Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
LAND BOOMS OUT WEST
Largest Shelters in the World
Located at Salt Lake.
CLIMATE FOR ONE-LUNGERS
Prospecting for Farms as Formerly
for Gold.
MANY IRRIGATION PROJECTS
The Richest City on the Pacific a
Place of ose-Cheeked
Women.
MANY IRRIGATION PROJECTS
Copyright, 1906, by Frank G. carpenter.)


SALT LAKE.
have not been In Salt Lake for about
q dozen years and / now find 1t a new city.
1t has $4,000 people and it is fast becoming
manufacturing center. 1t already has
some of the largest shelters of the world
and 1t will quadruple them in the future.
Those here now are reducing about 5000
tons before daily, and others are to be
added, which will increase the output to
%, 900 tons. This makes the city lively, but
it is to some extent destroying its beauty.
The smoke and sulphur fumes affect the
vegetation. and If the new smeiters are
not put at a considerable distance from
the town 1t may eventually be as bare
of green as the Desert of Sahara. This is
the condition about Copper Cliff, Canada,
where the great nickel mines are, and 1t is
so In other smelling centers where much
sulphur is mixed with the ores.
The Utah Mining Camps.
Utah is steadily growing as a mining
proposition. It's output so far in lead, cop
per, silver and gold has run between three
and four hundred million dollars The cop
per mined last year was worth $40, 000. 600,
the gold $6,0O0,00o or 81 100000. and silver
about the same. So far the mines of all
like $e0,000,000, and it is claimed that only
small part of the state has been pros
pected. Senator Clark's new railroad, which
goes from here to Los Angeles, has just
issued folder labeled, THE Worlds Treas
ure House, in which 1t estimates the gold,
silver, copper and lead blocked out and
exposed in the country reached by 1t at
billion dollars, and the amount already
mined and marketed at 1885, 100000. Esti-
mates like this probably over-draWn,
but there Is no doubt but that the product
will run high up into the millions.
Tourists and One-Lungers.
Senator Clark's road is adding to Salt
Lakes popularity as a tourist center. and
the citizens here are advertising 1t for all
II is worth through their association, whose
motto is See America First" This is now
the short cut to southern California, and
travellers to that region can save about
two days on the railroad by going this
way AS a result most of them stop off and
many stay The altitude here is about
eight times that of the top of the Wash
ington monument, and the ozone from the
Rockies is such that the people breathe
champagne. l know of number of eastern
business men who are now living here be-
cause they cannot stand our moist cold
winters. This air is dry and bracing. and
is excellent for one-lungers and other con-
sumptives. The most of the citizens are
decidedly healthy looking. Their cheeks
are rosy, their movements brisk and no one
would believe that many of them came
here to die and that not a few nave put
a single lung In their bodies. This is true
of Colorado, and It is especially true OF
southern California Indeed, the far west
has about the only out-of-door climate that
one can use the year around
About Los Angeles.
Los Angeles. for instance, thrives upon
climate. 1t has increased about 1000 per
cent in population since 1880, and it dou-
bled between the years of 1900 and 1905
The citizens are now claiming 100000, ana
they expect to have half million by 1910
The enormous fortunes which nave been
produced within the past few years are
driving the rich and well-to-do to the most
comfortable spots, and Salt Lake, Los
Angeles Portland and other such cities are
all getting their shares.
Los Angeles has large number OF MIL
lionaires. and its bank clearings range be-
tween three hundred and four hundred MIL
lion dollars year. Its population is MADE
UP almost entirely of eastern men, and
recent census showed that only 10 per cent
of the people were natives. There are al
most as many people In Los Angeles from
Ohio or Illinois as from California the
city has three thousand voters who came
from Pennsylvania, two thousand who
originated in Iowa and more than two
thousand made up of emigrants from MIS-
souri,. A somewhat similar proportion pre-
walls as to the residents of Salt Lake.
The Rush for Vacant Lands.
am surprised at the appetite which has
sprung up over the United States for cheap
farms. Our people are beginning to realize
that the vacant lands are almost all taken
up and that from now on farm lands Will
everywhere rise in value. AS result OF
this every new Indian reservation that Is
opened IS having hundred applicants for
every homestead. The people are crowd'ng
their way into sections which were once
considered desert, and modern science Is
redeeming the arid regions. All over this
Rocky mountain plateau men are now
prospecting for land as they used to pros
pect for gold. silver, copper and lead. They
are gauging rivers, creeks and brooks. and
studying how the water may be saved for
irrigation. Intensive farming is gaining
ground and irrigated lands are bringing
big prices. The old story of 100 acres
enough has become one of ten acres