Show rj J S cilmi elji S FINEST IN ITS SUPERIOR we live iu sanitarium as once remarked beyond all consideration aro those reaching down with the most vital objects in this life and which every man who builds a home where ho wills because of his choice that is one whose residence in any locality is not enforced must hold paramount this consideration is that of health f s in the very nature of things it is simply impossible that utah should ever be unhealthy enjoying as it doea one of the most even and temperate climates ci mates known to alc tlc bocky mountain range and possessing the main virtues of a semitropical region together with the chief features that recommend harder climates it also recommend itself to those who seek a home not because it will furnish employment ana me necessaries of life nor because it furnishes a field for the rapid accumulation of wealth out who desire a homo in this section the climate of which embraces the most desirable features of desirable seasons the air is light the nights in summer cool and during the warm summer days the heat is tempered by the breezes sweeping from ice fields of the bleak mountain peaks while the deteriorating teri orating effects peculiar to tropical and semitropical semi tropical chimos are never experienced here there is just enough or a bare semblance for brief seasons of the regions of winter as experienced in the northern and eastern cities to give tone to the system elasticity to the step freshness io the cheeks healthfulness to alie form and brilliancy to the eyes the dry summers admit of excursions into the mountains for weeks at a stretch without fear of drenching brainstorms rainstorms rain storms once within the sacred depths of these mountain ravines no matter what may have been the heat of the day the cool breeze sighing amid the moaning among the pines and balsams carrying the murmurs of many a stream with them in their course and passing over the enduring snows of ages reaches the weak and worn out being rehabilitates his lagging spirits and ho lays him down to sleep at night enjoying the warmth which an abundance of covering affords and rejoicing that the creator of all has ever afforded some method for the restoration of man worn out in the straggle to leave a name among his fellows night after night in midsummer mid summer has alie writer lain amid the murmuring waving pines and shivering aspen leaves with a buffalo robe for a mat drobs a blanket for c bed and an overcoat for a quilt of down while alie couch upon which wo lay was the never wearying earth while tho walls which encircled us wore the over enduring hills and the canopy spread above waa the boundless universe of sky studded with stars of supernatural brightness and illuminated by a moon undimmed with the density of a hemisphere in a limited way features anro enjoyed by utah spreading out from the mouth of one of canyons or ravines all parts derive the benefits of the cool drafts of air which forever find their way in the summertime summer time like a refreshing spirit down the canyons and pass out into the valley which opens from it the situation is such that it has practically natural drainage alio water running to the southeastern part away into the jordan which ski west side of salt lake and ultimately finds its way into the bosom of the great inland ocean of america alio dead sea of the desert alie great salt lake in a recent exhaustive discussion of alie climate of salt lake by the eminent drs hamilton und we find the following remarkable statements based upon a consideration of dryness elevation and tonicity of the air which play so great a part in rendering a climate desirable and health giving upon this basis of reasoning we can make the plain statement and it cannot bo controvert ed that we as individuals and as a people subject to the manifold blessings so lavishly bestowed upon the section whore we live and leavo our being can work harder and accomplish more with less wear and tear in utah than anywhere else in the inhabitable globe with a fair endowment of brains as working capital wo can think faster with brawny arms backed with inherent energy wo can expend more force with less fatigue and render at sundown a day and quarter for a days work without unusual effort we cat assimilate more and sleep better in utah than the average mart else chere in brief while wo cannot exactly subsist and live upon ramified rarified air and hope wo do claim that under the stimulus of local conditions of climate etc we can return other things being equal in thought and force more and better work than the average of mankind in less fortunately endowed localities wo live in natures sanitarium we are subjected to healthful influences we dwell under a cloudless sky in the localize tion of the most favorable climatic properties dryness coolness and of the atmosphere we find tho ideal climate the effect ol 01 our local climate upon diseases in general is modifying the summer libat is not debilitating tho dry pure air and the cool invigorating nights enable patients to withstand the shock of surgical operations that could not often be safely attempted in humid climes indeed we as a people a community at large can retire to refreshing sleep to waki en with renewed life and energy to begin another day prepared for the grand struggle for subsistence the people of utah to the manner born are as robust and long lived as any in the world no city that we are aware of excels salt lake city in the matter of natural advantages for the physical well being of its citizens prom ocean to ocean no city that we are aware of has been dealt with more kindly by nature we have a great inland sea rolling at our feet possessing inherent virtues in its waters essentially senti ally tonic and invigorating to the general system wo have thermal springs in the suburbs of varying degrees of temperature and of varied properties we have the sunshine peculiar to a dry climate and we thrive upon it it is an old dutch proverb that paint cost nothing such are its preserving qualities in damp climates well sunshine as it comes to us through a clear pure atmosphere and from a cloudless eky costs less and is of finer pigment it reflects cheerfulness and makes the world smile and those so fortunate as to bo subjected to its benign influences well and happy what more could nature do foras for as some travelers have been so enthusiastic thusia of our climate as to declare that they have found here the most unique and wonderful climate on the faco of the globe however this may be we are well satisfied with what we know it to be and have laith that the long will be glad to recognize its remarkable quah ties herald |