The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-05
pARTIEs AND PROSPERITY.

Several real estate men who belong
saying the substantial growth of Salt |
Lake and the advance in realty is due
to the election of Ezra Thompson as
mayor; and they really believe it.
! This theory sounds well, but it doesn't
work out. The growth of any commu-
nifty viii depend upon the opportunities
it offers for capital and labor, its nat
ural location. its water supply, it's civic
improvements. and more than all else,
upon the productive wealth of the trib-
utary region.
| Salt Lake has been growing and gain
ing ground since the first announce
ment by Senator W. A. Clark that he
geles. That was the beginning of it's
recent gains, and it received a strong
impulse forward when the road was
| completed and an immense area of new
/ trade territory was opened to Salt Lake
The next greatest factor in the growth
of the city was the modern development
of the mines of Utah, in Bingham, in
iAlllSy III ci n lily anu III Ala. he
bodies of low-grade copper ore was
enough in itself to Justify predictions
that Salt Lake would be one of the
most important mining and smelling
centers in the world. Then came the
Western Pacific project, a stupendous
undertaking involving the distribution
of millions of money for construction
To-.
bursed from Salt Lake as the base for
operation on the eastern end of the
line.
Finally came the discovery of Ne
vada's new wealth in Tonopah, Gold
field, Bullfrog, Fairview and half
coast has profited by Nevada's good
fortune and no place more than Salt
Lake. because it is naturally the place
for marketing Nevada ores, its people
know the mining business and a large
part of the Nevada mining contingent
either comes from here or is associated
with Salt Lakers in the business.
These facts are known of every body
and it is known. too, that all of these
developments preceded the formation of
the American" party. To say that Salt
Lakes gratifying growth is due to that
Z demonstration of Bingham's enormous
8 party's success in the city election is
Y no more logical than it would be to
say that the Garfield smelters or the
4 big concentrators are due to it. 1t is
on a par with the Republican assump-
e ton that Kansas big wheat crop which
has given the state so much money this
{ fall is due to the Roosevelt administra-
n ton.
I AS a. matter of fact, Salt Lake is go
g ing ahead in spite of the Americans -
not because of them. Money is pouring
into this city from mine dividends and
n advances in mining stock values; it is
coming in from men who see that Salt
Lake is bound to be the biggest, rich
6 est city in the country between Denver
Y and San Francisco, men who don't care
whether the city has an American"
e or Republican or Democratic admins
n tration. If these men paid any atten-
c ton to local politics they would say
n unhesitatingly that the city would pros
9 per more, grow more rapidly and be
). better off in every way if the constant
yammering about law breaking, the
!. unending defamation of the people
o could be stopped and policy of friend
: ly cooperation among all the people
n substituted for it.
p Los Angeles has no American" par
y ty, but it has managed to break all
a records in this country for constructive
& progress; Portland and Tacoma and
p Seattle don't know there is such a thing
as an American" party, but they have
d made amazing gains in population and
# prosperity during the past five years.
v Their real estate has advanced by the
: hundred per cent, where Salt Lake real
n ty has gone up 10 and 20 per cent. But
> their gain has been made by showing
# world that they were desirable places
n to live in-not by accusing half of their
y citizens of being law-breakers and
h traitors to the country.
+ Salt Lake is going ahead fast in spite
d of the handicap of a political fight that
a ment of the state on one side and an
v attempt to make religion an issue on
"a the other. When the men responsible
r for this condition are relegated to the
< rear and politics is restored to legiti-
N mate struggle for principle; when the
m people get together in every cause
Il that promises benefit to the city and
n state, there will be such a growth in
,e this valley as the most sangune have
,e not dreamed of. There will be nc
e American" party, and there will be nc
J. faction in control of any party, but
w there will be big city of united people
" all working TO make it the most pros
porous community, the most desirable
"a place of residence in the whole inter
% mountain region. And that day is MOI
as far off, either.