The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-30
GREAT GROWTH
Of CITY NOTED
Iowa Capitalist, Returning AZ
ter Many Years, Surprised
by Changes.
CHARMED BY CLIMATE AND
PRESENT OPPORTUNITIES
Others Among Visitors in Salt
Lake Have Naught but Praise
for Utah's Metropolis.

"Almost incredible. if did not see
for myself said +. II. Baker, banker
and capitalist of Decorsh, Ia, who was
yesterday one of the many interested
tourists who enjoyed the trip about the
city in sightseeing car.
And the occasion of Mr.. Bakers sur
prise may be we'll understood when it
is exnlained that he. twenty-two years
ago, spent a week in Salt Lake City and
had not been here since that time. Mr.
Baker has spent some weeks ON the Pa
clfic coast, but was more than willing
TO aver that at no point in his long
journey had he found city that
pleased him more or exhibited more evil
dence of substantial growth and up
to-date progress than Salt Lake.
Marvels at Changes.
Mr.. Baker chatted with Tribune re-
porter as the sightseeing car moved up
Main street from Fourth South. HAll
new, all changed, he said as he passed
the sk"scrapers and big, department
stores, and then he added. "When I
was here, one and twostory buildings
were the rule, the streets were unpaved,
the mud was plentiful if it rained. the
dust if it did not I have read much
Of Salt Lakes growth, but truly did not
expect TO see city so modern, so pro
gressive and possessing so many self
evident signs of prosperity.
"Twenty-tw years ago when | visit.
ed Salt Lake for the first time. I could
have purchased block of land in what
appears to be one Of your best resi-
dence districts for $1,000. ] only wish
that ! had done so. the investment
would have repaid me a hundred fold
but L am satisfied that the growth of
your city IN the next decade will be
equally great,
toward Fort Douglas Mr.. Baker said;
"This was all ssgebrush when I was
here before, only now and then lit
tie adobe house Now look AT the mod
ern residences of the finest type
Climate Enthuses Bostonian,
"There's S thrill. lifegiving zest,
stimulus in the atmosphere here that
have found in none of the Pacific
coast Cities declared w 5. Evans,
head of the Evans McEvoy Hardware
company of Boston, who since last No
vember has been taking life easy.
spending the winter in the west and
southwest. "The California climate is
beautiful. but makes me lazy, here I
can note that your very air is a tonic.
This is my first visit to Salt Lake.
but l do not intend that it shall he the
last. An eastern man must certainly
see and study Your city to appreciate
it, No one who stops to consider can
fail to see that You have state of
wonderful resources that are more and
more exciting the attention of eastern
investors.
Another sightsecr on the car was
Albert Miller an artist engraver from
Frankfort-on- the Main, Germany. Mr..
Miller, who has been only nine months
in America. spending his entire time
in travel and recreation, said 81 have
seen man cities, but yours is certainly
one of the finest I wish I could stay
a few weeks and 90 hunting in your
mountains. | shot plenty of geese and
ducks in California and went after
bear, but did not find any
Seeking Homes in Utah.
I. D. Reynolds of Maryville, Mo. is
in the city for brief stay on his way
to the Virgin river region IN south
western Utah, whittier he goes as the
representative OF several families who
are seeking homes in that section of
the state Mr.. Reynolds is highly
pleased with the Utah metropolis and
great influx of settlers from the east
into those sections of the state yet
comparativel' undeveloped
Mrs. James Donohoe of Lowell, Mass,
grew enthusiastic over the beauty of
the scene presented by the snow.clad
mountains surrounding the green valley.
and declared that while her stay was
of necessity cut short this time, she
would on her next visit remain long
enough to enjoy voyage around Great
Salt lake.
1t is only truth that not one of the
hundreds of tourists who yesterday
visited rho city departed other than
booster for Salt Lake and its many at
fractions.