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Show 1. - pS" P Has tne old year been pood to Zion? KVsk the merchant, llio banker, tho mutchor, the mechanic, the laborer isk all the good people of this great city fin the great inland empiro in tho mountain and arid region of the greatest great-est country on earth. There -will be a unanimous answer. Yes! IS? Did tho old year do better by all in B i Zion than in tlic years that havo gone? ffiJS Ask the same persons, and again -will B3; conic an answer that will be unani-afc.' unani-afc.' ) mous; Yes. B: ! And why should not Zion have pros- t pered? There arc many reasons! The j. i Mint one is that Salt Lake is an Amor-( Amor-( 1 ican city. Its administration has been, ; is now. and will continue to be, Amcri-i Amcri-i can. When, two years ago in Novem- ' her. tho American party won its great ' , " victory tho eyes of the world centered ' upon tho capital city of Utah. Two : years passed and. the Americans of Salt Lake again said to tho world: Salt ; Lake is au American city. That tolls the story. Thai is tho principal reason for its unparalleled prosperity. Gain in Population. One hundred thousand people now call Salt Lake home. Fiftcon thousand population has boon 'added during tho past yenr, Three-quarters of a million people depend upon Salt; Lake as tho i distributing point from which 1o ob- J tain supplies. As a jobbing point it is forging to the front; as a manufaclur-ing manufaclur-ing point it has made wonderful strides. I The tin-bucket brigade bus grown to be. I ar army, and without this tin-bucket l)rig!id.e no city can prosper. And Salt Lake City is prospering. There has been a financial fluny in i- tne country. Salt Lake has known nothing of a flurry. Had it not been inat tho banks of'the city, in common with all tho other greater cities, had issued clearing house certificates, Salt 4 ijaKera would have given the flurry but ipasHing notice. The certificates were evidence that a flurry did exist, but not in Salt Lnkc. For Zion has prospered pros-pered during tho past, vear and will continue to prosper. Building Boom On. . As ono of tho evidences of prosperity J" bait Lake, it can be said that during uic good old year of J 907 thcro wore "reeled in this capital citv of Utah lhia. capital city of the great inland i nipirc practically 1000 new buildings, wic exact number is D35. Thcso struc-iircB struc-iircB cost $,200,000. This is an in-'JtUri in-'JtUri 'J over the year 1000 of 1, 870,030, Jfitlf ;ri- "or thc 'car 1003 of $2,720,380. BWS w,,;iL American ideas luivo $ r. SHfakc "3h0WS U,C I)ros'1crit-' o (fy Public Improvements. ft! 1 fill !U"i- bui,lUK of. the citv bcault-'i bcault-'i I Lalto p-- c ,n,,lkinK of greater Salt lie i,nUy' lhor wnfl expended for pub-U pub-U ' vpr lirnnlB ,lurin' 11,0 7CiLr 1907 4? Htieotf ,0D0'90- This s or Pftvetl :lM - faeiiu ,m?C(1 walks, incrensed wator W L Rl'o M t tH In:iku to city what it Wi ii"nLr; a frcator Salt Lake. Tho Wl . lm ' haA fi ",ilcs f Itived stroolH, W !- miles ,,f "Mlts of sidewalks, has 107 01 sewers and 175 miles or water .mains. The. larger pa.rl of .these improvements, im-provements, with tho exception of tho water mains, was made under the administration ad-ministration of the American party. Yea, verily, Salt Lake City has prospered. pros-pered. What the Figures Show. The expenditures for sidewalks alone during the year now ending were almost al-most $114,000; for paving extensions, $420,223, Bur. here are the figures, taken tak-en from the flies in ihe City Engineer's office: Vvnlermain extensions $ 75.000.00 New water supply mains.... 250.000.00 Sewer extension:! 100.000.00 Intercepting sewer 12S.070.81 Pavlner extensions .' 420,22:1 IS Pavlnfr repairs 30.000.00 Curb and gutter extensions.. 19.9513. 55 Sidewalk extensions lin.