Show A SALT LAKER iN THE EAST II I I Some Valuable Suggestions for Our Business MenTHE Men-THE HEADQUARTERS CITY CHICAGO ALWAYS GREAT PROGRESSIVE PRO-GRESSIVE AND INDEPENDENT Irrigation blatters Omuua Suffers From Loss of Trade Southern States Rustling to Attract Immigration Immi-gration The Silver Question Salt Lake People Numerous at the Windy City Chicago Sept 23It does not take long to make a trip from Salt Lake to Denver Omaha and Chicago Many of last summers visitors would be surprised sur-prised to note the changes which a year has brought The general business depression the strikes and the drouth in Kansas Nebraska Ne-braska and Iowa affect all the central cities but in the case of Denver the last affliction was found to be a blessing bless-ing Thousands are on the move to the new districts of Colorado because water Is there assured The neverfail ing ditch will now be trusted as never before and Colorados push and energy are securing a gxeat advantage And how will this help Denver Because Be-cause she is the trade center and in every ev-ery sense the metropolis of the wonderful wonder-ful state The mining development a few years ago sent her ahead at a rapid rap-id pace The city had increased in a few short years to 150000 out of a half million in the entire state Silver knocked out and a 50000000 real estate es-tate mortgage debt would have completely com-pletely prostrated a place of less nerve and push Now the wonderful increase in gold production and the agricultural development devel-opment assured from the rapid immigration immi-gration movement will push ahead the states growth and by the same old rule Denver will take on a new growth The work of the irrigation congress will help Denver and all of Colorado She was fortunate in having fohe congress con-gress at a time when the people of the entire nation are ready to discuss and consider seriously the all important question of opening up new homes for the people who must be provided with land Any citythat in the midst of the awful aw-ful business conditions has the nerve to secure and entertain successfully a big convention each month deserves success suc-cess and Salt Lakers can well applaud ap-plaud Nebraska is dry Politics keeps the people active but a loss of 60000000 in crops is enough to make a brave people tremble still I do not believe the suffering suf-fering there will be so great as people imagine Omaha suffers from a loss of trade If Omaha busines men will kick less and rustle harder till the Union depot and canal scheme are pushed to success suc-cess the labor and trade conditions this fall will be in much better shape Chicago is great always The awful wreckage and desolation at the Worlds Fair grounds as a result of the fires give a picture to visitors to Jackson park which is hard to reconcile with the grandeur of last year The work of restoring the park goes on slowly but Chicago people of course say it will be the greatest park in the world Everything here is on a big scale The nerve of the people their independence of New York the gigantic works underway under-way and talked of asa matter of course he fact that it is now the great trad ing center of the country and that all roads lead this way make the people feel that notwithstanding strikes drouth and industrial depressions here is the center and it matters not what New York Philadelphia or any other city thinks about it progress and prosperity pros-perity are assured South American states California land companies Florida and other southern institutions Idaho canal companies com-panies schemes and schemers all are represented here because it Is the headquarters head-quarters city where people who have something to sell come to meet people who want to buy or be sold Utah ought to be in it too As one travels away from home the truth is forced upon him that of all parts fa vored with great natural advantages and attractions Utah is the chief but it is the one part of all that people know least about because our advantages are least advertised Thousands in the cen tral states are uneasy and looking around for new locationswho want togo to-go to a better climate where drouth and cyclones are not constant visitors These people know nothing of Utah and very little about Idaho i The southern states are rustling hard to attract immigration and capital for factories and with success California is advertised extensively and thousands thou-sands of acres of California and southern south-ern states land are now sold each month right here in Chicago And a great field is open in the cen I tral states in the interest of silver People generally know nothing about it and are indifferent but are willing to listen now to the discussion of the money question It Is astonishing to hear men generally gener-ally well informed on other questions men whose trade relations with the mining states are intimate talk about silver They are ignorant but even if t this ignorance is honest it may be dangerous dan-gerous to the silver cause if the work I of education is i not pushed in this field Democrats and Republicans can well join hands in this cause The people generally are at sea and of course the politicians are straddling the fence If the peoplethe rank and file the voters were known to be for free coinage without any strings to it the great indefinite political bimetallists would be plain ordinary 16 to 1 silver men They are for office now