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Show laid out perfectly, the west line of Main street being a meridian, and the north line of South Temple street being a base line. The streets are Hi.' feet wide, blocks BOO feet square. The city is located on a gentle slope to the south and west toward the lake, giving the high bench ground for the choice residence resi-dence portion. These are all good features, and it is because of their de-sicability de-sicability that I mention them to you. Now I will tell you why I have decided to locate here. In the lirst place, t lie city has about W,0ot) people. Ou tho strength of such examples as St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha., Kansas City. Den ver, and others, which some six years ago had about the same population, with less advantages, wo will give for .Salt Lake City a population of IU0,-' DIM) people five years hence; and ten years hence I claim that, this city will lead Denver, Kansas City or Omaha by 2.V00O0 people in the census of INUO. Why? Follow me, please. I have stated before that there is an individual territory ter-ritory of which Salt Lake City is the supply center, and also that there is a combination of mining and agriculture. I'lah today promises to become a greater mining stale than any of her sisters ever were. Tho Colorado mines are all at great altitudes; the mines of the uortlj and west are forced to fight nine months of suow Here, with a temperate climate, the best mines are found at the grass roots within a few miles of the leading cities of tho territory, all with good milroad facilities and close to the agricultural districts. Mines are a consuming element, ele-ment, and they (ire able to produce in the agricultural portions of the territory terri-tory all that the miners can consume, which means the retaining at homo of the expenditures of both consumers and producers anil a home market for the farmer. When the minors and farmers prosper the cities grow. The railroad situation here promises much for tho city. There are two proposed lines which will terminate In Salt Lake City, each of which, if built, will mean an addition of 10,000 people and 110,-000,000. 110,-000,000. One road, tho Deep Creek line, has already obtained its franchise from tho city. ' The country it opens is a mining district, which is claimed by experts to be richer than the Leadville country, which in fact made Denver. The other road is a line to Idaho, and I AGAINST 11 FIELD. A Husband Writes his Wife, Salt Lake tbe Only Place to Live Long and Fiosper, SEOEET 01 OUR PEOSPERITX Has Sea Air, and Mountain Breezes and ij Tree from Blizzards, Cyclones, Hydrophobia and Sunstrokes. Salt Lake City, Dec. 8, 1800. My Dear Wife. Your letter reached this city ahead of me, and your natural anxiety iu regard re-gard to where your future home is to bo, has led mo to investigate, from the vivial standpoint, tho various places I have visited, searching for a new location loca-tion In the great west in which to cast our lot, as our grandfathers visited years ago the then wilds of Ohio and Indiana. I have as you know, been through the Dakotas, the objection there being i the intense cold in winter, and the I tilier destitution that follows a failure , in tho crops of that section. From i: Fargo I went to Spokane Falls, Wash., I' where I was much interested in their prosperity, but as everything is new, ; and the city is so far in advance of the j5" country, I was not so well impressed i on it after thought. The towns on the ? Sound, that is Seattle, Port Townsend, Tacoma, Port Angeles, and several other new places, are all within a com- 't parutivcly small territory, limited as to I means of support, far ahead of the if country, and all rivals. Each town is S doing ,its best to injure the prosperity of its neighbor, which will not benefit I the surrounding country on which those I cities are dependent. You would not liko the long wet season there, or the fogs from tho ocean. Tho feature of long rainy seasons destroyed for mo ioiiii) of the pleasant features of the California towns. will opeu up a tnniier country of immense im-mense value. All timl'er useil in Salt Lake is brought about (Jill) miles; this line will put the source of supply within K!0 miles, or a iviltictioti'in freight of 5-G tho present rate, or more clearly, when lumber cost at present $:ill per thousand feet, it ran, using the same rate per ton per mile, lie delivered here for by the new line for $1'J per thousand feet, which will so diminish the cost of building as to cause a great boom in that line. This Idaho um also opens up a rich agricultural and mining country, great itiautities of ore being ready to ship now. You see, this new country will furnish this city timber, ores and grain, and receive supplies, machinery and merchandise in return. The Union Pacific is also building into southwestern south-western Utah, the H o Grande Western into San Pete valley iititt the Utah Central Cen-tral into a rich country above Park City. All the points reached by these roads are dependent upon Salt Lake, ami you can readily understand the wealth that will follow the opening up of those districts. As to living, I find the cost of living greater than in the east: but that wages are much higher, so one oll'sets the olher. For example brick and stonemasons stone-masons receive $ii por day; plasterers, $5; common laborers. $i to with only eight hours per day. Mechanics, clerks and others tiro paid in tho same As you know, I have just returned from Texas, via the (iulf road and Denver. Den-ver. There I found a number of prosperous pros-perous cities, that is, this season of the year is their active one on account of the cotton market. Port Worth, Dallas ami (ialveston are in a certain degree prosperous, but it is nir judgment that ou account of their climate and class of i business they will always have a limited population. A large proportion of their labor is performed by negroes of a low