-182.0S Stono block crosswalks 1 1,165.111 Cottonwood conduit 29.050.S7 I'lro station No. 5 1.037.35 Liberty park band stand 3.122.21 Garbage building 5.1SG.04 Grading north Main street 1.312.50 Miscellaneous 1,87-LGi Total $t. 109.710.80 During the year the intercepting sewer sew-er was com pleted at a cost of $128,000. This connects with the gravity sewer, and where this connection is made a pumping plant is to be installed. When this is done, Salt Lake City will have a sj'stcm of sewerage which will equal the best in tho country. Yes, Zion has prospered. As to Wator Supply. Of course, the marvelous growth of Salt Lake City necessitated a greater water supply. "Tho Big Cottonwood conduit, con-duit, a wonderful piece of engineering, by tho way, brought the water into tho Parleys canyon reservoir. From there great mains were necessary to distribute I it. ThoBG have been laid. A quarter mill-I mill-I ion dollars has been expended in putting these mains In. Water began llowing through the big mains on December 3. Tho mains are 3f inches in diameter and extend from the Fori Douglas mili-tarv mili-tarv reservation, to Second West street, traversing Fifth South street and being intercepted with laterals, feeding almost tho entire central portion of llio city with water at a high pressure- Vl'his syritcm supplants the lG-inch system, making it possible on a few minutes uotioo to concentrate thc entire wator supply for the city in a given section, thus aiding the Are department in tho event that uuusuul demands may require it. During tho venr there were about 1000 water permits issued, tho largest number over issued in ono year since the system was inaugurated. Heal Estate Booming. Kcnl estate in Zion has boon sought for by many Eastern bu3ors during tho vear.' The purchases havo been on a large scale and for tho purposo of orect-ing orect-ing building thereon.. The heavy purchases pur-chases of real cstato on South Alain street during the latter part of the year fnOO swelled tho volume of business and caused the high mark to bo reached, but during tho year 1907. whilo tho dcnls in Salt Lake dirt havo not comprised purchases in such Jaric blocks as during tho period above moutioned, nevertheless tho transactions have reached an extraordinary amount. Ileal cstato dealers, it can bo said, havo cn-ioj-cd a prosperous year, and tho outlook out-look for tho coming year is unusually bright. The .Tudge building, corner of Alain and Third South streets, ono of thc first of tho skyscrapers to bo erected, erect-ed, will soon be under roof. Tho contractors con-tractors havo boon delayed through inability in-ability to obtain material. This building, build-ing, when completed, will bo known as the homo of main' railroad men, who represent the various lines and agencies in Salt. Lake Cit3'. Thc handsome concrete con-crete building of tho Utah Savings and Trust company Sins been r-ompletod and is now occupied. Tho Nowhousc skyscrapers sky-scrapers arc being pushed. Thc steel for tho great structures has boon delayed de-layed in arriving, as also other structural struc-tural material; but now that it is coming com-ing in work will bo rushed as rapidly as possible through tho winter months. Several other skyscrapers are projected during the coming year, which promises to be as good to Zion as has the past. What the Merchant Says. Thc merchant has had no cause of complaint during thc good old year of 1907. Never beforo in tho history of Salt La ko City has he been enabled to turn the stock upon his shelves as many times as this ono. Thc throngs which flocked to his business house at all times, and especially during the past mouth, arc evidence to him tfcut the old year has boon good to Zion, to its people, and especially to him. lie knows Salt Lake City has prospered, is prospering pros-pering and will continuo to prosper. In tho Banking World. Tn banking circles in Salt Lake tho past year has surpassed all previous years. Tho bank clearances for tho first seven months of tho year exceed thoso of 1000, in spito of the tremendous increase in-crease of thc clearances of that year over all previous years. Thcro was a slight falling off duriug tho months of August and September, but the October Oc-tober clearances ran fur ahead of the two previous months and exceeded tho same months for tho year before 1)3' nearly $0,000,000. For the last two months of tho -enr thoic is apparently a falling off in tho clearancos,-but this is onl3 apparent, since tho change in the method of conducting the clearinghouse clearing-house business in Salt Lake during November No-vember and December has made it impossible im-possible to compare tho