Show SALT LAKES LAKEE OME ONE ADVANTAGE la in an appeal to manufacturers ra the salt lake journal of commerce Comm ce ostensibly quoting from a contemporary t i of which no one seems ever to have beard board goal goes into an ecstasy of extra extravagant statement that deserves more than a passing glance salt balt lake city says the article offers more and better advantages than fian any city 1 loe between tween chicago and tha tile pacific ri I 1 coast oar our natural advantages are i oar facilities are fire wear passed our markets are open to a country in area greater than the c corn om binel blued territory east of the mississippi stretching from the British possessions on the north to old mexico on the south and from the mississippi river on the east westward to the pacific coast in the centre of this great territory is bait salt lake like city the most accessible of all points and he the one affording the beet conveniences for trade and BO so on et cetera what the journal and its obscure authority should have said ia is that silt salt lake has an effrontery that ia sublime a cheek that ia la adamant a recklessness in promises that Is without equal io in the world today to day that city is only on one main line of railroad and only a way station at that baa has barely water to drink to bay say nothing ol 01 water power and in all material especially pertain pertaining to is at beet in the second place while at least three utah cities surpass it in facilities for manufacturing what the salt lake papers might have eaid said ia is that their city possesses the great advantage of 0 being within forty miles ot of the beat beet fitted fitte dand and most admirably situated point for commercial and i manufacturing industry that the whole hole west can show that would have been a diamond pointed truth we hope silt salt lake will not always be eo so jealous as to throw away the prestige which her proximity to ogden entitles her to |