order, of whom there is a large number, making a Very undesirable class of population for any city. Azain they have intense heat during a long sum mer, giving days of but few working hours, ami full sway to any disease that may become started. I I was much pleased with Donver, but Denver is already a mighty city of 130,-: 130,-: 000 people. Complete iu itself, with all modern appliances for human com fort, in my opinion Denver is too far advanced to leave muuh margin for . people of moderato circumstances, and a stranger, unless he can command at- tention, tloes not stand much chaticrt , coping with tho many millionaires in 1 that citv. tiiai, viiy . As Salt Lake City was the last point on our list, I was feeling rather blue for fear that wo possibly would have to remain iu our little home in Ohio after all. I was rather fortunate in being a passenger on the lirst through broad gauge train via the Colorado Midland and Hio (irande Western from Denver to Salt Lake City. I was ignorant of the fact that this road had a connection with the Hio (irande Western at (irand Junction, and also that the old Denver & Hio Grande had been made standard gauge all the way through, through cars running on both roads from San Francisco to Denver. As the Santa Fe railway has bought the Colorado Midland, Mid-land, it is probable that the Denver & Hio Grande will have to build from Grautl Junction to Salt Lake, giving that city two additional great trunk lines. There is a surprise iu waiting for people who have not visited tho city of Salt Lake for the past two years. You know proportion. J here is no excuse tor people laying high rents here, for it is possible to buy a comfortable homo in a good locality, with street cars, etc., for a very small payment down and from $ih to $10 per month. I have come here to stay and we will live here in this beautiful valley, surrounded by the high mountains and the great inland in-land sea, where tho atmosphere is so clear that one can almost look into eternity, and where one can draw in with each breath the freedom of the mighty west. Hut I was about to close without saying say-ing anything in regard to the Mormons, whom vou seemed to be afraid of. Well, thev have no horns, as yon used to think they must have from general accounts, ac-counts, luit are, as a rule, hard working and industrious people, whose most pronounced characteristic seems to be to mind their own affairs. I have met a number of tho leading Mormons, and have been entertained by them at their homes and must say that they nre as generous and friendly as ' any people 1 ever met. if they believe that Joseph Smith was more than ordinary man, they are at liberty to do so, so far as I am con-cerned, con-cerned, jnst so they do not attempt to compel me to think the same or break the laws, what is the tlill'erence? There is one tiling sure about this territory, and that is, that the hundreds of miles of green fields nnd orchards were not a freak of nature, hut became such from a barren tlesert, only afler great privation and toil, and the much abused Mormons were the toilers, and I tlon't believe Joseph Smith helped Mormons much either. All the churches you have at homo are here also, nnd have large congregations. The public school system sys-tem is the most modern one, and the new school buildings would be a credit in any city, no matter how large. I have got my business nrranged here, and have also bought a home, about which I shall tell you when I see you Christmas. You must be ready to leave Ohio immediately after Christmas, with me, so as to enable mo to open lor business busi-ness January 1, USP0. Thy husband, Kdouaiwe. that I spout part of tho snmmor of 1888 hero, and w;is greatly pleased with the wonderful bathing in tho Great Salt Lake; the mountain resorts with their delightful streams, full of trout; the cool nights, invigoratinit and refreshing one for any kind of work; and tho effect ef-fect of mixing sea air aud mountain breezes, at an altitude of 4000 feet. You do not forget tho summer of 1889, before be-fore we were married, and of the long talks we had about Salt Lake, and the many pleasures we would have if it was found best to locate there. No, I do not think you have forgotten them, for certain circumstances, so dear to both of us. are too closely connected witl. those many talks of Utah. You made me promise that I would write you in detail regarding the place where I decided to locate; so pay attention, pet, to what follows; In tho first place, Salt Lake city is an old tow n, with an established trade, a thickly settled and prosperous country around it, and the undisputed monarch of a district over 600 miles in extent in all directions, including in-cluding parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada and all of Utah; also parts of Montana and Arizona. She is the queen city of this great mining and agricultural ag-ricultural combination of states, the place where the cattlo baron, the sheep ' lord, the bonanza king, the ranchman, whero all those who havo become wealthy from the combination of renounces re-nounces found in the great district mentioned, men-tioned, live, spend their wealth, educate edu-cate their children and enjoy the natural nat-ural advantages of the city. It has only been within the past 18 months that these happy people have w akened up to what they are in fact the possessors possess-ors of. Strange tliis, but yet true. The wealthy people have commenced to be grateful to Utah for her kindness to them, and this city is one of the first to be rewarded. All over her immense blocks are being erected massive business busi-ness buildings and costly dwellings. Think of it, my dear. This year over $7,000,000 have been put into brick and gtone for the city's benefit. The streets are being paved and graded, electric cars go everywhere at once, electric light, sewers and all modern conveniences conven-iences have been introduced, and all in two years. As I told you, the city is |
