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Show A GREAT FUTURE. What a Stranger's Views Arc Regarding Salt Lake's Many Advantages and Facilities. ME. McGAEVIE ON THE SITUATION. He is Enthusiastic in His Admiration for Our Oity and Its Wonderful Wonder-ful Eesources, A Times representative this morning interviewed Mr. K. W. McOarvie. who is now one of our live real estate brokers, but who formerly resided at San Diego, where he was one of the leading real estate men. Mr. McGarvie was one of the "boomers" of Southern California, his success in handling inside and outside out-side properties tiiore being most wonderful. wonder-ful. Consequently, considering that his opinion as to the present and future of Salt Lake City might be of interest to tho readers of The Times, he was called on. "Salt Lake City today," snid he, "is the liveliest city of the west, proportionately to its size compared with other cities. Its liveliness is based on a good solid foundation, being a result of the development devel-opment of its surrounding enormous mineral wealth and rich agricultural lands, together with railroad facilities, fine climate and attractions as a tourist's riwirt Ah tho nnsn stands tod a v. the city of Salt Lake, as concerns development, develop-ment, is behind as compared with its back-country, which was just the opposite oppo-site in Southern California, where towns were in advance of the development of the surrounding country, which was one of the causes of the depreciation in values val-ues there. Consequently I consider Salt Lake City as well started, without the liability to handicap which the towns of Southern California experienced. Concerning the future, I believe that Salt Lake City has a grand one, a future which no other city of the United states can today equal. The many railroads here, building nnd projected, alone will make it the Chicago of the RockieB. Add thereto its fortile outlying fields, mineral wealth, flocks of shoep and hords of cattle, und it is assured that the center of a lich empire will be situated by the side of tho great Salt Lake, without with-out considering the exhilarating climate which stimulates its citizens, making them the most enterprising and progressive progres-sive of the West. Then, with Utah's vast coal fields, smelters and manufactures manufac-tures will be started hore, and Salt Lake City a ill be the home of thousands of industrious mechanics. One of th moBt important enterprises to Salt Lake City, I consider to be the rnilroad from Salt Lako to Southern California, which the Union Pacifio is now rnpidly building. Its completion will give Salt Lake City a command of the overland travel to Southern California, giving Utah an immonuo market for its coal, which can be landed at tidewater at San Diogo, cheaper than from any other point, driving out all competitors, as Utah coul can be dolivorod at San Diego upon tho completion of this railroad for loss than one-half what it coots there now. Mr. Mcfinrvie considers that there is no "boom" now on in Salt Lake City, and does not believe ono of tho nature that oxisted in Southorn California will occur here; but that tho future will be a continuance, of the present, a healthy growtn. 1 teal estate hero, he considers, cheap, and a sufo investment In conclusion, con-clusion, in a few words, ho considered tho future of Salt Luke City grand beyond be-yond description, and that fortunes will ha made by those who believe so and invest in-vest here. |