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Show 1ST GROWTH FOR SALT LAKE ENTERPRISES IN 1911 I Proof Positive That City and State Will Witness ' Season of Activity in Every Line Such as J Has Never Before Been . ' Experienced RAILROADS WILL EXPEND BIG SUMS I i 'H Colossal Structures for the Business Section; ' jl Early Completion of Two Great Hotels ;i !H Assured; Extensive School Build- T iH ings Are Under Way ! H "Watch Salt Lake grow! In all years since the town cast aside its swaddling clothes and JH with strong strides started upward on the path of progress, there has been no year better than 1911 for evidence of solid, substantial growth, for the development that makes for the drawing hither of i ' capital seeking profitable investment, for the assurance to -the busi- ' H ness man of a safe place to put his money, for the certainty to the ' , homeseeker that he cannot choose amiss in selecting Salt Lake as the "city of opportunities," combining climatic, industrial, educational . and' social advantages elsewhere unequalled. , Aim Always for Advancement During the. years 1909 and 1910, despite the tightness of money in the eastern markets and the consequent restriction of transconti- ; '! 'H nental travel and trade, Salt Lake went steadily forward, building, de- j veloping, expanding, planning still greater things for the future, and ' but few of the large enterprises undertaken have been delayed in their " ijfl projected course toward completion. Today the city's business men are strong in their enthusiasm and I Jfl confidence. They arc carrying forward with no abatement of zeal tho , i movement to make the city the premier attraction for everyone who ij'1 turns his eyes westward, no matter whether the motive be business, J - M pleasure or health. ,! Abiding Faith in Salt Lake ' 1 H Salt Lake's new skyscrapers, the lack of which only two years t;j ago caused a congestion of oflices and high rents, are fast filling up with tenants of high standing in the various professions, the thou- ' sands and more modern homes built during the last three years are , :H occupied, the mines, mills and smelters of the tributary mining region J jH are busy, most of them working up to capacity, the farmers of the ! H valley almost invariably assured of bounteous crops, arc prosperous, ' H the vast undeveloped resources of the great region of which the city is , ,H both the commercial and geographical center, are daily more and H more receiving the attention of the world at large hence no one is . 'H losing faith iu Salt Lake. !) H The record speaks for itself. Herewith in brief is given an outline tH of how the city will grow during the current year, based not on spec- j ulation or theory, but upon known conditions and carefully ascer- 'I ,1 tained facts: ' I WORD ABOUT PROJECTS m IN CITY AND VICINITY 1 Salt Lake City is now recognized as tho greatest smelting center of tho world, thcro being no character of ore which cannot bo successfully treated in some of the plants now established in the valley of tho great lakp. Millions Mil-lions upon millions in production and dividends hnvo been wrested from the mountains which girt I ho valley, yot the best .judgment of tho best imno experts says that only a small beginning has been made. And yet there is not a block i:i the business section of thu city without buildings erected by profits prof-its taken from one or more of tho mines of a nearby camp, and nine out of ten of tho many millionaires of Ziou laid the foundation of their fortunes in miniug operations in Utah. ft is an old story to count Utah's mining dividends in "millions. Last year they amounted to a little more than $S,500.000 this year there is ovorv prospect that Ihc $10,000,000 mark will bo reached by the properties of Utah alono, this not including the stream of profits that Mows into the city from the mines of tho adjacent and tributary states of Nevada and Idaho. Direct, substantial ovidonco of what 1911 means to Salt Lake in miniug circles cir-cles is strikingly set out in one example the year will' mark the completion of tho railroad connecting tho great camp uf Bingham with tho mills and smelters of Oartield, located on tho southern shores of the lake. This road represents repre-sents an outlay of $2,500,000. and is successfully suc-cessfully financed by tho Utah Copper company, being intended primarily to transport tho enormous tonnage of low grade