Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
SALT LAKE HUSTLING PLACE
Everything is Big, with Prospects Of
Growing Bigger.
N. R, PORTER LEADING BOOSTER
lie Has Plans for Development OF TO-
600 Acres Of Farm Lands aud His
Company Promises stiIi
Greater Things.
ny LEONARD FOWLER, SPECIAL COM

BY LEONARD FOWLER. SPECIAL COM !
MISSIONER OF THE OMAHA BEE.
SALT LAKE CITY Jan. 14.-(Special
Correspondence Of The Omaha Bee I'm no
other city in the world is there a scene
like H. ! am here in the Boston block a
modern granite and steel building. twelve
stories In height Just across Exchange
place is the New House building. a twin
structure Through the window to the left
there Is the main traffic canyon-Main
street-and along Il there is a vista OF
clean, almost new structures an orderly
tumble OF human hives. Above them all
the Kearns building rears its cream brick
and terra Gotta facade: the granite height
Of the Mccormick bank building Is next:
the general offices Of the Union Pacific
railway, and at the head OF the street the
spires Of the Temple fling their gold peaks
against the brown and white bulk OF the
Wasatch hills. A little to the right OF all
this Is the really splendid structure OF the
Utah hotel and below that the granite face
OF the Continental National bank building.
Up from the street comes the roar OF
traffic; the tinklng bells Of draught ami
mails; the hoarse blare Of motors; skurry-
ing here and there: the gongs of street
cars and the murmur OF many voices; the
major note of a crowd intent. Through
this window TO the left there may be seen
the millions piled on millions that men
have heaped here In this place a city, in
deed q city eager and pulsing with hope,
aspiration and proud OF its past; glad Of
It's accomplishment.
Through the window to the right the
myriad OF spires and roof combs: stats
and images OF Unihalle; the government
building OF city and county, are thrown
against the snow-clad slopes Of the Oquirrh
hoa -. b,,tT l..
standing dark and clear over the valley;
field covered; that stretches miles and
miles away to the foothills Of the majestic
peaks. The feRther-like poplar trees point
like fingers to q sky sunlit and clear Little
wraiths OF smoke are mounting to the
dome; purely blue.
Everything il big.
Big buildings; big valley. big, Big, BIG
everything is big. And here in this room
sits q quiet-vOiced man thinking the big
gest things of all. Perhaps 1t Is the atmos-
phere that does Il; perhaps 1t is that other
men; all Of them are doing the same as
himself, or. perchance, IL may be the big, big
mountains the big. big inland sea- What
ever II Is, this Is the castle OF a dreamer;
Of a dreamer who Is making his visions
come true. asked hip II he were a state
legislator Ne
ANbs ght WAS MS AhAeh hNsWtIs De
long to the d6ilars-and- cents side OF the
world. banking, lands and water are my
Jobs. I'm trying to produce a little more
than consume"
Such q man is N. T. Porter, who told me
this morning that his plans are now ma
tured for the development of 5000 acres OF
farm lands More than that, one of the
greatest bankers In Salt Lake City told me
that Porters plans viii work out. And
Porter is a Mormon; a conservative Nor
men; a scion OF the pioneer stock He does
not promise things he can't perform. He's
got the land, the water and the money.
He's financed. And Just now he's making
lust as little noise as possible.
We're not ready for the settlers yet"
And his face wrinkles inscrutably, while
his 'brown eyes snap. What We want is to
be entirely ready when we begin to offer
our lands to the people. There's a greater
profit that way. IL we sold our lands now
II would have to be at a rock bottom
price. BY holding for the development we
get all OF that plus the increase of values
that is going on throughout the whole of
the inter mountain west; in Utah as we'll
as In every other section of this portion Of
the union. Just now we are getting ready;
perfectng our plans and making prepare
tons"
What One Man Proposes,
For paragraph let me tell you what
this mans plans are: He Is the president Of
the Bank of Southern Utah, manager Of
the New Castle reclamation project, sec
rotary and treasurer OF the Virgin Valley
Reclamation company, secretary and treas
urer of the Kanab Valley Reclamation
company and has a lucrative and growing
law practice in Salt Lake City-so large,
so growing that II takes the entire east
wing of the Botson skysorRper here to
quarter It. He was born at Centerville,
Utah. ten and one-half miles from his
office chair and has lived since the day
before he was born in Utah His parents
we're pioneers, "forty-seveners' they call
the very Oldest ones here. And so Porter
declares, MY parents we're forty-sev-
sners." In the organization OF his COM
panies he has gathered about him a group
Of the wealthiest, wsest and most alert
men from every profession in the state OF
Utah. He declares he will win. And this is
what he proposes TO do:
Follow the line OF the San Pedro. Salt
Lake & Los Angeles railway from Salt
Lake southwark. At Lund Utah, this road
takes a shoot across country 20 the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado a distance OF
about 200 miles. It will cross the greatest
iron deposits in the world-not in the west
not in the United States, but the greatest
iron deposits in the entire world will be
tapped by this railroad. And. singular
enough, at Cedar City. It will pass be-
tween mountains OF coal on one side and
mountains OF iron on the other. II is al
Cedar city, now the largest city in Utah
south OF Nephi that Porter is building one
Of the strongest financial institutions in
the whole southwest.
Enter the virgin valley.
At Bellevue this road will enter the Vir,
gin valley watered by the Virgin river
SkirtinE the north end OF Hurricane Ledge