Show SALT LAKE CITY MOST PROSPEROUS TOWN N COUNTRY Perry S Heath Spreads the Fame of Zion i FOND OF HIS ADOPTED HOME jft i Manufactuiing Industries He i Says Will Soon Be Opened I Unilroad Situation Is Unusually t Promising and Rich Coal and lion Deposits Will Be Available TRIBUNE BUREAU A DOG Fourteenth St V Washington D C Jan 1 J This mornings Washington Post teays I In the eighteen months that I have been a cltben of Utah said Mr Perry S Heath former First Assistant PostmasterGeneral at the Raleigh I have grown very fond of my adopted j home When I left home two l weeks ago he continued the weather was delightfully delight-fully balmy but Ive seen nothing but snow and rough weather during my slay In Indiana and Kentucky We have really but little winter in Utah not over three months at the outside I I and then there is hardly any extreme severity UNUSUAL PROSPERITY I I went to Salt Lake City first in 1S80 it was then a place of 26000 people peo-ple now it has a population of 80000 I and IH one of the most prosperous and solid towns in the Union The great trouble with Utah heretofore has been that Us people relied on the mines nl I mcst exclusively They are now looking look-ing to other sources of wealth and as the development of our railroad system i brings to us the coal and Iron fields I that were formerly unused because of their olation l we will begin 1 manufacturing I manufac-turing in the near future RAILROAD SITUATION The railroad situation Is especially I promising from Denver the Moffat line 13 i being 1 pushed toward Salt Lake I as fast as possible and Senator Clarks road ill give us early connection with Ls Angeles and other points in California Cali-fornia By Ihh route the time to Los L Angeles Is shortened twelve hours and some > of the richest coal and Iron deposits de-posits in the West will be made available availa-ble SENATORIAL CONTEST I What of the Senatorial contest question l ques-tion tionAs As to that I would not like to make any prediction The Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican and within the party the members of the Mormon I church are a t large majority It is natural nat-ural to suppose they will elect some one of their religious faith Mr Reed j Smoot a prominent Mormon is the only lr avowed candidate thus far There is not a great amount of discussion over the matter at home MRS HEATH AT WHITE HOUSE i Today Mrs Perry S Heath received 1 at the White House with Mrs Roosevelt Roose-velt and the Cabinet ladies and this afternoon af-ternoon Mrs HeaLh assisted at the reception re-ception of Mrs Henry C Payne wife of PostmasterGeneral Payne |