The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-03
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an editorial from the Los Angeles
Times, which contains some surpris-
ingly complimentary comment on this
city. The surprise is in the fact noted
by Mr.. Pack that such comment should
ever get into a Los Angeles newspaper,
because the press of the Angel City
rarely, fipds room for such remarks
about any other community than its
own.
Here is the letter:
Editor Herald:
How the enclosed editorial from the
Los Angeles Times of the 18th inst.
ever got into the paper, ] don't know.
The Times seldom admits that any
thing outside the corporate boundaries
of this city is worth possessing; or, in
| fact, that life is really worth the
struggle, unless in southern California.
1t has drawn the line so closely as TO
exclude for all purposes Nevada. as
being the native lair Of dangerous min
/ ing sharks. The latter to the detriment
of this city as a trading point for min
| ing men, and to the natural advantage
of Salt Lake City But how an edi-
torial really recommending Salt Lake
City as place for investment was al
! lowed to pass is a guess.
Meantime if more things were to be
read about the great stride of your city
almost every day in outside papers,
either as news. or in actual advertising,
it would be of untold benefit. 1 am al
ready the happy owner of good slice
of South State street property, and
knowing that South State street is the
conner" of Salt Lake, 1 take The Her
aid, read it and am posted as to all that
is going on. But if Los Angeles people
of merely the Newhouse plans. 1t would
be simply amazing and would bring
fortunes TO your city for immediate III
vestment.
Here in Los Angeles, in particular,
there is lots of easy" money in the
hands of as willing a lot of plungers
as there are anywhere in this prosper
Gus country. And even here in this
unprecedented boom (call it a steady
growth). no such thing has ever been
seen as one man buying $1,000 900 worth
Of vacant land, proposing ten new
business structures. and thereby NOV
ing the retail center in one jump two
blocks, and starting the already nat
ural growth of your city to the south
and east on a sprint.
If that $4,000 has not been all raised
yet. spend what there is-if nothing
more than to say here and there in
outside papers:
You Can't Keep a Good Town Down.
If this shall not be of use to The
Herald in any way. please hand to the
Real Estate association or other pro-
motion society.
By the way, il a brief outline of
what The Herald contained on the 22d
as to the Newhouse operations had
been sent out through the Associated
Press, think what it would have meant.
Cannot more items be put out in that
regular channel? Yours truly,
H. E. PACK.
The editorial to which Mr.. Pack re-
fers is on the opportunities of today
and the belief of the pessimists that
the number of opportunities is not as
great now as it used to be. The Times
points out the great work remaining to
be done in the west, the soil to be re-
claimed, the mineral wealth to be de-
veloped, the power plants and electric
plants to be installed and the business
opportunities incident to this develop
ment work. Then it goes on to say:
Four or five years ago the business
of Salt Lake City was very much like
that Of Los Angeles twenty years ago.
The attempt of the business men was
to transact all business within the
area of from a dozen to a score of city
blocks. AS business has spread out
over Los Angeles for miles, enhancing
the value OF property, so it is doing
in Salt Lake City at the present mo-
ment. Half mile from the original
center of that growing city land is
bought at from $3.50 to $500 a foot
which, four years ago. had scarcely a
definite value. These new purchases
are made with the intention of erect
ing Immediately structures of from
five 10 ten stories to be used for bust
ness and office purposes.
The young business man of today
who has capacity for business, who is
endowed with an insight into the ma
ture of things, can find good openings
almost anywhere in any part of the
segment of the circle included in a
district having Salt Lake for the CEN
ter and radii stretching one westward, |
to San Francisco and the other directly
south of Mexico. These opportunities
are varied. They call for capital rang
ing from a few thousand dollars I'D |
into millions. They call for a business
skill covering ali the various lines of |
industry. They demand the same |
pluck. courage. perseverance and en-
ergy which characterized the men who
did things in the past.