The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-06-17
WHAT "THE ANGELS" SAW.

During the past week several hundred of the
most prominent men of Los Angeles have been Wis
ting in Salt Lake. 1t was in the nature of re-
turn visit, Salt Lake delegation having visited
Los Angeles last month. Both visits were brought
about by the opening of the Clark road connecting
the two cities by direct route The Los Angeles
| contingent comprises bankers, merchants doctors,
| lawyers, real estate men, and in fact all of the
leading spirits, whose push and enterprise have
made Los Angeles beautiful and furnishing city.
With nothing in particular to start with except a
mild climate, they have made of Los Angeles
| city of upwards of two hundred thousand people,
with magnificent business blocks and residences and
all the accessories of modern city, prosperous and
thriving
The attention of these men being called to Salt
Lake City by the opening of the new railroad they
concluded to come here on a friendly visit. Ac-
cording to their expressions they expected to find
a mountain town, peopled by queer looking inhabi-
tants with religious worship confined practically to
one denomination. Imagine their surprise, which
they freely expressed, on their arrival and explora
ton. They found churches of every denomination,
some of them costing we'll up into the six figures
d
plction, finer than any in their own state. They
found orphanage, conducted by the Catholic
Bishop, but open to all denominations, caring for
and educating hundreds of children, training each
according to his her aptitude, graduating them
INTO business offices as senographers bookkeepers,
clerks, housekeepers musicians, and into the vari-
Gus walks of life, self-supportng and ueful men
and women They found Catholic hospital found
ed by the Bishop, occupying and owning property
worth quarter of million dollars. They found
a magnificent new building on a prominent site
overlooking the city and valley about to open as a
home for miners, under the auspices of the Cath
Ollie Bishop, donated by wealthy and charitable
lady of this city. They found Catholic college
for boys, and a seminary for girls, which, Judged
by the success of their graduates have no superiors
in the country.
These sights merely in the nature of eye
openers They further discovered that the people
looked very much like the people of other places.
that it was impossible to tell member of one de-
from that of another by looking at
him, that business men were going right ahead do
ing business with each other interested in the same
enterprises, without reference to religion and that
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cases, the denomination to which another belonged
Then they began to look for the real basis of
the prosperity of this city
a visit to the mines at Bingham, and the smelt-
ers IN this valley filed them with amazement They
had not even dreamed of such wealth-producing re-
sources. The armies of men employed in the mines
and the other armies in the smeters, all earning
good wages, and the companies paying enormous
dividends, was revelation. And yet Bingham is
only one of many rich camps tributary to Salt Lake
Clty The rivers of gold, silver and other metals
lowing from the mountains of Utah and Nevada
night well excite the wonder of any one Well
night the Los Angeles men exclam: eff we had
hese resources we would have city of a million
inhabitants"
What Is it that builds cties2 What accounts
or the difference in growth and prosperity? Why
S 1t that one city with boundless resources will lao
ehind, while another city, with not one-tentb Of
he natural advantages, FORCES ahead and becomes
prosperous and Furnishing?
Ihe difference is in the citizens themselves The :
ing needed is public spirit which is willing to bury
city differences for the general good to BOOST for
ne general good instead of knocking each other
ISOLATION breeds petty quarrels, and contact with
nc world broadens the mind, One of the chief adj
antages OF the new Clark road will be to bring
alt Lake INTO contact with people like the Los An
eles men, and, by infusng their spirit into the
reap the best results from the advan +
ges which nature has SO beautifully lavshed upon
lis state. II
Much has already been accomplished, but, with :,
nlted public spirit, the ensuing few years will =
ace the city where it belongs-in the forefront =
all western cities.
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