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Show ENLARGING THE CITY. The City Council is doing excellent work in taking in tho adjoining urban population that desires to join thoir for-( for-( lines and interests with tho people of this city. There can bo no doubt of tho mutual benefit lo ha derived from this joinder of interests and mcrgor of population. pop-ulation. The eily will receive advantage in coming inlo its own in the way of census growth, and will be able to aid the newcomers to metropolitan benefits which aro practicable and desirable. The annexation of Sugar House Ward is tho largest hi area of any that has occurred, and especially this will bo so if certain other tracts in that neighborhood neigh-borhood are also included in the annexation. annexa-tion. Salt Lako City has grown tremendously tremendous-ly in the last four years. Jn fact, the increase in population which will bo noted in tho decennial period may fairly bo said to havo been practically all obtained during the last five years of that period, it win an. incciorc, oe to the credit of the American parly, and to the advantage of Salt Lake City as a whole. It is the destiny of this city to becomo 1 he great metropolis' of the whole mountain moun-tain region, this because thorc is no other city, within a radius of five hundred hun-dred miles in any direction that cau possibly rival it. Tho City Council is laying the foundations broad and deep for the great metropolis that this city is bound to become, in the course of the vca.rs, A.nd. in taking in this homogeneous homo-geneous and practically urban population, popula-tion, it is conforming with the best principles of metropolitan economics and advancing tho interests of all concerned in the best possible way. Tt is good work all around, and is commended by every one. |