clearances of thoso months with the same months of other years. In all other years it has been the custom among bankers hero to conduct their clearing-house accounts on a strictly cash basis. But often, instead of pai'ing up all balances to the clearing-house at the end of tho day's busi-noss busi-noss tho banks would allow their accounts ac-counts to run over until tho next day since a bank which might hold a credit against other banks at tho close of ono day might have a debit at the end of tho next day and the two might balance. bal-ance. Tho method of carding accduut3 in this way tended to enlarge the clearing-house accounts. But under the present pres-ent S3'stem, where tho clcariug-house accounts ac-counts are sottled by means of clearinghouse clearing-house certificates, the accounts are not carried over so that over3' account is parcticalb closfd at tho end of each day. I ii spite of this method of keeping tho clearances down to tho lowest, possible pos-sible figures they comparo J'nvorably with those of previous years and the to tal for tho 3'car ivOi is over nine millions mil-lions in excess of that for tho vear 190U. A compilation of the resources of the Salt Lake banks shows a strength that is enviable. There are over twelve millions mil-lions of cash and quickly convertible securities in tho banks of this city. The capital stock of tho twelve banks reaches the total of nearly- throo millions, mil-lions, and the individual deposits reach tho grand total of $24,5S0.S73.G7. Salt Lake has every reason to bo proud of her financial institutions, not only on account of the strong showing in the midst of tho recent financial llurr', but on account of the yvny that they have contributed to thc assistanco of tho cilizons in carrying ou bufeinces. Tabular Tabu-lar statements showing tho condition of the several banks and also tho clearinghouse clearing-house business appear in this issue. Railroads Spend Millions, Tho steam railroada Ttnow that Salt Lake is prospering. Thcv givo evidence of this fact by expending millions of dollars in yards, and terminals, and shops in Salt Lako Citv. They know tho old year has been good to Zion. Improvements Im-provements now under construct ion hero aggregate two and u half million dollars. dol-lars. Others to follow will necessitate an expenditure of that much more. Yea, verily the old year has been good to Zion. Tho street ear systom of Salt Lako is being bottored. M'hc llarriman management manage-ment is putting into the traction system millions of dollars. The entire system has been rolnid with heavier steel, new equipment has been ordered, has been shippnd and will be put into use within a week or two. Tho Utah Light & Railway Rail-way company knows that tho old year has been good to Zion. Pay Streaks Behind Zion. There ar many pay streaks, one ni ter auothor, dovolopiug behind Zion. Yellow, and white, and red metals, in dust, in nuggot, in groat chunks of ore, have been taken from tho mines of Utah, but anothor pay streak ia developing, and its product is ouormous, Black diamonds dia-monds by millions of tons havo been taken from Utah collieries, millions of acres of conl lands still remain undeveloped, unde-veloped, but tho grcatost pay streak is being developed constaut.lv. In the old da3s wator was an absoluto perquisito to briug this pay stroak out, but later years, howovcr, havo demonstrated that the pa3' streak can bo worked without an- water whatever excont what naturo has conserved in tho soil. This pav streak is agriculture, horticulture and tho inevitable beneficiary and auxiliar3' of both livestock. And what a wonderful won-derful development thcso threo last have made. Resources of the State. Alctal mines of Utah, coal mines of Utah, clay products of Utah, this 3ear will aggrcgato $50,000,000. Agriculture, horticulture and the livestock 5ndustr3' iu Utah this vear will aggregate $75,-000,000. $75,-000,000. Good pay streak, is it not? Marvelous tho resources of thc State! And all this is what Salt Lako can fall back upon. All this supports tho capital of the State. You did not know it, did you? But it is a fact. These are tho developed resources of tho State. Beside thcso there aro the undovcloned resources, in tho mountains