The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13

California and Colorado are supposed
to possess climates that arc beneficial
for consumptivcs, if you want to be
popular out there" said IT. C. Kier,
who has Just returned from the west.
"Tho average native of those western
considerable vigor, you will find, l
spent several days in Denver, and Il
part of a week in Los Angeles this
summer. 1t was at Denver that ] made
my first break, | Just mentioned cas-
ually TO a newly-made acquaintance
u man who had been discourslng for
an hour on the beauties and advantages
of his city-that the climate had saved
the lives of many men and women who
the east. That was enough. He jumped
on me, all spread out. He told me
that Denver was not a place for the
cure or alIeviation of tuberculosis. 1t
was the worst place in the world for
consumptives, he said. A Los Angeles
citizen took the same sort of exception
to a chance remark on tho same sub
ject few days later. 1T was evident
that the people of those cities do not
want to have their towns catalogued as
sanitariums.
Anthracite from China.
ftBefore many years the Pacific coast
is bound to get large proportion of
it's supply of anthracite from China
said Il, w, Gustin of Portland at a
leading hotel. s'The shipments into this
country up TO this time have been
very small. and the competition from
the Chinese field has been so slight
as to be almost negligible. Nevertheless
those people have the coal, and they
have more than their present domestic
demand can accommodate. So we can
expect TO receive a lot of it in the
years that precede the fuller develop
ment of the industries of the Chi nese
empire. Last August big Chinese
company made Il shipment of sample
coal to San Francisco, There ls duty
OH anthracite, and the cost of shipping
across the Pacific is considerably less
than the freight charges on the same
amount from the anthracite fields of
the interior Of this country to the
coast.
"Some of the biggest mines in China
are in the Kaiping basin, which is only
about 200 miles north of Tientsln, on
the line Of the Imperial railway, The
shipment of coal over this line fur
ushes a large share of the total cost
Of transportati tion from the mines to one
of the Pacific ports of the United
States. The company which Is now in
vestigating the trade possibilities OF
the Pacific coast has several big mines
in this territory.'
Interurban Scraps.
"Tweuty or thirty years ago the ri
valry between neighboring cities for
supremacy was very keen in almost
every part Of the country, but we don't
now,' said A. G. Mowbcrry of Denver.
III an interview when here. ~ remem-
Der when ST. Louis claims were just as
soothing to the average Chicagoan as
red rag is TO q bull. In Denver we
never did pay much attention to the
boasts of other towns, rs we are too far
away from the next big city to be both
ercd
"But that spirit of rivalry is still
marked along the Pacific coast. You
notice it especially when you visit Seat
tie and Tacoma. These two cities hate
each other with an intense and lasting
hatred, Neither one will admit that the
other has any reason for existence. The
report in the newspapers that there is
to be recount Of the population Of Ia
coma reminds me of a very amusing IN
cident IN my recent trip to the coast.
81 visited Seattle first. While there
! WAS taken around the city by an old
friend, man who went to the coast
twenty years ago and has amassed
fortune, On leaving his home ono day
he pointed out beautiful residence.
1t was the home, he said, of man
who Just seven years ago had been the
proprietor OF small tailoring estab-
llshment. / was informed that he
owned one Of the biggest retail bust.
nesses Of the city. and that his store
covered a block, The following day my
friend q business partner conducted ME
through the business section of the city.
He also spoke Of tho wonderful success
of the tailor and pointed out to me his
business building. That man was a
poor tailor seven wears ago, and now
he is worth millions declared this
enthusiastic advocate Of the glorics OF
Scattlc.'