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Show I BEAUW OF ZION. le of Salt Lake's Visitors Goes East and I Tells of the Wonders of I The City. Ll ESTATE AND BUSINESS Heal in e Real Estate Exchange Offered I for $200 The Day on the I Exchange. Isalt Lake City invariably impresses I, Tjsitor favorably. About one month loMr. C. S. Stockton, of Newark, N. I visited Zion and returned to his Ime enthusiastic. Mr. Stanton is a limiiicnt banker of Newark, and line here in the interest of a syndicate capitalists of that city, and while Ire secured options on considerable loperty, and iu a letter this morning la local real estate man, said that Icy had decided to invest not less than Iff a million dollars here. The fol-(ivingisan fol-(ivingisan extract from Mr. Stock-la's Stock-la's description of the city of Zion, liblished in one of the Newark, N. J., f it is a marvel in beauty of arehitec-Ire. arehitec-Ire. Its streets are 123 feet wide, the lucks G20 feet long, aed clear, beautl- II water runs along the gutters, sup-lied sup-lied from melting snow on the adjac-It adjac-It mountains. Salt Lake city is boom-L'. boom-L'. Land two miles from tho city is ling laid out in. lots, five-acre lots faking 41 lots, the lots selling from too to $G00 a piece. Millions of money 1c being put into brick aud stone. One rge hotel is just being finished and other' is under way, each to cost 100,000. Electric street railroads are ling laid in every direction, extending I the districts where former farm lands Ire being so rapidly transformed into l:y lots. It is simply surprising, and it Ikes the conceit out of a steady-going Id foggy Newarker to witness the push lid energy and confidence manifested. I Jlormonism is being relegated to a lack seat. At the last election every Mice was captured by the Gentiles save wo, and it was personal popularity at carried these. Mormonism has its Iraple, its tabernacle, its apostles, bish-ll'sand bish-ll'sand elders, but has not its plurality I wives. The tabernacle will seat 1,000, and its acoustio properties are larrelous and perfect. The decora-ve decora-ve hangings of gems placed there l ars ago when Patti sang, are still in llace. The temple is nearly competed, com-peted, having been in course of con-Iniclion con-Iniclion nearly 40 years, and at a cost If 13,000,000, if the labor and material lad been accounted for, but the great Bulk of it has been contributed by the lithfnl. It is built of granite, and is a list beautiful structure. I Garfield Beach is eighteen miles from fce city and is the Coney island of the lest. It is a new sensation to bathe in fie wonderful Salt Lake. A person lannotsink, all he has to do is to keep Is head up and float with perfect ease lud safety. I Wealth' is gathered from the .moun-I'ins, .moun-I'ins, laden with their rich ores of tho Irecious metals, one mine alone pro-lacing pro-lacing annually as much as tho dhr-fends dhr-fends of our splendid Pennsylvania pilroads. The passage of the silver I'd has given a wonderful impetus to II industries in the west, but the effect P all mining regions is marvelous, and P'erything and everybody bears the l-pectof great prosperity. To every P'e who has not been there, let them f iprovo the injunction of Horace Gree-I Gree-I '.' and "go west," for it is well worth I1' fatigue, trouble and expense. Un-F Un-F they see for themselves its wonders nd its progress, they will not believe Ji'e half that is told them. I Tne Day on the Exchange. I There was quite a gathering of real Plate men at 'the meeting of tho ex-P'augc ex-P'augc this morning. The market pro-ruts pro-ruts no new phases. Prices are firm r'd the demand for insido property is pill greater by far than the supply. ae sale of outside lots goes merrily I Wantland offered 2JxlO rods on Brig-lam Brig-lam street, being part of lot 6, in block f . plat B. Whitehead offered for reut I four-roomed house on West Temple Aseat in the real estate exchange l'as ottered for sale this morning, by a "'ember who intends to leave the city. lle seat was offered at $200. The Mail Bag;. Secretary Montgomery's mail this Horning was light. One letter was "m a school teacher in Newark, N-J-e said that she had heard that Salt -ake City was a place where money :old be invested so as to bring a lib-:ral lib-:ral interest, and wanted reliable data 'B the subject. She also asked what chances for a good school teacher '"ewere and the . salaries paid. A llan in Hudson, N. T., asked for lllus-raed lllus-raed and descriptive matter. The Two Lawrence Building. Harrison & Nichols, architects, have tw0 Lawrence business blocks on est Temple street almost ready for r,e roofs. They have been seriously flayed by the scarcity of building ma-tPrii-ls, but are now making good process pro-cess and will in a very short time com-E'te com-E'te both buildings. Beat Estate Notes. The corner-stone of the new Jewish -mIIe was laid yesterday afternoon. The new Holmes building is progres-sn? progres-sn? favorably. fjfhe excavation for Walker Bros, new "'.'ding, at the corner of Main and airi South, is almost completed. |