Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-22
SALT LAKE CITY THE BIG cJ1v
OF THE FUTURE.

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petual caps OF snow, on whose gras.
sy WOODED sides brouse herds of cat.
lie ana nocks or sheep and within
whose bosom lie untold, inestimable
treasures or gold, silver, copper, iron
coal ana almost every metal known
reposes by the shore of the great in.
land sea, the beautiful city of Salt
Lake. "i'
Salt Lake is a unique city. There
is nothlng like 1t anywhere else
| Ihere is no other place on earth that
has so varied and extensive natural re'
sources; there is no other place IN
earth that has a climate so salubrions
and healthful, there is no place where
the opportunities to the well disnosed
and industrious are so great, there 10
no more pleasant place to reside and
no more beautiful city in the land.
Conditions as They Are.
The actual conditions as they exist
and the advantages and opportunities
in Utah are only beginning to he
known to the outside world. Salt
Lake, the capital city, has a popula-
ton of over $4,000. 1t is metropolitan
and to a considerable extent cosmo-
politan. 1t is metropolitan in that it
has the most modern conveniences on
any city in the world. Electric lights.
electric street car system, water
works on the most approved plan,
wide streets, double the width of
those of any other city in the United
States, dozen banks and other
financial institutions, every one as
solid as the rock of Gibraltar, man
ufactories, produce houses, as fine dry
goods and other stores as in any city
OF equal or larger population in the
world.
Educational Facilities.
1t has the finest public school build
lngs OF any city in the United States,
and as good or a better curriculum of
education than can be found any
where. The public schools, grade and
high schools, are free to ALL The
state university is located in Salt
Lake City and is an institution of
which any state might Justly be
proud. There are also numerous pri
vate educational establishments such
as Westminster Presbyterian col
lege, the Latter-day Saints univer-
sity, the Collegiate Institute, All Hal
lows college, Rowland Hall, st. Marys
anu olHeTS. DALI Lake is the eQuCd-
tional center of the intermountain
states, from all of which the better
class of people send their children to
be educated.
Since the enactment of the free
school law and the consolidation of
our city schools in $780, the already
splendid record in literacy has been
improved until at the close of the
.enth year, according to the report
rom the Department of Commerce
and Labor at Washington, Salt Lake
Jity holds third best place among all
he cities of the United States in
POINT of literacy of children between
EN- and fourteen years of age. The
Ilteracy of children of that age in
salt Lake City is represented by two
enths of one per cent, or by two chill.
iren out of one thousand
AT the Worlds fair in st. Louis, the
work from the grade schools of Salt
lake City was awarded a gold medal,
md that from the High School a sill
'er medal
Manufacturing Interests.
The general manufacturing inter-
sts are growing in Utah and Salt
AXE; they are already quite consider
bic. There are foundries, wooden
1llls, boot and shoe factories, Touring
llllS, canning establishments brew