been added TO the area to be traversed no
natural resource Population. il is true.
/ has increased The knowledge that such
I a line as was hoped might be built would
prove profitable has been more and more
/ widely diffused.
Wealth of an Empire.
, Mans toll backed by the cauitaI of the
organizer and promoter, has yearly
/ demonstrated, in the productions OF the
valley and OF the mountain. with more
| convincing clearness, that the wealth of
possessing the courage and the capital
| 10 prose cute so great an undertaking:
and yet the womb of time, which gives
/ birth TO material epochs in the interest
] OF communities, was not yet ready TO
yield the longed for offspring.
/ Meanwhile the arabic area subdued by
the agriculturist was Widened: the noun
I tain businesses of this state yielded more
I and more OF their vast treasures and the
( titles commercially entitled to respect,
was materially increased We have built
srnelters, sugar beet and other factories.
and introduced those manifold inventions
/ that mark high civilization, because of
| the peoples needs, and because Of the de-
1 mand that these needs should, by the
4 Still, a dead weight hung upon our efforts
] and that weight neutralized and wasted
+ much of our energy. We needed greater
/ transportation facilities.
2AAD1LAOAS OL AOS Angeles
Meanwhile. 500 miles distant, natural.
/ ing TO Ike end. Southern California,
/ great IN population by reason of its won
/ oerIul advantages, and Los Angeles, as
/ the center of that region OF commanding
natural wealth, was the inevitable bene-
/ tclary of that wealth While seeking for
purely local advantage the citizens Of
] Los Angeles were, nevertheless energeti-
| ically working along lines that (as IS now
| apparen) could have but Que ultimate re-
| In the desire to be a great city, was
/ born in the bosom of the far-seeing citi-
| ZenS Of Los Angeles a wish to become
| the center of widely extended commercial
\ activities. At its feet lay the Pacific
with the vast wealth of the Orient and
| the islands Of the South Seas on the other
side That these should be made to pay
/ tribute TO the City Of the Angels was but
/ a natural desire, and in that desire the
necessity for closer communication with
/ the great populations ana commercial
/ centers of the east became more and more
apparent.
/ So began a weary struggle for them.
/ less as was our own Yet, as with us
| the desire for great things was the seed
/ itself to the very thing longed for.
For One Common Aim.
Each -blindly feeling for aid to TIE ac-
for an outlet to the southwest. and
southern California for an opening to the
great east as the forerunner of a feeder
/ from the farther west that lies across the
wide Pacific. the City OF the Angels and
! the City Of the Saints touched hands, then
! touched again, and, finally, realizing mat
/ but one aim impulsed them both, the
| passing touch was changed to a grasp 50
firm that time can only serve to strength
en- and opposition TO more firmly cement
Then a common purpose gave new IN
/ spiratiOn to both these peoples. so Wlueiy
| separated by distance but so closely al
! lied by commercial needs. None but they
frs-17O boxr str Gle
a thing earnestly wished for, can under
stand how much il means that JneIr
aspirations shall be shared by another.
New life was given TO every nope Dy
I reason of the union between Utah anu
I southern California, and the struggle Tor
| the accomplishments OF tnaI winch was
] so ardently desired was renewed with an
assiGuity and persistence that could have
] but one result
Achievements For Los Angeles.
What has been achieved by southern
California and Los Angeles as the one
/ central city of that magnificent domain,
is a tale so well written. in a book so
| often thumbed. that it were folly to more
/ than refer to ii. Not so with Utah This
and intelligence, awaiting the arrival OF
I the supreme hour when II should spring
/ full grown into the ranks as one Of the
great states in all that involves 1nduStrlal
/ possibilities, material resources al IN
! tellectual attachments
! The husbandman, in his avarice for land.
]
| forfeiting nothing of the valleys that his
4 toll has blessed and made to yield in sun
richer abundance BY colossal irrigation
undertakings. conceived, and Delng exc
] cuted. on wider and more extended plans,
vast areas are being brought INTO Sud
/ lection The water that erstWhlle Iructl-
fled the soil alone is now harneSsed and
converted into power for the operation OF
manufactures, then, losing nothing OF
virtue or volume, goes on It's way sun
to bless and refresh the land
BY leaps and bounds the mines OF TINS
state have forged to the front until Jtan
now stands well nigh third In the proGuc-
ton in value of varied metals, and II
NAV be doubted that any state IN the
| Union gives such returns in DIVIDENDS on
the money invested.
Favored by Outside Capital.
It is not then to be wondered at that
our mining investments are viewed with
such favor by outside capital Not only
this. but the illimitability of the reserves
in our mineral zones has yearly become
I the subject of more perfect and unerrlng
demonstration. There are converted into
bullion in Salt Lake valley alone some
$50 tons of ore daily, and this, as we
know, is but beginning. I might con
sumo the night in a rational discussion
of the possibilities Of mining in Titan,
since the fact is recognized by all that
this industry is literally IN its infancy
Unless all geological assurances are at
fault and wholly valueiess, this state IS
on the eve Of one of the most stupendous
. =
While in all parts of Utah iron ore
exists in abundance. yet the ImltieSS
bodies in Iron county are known to those
interested the world over The DEPOSITS
cover an area fifteen miles long by about
three miles wide. Many of the foremost
iron experts of the United States have
pronounced these the greatest booleS OF
iron ore exposed by nature in the world
Our coal fields traverse the state north
and south for some 200 miles, and nave
an average width Of about fifteen miles.
And that much of this viii coke perfectly
is demonstrated by the amount annually
produced.
Fields of Coal and Iron.
But were the possibilities infinitely
greater than the widest imagination or
most ardent desire could paint still they
were worthless unless put within the
reach Of populations whose need is as
great as our desire to part with thon-
All must meaSurably remain as the coal
and iron fields of Iron county-known 70
exist in quantities unrivaled in the world
and capable of a production that fancz
even cannot exaggerate-yet valueiess
wanting cheap transportation
You well know with what fears our
citizens nave watched rival efforts Tor
the past two years toward the reallza-
ton of their hoDes-when the key that
was to give open door to many Of the
treasures long locked in should be found,
and the wide territory to be traverSeu
in Nevada should be made to yield It's
now dead or dormant wealth Clearly the
hour had arrived, yet even then I'M
toward events seemed destined to bring
about a more prOtracted delay or a per
nanent dissolution of all our hopes be
cause of antagonistic interests But
given the occasion for vast industrial de-
TeIopment such as rail connection be