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Show I ft COME TO UTAH TO LIVE ; I ' 1 l.ttl c,Soe Pome ami die," was the way it was written 3f old. "Como to Utuli nnd live," is the invitation IM uxlcnelcd to you. Eastern people have an idea tlial Utah is largely made up of old relics, Mint it lias a M i crrat dead sea, lliat there is a valley or two, that m Salt Lako tliero is a temple nnd a tabernacle and an M'lf oigau, and 1 liar this comprises Utah. Jn almost overy jf i guide book anil nverv pamphlct.bcuring upon "Utah and Salt Lake, tho one 'fact that is put forth over overy- XK tiling else, is that this is a Mormon stronghold; that , 5f! the Saints do this nnd that, and thai in reality no ono r olso has over done anything toward building up tho ii ' ftji Hlato or adding to its wealth or progress. W.M' Hut neither Utah nor Salt Lake City is made up L' ' t. of relies. Jt is a great slate and its capital city is a i. tu great, city and a progressive people nro making of it ( t a greater citv ami a greater stalo. Its mines arc pro- j& ) dm-ing millions of dollars annually. Its farms, both j i'1 irrigated and arid, grow crops that can bo equaled no- I where olso and which turn in millions of dollars to tho farmers cverv year. Tho horticultural interests of n ,, Utah return i'lie' frail grower vast, sums annually. Tho jj'ljl livestock and woolgrowiug industries aro enormous. JJ'H The stale lias a most desirable climate; the sun shines H. .100 days overy year; tho winters are mild and tho ill1 sum mors aro delightful, 'j There aro moro beaurv spots, moro places to go, I' y more boaulifnl scenery, tho most magnificent sunsets, I ho finest salt water "bathing, tho most licali hgiving ; ' k waters in thermal springs to bo found anywhere clso iff- in I ho world. Thorc is gold nnd silver; lead and copper, iron and '. i , . zinc, conl and marble, and building stone in the mouu- ( Mt tain ranges in quantities that arc inexhaustible. ' j Tim ball Lake valley is the greatest smelling ccn- ' , tor in the world, and this industry is being enlarged. , There is salt enough in Ihe Great Salt lake, in tho ; j groat salt beds in tho woslern part of tho state, in . j the mountains iu .luab and Sanpcto counties, io supply ' the world for untold ages. . Salt Lake City as a residence city is the most boau- ' tiful city in the United Slates. Jt has the widest streets and moro of Ihom than an3 oilier city in tho : world. ft has moro handsome homes ihan anv oilier )i city in tho country. The view of mountain and vnl-Icy vnl-Icy and lake from any of these homes is unsurpnssed : 1 anywhere else. j Salt Lake as Business Center. m . As a business center Salt Lnko City has advan-tages advan-tages thai, few cities possess. It has a territory trib- i ul.ary fo il such as no other city in tho world has. A great, empire gives its trade to' Salt Lake. There is , ' more candy made iu Salt Lako City, population e-on- j; sidorcd, than in any other city in "the world. More j hardware is sold, population considered, than in any other place in the world; one firm in this line of trade j selling three times as much per capita, territory covered cov-ered considered, than in any other territory on earth. There aro more telephones in uso in Salt Lake City, population considered, than in any other city in the world. Thcro is no modern improvement that Salt Lake does not have: Its people have spent nine! ecu millions of dollars in building improvements in hvo years. It has made more public, improvements during dur-ing I ho past four years limn were mado in all tho preceding years since the city was founded. Tho city administration is in the hands of American people; wideawake, progressivo people, who have faith in the city and in the state, and who show their faith by ihcir works. Monthly Pay Rolls Enormous. Great, railroad systems aro expending millions of dollars in Salt Lake and in Utah, that these railroads employ an armj of S770 men, that they pa3" those cm-ploves cm-ploves every month $505,000 in wages; ono of theso railway systems is expending six million dollars this year in tho state in betterments. These railways make local purchases in Utah largely in Salt Lake, which aggregate a million dollars a yenr. The Utah Light and