The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-01
THE BUILDING RECORD.

The building permits Of this city for
the, month of October. Just past, com
pare with those of October last year
in value almost four to one. The fg.
ures arc. for October Of this year.
- ,242 .O50; for October last year, S3l7,
95c.
For tho whole Of the year 1908. the
valuation of building and Improvement
permits was $l.I2S,3S0. For the ten
months of the present year which have
passed. the valuation of new buildings
has reached Inc great figure of $1.263,-
40. II is reasonably estimated that
the permits of his year Will be almost,
or quite double those of last vcar
Let no one suppose from this. how
ever. that the building permits OF last
year were comparatively small in value
They were, themselves, u record mp to
that time. Permits valued at SHE'S
$50, which WAS rhc record Of the ycm
1908. arc themselves Il high mark, They
were the record for the city, surprising
any former year. They put Salt Lake
at the head of All American cities IN
percentage of gain in building coustruc-
| tjou.
But see how that is ovcrtoppcd by
/ the figures of this ycar-s7 100, ,lIO Tor
ten months, with the prospect of such
addition ms will bring the total up TO
double that of last year. This trcmen-
dous increase again puts Salt Lake City
II the head of building construction in
percentage Of gain, OF all American
cities. rs compared with last year.
Two record breaking years Of build
ing construction in Salt Lake ought 10
bc enough endorsement for the Amcri-
can party.
Those who want this activity 10 con.
tinuc and the city TO gam with ever
increasing strength. win sec their duty
OF voting the American ticket this
year.
Until The American party look hold
this WAS a dccaying city Under the
church rule for number of years the
city had come TO a standsrill. in 1905
lit was even going backwards. The
American party victory Of four years
ago changed decay into vitality in
stantly, and ever since the city ha:
been distinguished among the critics oi
America for it's progress. its energy. and
its vast financial, industrial and busi
ness strength. OF all the cities of tho
United States. Salt Lake City passed
through the panic Of 1907 with the least
loss. There were no bank failures, nc
failures of any kind of any importance
II was shining mark 10 Salt Lallc :!
credit The way the panic was stood Of
in this city Ii is impossible to mi
agiuc the city going through such ar
experience as that under pricstly rult
without vast damage and destruction.
We are asked 10 change this bene
fetal control from which the city ha
received such tremendous benefts. ac
cretion. and stimulus. and 60 back u
, the old conditions and rule whicl
brought decay and staguation.
But the voters of Salt Lake City vii
, never do it, They understand TOO wei
, what is involved. to be guilty of th
suicidal act of reversing Inc wheels o
> progress and destroying propcrtf value
in the way that those values were dc
: siroycd by the church control wbic
Iparalyzed the city after the dissolutio
p of the Liberal party.
, The way to boost for Salt Lake
! progress aud growth. is 10 vote lh
American ticket. and vote it straight.