Show POPPERTON PLACE From Which One Views the Great Salt lake TILE VISION ONE OF SPLENDOR The Choicest Spot for a HomoThe Aristocratic Residence Site of the City Salt lake Valley The Popperton Subdivision people are wide awake They have just issued 100000 pocket pamphlets with the title A Vision of the Great Salt Lake The front is adorned with a beautiful little scene of the lake the printing perfect the matter is given below and the distribution of them will do good for Salt Lake SALT LAKE CITY There is but one opinion in regard to the future of Salt Lake city Even one who knows anything about the place feels assured as-sured that ere many years it will be the great city between Brand San Francisco and in many respects excel both Its climate its fertility of soil its wealth of minerals its sulphur and soda springs its wonderful supply of raw materials for manufacturing purposes its fresh and salt lakes the beauty of its location and many other considerations con-siderations give assurance of its prosperous future It should be the supply centre for western Colorado Arizona Nevada southern California Idaho part of Montana Mon-tana and southeastern Oregon It has inexhaustible in-exhaustible deposits of coal and iron the basis of all manufactures It has mineral wax asphalt gilsonite borax alum sulphur and salt within a few miles and on the line of the railroads The valley in which the city is situated is large and fertile enough to raise table supplies for a community the size of New York and the attractions of city lakes and mountains should alone suffice to build up a community of a quarter of a million people But it is objected the conditions have all existed during the past forts years and have not sufficed to make Salt Lake a prosperous or populous city True but while these conditions ex istsd they were little known or understood even by the people themselves and local issues prevented a favorable consideration of the material aHautages But the world moves and the realities of yesterday become be-come the memories of today The citizens of Salt Lake have awakened from the nightmare which has benumbed their faculties for a quarter of a century and arc now earnestly endeavoring to enter upon a new career which will bring prosperity pros-perity and development The railroads which have entered Colorado Colo-rado during the past five or six years have all representatives in Salt Lake city striving for the freight and passenger traffic of Utah and the western coast Salt Lake city is the objective point of all these roads in their progress on the Pacific slope and another few years will see these railroads rail-roads within the borders of Utah Salt Lake city is the metropolis of the territory where the executive and all the federal officers are stationed where the legislature holds its sessions and where the second most beautiful fort in America located The difficulties of the past arc hardly worth the consideration of the present pres-ent The social features of Salt Lake have been entirely changed in the past few years and no longer present any startling phases to strangers and visitors Churches of ever denomination are well filled on Sabbath and in the outward appearance of things there is nothing to distinguish Salt Lake from a staid New England town The citizens citi-zens are peaceable and industrious and have spent NiSOOO during the past year in an effort to convey to the people of the United States a correct understanding and impression im-pression of their material advantages and of their desire to attain the degree de-gree of development to which the c advantages entitle tnem Utah has not the money needed for the development of its resources but it is safe to say that there is no spot in America which affords the same opportunities for lucrative investment When the prejudice which exists in the minds of uninformed strangers toward the city and its people is dispelled and a correct cor-rect estimate is formed of the actual situation sit-uation thousands will rush to Salt Lake and it will astonish America by its extraordinary extra-ordinary growth in wealth and population Salt Lake city is enjoying today a degree of prosperity unequalled in its past history and is on the threshold of a still greater prosperity because of the universal attention atten-tion it is attracting COLUOKX SKINNER Co Salt Lake City A VISION OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE Yonder lies the Groat Lake Americas mysterious inland sea glistening in the sheen and shimmer of Utahs gold and purple pur-ple suns t The silvery ripples on its bosom though dazzling to the eye are poison to the parched lips and in its waters which cover an area of 2500 square m les no thing of life exists save what the microscope is necessary to discover Na here emble ture has wrought a wonder matic in itself of her mysterious ways Its grandeur soennitf and stillness inspire th beholder with sue mid its origin and source the speculative and scientific mind have sought in vain to discover If the remnant of a primordial ocean how has its character remained unchanged during the ages that the oceans ebb and flow have been marked on the sands of the Pacific slope a thousand miles away I There are no mountains moun-tains of salt upon its margin and during the seasons course it drinks unceasingly from Utahs mountain streams and rivers What a field for the poet and the artst For the latter in the changing colors and the variety of view for the former in the thousand legends which imagination may aptly associate with the history of its past i Thus far it has not been much celebrated in prose or verse but ore many years have passed pass-ed it is destined to become the most famed spot in America and the pleasure ground towards which the multitudes will rush from the Atlantic and the Pacific d The mountain which seems to bound the horizon in the center is but an island rising t from its depths and the other mountain to the southwest is also an island both of which are plentifully supplied with freshwater fresh-water drawn apparently from the same source as the briny waters of the lake itself QThe point on the shore at the south end is Garfield Beach a glorious summer resort and at the north end beyond the famous I hot springs is Lake Park the favorite natatorium and pleasure ground of citizens I and visitors lu all there are twelve islands which lie before us three of which are quite large and used as orchards and i pasture grounds Five others are smaller f but cover several thousand acres and the others are barren and not susceptible f 7 of cutivation What pictures of grand cur and uiognmcence will be painted along these shores in the future none can tell but the happiness and comfort and pleasure to be found here in summer homes will soon alter the aspect of the surroundings and draw capital and population to the shores of Great Salt Lake That valley which stretches in front of I us westward from the city to the lake and south to the Oquirrh range of mountains and along the Wasateh range in the shadows of which we stand into Utah valley val-ley a distance of thirty miles i is the view which captivated Brigham Young and his followers when they first emerged from Emigration canon over there beyond Fort Douglas It is Salt Lake valley The foliage which spreads itself out at our feet over an area of two miles square embowers the city the modern Zion What a parallel j is presented between the Israelites and the Mormons I The valley before us was a I veritable laud of promise to tho Mormons Mor-mons milk and honey it had none but its I wealth of soil has made of it for the modern Israelite the followers of Joseph Smith amore I coveted treasure than was the promised I prom-ised more land to his prototype Salt Lake city termed the modern Zion has been aptly I Directly in front of us to the west rising from the foliage and lifting its massive stands the j walls high into the heaven To I temple in bold outlines Mormon the parallel indicated it is said that perfect I the Jehovah who planned the tabernacle and temple for the Jews also revealed to The Mormon prophet the outlines and plans monument It is an extra of the Mormon aw s < 1 e ordinary work and will remain for ages vet to come an object of curious wonderment wonder-ment to every traveler who visits Salt Jake Here behind us only half a mile distant lies Fort Douglas with its beautiful rives and avenues the gem fort of America It has fountains and foliage and verdant lawns and beautiful homes on which the trellis work is covered in season sea-son with creeping vines and blown and budding flowers The flowing fountains and rushing streams are supplied with water which has run a course from the summit of the snowcapped mountains the eternal brrrier which protects our lovely valley and city from the storm the hurricane hurri-cane and the blizzard and leaves us the blissful dwellers in an Acadia yet unknown And the spot on which we stand from which we hold all this beauty and loveliness loveli-ness sublimity and grandeur is Popperton Place a subdvision of Salt Lake city and long known as the Popper tract From very foot of its surface comprising 152 I acres can be seen all that has been described I scribed There is no spot in America to equal this No comparison can be made between the ground on which we stand and any other for it stands stands alone and unrivalled the choicest spot for a home the aristocratic residence site par cx Mence of Salt Lake City This property is now on the market for sale in lots and blocks COLUOKX SKINNER Co Sole Agents Salt Lake City COLHORN SKISNEK Co AUTIlUlt S MILLEU Room 2 Triteh block Denver Colo |