Railway company, owned by tho Tlarriman system, one of the best traction systems in the oountrv." employs 1192 men and has a monthly wage pay roll of $75,000. Teloplione companies employ 550 pcoplo in Salt Lake and pay these people $40,000 por month. Tho Utah Gas and Coke company have 320 men upon their pnv roll in Salt Lnko City, with a monthly wage of $32,000. In-the metal mining industry, of Utah 20 regiments of men nro employed, eight regiments in Salt Lake county, and to this groat army $2,000,000 por month is disbursed in wages. Coal companies in Utah employ 2(5SO nion, who receive in wnges $150,000 per month. In the matter of pay rolls, therefore, Salt Lnko and Utah workmen receive in wages from tho greater corporations throe million dollars por month, the larger part of which is paid in Snlt Lake. The water system of Salt Lake is the best, and its water t he purest, in the United States, and tho supply adequate for a city of half a million people. The largest contract for sidewalks in the history of anv city in tho United Stales was awarded in I90S, anil a person can walk 217 miles now on sidewalks which reach out all over the city. Opportunity Comes Every Day. Business in Salt Lake is upon a solixl foundation. Its banks arc among the strongest in ttlio United Stales. Its business 'men rank Al in tho commercial world. It is an ideal place to livo. Opportunities nru great. Thoy aro presented every day. They are offered to vou. Hotter come to Salt; Lako City and to Utah to live. Help us make of this stalo the greatest stalo in tho Union. Here are somo of the things which Utah has, which Salt Lake has, that will appeal to you to conm hero and live. The figures and the facts tell vou Hip story. They aro not. exaggerated, not overdrawn; they have been carefully compiled. They show what. Salt Lako City and Utah have and what people will find who may be seeking for a. new homo, whefo there is opportunity to expand, llorc aro tho figures: SALT LAKE OTY Area in acres , 27,57S.24 Area in square miles 43.9 Elevation abovo sea feet: Orogon Short Line depot '1253 Denver & Rio Grando depot 4224 Latitude: Port Douglas. 40 degrees, 45 minutes, 47.47 seconds north. Longitude, 111 degrees, 50 minutes, .IS, 2 socquds west. Population, .Inly 1, 1909, estimated...... .105,000 Population, .luly 1, J900 (U. S. census) , 53,531. Valuation for taxation, 1009 .-;52,191,220 Tux rate in mills .in Municipal revenue. 190S $ J,S00,:!7(i Miles of streets 350 Miles of paved si roots, Julv .1, 1909 24 Miles of sidewalks .Inly l" 1909 .... 217 Miles of public sewers. .Inly 1. 1909 122 Building permits issued for 1909, estimated G,000,000 Building permits issued during six years For year 1901, eosl $ 1,34S,400 For year 1905, cost .1,380.100 For year 1 00(1. cost 2,2S2.S0() For year 1907, cost....... 3.133,900 For year 190S, cost 4i72S,3S0 For six months, J909 (to July 1) 2,9151,500 For year 1909 ' G,00U,000 Total, six years $1S,SS7,35S All streets south o North Temple street aro ono hundred foeot in width between tho curbs, tho sidewalks side-walks and lawns upon each sido of street are sixteen feet in width. Whichever way you go from llio Temple block the even numbers aro on the right, tho odd on tho left. Main street is Ihe Salt Lake meridian lino; Sonth Temple or Brigham street tho base lino, for the government gov-ernment survey. All streets are al. right, angles with each other. Tho blocks are forty rods square, or ten acres. Salt Lako City was incorporated iu IS51. .Icdodiah Mi. Grant, Mormon, was its first mayor, elected in April, 1S51; John S. Bransford, American, the present pres-ent mayor, elected iu November, 1907. Since its incorporation, in-corporation, fifty-eight years ago, fifteen mayors havo been chosen. " . The City and County building occupies what was onec known as Washinglon square. Willi llio ground, it cost $1,175,400. Its length is 271 feel; width, 150 feet; main walls, 72 feel; the domo is 2G0 feet above the basement lloor. Its interior is finished in Utah onyx. Police deoarlment costs $75,000 per annum; tho city prison cost. $40,000. Fire department costs $72,000 per annum. Thoru are 1.'1J-1 tire hydrants in the city. Street railway mileage is eighty-eight miles. There, aro thirty-two miles of