of iron, in the great beds of asphallum, of clatcritc, of gilsonite. .iust now opened, development just begun, experts declaro will in fivo years equal ir not exceed tho total mineral output of tho State from a clollar-and-cent standpoint. In addition to this thcro aro threo great States which pour into Utah and Salt Lake annually $35,000,000, and this is another resourco that Salt Lako has to fall back upon. Idaho. Nevada and Wj'oming are friends of Salt Lako und a largo part of the wealth produced in thoso States comes to Utah and to Zion. Woalth of Utah. Thc real value of thc tangible property prop-erty in the State is almost $000,000,000. Hero are the figures: Real cstato and lmprovements.$270,995i,S19 Livestock , 32,202,100 Farm Implements and machinery ma-chinery -4.09S.51-l Manufacturing machinery, tools, otc 10.G10.6ri4 Railroads and equipment 110,000,000 Street railways, waterworks.. 20,188,955 Miscellaneous 100,000,000 loiai Dji.iu, (.ii This grand total is based upon thc returns made hy the assessors of the soveral counties. Add to this tho output out-put of tho mines for this 3'car, which will amount to $-12,000,000, and it will be seen that Utah has tangible property prop-erty amounting to almost six hundred million dollars. Nover before in the history of the Stato has Utah been so prosperous as now. in so far as the fanning community com-munity is concerned. Money has poured into the coffers of tho tiller of tho soil, of tho stockmau, of the wool grower, of the horticulturist, this year as never before. This year thc horn of pleul3r has been opened in Utah. Utahus Are Prosperous. IOastcrn people have but little knowledge knowl-edge of the resources of this great State. With a population now of 400,-000 400,-000 people, who own an avorago of $1500 worth of propert3r each, is a demonstration of tho fact that Utah is a good place to immigrate to. And it is! Almost oveo'thing can bo grown in the Stale excopt a few of thc tropical fruits. Cotton grows in Southern Utah, thc small grains in the central and northern parts of thc State. Scvcuty-fivo millions of dollars is a goodly sum for agriculture, horticulture horticul-ture and livestock. It means much for this reason. It shows marvelous resources. And the 3'iold this year is not phenomenal by I an3' means. Ono thousand bushels of peaches per acre was not an extraordinary extraor-dinary yield; four and a half tons of hay, -100 bushels of potatoes, 1S00 bushels bush-els of onions, 35 bushels of com, 35 bushels of whoat, '15 bushels of oats, 15 bushels of harloy and 25 bushels of r3o per acre aro uot unusual, not phenomenal this yuar; and, lest it be forgotten, sixteen tons of sugar beets, worth $'1.50 per ton. grown on ono ucro of Utah soil, and of wool tho fleeces average seven pounds. Where cau 3'ou find a country more fruitful? Grain on .Dry Parois. Utah farmers havo discovered, too, that small grains cau be grown upon dry land. '1 hey havo discovered that tho irrigated lands cau be used to bettor bet-tor advantage and produce greater results re-sults in other crops than small grain; and thcso iry farms yield 35 bushels of wheat per acre. Bench lands heretofore here-tofore thought to bo uboless aro found to be prolific if tho right, kinds of crops aro sown thereon. Brains aro working. Scientific farming is being introduced and tho results aro shown in the statements printed above. Tho crops havo been hnrvostod, thy gain or loss over the previous year has boon figured, and tho gain is tremendous, tho Joss nil. Facts for Native and Immigrant. As Baid, fow Utahns know what tho Stato produces. The resources are unknown un-known except to a small -minority. Tell an individual that almonds grow in Salt Lako county, and ho would laugh at 3ou. But lhc3" do, and are growing upon tho cast bench near Salt Lako City. Tell another that English walnuts grow in thc upper end of tho Salt Lake vallcj' north of Ogdcn, and ho, loo, would Binilo and question 3'our veracity. But it is truo. Say to another that on tho Levan bench a strip of land three miles wide b3' eight miles long, in Juab county that this year 00,000 bushels of wheat were raised, as against 50,000 bushels last year, upon absolutely dry farms, and he would doubt