Show OUR BOOM this booming business has always seemed a queer to the citizens of utah they cannot comprehend how that a clique of real estate peddlers could raise the price of land without devoting a moments labor on it each sturdy son of toil knows from whence the value on his farm lias come he realizes the hard knochs that he has endured ea dured the long hours of labor that ho has devoted for its improvement little by little the value of his land has increased just in proportion to tho improvement wrought by honest and long hours of toil of course a favored location and the improving of lands in a close proximity may at times enhance the value of a certain piece of ground but such instances have been rare and as abobo stated the man who has owned real estate has found the value of the same increased just in ratio to the labor put upon the ground therefore it seems strange how a boom could raise the price of real estate aa it has done in utah without the natural channel of progress being followed strangers have come into our midst and worked up fabulous prices in many instances and not a sign of progress has been attending this riso ot price but not tho rise of value of real estate sober and considerate si persons have viewed this state of affairs with silent contempt while the great majority of the people of this territory have looked on with more or less apprehension as to the final outcome But tr ere have been some however who haie wildly lent themselves to the sad schemes of speculation and the press has in some instances turned branly to say the least and favored what common sense should dictate would never prove n success hugo hotel schemes have been favored prospective public edifices have been discussed when all have been plans lain to ensnare the unwary the ENQUIRER can boast that it has ever given all the influence it has for solid improvements the worst enemies of tho paper will acknowledge that it has encouraged cou raged both public and private enterprises which would tend to progress and never an instance which has come to tho notice of this paper has been slighted whether the promoters were cormons mormons Mor mons jews or gentiles wo will plead guilty however to not having loaned ourselves to the pet fancies of clique commonly strangers in our midst who has endeavored to boom matters as in salt lake for example without a characteristic of true advancement the results are quite apparent we thin kand the boom which provo has been and is enjoying is coupled with such progress as can bo seen by our citizens and visiting strangers the buildings which are being erected the public improvements prove ments which aro being undertaken all tend to keep the provo boom a booming and anen the paper booms of our neighboring cities are past and forgotten we will still be forging ahead to that position among the cities of the intermountain inter mountain region which alone this city can command |