copper oro from that company's mines at Bingham io its concentrators at Garfield, although it will lax available for the carrying of ores from other mines and for transporting .supplies into the camp. Tho quantity of low grade copper ore in tho Bingham mines which can bo profitably prof-itably handled is virtually limitless, it being a matter of demonstration that 50,000 tons per day for n generation, would still leave an abundance of rock equally valuable for the children of tho iH present mine owners. H Some idea of the magnitude upon , ; which operations in this great copper camp arc being carried on, may he .),' formed from the fact that by the time the road for the transmission of the I --M ores is completed, the capacity of the , 1 lM Utah Copper's millB at Garfield will ; ' iWM havo been enlarged doubled to permit . iH of the handling of 20,000 tons of ore daily, and the addition of still other , . iH units to tho plant is in contemplation. 1 ,Undov way at the present time and -H uearing completion is the up-to-date 'IH mill of the Ohio Copper company at )' ( 'H Bingham, a plant being erected at a ! ! cost of $750,000. Tn passing, it may be , , :H noted, that Utah now stands fourth in the production of coppor. second in f i lead, third in silver and sixth in gold, j and the activity at Bingham furnishes ', ! good ground for tho expectation that r JH 1911 will mark tho advance q the state H in the list of copper producers, exports , H believing that the output of tho red ' ! ! metal will reach 175,000,000 pounds. ' t ) No attempt is here made to make a H general review of tho mining world of H Utah and tributary country, but only to j H speak of the new operations of roasrni- 'I H tudo that directly affect Salt Lake Citv. ' ( Without going into detail, it can posi- 'i il tivclv be stated that the developments n ' 'H the various camps during tho Inst three : -'H months have been more satisfactory and ,.P rH productive of good results than at any 'tj. H time during tho last three years, and of j :H this the mining stock market conclu- ', H sively furnishes corroborative evidence. ' ! H Securities of every camp aro "looking ; H up" and tho volume of business done on j H tho mining uxchango is showing a i :H healthy but not exaggerated increase. ' Unbounded faith in Salt Lake Gityj... ))ji 'H realization of its present needs and con-, fideuco in its steady, rapid growth aro ml 'H shown by the Utah Light & Railway . 'H company, operating the street cur sys- j ;H terns of Salt Lnko and tho suburban 'H towns of this city. During the year . H . . t.m 1 Continued on Page Three. , JZjSB ET LAKE FACES BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR THE YEAR 1911 I fcTISTRIES AND IMPROVEMENTS TOTALING MILLIONS ARE NOW ASSURED ! Pin the Industrial, Commercial and uture of Community Shown by i at Head of Gigantic Enterprises; nee "to Some of More Important s . Eomp5PBI,t,ed al?out j. iaprovemonts, extensions HH?Jlw in Salt Lake and Hf1 vicinity, and this year Kt record. First in point of K i directly affecting 'bait H?mes the new steam power HHL tanks of the Jordan river, K and South Temple fnl nlait, which will be ready KBS n outlay of $500,-HHpJRnisb $500,-HHpJRnisb the company 6000 fflSwer. badly needed to E traffic of the summer Hf-ateoiion of its tracks, the 5! record that bears &nssod determination of Gen-R7, Gen-R7, r Veils to give Salt akc KiSrilr accessible car service of wliko population and area in Hb Bten'ions to be undertaken Erfd this year are: West Tern-fflreea Tern-fflreea Tontb and Twelfth HLti one mile; Fourth South B3t Temple to Eio Grande EtffaraiaVing another lino from Egj district to tho Western Pa-Kcnnde Pa-Kcnnde union depot: extensions E'bs on Eleventh East street KiV o Seventh South street, and Ealh South from Eleventh East Eeelli East streot, thence south HXth East to Ninth South Kftae is Eleo in contemplation Bindion of a line south on Thir-fiUenth Thir-fiUenth or Nineteenth East, Kwi of access a largo and rap-nu? rap-nu? residential district. This Epaiiaatelv five miles of new ythisisonly part of the story. Kibw)? niade for the construc-Kie? construc-Kie? line -from Eleventh East South streets to Holliday, Rofb as. Big Cottonwood, an-nilei. an-nilei. I "id desired efficient quick heart of the city, and nete possibility of acci-le acci-le track on Staic street d from Twelfth South ay, a distance of five nay ia a smelter town itly