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Show METROPOLIS OV THIS INTER-JIOUN-TAIN REGION. It goes without saying that Salt Lake City must remain as she is, the metropolis metrop-olis of the great mineral region from Pike's peak on the east to the summit of the Sierras on the west, and from British Columbia on the uorth to and including the northern portion of Arizona Ari-zona on the south. Already the ceaseless cease-less fires of her smelters and the clangor of her mills and sampling works have established her position as an ore buyer and with ample means and appliances appli-ances at hand fixed her reputatiou as an ore market As a mining center,' and a resort for mining men, famous hitherto for its sales of valuable miues and mining property, it stands unequalled. Outside of tho Ccmstock ledge nearly all the mining sales of the region named are negotiated and consummated con-summated in Salt Lake. From Idaho, Wyoming, Nevad? and northern Arizona, Ari-zona, ores and mining properties gravitate grav-itate to this city. Sellers and buyers understand this and govern themselves accordingly. While our valleys are fertile, and are occupied by beautiful homes and thrifty farmers who grow rich from their profitable homo market and the rapid advancement in the valuo of their laud.it is conceded that the great mineral resources are and must be the foundation of tho material prosperity in store for us. Draw an east and west lino through the capital city, or, in other words, extend- the baso line of the United States survey east from the initial point on the southeast corner of the Temple block to the Colorado line, and west from the same point to the Humboldt valley, and you have, south of that Hue, five-eighths at least of the immense mineral district of this inter-mountain inter-mountain region with everything tending tend-ing and drifting to Salt Lake, with out the shadow of competition. Gold and silver have heretofore attracted the attention of prospectors and workers in the mining industry; but with the growth of population and settlement, the competition of railroad transporla-; Hon and the sure advent of capital, the iron and coal era will soon be upon us. Exhaustions mountains of superior iron in close connection with vast fields of coking coal lie south of Salt Lake City, almost at her very doors. She must shortly become- the Pittsburg of the western country in connection with her tributary fields of coul and iron, as she is now tho depot and entrepot of the mines and outcome of precious metals. 1 Directly east and west of her lie open-' open-' ed and productive mines. The famous Ontario district close at her eastern 1 gates, which this year will produce at least $4,000,000, and the Tintic camp lying close by on the west will undoubtedly undoubt-edly yield as much more in the samo time, have both been lately connected with this city by railways. The Park City railroad, owned hore, will now push its way west to t he rich mines of the Deep Creek district. In the meantime, the Union Pacific is driving its lines 400 miles tap- ping the great Pioche mines and making tributaries of the productive produc-tive gold placers of Osceola. The Rio Grande Western is rapidly penetrating pene-trating tho coking coal region at the head of Thistle canyon and heading for the fertile fields of San Pete and Sevier valleys and the gold and siver mines of Tintio county. All these are to be new and additional feeders to the trade and greatness of this metropolitan city. They are but the advance guard of main roads and branches that will rapidly rap-idly occupy the valloys to the northern line of Mexico, and penetrate every canyon whero veins and deposits of precious and .usoful mineral may be found. But while it is true that the southern country as far as the northern portion of Arizona is tributary to Salt Lake and will be much more so whon the railways, now heading in that direction, are completed, it is equally true that the mineral country north of the aforesaid base lino, much of it already al-ready opened and developed by Salt Lake men and capital, will be largely tributary to and dependent upon this city. |