The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-11
ZION TO Be GREAT
BUSINESS CENTER
So Declares Former Salt Laker.
Who Returns After Nine
Years. Absence.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CITY
HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL
Judge j. D. Jones Has Kind
Words to Say of Present and
Former Home.

Judge J. D. Jones, formerly a we'll
known and respected resident of Provo.
where he served three terms as Probate
Judge under Presidential appointment
prior to Statehood, is a visitor in the
city, and was around shaking hands
with old friends Wednesday. Judge
Jones removed from Utah in 1897, and
with his family located in Seattle,
where for few years he practiced his
profession, afterwards went into bust
ness, and three years ago retired from
active business, having by keen insight
and sound judgment amassed a for
tuue.
Washington State Prosperous.
1.-The State of Washington is in a
very prosperous condition this year, -
the Judge says, that agriculturalists
horticulturalists, stock raisors and lum-
hermen are all experiencing good times
The wheat yield this year was 36,000,-
900 bushels. Great as is the lumber
business in Washington, the farm prod
ucts are greater now than those of the
forests. Yokama valley, with irriga-
ton, is demonstrating its great capa-
bilities as fruit growing country. The
immense crops of apples, plums, pears,
etc, which can be raised there are
beyond calculation.
Seattle Going Ahead.
'sSeattle is going ahead along the
high pressure lines of prosperity. 1t
is improving very fast The shipping
business Is growing to immense pro-
portions. New steamship lines to the
Orient and other countries are being
put IN operation right along, one after
the other. The tonnage of Puget Sound
is greater now than at San Francisco
before the earthquake and FIRE disaster.
Real estate is doubling IN value about
every twelve months. This does not
mean that Seattle Is the victim of a
boom. The increase in business of all
kinds, and population, justify such con-
ditlons. Buildings are being erected
twelve stories, covering an entire block,
constructed of concrete and steel. There
is already one building fifteen stories
high. Building is going on rapidly all
over the city, and business blocks and
residences are occupied as soon rs they
can be finished. The population is
about 100000 and growing with great
rapidity. The building permits for
this year are double what they were
the two previous years.
'The Southern Pacific railroad COM
pany has expended Sl4,000,000 in ter
minals. The Milwaukee and st. Paul
half as much.
Fresh Water Harbor
'FThe county commissioners, the
Judge says, recently bonded the coun-
ty for 100000, with which to con-
struct canal from Salt Water to
Lake Washington, distance Of four
miles, which when completed, will give
a fresh water frontage of 200 miles,
the finest fresh water harbor in the
world. The canal will be deep enough
for boats drawing twenty three feet
Judge Jones notes with pleasure the
many permanent improvements which
have been made in Salt Lake during
the nine years of his absence, He
thinks Salt Lake in the not distant
future must be reckoned with as the
most important business center in tho
intermountajn country. Tho Judge is
here on business which he hopes to get
Settled up within the next few days, He
is guest at the Wilson hotel. where
he may be found during his stay in the
city,