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Show ON A SOLID FOUNDATION. Rooms may come and booms may go, but Salt Lake ( 'ily goes on forever. Tim environment of a wealthy and populous city, like tho circumstances which surround sur-round and play upon a noted individual individ-ual character, includes every thing in nature and art which goes to build tip a stalwart, positive and well developed superstructure. Nature in the outset marked and laid out here the site of a great inland city. She surrounded it w ith a rampart of lofty mountains crowned with eternal snows. She tempered tho air of this beautiful nnd teeming valley with the tonic of the mountain breeze and with the healthful savor of its mediterranean sea. From her subterranean labratory flowed exhaustions fountains of medicinal medi-cinal waters, to whose healing streams the red men of these valleys and dill's brought their aged and ailing ones over long and well-traveled trails to partake i of these fountains of youth. She lillod to repletion the rnggtsil fasluesses of the Wasatch on the east and tho rounded hills of tho Oquirrah range on tho west with tho royal metals. On the eastern slope of tho lirst named range she ; garnered immense stores of coal, of asphalt, of mineral wax and. as recent discoveries how, of petroleum. For three hundred miles to the south, southeast south-east and southwest, continuous lines aud magazines of precious .mil useful metals and minerals invite to profitable labor the advancing hosts of combined labor and capital. To the golden west, into the very heart of Nevada, tho waiting railways are soon to penetrate the richest gold ami silver districts in this intermotintain region. To tho north, tributary to this city and Ogden, vast deposits and veins of tho precious metals, of iron and copper abound. The foothills adjacent to Salt Lake city furnish abundant supplies of lime, tire and building clay, the finest material mater-ial for tho manufacture of glass, ochres, black and variegated marble, lithograph litho-graph and building stone. From the highest mining districts down to the cultivated valleys, nature with her omnipotent om-nipotent hand has graven, with fiery streams and volcanic convulsions, the canyon highways and mountain passes through which mountain workers and unearthed mineral treasurers may liud their way to the markets of the world for cen turies to come. Down these gorges tho foaming trout streams rush to the thirsty valleys, every inch of water having a coin value and a metallic ring aud ripple to the waitiug farmer. Mountain streams will forever furnish legal tender for Utah circulation by universal consent. Her rocky treasure houses and her fertile vales, now the busy hives of productive industry and clusters of beautiful homes, would be scorched by tiery sunshine aud deserted by living men. Within a radius of fifty miles, with Salt Lako City as a center, there are partially opened mineral districts, to say nothing of the larger area of untouched un-touched aud undeveloped mining ground, to furnish tributary support of n city twice tho size of our own present town. Within this charmed circle the royal mints of Park t.'itv, the Cotton-woods, Cotton-woods, tho "Old Reliable," flashback from their growing dumps and brimming brim-ming ore bins the reflected glories of the rising and setting sun. A volume might well be written of the . romance ro-mance and reality of each of these prolilio districts. The writer well remembers traversing the nar- row and only outcrop of the famous Ontario mine about the time it was sold for SoO.OOO to the present owners by its discoverers. If rightly informed", its less than fifty feet of out-crop then visible vis-ible is all that it ever showed of surface sign for daws or men to peck at. The buyers secured it to work for all it was worth and they had the necessary funds to do it. How much was it worth? Time aud labor alone can tell. The ponderous and tireless machinery, which, with ceaseless energy works clay and night, reaching its long arms dowu fourteeu hundred feet along the dripping walls of this imperial treasure, can only say it is richer than ever. The monster drain tunnel, drilliug and boring its way with ceaseless blow and powder blast for miles until it strikes the vein at a depth of twelve hundred feet, reports on the same line. With one hand the miner's disbursing agents cancel the growing bills for all this extra expense and file their monthly vouchers iu the archives of tho company; aud with the other deliver the regular mouthly certificates of dividend to the fortunate stockholders. The mighty aggregate of this dividend fund exceeds ten millions mil-lions of dollars. Had this mine been wholly secured by the monicd men of this city and its past and future profits expeuded here, what an impetus would have been given to the growth of this metropolis. Had the far-seeing men who originally invested their money in this legitimate and productive industry, placed it in the unproductive aud miserly mis-erly c hanuel of bond, mortgage and usury what would have been, the result? So far as their original investment might go it would have proved a drag and hindrance hin-drance to the body politic and tended to afflict the souls of the investor with tho dry rot of selfish ease and useless use-less living. The promising future of this cosmopolitan cosmo-politan city is to be secured by the advent ad-vent of adventurous capital and indefatigable inde-fatigable labor. An Almighty hand has stored up in these mountains all the elements of material wealth and greatness. great-ness. Don't let us fool ourselves in believing be-lieving that in good time, tho destined agents will appear to work out upon this luter-mountain arena the visible promiso of a glorious future. Salt Lake City is the beautiful gateway, the depot and entre-pot of this mighty mountain empire the cosmopolitan metropolis that shall grow with the growth of five hundred miles in every direction of tho richest tributary country coun-try on the face of the globe. Time and space fail in this issue to give any details de-tails even from present knowledge of the multiplied and multiplying factor j working in favor Of the rapid growth of jOiirZion. J.F. B. |