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Show Not half of tho people know what a great resource Utah has in its sugar Industry. In-dustry. Four great plants are oporatcd by tho Utah Sugar company and tho product prod-uct from tho manufacture of tho sugar beet last yenr was nearly 600,000 bags of 100 pounds each. General Manager Geo-ghegan Geo-ghegan says that the company expects to manufacture 1,000.000 bags this season. Snowslldes. train wrecks, explosions nnd the jOghts of tho habitues of tho tenderloin tender-loin sections of this city are keeping the Coroners steadily employed. The Coroner's jury that handed In tho ridiculous verdict in the Lucln cut-off disaster reported on the case very much es though it had been subjected to something some-thing like hydraulio pressure. The Washington experts hnvo given out an opinion that tho alkali lands of tho Salt Lake valley may be redeemed through a system of drainage. Successful Success-ful experiments are pointed out and thero Is in this finding somothing for the peoplo of tho valley to feel a Utile gay about. Tho peoplo of Salt Lake City arc In a fair way to experience tho unspeakablo nulsanco of having to contend with two telephone systems. Most of tho Eastern (Mtles have long slnco assassinated tho TJounclIs that fcot them Into such an unnecessary un-necessary predicament. If Mr Tarpey of California, lho gentleman gentle-man who camo to Salt Lake City to launch young Mr. Hearst's boom for the Presidency, brought along a sufficient amount of the New Yorker's campaign contribution, Utah Democrats will voto for him allright. Anything short of tho yellow fellows" or tho "long green." however, will not do. Tho two young wives of William Watson Wat-son and Robert Lester, hold-up mon. who are said to have worked in tho coal mines of England in order to earn enough money to. have an application for their husbands' pardon presented to tho Board, would probably be ablo to talco their wayward nusDunus and make men of them if they could get them back to tho coal pits, Tho wives are said to havo dug out of tho earth more than $GO0. If this is truo. what excellent testimonials to the devotion of womankind in England. The brewery dives in Salt Lake City aro said to turn out moro drunkenness than all of tho other saloons combined. A fow woll-tlmcd arrests and a vigorous prosecution prose-cution of ono or two of the keepers of theso places, who encourage tho trade of boys and habitual drunkards, would bo a pood thing. Such places make It noxt to lmposslblo for the higher class drinking resorts to respect the law. o Few cities In tho land can boast of moro fine homes and better furnished homes than can Salt Lake. And tho general run of residences Is far above the average. United States Marshal Ben Hcywood has been a resident of Utah for fifty years, with tho exception of a short tlmo that he was away trying to find a better place to live. Ho made two ventures of this kind and now Is one of tho most enthusiastic en-thusiastic boosters of Utah In the country. He thinks that so far as tho development of the State is concerned that "the sur-faco sur-faco has only been scratched." And thero aro others who hold very similar views to Marshal Hcywood on the question of Utah's future. If Health Commissioner Stewart had followed fol-lowed tho instructions of Mayor Morris and discharged the twenty odd employees of tho Health department Salt Lakans would have gone gunning for the gonial Doctor long before this. How would It have sot on the average person who had business with the department that Issues from one to sixteen burial permits a day to find tho department without clerks to Issue those permits? The Mayor admits, tacitly, that he could not fill the vacancies or he would not nor be asking for an ordinance giving him authority to do so. Possibly It -was tho Mayor's thought to get rid of Dr. Stewart by compelling him to run all of tho abandoned divisions himself. him-self. Ho perhaps expected tho Health Commissioner to take up tho work of the" pesthouso employees, and, when all of theso things did not occupy him, tho Doctor Doc-tor would go out to tho furnacos and tako caro of tho garbage. Dr. Stewart Is good-natured, everybody knows, but'ho has too thorough an understanding under-standing of tho work of tho Health department de-partment employees to have followed tho Mayor's suggestion in this matter. Ho is not looking for that kind of a Job. If ho wanted to bo tho whole thing in Salt Lake City, ho would try to beat Mr. Morris out of his Job. Now that Chief Lynch has expressed himself as being unable to enforce the smoko nuisance ordinance, It will be In order for Mayor Morris to toll tho peoplo that ho was only Joking about the smoke, anyhow. That tho property abutting is damaged by tho wretched condition of somo of tho streets and by tho lack of good sidewalks no ono can deny, and it is aincoroly to bo honed that another winter will not find Salt Lako in such a plight as It has beon the past. The man that Invests In a good sldowalk and tho city that gives attention 1 " 4 to tho paving of her streets reaps full reward re-ward for tho cost of construction. Mayor Morris probably would not believe be-lieve It, but the peoplo of Salt Lako City aro Immeasureably moro concerned about the improvement of tho physical condition of the city's stroctn than they aro In tho peanut politics ho is playing at this tlmo. What does the average taxpayer caro who holds tho offices so long as they are properly prop-erly administered? And what do they caro about tho carrying out of campaign peldgcs with every Tom. Dick or Harry who may havo boosted Richard P. Morris Into the Mayor's chair? The avorage man and woman wants respectable and competent compe-tent men kept In office and incompctont and unworthy men kept out. But tho Mayor of Salt Lako City seems to dcslro to rovcrso tho order. Of all the things Mayor Morris declared woro tho purposes of his administration, not ono has shown any signs of development. develop-ment. He was going to glvo us bottor lights or know tho reason why, but thero has been nothing done. Ho was suro ho would abate the smoke nuisance and he Is not certain now that thoro Is anything like a smoky smokestack In tho town, In fact, ho Is of opinion that tho smoko nulsanco nul-sanco Is coming from boyond tho limits of his Jurisdiction. Ho thought thero woro too many nowsboys of a tondcr ago In lho city and tho llttlo fellows have given him tho "horso laugh." In fact, a hundred and ono reforms woro pointed out as needful, but In simmering down the whole situation has become resolved Into an unsoemly uffort to leglslato Republicans out of of-flco of-flco and railroad Morris men In. And this is Reform with a vengeance. If It wero not for fear of provoking the Ministerial alllnnce to undertake a "slumming "slum-ming It" campaign, I would say that there Is more open places of vlco in Salt Lake than any city this far west of Chicago, but tho ministers might want us to l specific and tho postal laws preclude that. |