Show I SALT LAKE IX TIE LEAD So Says a Pennsylvanian Who Has Visited the Western Cities Mr A C Fanning a prominent lawyer of Troy Pa was in the city yesterday and in his travels about town collected a great deal of data regarding Utah and Salt Lake He has traveled from his Pennsylvania home by the southern route to California thence up the coast to Portland Port-land Tacoma and other cities and by the northern route to this city and says that in all his travels he has seen only one city which in any degree approaches Salt Lake in progress and bustle and that is San Jose California He believes the city and territory have a wealth of developed resources re-sources and appearances of untold undeveloped unde-veloped resources The people he believes be-lieves show thrift Innesty and business ability Their broadening out into manufactures I man-ufactures will bring in large amounts of eastern capital though not very much S will come until some capitalists can be induced to visit the city and territory and see for themselves the wonderful opportunity oppor-tunity for investments which will bring in large returns with a minimum degree of risk Statehood he admitted would make a degree of difference inasmuch as the uncertainty un-certainty 01 the actions Congress makes moneyed men slow in investing in the territories Then of course in Utah the peculiar state of politics has caused an uneasiness which however must vanish before the changed conditions I Mr Fanning may be relied on to speak highly of this country to his numerous friends in the east among whom are cap italists seeking new fields for investment with the probable consequence of bring ing many thousands of dollars into our I territory for investment |