The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-11
SALT LAKE LOOKS
GOOD TOSTEPHENS
He Returns Enthusiastic From
] a Trip to Pacific Coast
Cities.
REBUILDING SAN FRANCISCO
MR.. STEPHENS SURPRISED BY
PROGRESS MADE THERE.

There Is more evidence of prosperity in
Salt Lake City today than in any city in
California, according to Frank r. Ste
phens, who has returned from trip to the
Pacific coast, where he met Mrs. Stephens.
who has been spending the summer there.
Mr.. Stephens has returned an enthusiastic
booster for Salt Lake
II was never so proud of our city and
state as l am since my return" he said
yesterday. In the first place after see
ing the bare brown fields and hills of
California at this season of the year the
beauty and freshness of our valley and
city are in wonderful contrast. In the
next place, l have been in no citv where
there was such evidence of prosperity as
we have right here. We do not begin 10
appreciate the way We are growing. Out
SIDE or san Francisco and Los Angeles I
do not believe that in all the cities of Cal
lfornia put together Their is any more
building going on than there is in Salt
Lake city. am more impressed than
ever with the great advantages which Salt
Lake offers TO the business man OF the
homeseeker. There is no city in Califor-
MA which will compare with Salt Lake in
attordlng the climatic, business, social
moral and educational advantages which
those desire who are seeking a place for
permanent residence. either simply as a
nome or for the purpose of going into
business.
Tourists Astonshed.
While / was absent I met a number of
tourists who had stopped off I'm Salt Lake
on their way TO the coast and they all
expressed their establishment at finding
a city so large, prosperous and attractive,
and friends who recently returned from a
six months tour of Europe say that no
scenery abroad compares with the views
in Salt Lake valley. All we need is to ig-
more the differences which have existed
In the past and unite in working for Salt
Lake, and we will have $4,000 people be
fore we know il.
IT found business generally prosperous
In California l was wonderfully i'm
pressed with the amount and class of re-
construction building in San Francisco.
1t seems incredible that so much could
have been accomplished in so short a time
and with the labor conditions that have
existed there l heard very little about
politics outside of San Francisco and
there only in connection with the coming
city. election. The graft cases are only an
incident in the history of the city, and
greatly fear that the citizens who desire
a better government will not be suffi-
GENTLY united to elect the right sort of
men at the next city election. San Fran
cisco conditions are tremendous object
lesson in favor of the Galveston system"
What Started spreekeIs.
Mr. Stephens statement of conditions in
San Francisco brings TO notice the story
that other Salt Lakers ,have within the
past few days brought back from Califor-
MIA as to the origin of the great fight the
business men of San Francisco have made
against graft there.
1t is authenticity stated that the in
vestigation into the bribery cases of the
city with regard to granting the street
railway company there franchises was
precipitated by i'll feeling engendered be-
tween the officials of the company and
Rudolph Spreckels San FranCisco's multi
millionaire, by the fact that a smokestack
on one of the buildings belonging to the
street railway company poured great
masses of smoke and SCOT against the
windows of Mr.. Spreckels' offices down
town and filled his rooms with dirt Mr..
Spreckels asked for an abatement of the
nuisance and the company officials re-
fused TO satisfy him. Then the company
asked for a franchise to build a street car
line up the street where Mr.. Spreckels
lives. That was too much for the mil
lionaire. according to the story now cur
rent and he determined to fight the street
railway concern. In looking about for
loophole to get at the company, the brib
cry and graft incidents were stumbled
upon. Immediately Mr. Spreckels put up
SEQ OOO hired Heney, and they started in
to clean things up.
Il don't know anything about the story,
but they have certainly succeeded in do
ing a great work. said Mr.. Stephens yes
terday Il think there is some question,
though as to what success the public Will
have in following up their advantage. If
thew elect proper men to the city govern
ment they will be all right. but public SEN
timent there doesn't seem to be properly
awakened"