The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-02
SALT LAKE CITY.

The past wear has been an important
and satisfactory one for Salt Lake City
Business has been very great. the bank
cIearances showing heavy advances over
the clearanccs of the like dates in 1905.
Business has been strong and active;
public Improvements have gone forward
on tremendous scale: the city has ex-
paDded in population, i'll boundaries, and
in wealth at rate never before known.
Building has gone on as never before,
the city holding It's position at the head
Of the building records of the great cit
les Of the country in percentage Of in
crease over the year before; and when
we consider that the year before was it.
self q record year, and that the year
Just closed showed building record
practically double that of 1908, we can
estimate fairly the great range and en-.
ergy of building construction.
In helpful and charitable work the
city is at the head of all this inter
mountain country. In hospitals, in
churches, in schools, large endeavor has
brought great results. In entertain
spondngly to its growth in population;
there is no such town anywhere IN the
whole country rs Salt Lake for show
town The life is vital and energetic
here; it flows in strong currents, and
ovcrflows into many unusual hooks and
crannies 1t is cosmopolitan people
that we have here. Everything that Is
demanded by civilized people anywhere
in the world is in demand here. The
travel Of the world passes through Salt
Lake. Hundreds Of people of note that
would never visit other towns are seen
here. The great excursion and tourist
travel always visits Salt Lake. We
have in way the travel harvest of the
world 10 draw upon. and right royalty
Is it rendered.
The mines of the State make their
settlements in Salt Lake. These show a
product the present year of close upon
S2,000,000 above that of the year be-
fore, very substantial increase, adding
lust that much 10 Salt Lakes financial
transactions.
The banks of the city show exceeding
prosperity. with increasing deposits and
enormous sums of monev in their vaults
The election Of last November CON
tinucd in power in this city the Ameri-
can party, a party of vitality, develop
ment, and energy of advancement. IT
has given the city the progressive adj
miDistr3tion which revived it from the
paralyzed conditions III which the party
found it in 1905. II has brought order
out of chaos, and vitality out of decay,
Under the beneficial and business like
administration of this party the city
took on new life instantly. and that life
has flowed with ever-increasng strength
and upbuilding force ever since,
Salt Lake City is in truth the great
metropolis Of the mountain regions
Looking AT it's surroundings, rich in
minerals. expansive in agriculture and
stock-raising. achieving and promising
great things in fruit culture, it is seen
TO be definitely in the front There is
no place for competing city in any di
recton east, west, north, or south, for
five hundred miles in every direction
IT is the center Of vast and rich re
gion, such as no other city in the world
can draw upon for itself. The future
Of Salt Lake City as one of the great
centers of population and commerce OF
the world, is fully assured.
Congratulating the people of Sal
Luke City upon the tremendous advance
made in 1909, we open the leaves of th,
book of the days of 1910 with coura
geous hope and full expectation of find
ing during the present year not only
full realization of the promise of 1909
but 4 splendid accomplishment of tn,