The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-11
TOOELE AWAKENS
TO OPPORTUNITIES
AS SHELTER CITY

II ali rlSHt Just now 70 can looeier
Utah, the Anaconda of Montana
The eppellatiOn Is fitting and has be-
come popular. but in many respects the
TOoele of Utah has natural advantages
as an ideal smelter town that even the
great Anaconda has a right to be Jeal-
Gus about, and. some time, somewhere
in Mexico, or Central America, or
Peru. or elseWherc-f-h hen II may be de-
sirable to build a big smelter and start
a big smelter town, the promoters may
be advertising their town as the "TOoeie
of ," wherever the locality may
be.
Right now is a period Of great activ-
ity in TOoele-activity in getting ready
for still greater activity. The pretty,
comfortable, quiet, little home village,
nestled in the beautiful valley. protected
on three sides by grand, majestic noun
tains and looking out over the beauti-
full, blue waters of Great Salt lake in
the other direction, has answered the
awakening call. 1t is alive, awake and
preparing to throw off its village buds
and assume the garb Of the city. This
summer the transformation viii take
place. The Transformation has already
started. Citizens are talking of nothing
else, The old-timers greet visitors with
indulgent smiles and, impressed with
the added Importance OF their citizen
ship in the face of late developments,
have assumed more business-lil<e airs.
The fame of Tooele has spread, and
hundreds Of people in Utah, i'm salt
Lake and i'm Montana and Wyoming
and Idaho and places farther away are
watching the developments with an in
tcrcst that IS daily increasing, and
which Is certain to result in a large at
tendance on the 18th of tnis month
viii he conducted by the Tooele I'm
prOvemtnt company on the 20 acres
adjacent to the old towusite, which
nave been plated to accommodate the
persons who viii be attracted to the
town because of the building Of the big
smelJcr by the International Smelling &
Refining company.
During the week the writer was Il
member of an automobile party that
made the trip from Salt Lake to ToOele
and the smelter site to look over the
ground and to learn just what is doing
and what is planned Tooele was
reached just in time for a MONDAY meal
that put the members of the party in
good humor for absorbing information.
IT was good meal, and it was topped
of with preserved peaches that were
grown in an orchard right in the heart
of the town. They came from an or
chard now owned by the Tooele Inn
provement cOmpany-au orchard from
which Mrs. Barbara G.. Bowen a year
ago picked the fruit which when pre-
served, took eleven first prizes i'm the
Merchants & Manufacturers offerings
at the Utah State fair. And it was
learned that there are other orchards
lust as good i'm the immediate vicinity.
fooeie is right i'm the heart of a choice
fruit-growiug section, All the back
yards in Tooele now are private or
Chards-
A Busy Secretary.
W. L. Irvine Is secretary Of tire Tooele
Improvement company. He has charge
90 the matters relating to the plating
of The tcWnsite, the sale of the lots and
details. lie has his home close to the
newly-platteJ tract. and was found t.
be exceedingly busy. He had a large
amount of correspondence to answer
which indicated that many people are
interested in the town. Queries come
from everywhere But he was not too
busy to take the party over a part OF
The tract and explain some Of the de-
tails. He proved an entertaining talk
or. With waves of his hand his listen
era could see school houses and
churches and bank buildings and hotels
and mercantile establishments on every
hand. Between long piowed burrows.
thrown up 10 designate street lines, it
was easy to imagine smooth paved
streets, thriving business thoroughfares
and shaded residence streets.
Mr.. Irvine stated that the tract now
plated consists Of 173 acres. although
the ToOele Improvement company owns
considerable more adjacent land. The
plated tract lies just to the east of and
adjoining the present townsite, and the
lots are for the most part 4Ox130 feet.
although they vary in size in various
parts of the tract. There are lots TWEEN
ty-five feet, thirty feet and thirtv-fye
feet in width, and they vary in length
from lis feet 70 100 feet. From the west
to east the streets are named First,
Second and Third to Broadway. the
principal street running north and
south, and then Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
streets. The streets on the plated
tract from north to south are Ash.
Birch, Cedar, Utah avenue. Date. Elm.
Vine streets. Utah avenue is plated
100 feet wide, with the intention to park
the center. Broadway avenue is eighty
ieet i'm width. Mr.. Irvine stated that
already a considerable number of Der-
sons planning ON business euterp~ises
IN the new smclter town had been over
the ground and have picked out sites
which they hope to procure at the auc-
ton on April 10 Among these arc per
sons who expect to erect a drug store
two general merchandise stores. a large
roomlns house, gentleman's furnish