increasing business e; the company appre-siiy appre-siiy of an efficient scrv-b scrv-b two towns. There h i Capitol hill lino from ind Siate streets, alone Hinds to Fourth North ce of one mile. In tho most certain decision to ion the projected state K this 3'eaf, work on is rushed to early com-jhoui com-jhoui tho entire paved the new rails were not the relaying policy will nd the Eteel used will be best type used in street iciion. These track cx-suble cx-suble tracking mean an ,000. The year -will also aplet'on of the new car instruction during the nonths, standing for an East and Twelfth South streets, is being erected tho Sugar IIouso substation, costing $75,000. Within a month work -will begin on tho steel tower transmission lino from the Ogdcn canyon power plant to Salt Lake. This will be used as is tho present pres-ent line, but will moro than double the officioncy, as the now wires will be lieavior und will permit tho Taising of tho voltago from 28,000 to 40,000, a step which eliminates a large and expensive ex-pensive waste of tho electric current. This new transmission lino wall cost approximately .11200,000, and will bo in operation by August 1. The company com-pany also has under construction an additional sub-station at Ogden at Twenty-third street, between Washington Washing-ton and Adams avenues, which will soon be completed. Tho Utah Light & Hailway has on its payrolls a monthly average of 1000 men; during tho summer sum-mer months tho number of employees reaches 1200. Trillions in Hoi els It has for years been recognized that Salt Lake City, while possessing hotel accommodations adequate and saticfac-tory saticfac-tory under uormal every-day conditions, condi-tions, has often been confronted with a situation of difficulty in caring for the crowds that nt, stated intervals and in the event of largo conventions throng the city. On numerous occasions the hospitable citizens have thrown open their homos in order that every visitor might bo properly cared for. And there has novor been complnint on the part of guests who took pains to make their wants known. But during the last two years, keeping keep-ing pace with tho remarkable growth of Salt Lake, has como tho realization of the need for moro hotels in the business section, for abodes for transients, tran-sients, that would be a credit to thoso of any city. And that need has been and is being met in a manner that needs only observation to verify tho statement that within a few months Salt Lako will take frist rank among western cities as a 11 hotel town." Under Un-der construction now are two hotels, of a typo and character not to be excelled ex-celled by any hostelry between Chicago and the Pacific coast. These- are the Utah hotel and tho Newhouse. The former will be opened to guests in lune, the steel structure for the latter is up, and it is planned to complete and furnish the building during the vcar. Tho Utah hotel is situated at Main and South Temple streets, upon the historic ground of the old Mormon tithing house, and when completed and furnished, as it will be m within four months, will represent an investment of $2,000,000. Tho building contains 400 rooms, is of Bteel, concrete and stone, of imposing and beautiful architecture, challenging tho attention of even tho most blase globe-trotter. Every detail of construction has been worked out with tho utmost care, and tho management manage-ment promises that on the opening day there will be nothing lacking to contribute con-tribute to tho comfort of its guests. The furniture and furnishings aro especially designed and made to order with a view to carrying out an eff ce-tivo ce-tivo and artistic color scheme, qb well as to maintaining an interior standard to comport to the exterior. Aa nn illustration of the luxuriant magnifi-cencoof magnifi-cencoof the ecalo upon which this work is being dono, may bo mentioned the items of hand-made tufted ruga, costing cost-ing from $10 to $15 per yard for tho president's suite, of $40,000 for carpets and $20,000 for silverwaro. The Utah Hotel company, the builder, is a corporation cor-poration composed chiefly of leading financiers of tho city. Tho Newhouse hotel, now in course of construction at Fourth South and Main streets, ns being erected by Samuel Newhouse and his associates, builders of tho Boston and Newhouse skyscrapers, which, although completed but a little while ago, already by tho hum of business