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Show LOCAL SITOATIflN mdU Improvement n I in Business. industrial Development Is i1 Keeping Paco With Rapid Growth of City. ,ernmental Work in the Rcclama-0n Rcclama-0n of Arid land Promises Much of Benefit to Utnh. USINESS in retail lines, especially ' clothing and dry goods, showed decided Improvement In Salt Lake City lest week, according to Brad--t's always conservative summary lrade conditions Wholesale trans-. on9 were also of a satisfactory racier. Crop prospects are reported !cnt, money firm and collections 'addition to tlie very favorable con- W Editions thus set forth. It may be added J.J ffllhat the industrial and building slt-H slt-H ffcatlon, the outlook for the continued TBrapId Browlh of the city, has never Ci'iRbfen more promising. While there is Hno marked activity In unimproved real S'R(jtate. the demand for a lot with a -'froodern home upon It seems? insatiable. frHKnnd In consequence of this demand J H.Searl- every one who owns a vacant Blot In a favorable location is either ..JiLIM!nc nr mnklncr nl.'lllH tO build. , t fe Causes for Development. illl I The reasons for th,s cP,dcmIc of lm-' lm-' - ' Sprovcment are every week becoming A a more potent and urgent. The gap In QJIjj the Ssn Pedro railroad, the closing of I which will give Salt Lake City close A communication with a Pacific port, is 4 I becoming rapidly narrower. "Work on rfbS the Moffat line, which Is to open a I new, rich territory close to this city, u, Si l progressing favorably. The Oregon Ueift I Short Line Is pushing work on Its new 7 I yards and shops, the completion of fl 'which means that active construction of a creditable union depot for the city DIV vivlll be begun. Last, but by no means J fill, f.UM, prospects for early operations on 'A 2 the two great Government irrigation 2 iprojfects which are to transform "Utah's Srji? f "three principal " valleys into veritable . M Bsrdere, arc almost dally becoming .TTrore favorable. j Reclamation "Work. ta The Utah lake and Jordan river Im-m Im-m ,1 provement project will undoubtedly be 1? ! Pushed well toward consummation by T f the visit of Morris Blen. head of the 11 i legal department of the Government fn reclamation Fervlce. who Is here to nBjnskc a personal lnnprtlon and advise It-JM'Aith the local committee which has In 'lY- barce the arranging of a plan of ne-fowy ne-fowy foliation between the Government and yBf the water-users. Mr. Blen even be-:lKMort: be-:lKMort: coming here wan quite well ac-(jcaKiijnainted ac-(jcaKiijnainted with the situation In a gen-allfial gen-allfial way, and his Investigations thU9 JR' flr ave on'-' served to strengthen his aH! filth In and encouragement of the inwiiB. project. He has already expressed the ,K- op'nlon that on account of the absence Jjp.f speculative Interests In the existing r? canal companies there will be no legal . -1 , obstacle In the way of the Government ? $ dealing with the organizations' as they i 5 now exist a feature which will greatly tlrapllfy the work of the general com-mW com-mW ,y mlttee and hasten the closing- of the ? r.tcessary agreement between the pnr-SmJI pnr-SmJI t. ties at lntt-reat. !51 Jj Vast Governmental Improvement. i So far as the Government Is eon-Km eon-Km s cerned, It la displaying every' possible mm j Inclination to push Its part of the mm f. work on both the Utah lake project mU i and the larger project which afTect9 the mm Jlirw great valleyn. It only remains ' lor the people who are to be directly $m wneflted to get together in the matter J making the preliminary deals with $ the Government for the work to be WM i cone, and they are now displaying- a A "mniendable disposition to do this as f J promptly as possible. j The two irrigation projects will make : l'M e the intensified cultivation of a Q i illlon acres of highly productive lands .! " :! now only about one-third of 2n f v.3 .area 18 cultivated In a more or II I s Indifferent manner. The farms I s tos brought In would of themselves l i,po,rl a cllJ' of Salt Lale City's pret-3 pret-3 il,flz ln addition to this most re-Jit re-Jit T ,f3 lasting of nil Industrie?. Salt '.rtl 1 if ,bas 118 vcrv extensive mining In-'4ry,,4a,?,d In-'4ry,,4a,?,d Is getting the railroads to SofK . . lhe nianufacturlnsr and com-ln""1 com-ln""1 center whlch ,ta commanding 1 i-SSf1110" demands that It should be. low ,,teT are of the reasons why ! rni.iLrikf City li' growing and must jj i wntinue to grow, and why there lo no " iS"1 t0 anticipate a dull season ln AlMblrade- |