The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-22
WILL ADVERTISE
C|TY'S RESOURCES
Local Real Estate Association
Prepares Circular Letter
for Distribution.


| corning the resources and advantages
of Salt Lake pour into the office of the
Salt Lake Real Estate association dur
| ing the year. Most of these letters ask
| for general information only, while 9TH
| ers seek special information. To fur
| Secretary J. L. Perkes has prepared a
| circular letter which will be mailed to
| all seekers after the truth. over 200 Of
these letters were mailed yesterday. The
letter follows:
| Salt Lake is the commercial, educa-
tional, financial. mining and railroad
| center of an intermOuntain empire 1000
miles in diameter. Its population is
| 125,000. 1t is noted for its broad streets
and avenues, and is growing rapidly
There are projected and under way
| $10,000,000 worth Of modern business
blocks and residences. 1t is the greatest
Ore-reduction center in the United
States. It's smelters and concentrating
plants exceed in capacity those of any
other city.
Salt Lake has twenty-nine public
school buildings, valued at LAG, 433,
with 480 teachers and 1850 pupils at
| tending. The taxpayers have recently
authorized a bond issue Of 100000 for
| the purpose of erecting a new High
school and two additional grade school
buildings. Here is also the state uni
versity and many private educational
institutions, including the University of
the Latter-day Saints, and Catholic,
Presbyterian and Episcopal colleges.
The city has an average daily supply
of 100000 gallons of pure mountain
water. Nearly every known religion is
represented here, about One-half of the
population being Mormon. The fin
est salt water bathing in the world can
be enjoyed at Saltair, the western
"Coney Island" on the shores of Great
Salt lake, fourteen miles west of the
city.
Railroad Headquarters.
Salt Lake is the headquarters for six
railroad lines, the Western Pacific to
San Francisco, just completed; Den
yer e Rio Grande railroad, Oregon
Short Line, San Pedro, Los Angeles &
Salt Lake, Salt Lake & ogden and Salt
Lake & Los Angeles railway. The Moi
fat line. now under construction from
Denver to Salt Lake, will be completed
in short time.
Salt Lake has fourteen banks, with
deposits amounting TO $685. 360,7 IA. Bank
clearings of the Salt Lake clearing
house for the year of 1909 total $751;
312,l23, showing an increase of 81 per
cent over the previous year.
Building permits issued in 1909 tOtaled
SS,077820. The increase in building per-
mits fOr the year was IS per cent, and
monthly comparisons during the year
with other cities Of the Union have
shown Salt Lake among the first five.
Two milliOn-dOllar hotels are now
in course of construction, together with
many business blocks and residences.
The corporation of Salt Lake has made
improvements during the years 1906 to
1873, inclusive, exceeding $S,7t7000.
Within the past three years over $15,-
100000 has been invested in smelters
and ore reduction works in the vicinity
tributary 10 Salt Lake.
Salt Lake affords a good field for la
boring men and artisans of every kind,
and pays better wages than most cities
Of its class. More competition is needed
in business Of every kind and the Op-
portunity for capital to engage in bust
ness manufacturing and mining is not
eXcelled in any city of the United
States.
The late e. H. Hartman said that the
tnree great western cities of the future
would be Chicago, Salt Lake and San
Francisco. As an evidence of his faith
in Salt Lake, he purchased the entire
street railroad and electric lighting sys-
TENS as one of his investments.
Facts About Utah.
The state # Utah in 1909 produced
S26,000,000 worth of precious metals. For
the same period the agricultural output
exceeded $4,000, 900.
The area of the state is "a, 790 square
miles. Elevation of valleys from $500
to 1000 feet. Area of Great Salt lake,
$500 square miles. Utah is 275 miles in
width and 245 miles in length There
are 10000 acres of land open for entry
The school population for the entire
state is 104,S76 and $23.62 is expended
per capita for education. The climate
is not surpassed in the Union for charm
and healthfulness. The summers are
cool and the winters temperate. The
scenic attractions of Utah are not sur
passed by any state in the Union.
Additional information will be gladly
furnished by Salt Lake Real Estate as
ISOLATION.