The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

IN tfllS teFrIIOry, anu Sdlt Lake must reap
the principal benefit
HOW WILL THE CITY GROW?
Real estate values are dependent on
population and business. How, then. will
the city grow? And how will realty values
be affected?
This leads to a study of the laws OF a
city'S growth. Experience has taught that
the same laws apply to all cities. They
, may be summarized as follows:
Retail business, which usually creates
the greatest realty values, seeks the main
currents of travel.
Wholesale business seeks convenience
and cheapness in transportation of mer-
cfandiSe, with proximity to currents of
travel as a secondary influence.
Manufacturing seeks convenience to
transportation, with the sales offices rea-
SonabIy close to currents of travel.
Professional and other offices seek con-
venienCe to the special line of business, and
are influenced by currents of travel, &C
c0mmOdatiOnS and proportiOnate rentals.
Residences seek convenience to bust
ness of the residents, social advantages
and desirable surroundings. Expense is
powerful factor. Those who can afford it
secure all OF the foregoing, while people of
smaller income are forced to make their
homes among less desirable surroundings,
with convenience to business and proper
tomato expense the main factors.
Thus it appears that transportation ia
ClIitieS and currents of travel are the prime
factors in Judging realty values. Where
the people are on foot in greatest number
is the best retail business and office Sec
ton, while railroad and street car lines in
fuence manufacturing and wholesale bust
ness and residence localities.
TWO CURRENTS OF TRAVEL.
Salt Lake City is visited annually by
thousands of tourists, so that there are two
currents of travel to be taken into consid-
eratiOn-reSidentaI and transient.
The street car company has powerful
influence in diverting local travel, but it
cannot 90 too far in COMBATING natural
laws. 1t it does, and refuses proper faciIi-
ties to LARGE population, competitive lines
will spring up and it will lose business.
Salt Lake in the past has followed these
natural laws of development, and a lesson
for the future may be. learned in studyinu
history.
When the city was laid out. it was a re-
ligious community, with the Temple square
as its center. The bulk of the population
lay to the southwark, and the main current
of travel was from the south to the TenpIe
square. z. c. M. l., the great retail store
of the early days, was located close to the
main current of traffic, and business ex-
banded southwark on Main street. aIonu
the line of travel.
The president of the church lived m
Brigham street, and this made the street
fashionable, establishing it so stronuv. he
cause of this fact, its convenience to bust
ness and its general deSirabiIity, that Brio
ham street residence property today COM
mandS the highest prices.
The old Utah Central railroad entered
the city, and established its PASSENGER STA
ton at South Temple and Third West
streets, making the transient travel polJr
into Main street at South Temple, and still
further strengthening upper Main street as
business center.
But the bulk of the population was still
south, and the business houses beam tn
string along in that direction, being Sfopped
from northWard expansion, moreover. bv
the buIwark of the Temple square and the
church property across Main street to the
east. The Rio Grande Western was built
and established its passenger station on
Second South street. This brought a cur
rent of travel along Second South to Main
street The street car lines hrinuinn mo-