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Show HOW CITIKS OKOW, A few days ago The Times referred in general terms to the multiplied sources sour-ces both near and remote, from which Salt Lak City draws her princely revenue rev-enue and rightly founds her claims to future growth and greatness. As the natural and available center of trade and commerce, the central gatherings and trade of the Mormon people and tho large and growing aggregations of (entile capital, all conspire to make this city tho wealthy aud populous metropolis me-tropolis of this inter-mouutaiu region. "All roads lead to Rome," so from every miner's camp and from every Mormon hamlet south to l'iocho aud ths nort'iern settlements of Arizona, and north to the southern tier of counties in Idaho, do the faces and footsteps of saint and sinner turn toward Salt Lake. Over the counters of our city banks the purchase money of producing mines, the time checks of their disbursing agents and the accumulating savings of tho working masses are paid and accounted ac-counted for. Searchers for health and delvers for wealth make this the Mecca of their pilgrimages. They may corao from curiosity or necessity, but they slay from choice. Only a day or two ago two representative men of brains and capital, all the way from the rejuvenated mines of Pioche and tho golden sands of Osceola, were noticeable on our streets and in our banks, attending to the vast enterprises in which eastern capitalists aro engaged and from which immense wealth is justly anticipated. Shortly tho lumbering coaches which, nearly twenty years ago, came daily loaded with bars of silver bullion, the surface production of tho great mines of southern Nevada, will bn replaced by swift-going sleepers aud long freight trains loaded with miucral treasure will deposit their burdens in this, to be, tho greatest oro market iu tho world. And as the capital of the east aud of tho old world, iu connection with adventurous spirits and trained business men following tho tide of empire, opens newly discovered mines and coal liolds, topples down our iron mountains, builds smelters, furnaces and coke ovens aud creates busy hives of industry where now the coyote roigus .supremo, every blow struck will redound to tho glory and wealth of this city by tho inland sea. Cities ' grow as great rivers do. Thousands of tiny rills from living springs unite at the headwaters, aud these, gathering strength from hundreds of tributaries on their triumphan march to tho sea, at last bear on tho swelling bosom of a great river tho wealth and navies of the world. Less than forty years ago, the writer traversed on foot and on a buckboard, tho uninhabited public land, now tho site of that marvel of inland cities-Minneapolis. cities-Minneapolis. Exceyt tho ferryman's shanty just, above the fajls of St. Anthony, An-thony, and a half-dozen squatters' huts on the military reservation of Fort Snelliug, solitude reigned supreme. But the axe of the lumberman in the pine forests on the upper Mississippi gave far-off indications of the commencement of a great city at the falls, and the floating logs corralled cor-ralled there were the invitation cards to capital and labor to meet aud lay its foundations. The plough of the incoming incom-ing settler on the beautiful lands west of the river supplemented the north-men's north-men's axe aud we all know the result. Salt Lako City is incomparably ahead of Minneapolis in tho extent and value of her territory. Every blow of pick and drill hammer, every furrow turned, every herd corralled in all this broad domain pays willing tribute to this growing and beautiful city. |