and they are quite willing to talk bimetallism bimetal-lism with parity interconvertibility and the other stock phrases so handy Ii to bamboozle the people with It is strange that the mining states cannot organize to meet this Issue and do it right away Now Is the time to I take advantage of the circumstances and teach the men who are beginning I to see that more money is needed that I more silver money is what is wanted I I first The people will listen They can be reached It will be easy It wont cost much And it may be more important im-portant now than we imagine W H Harvey whom we all know has been here a couple of years with his Coin paper and publishing work A great work he has performed but he has had no assistance from the west Abuse and not help he has received This is the place to work from and now is the time as the central states can add just the strength necessary People come here from all other sections sec-tions The buyers and the sellers all recognize it as the market place Sentiment of the central and parts of the southern states Is directed di-rected largely from Chicago and St Louis and it is important that sentiment senti-ment here should be on a proper basis concerning the mountain states Bye and bye money will be easier Business is improving capital that is now locked up in vaults is getting hot and is beginning to melt off the locks and bars that hold it back some of it will be seeking the mines and farms and city land If Salt Lake and Utah are ready and if the people in the central cen-tral states in the meantime have been informed of the plain honest facts concerning con-cerning the resources and attractions of Utahs cities villages and mountains moun-tains great assistance may be secured If they knew the facts tourists would go to the intermountain country for scenery instead of toward the east and north Seekers after health would try the springs and lake and canyons of Utah instead of going to Minnesota and Michigan or Arkansas Cape May Long Branch and Minnetonka would lose part of their crowds and Salt Lake would get them Rich land in our valleys would be bought instead of poorer acres elsewhere at higher prices The skyscraping buildings and elaborate elabor-ate mansions of Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Buffalo and other leading cities would be supplied with onyx from Utah instead of from Mexico or Africa Manufacturers looking for new fields to conquer would follow the movement to take factories west to the raw materials and Salt Lake Ogden I and Provo would be the centres of a district greater than those controlled by any other manufacturing centre This cannot come in a day but will be a long time in coming if we dont try to get it It can come sooner than we imagine if we put forth the same hope and energy as the people of the new south are doing if our people who have everything to gain and nothing noth-ing to lose will push to the notice of the world the truth about the new state A former Salt Laker can be met at every turn here The woods are almost full of them and talking about meeting meet-ing people in all the rush and pell mell called business in Chicago the other day I ran against Doc Shiley He has been away from home for several weeks introducing to benighted crowds the virtues of the great and only Wasatka water He raised his eyes toward heaven and swore by all that was safe that he was a true missionary mission-ary a healer to the nations as it were To be serious Shiley told me of a test case he undertook here Any man with nevre enough to take hold of such a case ought to be kindly thought of I by every loyal person in his home cityOf course it cannot now be said of Wasatka that a prophet is not without with-out honor save in his own country But if a case like this had been tackled tack-led at home the word honor would be too mild The subject in question is a man who had been in one of the hospitals of Chicago attended by the college physician and some of the other leading lead-ing medical men of the city for some five months He was so far gone with dropsy and erysipelas that the doctors I gave him up and the poor fellow himself I him-self lost all hope He was swollen terribly ter-ribly and his legs were as black as the blackest of black In fortyeight hours after using Wa I satka he was much better his regular regu-lar physician was astonished and advised ad-vised him to continue it Today after using it five days he told us that he j hadnt felt so well in many years and that he was going to walk out tomorrow tomor-row A more grateful couple than the I man and his wife I have never seen If more people are not employed hereafter in Salt Lake in putting upI up-I Wasatka water I shall be surprised 1 This is written not for buncombe j but as a just tribute to a Utah institution insti-tution which like many other Utah manufacturing institutions has been struggling on developing a business in the midst of discouragements I hope this reference will not drive I from the minds of the readers of this communication the vlews expressed I concerning the splendid opportunity Utah has to present her claims or the i duty resting upon somebody to do the j work necessary in the central states to get people to see in the silver question I something more than a local issue affecting j I af-fecting the interests only of a small class of mine owners or workers as it I is too often considered now SJ i C E W |