Show STRANGERS OPINION A witchita man tells some facts about provo EVILS OF REAL BOOM it near result iu any good to a genii A elins opinion with no ax to grind editor 1 l I 1 am a visitor in your pity and haap read your article iu a late relative to the boom appreciate its importance and feel through it at liberty to submit a impression of your keople and town your citizens are far above their reputation in alie east they are generous fair and zealus zea luu and I 1 think commingled with a honest immigration imma gration bould make for utah valley a name worldwide world wide in its scope of enterprise but the millstone mill stone of the real estate man is already about yourn ecle his appearance pe arance lias put a blight upon all healthy growth and in consequence your town is doomed for the present to 1 standstill stand still of po ably years on my way here at waiting booma 1 overheard this provo would be a good ordinary town if her people would lot it but everybody is tor sale at kensas city prices and nobody can to buy at such when the town can never be more than a good averlee county seat but this does not eay it all nor half yon want people to come here and help make a city for you yet when one ha gotten this far without a damain report of the place he is met w etli an prohibitory price wherever wh prever he to locate how can the eastern mar frell his city home for 2500 and come heau ith his family to a mere tow n and plant it all down in a lot with nothing to with yet it is just such men a ahn 2500 men you need the millionaire and lie pauper are alike s to you you must depend on the middle alie mediocrity hen you welcome a stranger with prices i which eay tu him bedout we dout want you we can ret aloag without you he says the bame and do leaves with a word moriho town would you this is what is daily taking place it is no exaggeration I 1 have seen wichita kansas sacked and tor by those real estate sharks san diego and los angeles with lots ladd out twenty miles from the city were laid out by these same people und they are still laid out like any other corpse to decay and be forgotten lots hersheld here held at a year ago I 1 am told are up high and dry at now what has happened since does a gold mine exist on each lot encourage your people to have these thousand of lots built enabell them at a fair price and bring strangers in and be sure each stranger w lio settles and succeeds will send for a dozen others in due time I 1 said I 1 was a visitor yea I 1 came not to buy speculate or invest I 1 grind no ax 1 only give the town a strangers str angera opinion of it as based upon and compared with a mans experience if you should find aliis worthy of comment send a copy of the ENQUIRER to kan may 5 1890 |