Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-05-26

out actual railroads with steel rails,
engines and cars. New business
blocks, residences and factories are
being built. The builders and con-
tractors are up to their necks in work
The lumber trade is booming, so are
the brick manufacturing concerns.
The lumber people can't supply the
orders they have on hand The lum-
Der business is a big and a growing
trade. The mines are working to
their full capacity. There isn't an idle
man in the state, from compulsion,
and very few voluntarily idle people
The farmers are prosperous. They
raised good crops last year and condi-
tions augur most favorably for better
crops this year. Utah is having a
solid, substantial boom. Capitalists,
skilled workmen and laborers are
coming. Utah in general and Salt
Lake in particular is wonderfully
prosperous. At the present rate
of increase Salt Lake will have doub-
led it's population in five years.
Real estate is active and prices are
advancing. Salt Lake realty, either
city or suburban, is as safe and sound
an investment as any man can make
anywhere. It's going to advance. Out
side capitalists see the opportunity
and are coming.
Railroad Facilities.
That Salt Lake City is destined to
be the greatest shipping and jobbing
center of the entire intermountain re-
gion, including the states of Utah,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, western
Colorado, Nevada and eastern Ore
gon is being realized by the business
men of the city, and of the territory
indicated, as well.
Salt Lake is the geographical trade
center of an area of more than five
hundred miles in all directions. The
contour of the country, the arrange
ment of the railroad lines, and the de-
velopment of the mining industry in
Utah and surrounding states make
Salt Lake the natural center toward
which the trade gravitates almost
without interference or aid.
A map showing the railroad lines of
Importance running from Salt Lake,
resembles a human hand. Salt Lake
is the palm. One finger points to
Idaho, and Montana. That finger is
the Oregon Short Line railroad sys-
TEN, which runs to Butte, Mont. and
Huntington, Ore. Another finger
points to Nevada and California. That
is the San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake railroad, connecting the in
termountain hub with the rich and
rapidly developing mining camps of
Nevada, and the marvelously rich and
fertile lands of southern California, as
far south as Los Angeles.
Another finger point to eastern
Utah, thence on to Denver. This is
the Rio Grande system, which opens
to the trade of the city, the markets
of the Centennial state.
other systems are building that
will make Salt Lake a second Omaha,
and that will make this city in bust
ness way, western Chicago. Among
these is the Western Pacific, building
toward the city from San Francisco
The Moffat road is working 5000
men on its grade between Denver and
Salt Lake, and in an interview pub
lished in a local paper a few days ago,
ID. w. Moffat declared emphatically
that money and men were unlimited
in quantity and number, to push this
road to as rapid completion as is
physically possible. This road will re-
duce the time between Denver and
Salt Lake ten hours in passenger
service, and a corresponding cut Will
be made in freight service time.
AS for interurban lines Salt Lake