Show THE BOOM The signs of the times are unmistakable unmistak-able Anybody with powers of obser vation and capable of discernment will read in all that he sees hereabous certain cer-tain indications of a coming boom Newspaper offices are deluged with letters let-ters of inquiry concerning the Territory Terri-tory and its resources asking about the climate the facilities for agriculture opportunities for investment the mining min-ing outlook and so on At least this is true of THE HERALD office every mail ringing these inquiries The letters come from all parts of the Union but most of them from the western and northwestern States There is also a steady application for newspapers ooks pamphlets and industrial statistics sta-tistics showing there is widespread interestin this city and Territory and a tendency of people and money in i this direction Futhermore our own people are manifesting evidences of having been touched by the boom spirit Usually the present is the dullest season of the year The holidays are followed by long weeks of weary waiting for the spring to come and business activity to return men are impatiently idle white wondering what the summer has in store for them or whether it has anything How un ike other winters this one is 1 There are few if any idlers people are busy and cheerful they are also confident and not as hereofore doubtful as to the future There has never been a January like this one for real estate transactions the number of sales and the amount j s money passing being many times what they have been ordinarily ordi-narily The real estate agents who areas are-as a rule among the shrewdest of people peo-ple and close observers of business barometers are here in force and their ranks are weekly increasing They have not coine with the view to creating creat-ing a boom but to take advantage of the boom which their clever foresight has discovered They have come and business which are coming to do the they know must be transacted Capitalists Capital-ists are also comingsome are already herebecause they realize that for the next few years at least Salt Lake and Utah generally will be a gr nd field for the investment of money and the creation crea-tion of wealth An excellent feature of this business is that we can look upon the coming boom and welcome it without fear or apprehension There is not much liability of evil coming from it for the reason that the great majority of the community are people whose heads are not readily turned they are not given to excitements and they fight shy of speculation They will progress and develop but will not go wild and forget to keep under them the solid and safe foundation upon which they hae been accustomed to stand Such advance and such development a b shall come from the increase ctivr > und the infusion in-fusion of new blood unto uie community will be maintained ana nobody will fear the terrible recomug which has come upon so many boom towns A |