The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23
AMERICANIsM MAKES GOOD,

| euIloIldl showing the advantage to this
CITY OF American control We showed
that from the moment Of American as
cehdancy here the tide turned towards
prosperity. Up to that time The city
had been losing. But from that fine
onward 1T has been not only on the gain,
put has been gaining with rush that
IS at once unprecedented aud trcmen.
| dous
! Inc Herald. Yesterday morning. tax
ing notice of this Tribune editorial. sug
| Gcsted that Mayor Morris began the
| Big cottonwood water Improvement in
ms administration. Which is true. But
| no made such a blunder Of it. was In
such hurry TO get results that he
could use IN his campaign for re-elec.
non, that he butchercd the whole
scheme and left it even worse than be
fore, He had not secured any water
to put in the aqueduct, and, as a dos.
pairing move. filed a suit III condemna-
ton Of the knudson water right. a suit
which would have kept the city out of
water until the present time. and prob.
ably good while longer, and event
ual!y would have failed. He obtained
certain water rights lower down on the
creek, but the water had to go down
lar below the mouth Of the aqueduct
before 1t was available to the city, and
'nerc was no way 10 get it up into the
aqucduct except AT tremendous ex.
pendlture of pumping. The American
N { rot
water night on reasonable terms, and
as soon as il was necessary TO use the
water,
In the construction of the Big Cot
tonwood conduit, also. the Morris plans
and specifications were so faulty that
test of the work showed il TO he
leaky and impracticable as a conveyor
of water, The specifications had to be
remodeled and the inside plastereG in
order to make the conduit water tight
We will say. further, that it would have
been good Job if the American City
Council had abandoned the conduit al
together as laid out. had adopted
new and straightcr line for it. and had
constructed it of different shape We
do not consider under the circumstances
that there is any obligation on our part
to give Mr.. Morris any credit in this
matter at all, except as TO the mere
point of securing the -reInquish-
ment contracts from the farmers. Those
rellnquishments contracts, however,
gave the city no water at the conduit
4 I'D , 10
American administration to close the
contracts with Mr.. knudsou that gave
us the water which was needed.
We notice, further, that the Herald
bubbles about our claim that if was
the American party initiative in i'm
provements, in metropolitan advance
ment, in street paving, sidewalk build
ing, sewer making, that started the
great building activity in this city.
What we said in this line is exactly
true. The acquisition of the control
of this city by the American admins
tration turned the attention of vast
multitudes of people TO Salt Lake.
Thouands came here and brought tens
of thousands of money. This coming
necessitated large amount Of building
And the continued flow of newcomers
kept the need of more and more build
ing prominent all the time The city
took on magnificent growth. Then MI
Newhouse came in, seeing the great bet.
terments going on in the city. seeing
the tremendous building activity and
great opportunity, and conceived The
project of his magnificent building en-
terprises on South Main street One
thing led to another right along.
The Herald sarcastically asks if we
claim that the plan Of the Mormon
church and its associates in the big
News corner was because of the Ameri-
can control of the city. and it affects
to see humor in this suggestion. But
that sarcasm loses sight of the inter.
mediate steps. The Tribune stated ex-
pressly that the hotel move on the old
Deseret News corner was the reply to
the Newhouse hotel enterprise Just
launched. That hotel proposition was
itself the direct outgrowth Of the tre-
mendous building activity which re.
suited from the acquisition of power
by the American party. So that while
the splendid hotel project engineered
by the church and its supporters for
the old Deseret News corner is not
caused directly or consciously by the
American control of this city it grows
out Of that control just the same, be-
cause it is the result of activities set
III motion by the American triumph.
And so it is the result Of that triumph, |
although in a secondary remove, The
church move for a big hotel on the old
Deseret News corner is a move in the |
direction of retaining property values
and business activity on the north end |
Of Main street in reply TO the beginning |
of work on the big Newhouse hotel on |
No., ek,, y