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Show gate tho controling inllucnccs that am I moulding the destiny of Salt Laae are 1 he men who ate looking for .business opportunities, There are no doubt some among them who do not understand under-stand the importance of the mining industry, but the vast majority of them do understand it; and we need but to attract Increased numbers of this elns of men in order to multiply the agencies through which the increasing of the city's prosperity is to bo accompPshed. There is no city In the country that is surrounded by m many mining districts of vast richness. These ate nut tributary to any other place and cannot be mado so. Tim camps already partially developed almost surround this city, ami at but a short distance from it. Thero are no impassable ranges shutting them off from communication with the contral point at which the manifold interests are consolidating as at a hub. They are all feeders for Stilt Lako. and for generations they will pour streams of wealth into this city. The dividends taken from many properties will be taken elsewhere, but in all rases of that kind, the immense sums paid out for the mining, transportation ami redtin tion of the ores will flow more or loss directly into the channels of business here. The new men who are coming and those who are to be drawn to I'tah's mines in increasing number in the future will localo themselves ami invest tho fortunes that they make ri'ht here in this city; and they will constitute an element of confidence of far greater importance than that represented by any other class of investors. Nothing has been said of the new camps that are springing into notice, nothing of the new railroads that must soon be reaching out to bring their treasures to this common center. We have not scon these now districts except ex-cept through other eyes; but men whoso judgment is beyond question men whom we have known for years and whom we know to be reliable-give reliable-give reports of the character of the do-posits do-posits which leave no reasonable doubt that those sections will very soon after the building of railroads to them become be-come the seats of great mining towns. There is no question as to the building of the needed transportation lines, for they cannot bo held back. The business busi-ness awaits them and and they will go to it. Tho spirit that constructed the railroads through the mountains of Colorado is stirring here and it cannot be checked. The millions of tons of ore that have so long been awaiting claimants claim-ants are to be takon from tho hills that have hidden the treasure; the work of extracting and reducing them is to furnish fur-nish employment to armies of men, and tho resultant business in nil lines is to center hero in this favored city. No one who is familiar with the prosperity pros-perity that Denver secured from the opening up of the mines of Colorado will demand any further guaranty of the future of Salt Lake than is to be found in the fact that the resources surrounding sur-rounding anil tributary to this city are ten times as great as those upon which tho Colorado metropolis, established confidence in itself, and which directly gave it a very largo portion of its invested in-vested capital. What has hero been said will sufficiently suf-ficiently demonstrate the reason why the new management of Tiik Timks have cast in their lot in Salt Lake. It but remains to say that the paper will be conducted in such manner as shall seem best adapted to tho needs of the city of Salt Lake and its tributary territory. ter-ritory. It will advocate at all times the development of the natural resources of this region as the only sure means of socuring large, speedy growth of tho central city. In local matters it will steadily advocate such measures as it shall believe to be in accord with tho best interests of the city as viewed from a progressionist platform. Politically Tiik Timks will continue republican upon all national questions, while cordially cor-dially co-operating with the liberal party here. The paper will always aim to be fair and just; it will strive to be strictly accurate at all times, and its purpose will always be to command com-mand the confidence and respect of the community. t The management believe that the paper can be made a power for good, I and in their efforts to realizo this belief be-lief they hope to merit and receive the hearty support of the people of this section. If the paper prove worthy, give it that encouragement needed to spur it on to greater endeavor. WHY K ABR 1IFUK. There are few people who come to (Salt Lako and investigate the resources of tho surrounding territory who do not arrive at tho conclusion that the place is destined to enjoy phenomenal prosperity pros-perity during the coming years. Visitors Visit-ors who thus take the pains to look into the conditions upon which tho future of the city is based, realize that they have been almost entirely in the dark regarding re-garding this territory, and that the most inviting opportunities for the investor in-vestor and for the worker are spread about thickly upon every hand in a practically dormant condition Iheir attractions unknown to the world at largo and their character but littlo appreciated ap-preciated by all persons who go no further fur-ther than to take a cursory survey of the situation. Knowledge regarding tho natural resources re-sources surrounding this city fixes faith in the place. It is such faith that has brought the new management of Tiik Timks into this field; and iutakinghold of the paper we desire to say to its readers and to tho entire public, that we aro convinced that this territory ter-ritory has a future f;ir more promising than is held up before any other section of the west. It is not a mere chance that has brought us hero and set us down in tho newspaper field of Salt Lake, for wo have come after a most thorough investigation of tho natural resources of this region, after comparing the reports received with the conditions existing in the wonderfully wonder-fully prosperous state of Colorado, and after becoming fully convinced that I'tah has riches of the soil and treasures treas-ures of tho rocks which must at no distant dis-tant day place her abreast of the most favored states of tho union. The stranger who visits Salt Lake sees hire one of the most attractive cities on the continent. The location is one of surpassing beauty. The etrcets of tho city are wide aud pleasant, lined with trees, and, in tho summer season, made more lovely by the streams of limpid water that course along them. Magnificent blocks bear testimony testi-mony to tho substantial character of the business interests of the place, fcueh are the features that catch the eye of the tourist, and that they make an impression is demonstrated by the re-maik re-maik often heard from the lips of travelers that Salt Lake City is the most beautiful place that is seen in the entire range of a transcontinental journey. Ihit there is another class of visitors. This is composed of the men who, while fully enjoying tho attractions of the icenes upon which the eye rests, ask themselves the question. What is to give this city a larger population and extend its commercial interests? The men who belong to the latter tlass look out upon the fertile plain and recognize there one element of pros- fierity; they inspect the manufacturing ndustries that are springing Bp and see that these con-Ititute con-Ititute another important feature f the situatiou, but when they get bold of the map, note the locations of tho mining camps, examine statistics nd make inquiries about the character und extent of the deposits of the precious ruetals and other valuable minerals, they begin to see that we are to have hero the greatest city between tho Mississippi river und the shore of the l'aoitie ocean. Those who thus iuvesti- |