you. But it is a fact. Again to another sav that this strip of ground has produced 3S bushels of wheat per aero, and ho would srnile again. But tho grain has beon grown. Tho harvest discloses tho 3'icltL Facts cannot bo contradicted. If 3ou tell another friend that arid farming is not 011I3- successful in Utah, but moro than a success; that steam plows are now at work proparing soil for planting next year, it having been demonstrated that land fallowed one year prior to sowing seed produces bettor bet-tor crops, he, too, would doubt j'our statement. But it is true. Figs Grow to Perfection. Say to others that down iu Iron county coun-ty fips grow better and moro prolific than thistles; that Jimglisk walnuts and almonds and pecans grow thero in tho samo orchards with apricots and pears and peaches and plums well, ho would most likely reply 03' saving: ''Oh, come ofl What aro you thinking about? Iron county is made up of a desert and mountain moun-tain find thcro aro mountains of almost pure iron, but as to flgs oh, pshaw, 3'ou'ro daft." But figs do grow tthere, and they grow to perfection. And the Esoalanto desert is ono of tho greatest ranges in tho Slate for sheep. Should 3'ou mention Hint in Washington Wash-ington county not only fruits, many of them tropical, grow to perfection, but that cotton grows to perfection; that cotton cloth and cotton batting were manufactured there up until a year ago, and that the growing of the staplo was stopped onl3' becauso the growers could not get negroes to pick tho white bolls, his answor would bo liko others. But it is true. Coming back again to tho central portion of the State, tho granary of Utah, and in tho Sanpete vallc3', the stories 3011 could tell of thrj wonderful yield iu the w;ij- of small grain, 3'our listener would bo astonished. In Northern Utah. And then again, talk about Weber county and of its apples and peaches and penrs, and its vinc3ards and its acres upon acres of tomatoes, and of the thousands upon thousands of caus of fruits and vegetables which its canneries can-neries turned out this 3'ear whv, 3'our listener would bo astonished. T 3our story-teller continued his narrative and told 3'ou that a fivo-acro applo orchard in that county would support a family and that, each acre should yield, and docs y iold, 750 bushels of apples, worth $750,"he would bo telling thc truth. Then go with him into Box Elder count3, as he details .to 3'ou a truo story of hc great orchards Ihoro, of tho thousands thou-sands and thousands of bushels of peaches and other fruits which thoso orchards produce, and of tho melons and grapes shipped from thero this your, you would bo more than astonished. aston-ished. Go farthor north, into Cache county, which grows moro wheat than any other county in thc Stato, and 3011 likewise would be astouishod at tho knowledge you would gain regarding tho agricultural agricul-tural aud horticultural resources of the Stato. While in Cache county you would also learn that in thc livestock industry 25.000 head of cattle and 100,-000 100,-000 sli'ocp find corrals and barns to house thorn, aud that two condensed milk factories use 15,000 gallons of milk daily. All this wcnllh which comes from tho ground in the way of metals, coal, clav product, agriculture and horticulture; horticul-ture; from livestock, from wool and from dairy products, is what Salt Lake banks upon. It is what stands behind the cits' of Salt Lako. It is n magnificent magnifi-cent resource, and shows to tho people of the country what wonderful possibilities possi-bilities thoro nrc here, what u great field Ihoro is hero for people to acquire ac-quire homes at a nominal cost, and where the interests uro so diversified that no one need over bo in fear from an agricultural slundpoiiil of an absolute abso-lute failuro of crops. Thero are millions mil-lions of acres in XUnh opon for tho ' farmer who would run a dry farm under irrigation projects: tliorc is a vast area of country to bo hud. The area of tho Stato is almost ono and one-half times as groat, us that of New England, but tho population is small, llcnoo, thero is room here or thousands of peoplo, and U1C3' aro com- ing. Yos, the old year has bocn good to Zion. Tho new promises to bo better. |