double tracks, nineteen miles single, five miles from the city limits to Murray. Salt Lake Citv and London, Fnglaiiel. were lighted light-ed by electricity the same dato. Tho total number ot electric, street lights is 090. Salt Lake City was the second city to instnll electric elec-tric street cars. Six steam railways enter the city. PUBLIC SCHOOLS Number of public schools .Number of teachers employed......... m' nt School population i -vl-.. Total enrollment ln''i - Per cent in attendance., U' Value of school buildings 1000,000 Teachers' salaries annually $ 35.o,SUy Total expense, including building fund, for year ending June .".0, 1909 $ 913,924 Expense per capita $ ' 31. 9o Average care of each public school building 100,000 PRIVATE SCHOOLS In addition to the common schools there arc a number of private schools, academies and colleges. Kowland Hall academv, Episcopal, property valued at; ........ T. ....... 1 ...!.. t ... .$ Io0,000 Gordon academv, Congregational, proporty valued at . . ." 125,000 Westminster college, Presbyterian, proporty valued at 215,000 All Hallows college, Catholic, property valued val-ued at !........ 250,000 St. Mary's academy, Catholic, property valued at " 200,000 PARKS Number of parks 2 Liberty park contains, in acres 100.5 Pioneer park contains, in acres 10 East Brigham, East First, Second and Third South streets aro parked for twelve blocks on each sido of tho strecl. This parking, including sidewalk, is 35 feel wide on each sido of street, leaving the street 52 feet wide between' curbs. Sixth and Seventh Fast streets are parked in center and sides of streets. PUBLIC LIBRARY Salt Lake has a free public library, tho building build-ing being Ihe gift of John Q. Packard; cost $120,000; the furnishings cost $5000, and on the shelves are 35,000 volumes; mmnicnnr cllllJ 12,000 per annum, raised bv a special tax M'il ied by the city council; 1000 persona visit Mr library daily. flL WATER supply Capacity per day, in gallons . 72,40oMp. Number water usors, July I, .1909 71 fly Average daily consumption, in gallons. 201000'($ Average daily consumption in gallons, per capita V" V - 3 fs' Miles of water mams, July I, 1909... j Value of water system $ 6,000,0 .rf Cost, of maintenance, per annum $ G3V fl. 'Revenue from water system, per nnnum.$ 2060 fi There arc two systems of waterworks in ono a gravity system, the supply coming fr( ifi the streams and lakes iu the Wasatch rangd iacont to the city. There aro six Tc?oroirj, i li largest being in Parleys canyon, into wbi &p 51.100,000 gallons pour daily: llio otPr in Creek canvon; into which IS.000,000 gallons n( 4K daily. Water from Big Cottonwood canyon lfo through a concrete conduit six feet in dianiaj ,& and eight miles long, built in 1906 nt a costi L1 $.150,000, and drops down a smllway mlo p ffl lev's Canvon reservoir. Tho other system ia ar pumping "system for irrigation alone, wateri ,V' ing brought from Utah lake, twenty-five mj fettf distancl from Salt Lake City, by two canals'-! There arc 109,786 yards of lawn in tho . fi or 227 acres. , f litf CHURCHES I J Salt Lako is represented bv nenrly alii i$ft nominations.' Outside of the Latter-day M thcro are manv churches in Salt Lake. The Path JSr calhedral, the first cut hod nil west of Chic .j which has a seating capacity for 1200; 'fc contains a grand organ costing .$t)000; 0 ' $H50,000. Lxcepting the Mormons, the Cal lies have the most numerous educational !&I 'charitable institutions in tho city. $,) The Presbyterians havo throe churches,' ministers and 1000 communicants; tho p Prosbvtcrinn church cost. $190,000. J Protestant Episropal church has two chnrc' . ' St. Marks cathedral and St. Pauls, with 1 communicants. it Methodist Episcopal has five churcliC3; f t ' First, M. E.. church cost $90,000. j . The Congrcgntionalist5 have three clinrcl First church, wliich cost $120,000, and liavhT membership of 550, and Phillips church, vt is institutional, with a plant costing $40,000,? j . having a membership of ;00; and tho Plvnid L church, a new one one north side, with a'prj .I--'-commodious building. . The Baptists two. Unitarian, Lutheran, GI tian Science, Seventh Day Advcntists, Christ t Y. M. C. A., and the Jewish church, all j) handsome church buildings. f lb |