The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-12-25
zion HAS CHARMS
FOR HOMESEEKER
An Ideal Climate, Pictur-
esque Surroundings, Schools,
Churches, Business Houses
and Social Life Are Attrac-
lions Which Draw the Home
seeker to Zion.
Ry FISHER HARRIS, SECRETARY
COMMERCIAL CLUB, SALT LAKE
CITY.

CITY.
The careful man in search of a per-
manent abiding place has many things
to consider. He will want to know
much about the material resources OF
the city Of his choice; its promise Tor
the future its churches and schools; It's
climate, the character of its business
men and its social life.
We can confidently commend salt
Lake City to him from all these stand
points of interest. In the tlrst place,
consider how much Nature has done for
us here. Men and women of means and
leisure spend thousands of dollars ana
circle the globe in order to see more
famous but far less beautiful scenes
than those presented from almost any
viewpoint in this valley. Nowhere per-
haps in the world are the mountains
more ruggedly beautiful and picturesque
than are those that encircle the city,
and certainly nowhere on this continent
can one find more charming exhibitions
of the ever-changing beauties of Nature
than are found in the numberless can
yons that lie at our very doors.
From early springtime until the be-
ginning of winter these great gorges,
through which the waters of the noun
tains escape from Imprisonment, are
constant delight to the lover of Nature
and furnish delicious places of rest and
recreation for the tired business man
and the wearied housewife.
I can add nothing to what has been
said and sung in every land and Ian
guage about the great blue sea that lies
to the west of us. 1t is the crownlng
glory of the landscape and wonder of
the world. Can you show me another
spot on Mother Earth where such a COM
bination is found7
There are cities that point with pride
to their mountains; others boast of their
lake front, and still others of their val
leys or beautiful homes. Here we for
tunate people have them all-moun-
tains, canyons, lake and valley en-
braced in one grand scheme of beauty
and over all a sky as blue as any that
bends over sunny Italy. Is it any Won
der that with such natural environ
ment Utah should produce more than
her proportion of painters, poets, sculp-
tors and musiciansf
But surroundings such as | have
briefly mentioned are but desirable ad-
juncts to life. Man cannot live on
scenery, and the visions of the day
dreamer are continually being disturbed
by grosser thoughts of how he may earn
his daily bread.
Materially speaking. Salt Lake City
40 NV IuSo ChtCAihS upph POI ioN "a
unexampled prosperity" to quote from
the advertising pamphlets of many
communities. The prosperity. is here
now. While it may not be "unexam-
pled,' it is nevertheless great, SUBJ,
stantial and comforting 1t is in the
air, and is evidenced on every hand and
in all the walks of our business and So
cial life. Ride about the city and you
will find in every business and residence
block new buildings going up ranging
in importance from the comfortable cot
tage home of the poor man to the pal
ace of the mining. king, and still the
importune cry is for more homes; for
the people who are making money on
the broad ranches and in the rich min
ing camps of Utah, Wyoming, Nevada,
Idaho, Montana and Western Colorado,
are coming here and establishing their
household goods in this valley Of the
mountains. They are drawn thither by
the characteristic American demand for
the best in life, and they find it here in
our universities, schools, colleges, thea
tiers, churches, institutions of music and
art, and the cultured social life of tne
community.
If ever a community had right to