Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-02

| tho Atlantic and the Japanese from tho
| Pacific coast--thcso communities are
sending in also their surplus energy in
many other lines
BOOST Is THEIR SLOGAN.
san Franciscans tell that their town
was 80 asleep in 1895 that grass almost
got roofing in Market street. and
they trace their greatness of the pro-
carthqualdan era to the formation OF
bodies Of citizens who learned TO pull
together to the organization of promo
tioh committees and to the careful
gathering Of honest California data for
distribution wherever It would do the
most good
In 1904 Seattle boosted hardly a sky
scrapcr The summer OF that year
saw seven OF them jump into existence
at once. Los Angeles, more like salt
Lake than amy of her sister cities, was
only a village decade ago, and a city
so poor compared to hcr present eize
i've years ago, chat she affords the best
lesson of what another ave years can
do for salt Lake.
Denver had trouble with the knock
ors from the time the original pioneers
let go on their activities till the boost
crs became thoroughly organized end
progress again took full head under
q board of trade. civic federation.
and a business spirit gaining an as
tendency over political spirit.
BUSY CITY.
salt Lake growing more drmly,
grew more solidly and secured a foun-
dation that kept her the most con-
servltive Of the sister cities. Today.
with panic and retrcgression in bust
ness in many directions, Salt Lake
il the busiest city in the west. ono
ought to 90 TO n few other, cities to
fully comprehend this fact. The
Hartman roads were too anxious for
new depot TO let q panic stop ,ts
building Too many men wanted
space in the Newhouse sky-scrapers TO
let thom perish in the shape OF plans,
even though tho mining stock that
is the foundation Of their builders
wealth was tumpling to bottom uriccs.
President w. j. Halloran of the
Commercial club declares that an
increase Of $4,000 people is a email
estimate for the past two years ''IIcw
else he nsks car we account Tor
the fact that apartment house "iicr
apartment house is filed with tenaals
the day it is completed? How tlge
he uids. "can we account for the fact
that with new homes going NJ n 1v-
cry direction in number greater than
last year oven. there IS stlr not
house for rent in Salt Lake that has
not an Immediate applicant ?"
BUSINESS INDEX.
In great commercial house whose
business is "a good index of general
western conditions. The report is hat
busircss in Ctah is 50 good that ..-
Il. c. N. T.--now fully expects he l9uS
record To surpass the record If 1907,
and this wus considered abnprnaly
large The conclusion of Col T.. q.
Webbcr is thai Salt Lakes many press
ing demands to accommodate its sud-
den growth rendcra the city parse
PROOF and invulrerablc by any k-nd
of hard times
All OF tho sistor cities TO salt Lake
gathered strength through catering 20
Zig conventions For the past 10
year. Denver has entertained from %
10 80 a year of them, salt Lake %
now Preparing tor The travelling men,
who make Il standing advertisement
the scar round FOR any city that treats
them well, and is beginning a cam
paigu To- secure the Grand Army for
1909 The cadets are on their WAY
TO pay the prot.iest token of sitys
sool win towards another that ary
of the sisters have yet devised
Tho sign Of ;he Rio Graudc road
o. already lowered on second South,
and railroad row has gone the way
that the mining curb is soon to go
to commemorate the beginning Of Suit
Lakes sky-scraper era.
ISAAC RUSSELL.