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Show I In Bote! Corridors $ MIIIMIMMIIMUMHMM W. II. GROOM of Memphis, Tenn., accompanied by his wife, has spent a few days In Salt Lake, guests of the Wilson. Mr. Croom Is tho representative of a large cotton establishment. This is his first visit to Salt Lake and his observations here have led him to speak In warmest terms of promise of the city. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the great improvements that are being made and tho vast amount of building build-ing being done and projected, this is the only city ho knows of that Is not up with the country that supports It. He is satisfied satis-fied that the future growth of Salt Lako will bo far greater and more rapid than It has ever been In the past. All conditions, condi-tions, so far as he has been able to observe ob-serve point that Tfav "The South," Mr. Croom said, "is enjoying en-joying great prosperity. Crops arc good and generally command satisfactory prices. Memphis is Improving rapidly, and has become a great business center. Tho eanltary conditions there aro up to date, and Memphis is a desirable place In which to live, A great deal of wealth centers there." In responso to questions relative to tho city government of Memphis, Mr. Croom said; "Last February tho State Legislature Legisla-ture passed an act embodying pnmttcallv the Galveston plan for tho cltv government govern-ment of Memphis. In April following the plan was adopted. It ousted all the city officials and abolished their offices. The commission went to work, and I am Inclined In-clined to believe the plan would have worked pretty well. In the meantime the Mayor contested the constitutional right of tho Legislature to doprlve him of his office. The constitutionality of tho act was sustained In the lower court. The Supremo court, however, about two weeks ago declared the act unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, so that we arc back again to the old form of municipal government under tho charter of 1SD5. The commission plan was not In operation long enough to determine de-termine whether or not It Is an improvement improve-ment on the present city government. The consensus of opinion is that the plan would have worked well. The city Is governed by an upper and lower house. Tho lower house consists of fifteen members. mem-bers. Tho upper house has five. The Mayor Is without power, not having a veto, and Is In reality mcrelv a figurehead, figure-head, so that a shrewd politician in the upper house can really control the legislation legis-lation of the entire city. It Is expected that matters will so shape themselves In tho future as to give tho cltv an opportunity op-portunity of a fair trial of the Galveston plan or something analagous to it. "From hero we are going to tour tho Northwest. We are Just beginning to realize re-alize what a tremendous country this great West is." J. H. TURNER, a prominent mine operator ope-rator and owner In Yerlngton. New, and other camps In the West, returned Saturday Satur-day to his apartments at the Daly hi this city from a month's tour of the Northwest North-west on pleasure and business bent. In tho course of his travels he visited San Francisco, Portland and the sound cities. Speaking of San Francisco, ho said: "The city has accomplished wonders in the way of rebuilding, and would have been much further advanced but for the labor troubles. The labor unions of San Francisco are tho most unreasonable body of men that ever organized for anv purpose In this country, and the most, inconsiderate of the rights of all but themselves. This Is the way they operate: ope-rate: A contractor figures on a building. His estimates are based on prevailing wages of stone .masons, bricklayers, carpenters car-penters and plumbers. He signs tho contrnct to erect the building, expecting to pay stone masons, say, 5 per day. When the work Is ready to begin the stone maconB demand $8 per day. The other workmen aro enually unreasonable 1 In their demands. Tho result Is the building does not go up That kind of work would break up all the contractors In tho city In a vory short tlmo. These unions urge as an excuso that these enormous wage scales are necessary to meet tho high price of living. There Is no foundation In fact upon which to base any such reason. The fact Is that thousands thou-sands of these laborers occupy refugee quarters free of rent, and living Is little, If any, higher In San Francisco than other cities In the country. "It is not ns high ns It is right here in Salt Lake, nnd never was. But they are going to lose out, Their demands are unreasonable and unjust and will continue to be repudiated as they have been all along the line Tho street car union lost out, nnd lt will be the fate of tho others. Mj opinion Is that the final result re-sult will bo that San Francisco will emerge from her present labor troubles a non-union city. "The Northwestern country never gave promise of so rich a. harvest as this year's yield promises. Times are good every- where. In Portland, where thero is no boom on, a large number of steel structures struc-tures aro being sent skyward, and there are thousands, mind you, thousands, of buildings going up throutout the city. Seattle Is a busy mart- Everything there Is rush and activity. The States of Ore-iron Ore-iron nnd Washington were never In their history In such a flourishing condition. ,'J iiiiSti nro the conditions which prevail everywhere. Hero In Salt Lake tho same spirit of progress Is manifest that prevails pre-vails In Portland and Seattle, but on a smaller scale. Salt Lake Is all right and In a year or two, If kept going, will compare com-pare favorably with any of our Western cities." C. T. BURCHARD of Boston, managing director of the Utah Mining. Milling and Exploration company, tho mines of which arc situated In the Star district, Beaver county, adjoining the Moscow mine, arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake Saturday morning and registered at the Cullen. Mr. Burchard Is on a visit of Inspection tb the property, which Is, and during the past year has been, In progress of do-volopment do-volopment under the personal supervision and direction of Mr. Ferguson, who, by properly directed effort, hua long since demonstrated that tho property Is one of the most valuablo In Beaver county. The property has been oponcd up in such manner as to exposo large bodies of high-grade high-grade shipping, oro. Much credit is due lo tho far-eeeing Judgment of Manager Burchard In steadfastly adhering to the good opinion of the property which he formed years ago. SAMUEL H. CLAY of Caldwell, Ida., is stopping at the Cullen. Mr. Clay is an old Salt Laker and Is proud of It. It has been seven years since he was here, but he says that coming Into tho city after leaving Farmlngton every foot of the ground seemed familiar and "the train could not got in quick enough to keep off homesickness for old Salt Lake." Mr. Clay is direct from the scene of activity In the Haywood trial In Boise. Ho is placing his book, "The Assassination Assassina-tion of Ex-Governor Steunenberg as Confessed Con-fessed by Harry Orchard." with local denlore. Tho book contains a life of Steunenberg and Harry Orchard's story complete. For a number of years Mr. Clay was In closo touch with the ox-Governor and has written a very full and authentic sketch of his life. Tho general Impression Impres-sion In and around Boise In regard to the outcome of the trial of Haywood, ho says, Is that, thero will either be a conviction or a hung jury. Tho State Is making a stronger caso each day and the defense has weakened themselves by almost every witness put on the stand. Mr. Clay expects to remain In Salt Lako until Thursday, whon ho leaves for Denver at 5 the East with his book |