The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-09
ONE WAY TO BOOM"


of municipal administration because
il viii bring boom" need trephining
for simplicity Of mind, or else they are
making fraudulent representations for
a purpose.
How would change in administra-
ton bring any more benefit To the city?
Would it effect "a more rapid improve
ment i'm street paving when the present
mayor has done more IN that direction
than any of his predecessors?
Would il bring more extensive era
OF street PAVING Norris has done more
10 pave the sidewalks than any half
dozen of his predecessors. including the
man the boomers support.
Would it result in any better system
OF increase in the water supply? Nor
Ills is carrying out the only radical i'm
provement in the water supply that has
ever been attempted; he is doing the
thing Thompson recommended as the
only feasible plan, though Thompson
disrcgarded his own recommendation
when he got bonds voted for the pur-
pose.
la a word, Would not any city ad-
minislratiou that might be elected be
compelled TO carry out the only scheme
feasible for public Improvement name
Iy, the plans inaugurated and now be-
ing executed successfully by Mayor
Morris?
There is only one answer to all the
questions. No mayor could be elected
who would dare to ignore the lines laid
down by the present management of
city affairs because the public demands
just such Improvements as are now
under way and would make life unbear-
able for mayor who attempted to di-
vert the. funds voted 10 this purpose or
who tried to change The general plans
adopted. And no one knows this bet
ter than Thompson and his hackers
who cry for change"
As 90 the boom" If salt Lake were
a New Jerusalem. paved with gold and
decorated with precious stones. there
could be no boom" in the modern sense
so long as some of its most influential
citizens and one of its most conspicu-
Gus. if not influential, newspapers.
warned outsiders away as from a
plague, crying. as they made lepers cry
of old. "Unclean. UncIean"
Except in real estate advances, bust
ness conditions in salt Lake have never
been as good. Clearings show a gain.
"a regular gain, of from 40 to over 50 per
cent each week as compared with last
year The amount of wholesale bust
ness has been augmented heavily: re-
tailers report splendid volume of trade
10 be secured; and teams have been
drafted for construction enterprises
until mine owners have difficulty i'm
getting ore hauled at an
Go in almost any direction from the
center Of the city and see the number
Of houses under construction. Most Of
them are homes, built by intending
owners. ali Of them are occupied as fast
as buut, au~the rented houses bring
large rentals. Money is being distrib-
uted by the Western Pacific i'm a flood
Tor supplies and wages and camp ma
terial of all sorts. The San Pedro has
opened up a new country which is al
ready contributing to the prosperity of
the city; mines and smeltors, all Of the
branches OF mining industry are turn
ing out money as never before.
Any boomer viii admit these facts
unbiushingiy, but if he happens to be
"a Thompson boomer" he will add.
But there is no heavy advance i'm real
estate values; no large Improvements
IA the business district. and wen get
these If Thompson is elected"
VIII they? DO Ezra's shacks on his
Main street and Second South holdings
mark him as a "boomer?" Doesn't he
freeze to the old shanues and boost the
rents on his tenants as though he were
"a public spirited citizen. bent only on
the Identification and Improvement OF
mis- beloved city? Don't Ezra and his
friends announce in public that they
are ashamed TO register from salt Lake.
and that it is a bunco game to invite
any man TO live In Salt Lake?
If the boomers viii stop knocking
a while ana spend some of their surplus
energy and funds ON move for the
Improvement of the city, they viii get
some new blood in here, people who viii
build business blocks instead of sim
proving" frame shanties to evade the
FIRE ordinances, men who win make
Salt Lake what it ought to be, the most
beautiful inland city in America. as
well as the most desirable place of resi-
dence
On the other hand, if it is the inten-
ton oe the boomers" to kin enter
prise. keep out population, injure busl-
ness and hold back every wheel Of
progress, they might at least be honest
about it and declare their intentions so
al men may know them. The cry of
boom" deceives no one when the CRY
comes from men with clubs swinging
in their hands and spelling destruction
To- every one in reach. be he friend or
zoe.
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