activity, tell a story that ,-justifies tho investment of multi-millions, multi-millions, and confirms tho faith of their projector. When completed and furnished,, the Newhouso will show an investment of $1,550,000, und will, according ac-cording to Mr. Newhouse 'a own statement, state-ment, bo tho equal in comfort, convenience, con-venience, safety and elegance of any hotel in tho west. "I would not be willing to cheapen anything in connection connec-tion with it, or lower tho standard that I have 6ct in the Boston and Newhouse buildings," is the way ho expresses it, and then ho added: "That Bhould bo sufficient." Front Rank in Education One million dollars in a single year for the construction and equipment of new school buildings that will bo Salt Lake's record for J 9 1.1. And this not because the city is behind the times in the furnishing of the best and most modern educational advantages, but because there is among her citizens a determination to keep in the very front and ahead of the majority of cities of equal size. The new East Sido High school, plans for which aro now being prepared, and the construction of which will be begun during tho coming sum-mor, sum-mor, will cost, when completed and furnished, fur-nished, $500,000. Tho sito is a commanding com-manding one, between Eighth and Ninth South and Twelfth and Thirteenth Thir-teenth East streets, an ideal location, particularly in view of tho fact that tho greatest residence growth of the city will be to the east and south. This new structure will accommodato 1800 pupils and will be furnished with every modern convenience, no whit behind any similar building of any casteni city. It is the intention and determination determin-ation of the board of education to havo tho new school ready for occupancy at the opening of the school year in September Sep-tember 1912. Now nearing completion is tho West Sido Technical High school costing $100,000. This is snecially constructed and equipped to afford tho best possible possi-ble advantages in tho industrial arts and sciences. Buildings for tho grade pupils completed this year are: The Whittier school, Third East and Eleventh South streets, cost $115,000: the addition to tho Longfellow school in .T street, doubling tho capacity of the building, at an expenso of $00,000, and other improvements and extensions which the board of education now has under consideration will bring the total to-tal cost during tho year of strengthening strengthen-ing tho citv's educational system to moro than $1,000,000. Addition to Postoffice When, ten 3'cars ago, plans for tho new postoffice and federal building at Main street and Postoffice placo were under consideration it was pointed out to tho government officials in Washington Washing-ton that the certain growth of Salt Lake would in a few j'cars render the Projects Assured for Salt Lake City in 1911 Completion of Bingham & Garfield railroad. . .$2,500,000 Track extensions, double-tracking, new substations, sub-stations, new power transmission lines and other improvements by Utah Light & Railway company 1,500,000 Amount available for new state capitol, construction con-struction to begin this year Ij500,000 Utah Hotel, to be completed, furnished and opened in Juno 2,000,000 Newhouse Hotel, to be ready for occupancy January 1, 1912 1,300,000 Street paving and sidewalk extensions 1,600,000 Completion of City Creek pipe line and water-main water-main extensions 125,000 Double-tracking of electric line to Lagoon, new road equipment and improvements at resort. 150,000 Beginning of work on interurban electric line, Salt Lake to Nephi (estimated) 250,000 New East Side high school, new technical high school and other school buildings now under way or just completed 1,000,000 Extension to Salt Lake postoffice, now assured, on which work will begin within ninety days 170,000 Doubling capacity of Utah Copper mills at Garfield, Gar-field, giving tonnage of 20,000 tons daily. . . 1,000,000 Completion of Ohio Copper company's mill, Bingham - 1,000,000 Now department store, Third South and State streets, F. Auerbach & Co 500,000 Additional benefits to city from completion of "High Line" on Salt Lake Route (estimated) 1,000,000 Money that will flow direct to Salt Lake through double-tracking of Oregon Short Line and Union Pacific (estimated) 5,000,000 Improvement of roads in Salt Lake county and contiguous territory 100,000 Immanuel Baptist church, nearing completion.. 