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Show A II V( K f OH l.l-.AIlKUS. There is a splendid field in Salt Lake for the opei atioiis of some gn at commercial com-mercial leaders such as have made the city of 1 leuver ono of tho proud business busi-ness capital of the country. We bae many m n here who are able to successfully suc-cessfully project enterprises that would make this city a great metropolis within with-in a very few years. When such men were needed iu Denver they were brought forward; aud it is to be hoped t lint sin h w ill come to tho front here at this titiio. Kail Lake is standing at tho thresh-hold thresh-hold of the grandest possibilities, and nothing but brains, energy and money aro required to compass them. We have tho brains among our people; they havo money enough to insure the succe.-s of anything they might undertake; under-take; and exercise of energy is all that i.s needed. Wd want leaders in many liehls, ind the time is ripe for our people to awaken l,i ranii'Fiili.iii ,.f I I.A f.wl thul hi.rl j , . IV.IIi.LiUII V. JW l.l, ..(WW ('- leadership promises honor and wealth to tiioe who may assume it. This city is so located that it should enjoy the Iraild of this entire inland empire, aud there is no retuou why it should not bo secured, it cannot be controlled if opportunity after opportunity oppor-tunity be permitted to pass unimproved. unim-proved. Other sections and other interests in-terests will stop into every field that is left unoccupied. If .Salt Lake shall not move promptly at all times, the people of now districts will look for and secure assistance from other quarters quar-ters and thus bo alienated from us instead in-stead of becoming our allies. It is impossible to occupy any new lield without boid leaders. Salt Lake has existed so loug on the business that has come to it naturally that its citizens scarcely roiilio what the possibilities of thu situation are; and men who . l. . I - i .1. . 1 t. .. W I. .. ougui 10 uc ai iuu uoul 01 ei'iujMeiieu-sivo ei'iujMeiieu-sivo projects fail to perceive the splendor splen-dor of the opportunities presented to them. There aro a score or mora of men here any one of whom could secure tho building of a railroad to Deep Creek. Auy 0110 of them could successfully suc-cessfully carry out :t project to liuk all Idaho to the destiny of Salt Lake by means of a rail way line. Auy oao of them could lift his wuud and call a score of smelter stacks into lifa iu this valley. Auy one of ttietn could summon a million mil-lion dollars of capital and set it to work in vast irrigation enterprises. Anyone of thorn could secure great iron works for tho city. Any one of them, in sdiort, could start any one of the needed enterprises enter-prises and carry it through to success. These men are glad to mako money aud they would welcome an opportunity opportu-nity to make their Dames historic iu the anuals of the country. Money and fame are waiticg to be won. We can see a time iu tho future wlieu Salt Lake will havo a population of UOO.OO'J or 1 more and w hen phenomenal prosperity I w ill characterize its business interests. Strangers will ask what secured such marveious ativuiu'eiuciu lor ine euy, and they will be told that it came from the enterprise of certain meu who inaugurate. in-augurate. I great undertakings that leached out and took possession of vat ureas of rich country iu the came of tiieir city. Iu that day tha names of tlu semen will be mentioned with pride. If they be living, they will be honored at all tiiuos aud on alt occasions; aud if they be among tho dead, nioiiumeuts will have been reared to attest the love of the people for them. Their estates ! will represent fortunes larger by far than any they ever dream of now, and they will enjoy the homage of au appreciative ap-preciative people. |