Show COL HOLMESS VIEW What the President of Commercial I Club Says Regarding the Needs 1 of Sat Lake City I Agreeable to your suggestion that I should write a few words concerning The Pressing Needs of Salt Lake City I What Is Best to Promote Its Interests and Make I the Greatest City Between Be-tween the Missouri River and the Pacific I Pa-cific coasto I would Bay that the subject sub-ject is too great to be treated in so slight a communication Here is r l founded a city of Immense possibilities from any point of view that one may choose to take In agriculture the sugarbeet Industry Indus-try will become the most prominent c factor without doubt and any measure mea-sure 0 that will foster that Industry does good to this city and improves that particular section where the beets rC partcular grown the sugar made and tluj higher cultivation oC sugarDects makes better farmers In a general way Tim highest result ponslble along these lines Is in arranging favorable terms with the transportation companies as all the new sugar factories must now ship toward the Missouri river that Is we now make more sugar than we consume con-sume and it is to the interest of such companies to make such rates as will encourage the industry under discus encourage InduSly discussion slon Along with this must come the Alone better and more economical use of water fci Irrigation and not only that but all the water coming Into this and other valleys must be utilised to the fullest extent not only the current flow during the season of irrigation but the flood waters must be stored not a part of them but all and as much more from other watersheds as can be economically eco-nomically diverted In this regard the United States Government through the Department of thp Interior or the Department De-partment of Agriculture under the act ot June 1902 known as the law for the reclamation of the arid lands stands ready to assist and will doubtless begin be-gin work whenever we can reconcile our differences and present to them u practical working plan to do which involves in-volves an Immense amount of labor of which no one can realize fully without with-out going into the subject most thoroughly thor-oughly This work will seem slow In getting started but once under way it gettng of Is easy to see that with plenty water n 1 with the sugar Industry fully watcI developed realestate values In lJ and county will be Increased by I hundreds of millions of dollars The future water supply of this city is tied to these propositions and will be solved In i their solution without C doubt and any one who hesitates regarding the purchase of realestate on this account is making a mistake Now is the time to buy for Investments There is another great interest attached at-tached to the future of Salt Lake City and that is its desirability as a residence resi-dence city There is no more naturally I healthful locality nor delightful climate mate anywhere and we should as the I country develops furnish homes for the 1 aborers the welltodo citizens and I strangers from a distance desiring a pleasant stranrers place In which to live furnishing 1 furnish-ing a it does exceptional educational l advantages and a nearly perfect climate mate with beautiful scenery at our I very doors In my recent trip around the world I saw no place finer so far 1 as natural beauty Is concerned And too Salt Lake City has the proud dls J L tlnctlon of having a greater number of homeowning worklngmen than any Jj t city of Its size In the United States cIy closing I would like to call attention at-tention to the Importance of the preservation pres-ervation of the Great Salt lake as a t climate modifier and as an interesting i pleasure resort and In my opinion the beforementioned important work will I surely accomplish this and should be I in process of being successfully worked 4 out at this time Yours truly t I I EDWIN F HOLMES |