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Show the tops and sides of the highest mountains. moun-tains. Think what an inlinite force was employed em-ployed to thug rock-rib and wrinkle this grand old planet! The raising of tho mountaius was f i(iiivalcnt in expenditure expendi-ture of force to the hollowing out of the ocean depths. This cosmic action of tho Inlinite has wrought a peculiar and greatly diversified condition, one inwrought in-wrought and ovorgrown with man- ifold resources of imperishable value and univorsal demand. Hence we have in these varied surroundings, sur-roundings, the stupendous product of cosmic, volcanic and cataclycomic action, the mining interest, in all its varied forms of production and manufacture, manu-facture, as tho first factorof civic greatness. great-ness. Tho tran-portation problem comes next in importance, for only by a network net-work of railroads can these scattered resources be centralized; and only by the same means can tho center be enabled en-abled to radiate throughout to the circumference. cir-cumference. If this city can so direct her progress as to become the real center the collecting and distributing point, the clearing house, the focus of wealth and manufacture, tho chief intellectual and educational seat, a great summer and health resort, and above all tho main point and contriving con-triving power of the trallio and transportation trans-portation of this vast region she will then achieve her destiny as the great inter-inotintain city of America. Those are tho crude outlines of the problem, tho simplest rudiments of the structure. These splendid environments with their exhaustless mines and fertile valleys, their brainy men and generous wealth, are the elementary factors of tho problem, and bravely do our business busi-ness men enter upon its solution. These resources are also tho primary constituents constit-uents of the kaleidoscope which The Timks seeks to turn daily so as to present pre-sent new views of tho ways and means leading to the grand achievement, the upbuilding of Salt Lake into a great city. SALT LAKE CITY-. Formerly cities grew by causes unstudied un-studied and uncomprehended. Theie was much of tho accidental and fortuitous, for-tuitous, and the contributions from the environment seemed hapha..ard and uncertain. City building was never until recently an intelligent and self-conscious self-conscious process. If nature and circumstances cir-cumstances forced a town into prominence, promi-nence, well aud good; if not, it sunk into hopeless mediocrity. Hut of lato years the work of organizing resources and concentrating population into the form of cities became not only an intelligible, in-telligible, but a practical problem, which can be solved like any other problem, provided the necessary resources re-sources and the men of brains to create and organize be on hand. Both are necessary, for in some cases, notably that of Leavenworth, where environment environ-ment and resources are all that nature can furnish, the grand achievement achieve-ment was hopelessly thwarted by the blindness, penury and stubbornness of the leading business men of the city. They wouldn't give a dollar to tho building of a bridge for tho Union Pa-j Pa-j cific, believing that the railroad was bound to come anyway, and it was driven to accept propositions for a bridge at the mouth of the Kaw amidst swampy morasses whero there was a sickly littlo town trying to root itself into the tops and sides of the surrounding surround-ing hills. What is the result? Kansas City has triumphed over her natural obstacles, and she ranks away up in the scale of wealth, magnitude and urban grandeur, while poor Leavenworlh, iu one of the prettiest sites iu the country, is a mere tributary to the magnilicent town that had tho pluck and good sense to donate a hundred thousand dollars to the buildingof the bridge which gave her the first promise of life. As to Salt Lake, there is everything in her favor. Fortunately, she is self-conscious. self-conscious. Her eyes are open to the future, anil she has set to work to solve the problem of growth. Her men nre brainy and courageous, and they smell the battle from afar. They feel within themselves tho anticipation of achievement achieve-ment which always precedes the realization reali-zation of victory. Here is a site especially es-pecially beautiful, surrounded by many peculiar aud valuable attractions. This vast mountain region, extending through the continent north and south, and for more than a thousand miles east and west, has been lifted up into peaks and ridges by the creative force, and the mineral strata, the hidden treasures of the globe which were laid originally as the foundation of I the earth's crust, have been raised miles I upward and .thus made available on j , If.-: |