Show SALT LAKES BOOM That Salt Lake City is on the eve of a veritable business boom is beyond doubt The fact is certain The building boom which has so lately largely increased Eastern cities jumped to Kansas City and traveled thence to Denver is nowhere now-here Within the past two weeks more building contracts have been let in Salt Lake City than for the entire previous year The Colorado Midland Railroad is steadily moving in the direction of Salt Lake and from the Utah border the Utah Midland will bring the line into this city Salt Lake is destined to be the greatest city between be-tween St Louis and San Francisco She has all the natural advantages for a great metropolis The agricultural region re-gion surrounding her is broad in acreage and fertile in character Her tributary mines are numerous and of inexhaustible value Her climate is not to be surpassed and fosters productions produc-tions of almost tropical growth These varied natural advantages must attract imigration and capital and make Salt Lake the centre of business radiations of vast and ingrossing scope Salt Lake demands additional capital and businessmen business-men by natural right In the very nature of things the demand will be filled and that speedily This means more than appears on the surface at a casual glance A deeper insight reveals the fact that herein lies the true solution of the Mormon problem Every dollar of Gentile capital and every additional Gentile presence veakens just so mnch the Mormon power The necessary neces-sary amount of Gentile capital and the coming of the needed number of Gentile emigrants means the total overthrow over-throw of the Mormon rule Once freed from this incubus the great future of both Salt Lake and Utah is assured and this assurance immigration and capital cap-ital can give themselves |