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Show ages ago a health resort." Art and luxury lux-ury have complemented its advantages and now every comfort and appliance render the invalid aid in recovering health. Comfortable qpttages, luxurious ho-tols, ho-tols, the best of medical attendance, churches, schools and pleasant socioly make tin extended visit or a life-long residence here desirable Palatial railway rail-way cars and well furnished mountain and bathing resorts are at hand waiting the service of ailing visitors. Varied and magnificent scenery of mountain, valley and sea wco tho lovers of nature and satisfy every taste. The convalescent, who wishos to combine com-bine business with pleasure in reviving strength and health, will find ample opportunity op-portunity in multiplied openings for investment, in-vestment, equal if not superior to any on this continent. Indeed many have and will come to regain health, and stay to acquire wealth. Thore is something about Salt Lake city that attracts and rotains old and new residents more than any other city of its size in the United States. This is the universal testimony of invalids and residont3 who speak from experience. SALT l.AIiK AS A HUALTII KIOSOUT. "All that a man hath will he give for his lifo." This is iih true today ns when it was penned by the writer of Scripture. In f.iot., now that luxury and bad living havo intensified and complicated the thousand ills that llosh is heir to, and the lapse of conturies has added to the tuint of hereditary disease, this old world of ours is a sick and ailing world. Tho mysterious race of red men who owned and roamed ovor this country before be-fore the white man came, wero afflicted w;th fewer diseases than their boasting successors. They had no dm; stores and comparatively few nicdiiino mon, and these, instead of charging live and ton dollars a visit, wore liable to suffer death, if their heroic treatment too often proved fatal. Nature, Na-ture, on the surface ot the enrlh and from her tot-ret laboratories within it, furnished the simple but cflicacious remedies rem-edies required to sucoessful'y combat disease. Of course pge, decay and death came to make room for tuccessive generations. gen-erations. Whenever medicinal springs, adapted to peculiar diseases, Mowed from iho bountiful boom of mother earth, thore the observing savage brought his sick and alloc ted family. Salt Lake with its hot and cold medicated medi-cated springs, its saline sea and its pure mountain air was one of nature's great sanative hospitals, resorted to by tribes from the mountains and valleys of this interior region. It is today whnt it was - t |