The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17

The Great American smelter, the
Western Pacific. the Rio Grande West
ern, the Moffat line. the Salt LAX,
Route. The Chicago & Northwestern
unite TO make the point of the noun
tain at this time the spot of supreme
interest.
Daniel Guggenheim is head of the
American Smelling & Refining COM
pany. The man with the roll of blank
cts isn't even head Of a family. But
potn are quoted for reasons that will
explain themselves.
DANIEL Guggenheim said: I'VE will
nave this smeltef up and ready to begin
ueatlhs ores by May l. 1t win be one
OF the most modern copper smelters in
the world. We have long since placed
contracts for making the heavy ma
chinery."
He was seated with his son in the
best suite of rooms at the Knutsford
Ihey We're drinking their after-dinner
coHee, and Daniel Guggenheim was
smoking a black Havana cigar. He
looked into the blue wreaths as they
curied toward the ceiling, and told of
MS planS-plans he had made months
DeIore. They had brought him two
thirds of the way across the continent
TO Salt Lake in his private car.
The Man With the Blankets.
The man with the blankets smoked a
pipe and looked off toward the Jagged
skyline where the point of the noun
talns reaches like a warped finger to-
ward Great Salt lakes receding waters.
de had thrown his buadle of bedding
from his weary shoulders and sat rest
ing by the roadside.
There should be a years stiddy
wur-rk over there he said, and jerked
his thumb. to Indicate the foot of the
prOmontoFy.
They plan 10 have that smelter up
by May" he was told.
"Nivir moind what they PLAN" said
he. They're liable to ship up bit
and find they laid out mOr'en they
thought. Olive seen public wur-rks
afore. There'n be things dom over be-
yant all next summer"
How did you get out?'
81 walked" he said, and cast ma
leV0lent look AT the. blankets l beat
my way out from Denver. I'm goin' to
shtick an make a stake if it looks
good"
They Represent Types.
Now. here is. the point
Daniel Guggenheim in his suite at
the roll of blankets three miles this side
OF the point of the mountains each rep
resents a type. And both are making
a great city OF Salt Lake. 1t takes both
TO do il.
Guggenheinn is one of several. ". A.
Clark. whose steel rails now stretch
past Point of the Mountains on the Pa
cific; George Gould, whose steel will
soon be laid there; Hartman. MOffat
az haFsC ~, tFfC Z ha orr hAN
plan-then come out here in private
cars. They look over the ground. Aft
erward coughing locomotives drag out
long steel-laden trains. Tools and ma
terial are dumped in a deserted place.
Come From All Corners.
Then comes the man with the blank
cts.
He represents the other type OF him
there are thousands. They follow
closely the workings of minds such as
Guggenheim's. Sooner than all the rest
of US they realize what these workings
viii bring about When the time
comes they are on the ground.
Guggenheim, George Gould and ".
\. Clark come in private cars. The
blanket brigade usually ride brake
beams. When things are ready the
Olanket-ladeu army is on the ground.
the country They have read of the
plans OF this work. They are ready TO
do il. il doesn't matter to them
whether the job be in Nicaragua or
across White pass at the head waters
of the Yukon. 1t is public works; it
promises good Wages-and they are
long since restless, ready for change.
OF the life of the Guggenheims and
the GOulds and the Clarks We know
much Their movements and their
ways are chTonicled daily. OF the man
with the blankets we don't know any
thing He dives in bunk houses and
travels in drOVes in colOnist cars or
rides beneath passenger coaches. lie
works in waste places-that we may
come TO them and make our livings.
Unlike other pioneers, he Is gone be
fore our homes are built where he
delved, and so he passes on unhOnored,
But he is just as essential to building
great cities as Daniel Guggenheim.
lust now he is beginning the reincar-
nation of Salt Lake.
Benefits Of the Salt Lake Route.
The other men planned the work, and
now their plans are working out OF
the Salt Lake Routes benefits the city
is already partaking. Now come four
other big undertakings.
The Western Pacific is being built.
Work on the great smeiter is in prog
ress~ Both things may be seen over
at the point of the mountains. Mean
time from the northwest the rails of
the Chicago * Northwestern are reach
ing toward this city. The gap is clos
ing every day. And in Colorado men
with steel and dynamite are gashing
rock cliffs and boring through granite
mountains, bringing nearer the MoHat
road
Three transcOntinental railway sys-
TENS coming TO Salt Lake, and the iarg-
est and most modern smelter in Amer
lea in course CT construction. The men
with the money and brains and the
men with the hard hands and shovels
are hard at work. Within two years
they win have made a new city out OF
this.
What They Are Doing.
Meantime it is worth while taking a
look at what they are actually doing
seeing some of the details.
AT the point OF the mountains the
biggest change has come. Two weeks
ago il was deserted. The steep noun
tainside, the slOping beach and the re-
ceding waters of the lake were undis-
turbed. save for an occasional party or
engineers who pointed their instru-
ments over the silent place and then
moved on.
Today the place is "A great ant hill.
Men. horses and machinery are scat
tered all over the landscape. Crashing
dynamite blasts. coughing pumping en-
gines, the shrill whistles of dummy To-