40,000 Improvements and extension Western Union Telegraph company's offices 25,000 Perry S. Heath building, First West and Second Sec-ond South streets, to be completed June 1 . . 40,000 Improvements at Saltair- 30,000 Woman's League chapter house ..' . . 15,000 T quarters, large and commodious as thoy then appeared, entirely inadequate. But Undo Sam could not boo it that vny and the building was constructed as or-iginnlly or-iginnlly designed. Within five years after af-ter the beautiful structure was completed, com-pleted, the city's growth verified the statements of the men who saw into the future. There was by no moans enough room! After two years of working and planning congress ha3 consented to meet the domand for quartors that will, for a while at least, answer the needs of tho business hero, and within a few months construction will begin upon the addition to 'tho federal building. This will add four storios forty feet deep in the rear, tho full length of the present structure The samo classic do-sign do-sign of architecture will bo followed, and as soon as the plans are approved by the department and contracts let the work will bo rushed. This addition to tho postoflic will cost nt least $170,-000, $170,-000, that, boing the amount appropriated by congress, although tho lowest bid submitted is a few thousand dollars in excess of this amount, but thero is no doubt that this will be adjusted without with-out difficulty. folunicifial Improvements During tho yenrs 1900 and 1910 Salt Luke City made moro extensive municipal muni-cipal improvements than in any othor five years of her history, and the yoar 1911 will sue tho work kept up to the high standard now sot. This year will mark the completion of tho new City c-reek pipe, costing $1M,000. This is an oighteen-inoh main which brings Idown daily (1,000,000 gallons of pure mountain water, and takon in conjunction conjunc-tion with tho other sources of wator supply secured, developed and utilized during the last three years, romoves any probability of a shortage of water, oven during tho exceptional years when the snowfall in the mountains is not up to the average. Incidentally it may bo noted that Salt Lake's abundant water su -ply makes its residence section one of beautiful, well kept lawns, with treo lined streets, bringing to tho tourist visitor a restful sense of gladness often commented upon. It was only a few years ago that Salt Lako. in'cornmon with most other western cities, began to pavo the bust-noss bust-noss district properly and to extend sidewalks. !3ackod by tho energy and regressive spirit of tho present administration admin-istration this work lias gonu stoadily forward. Last year tho street department depart-ment expended 'for pnving and sidewalks, side-walks, irr round numbers, $1,450,000, and for 1911 the amount to bo so employed em-ployed will roach $1,600,000. In tho way of paving this will include tho resurfacing re-surfacing of the entire paved .business district, except Main stroot, which was resurfaced last year in Bplendid stylo, n number of paving oxtonsions in the enstern residence portion and such sidewalk side-walk oxtonsions as aro required throughout through-out tho entire northwest portion of the cil'. The street department insists upon good work at a fair prico, gets it, and tho result hn3 boon tho steady increase in realty values in both the rosideuce and business sections. Salt Lake and Railroads Everv day brings now evidences of the fact that. Salt Lako City iH well maintaining her position ns the railroad rail-road center of tho west and recent developments de-velopments in western railroad circles prove that beyond tho question of a double tho direct benefits accruing to Salt Lako City will bo greater in 1911 than thoso during any preceding period of timo. A few illustrations: Recently tho directors of tho Harri-man Harri-man lincH appropriated the enormous sum of $75,000,000 to bo used in the double tracking of tho Ilarriman lines, including the Oregon Short Line, from the Missouri rivor to tho Pncific coast. This means tho carrying' forward to the earliest possiblo completion a plan inaugurated hy Mr. Harriman nearly ten years ago. In sections where the weather will pormit, this doublo tracking track-ing is alroady undor way, and with tho opeuing of spring will bo pushed with greater vigor. Noto tho significance of this to tho Utah motropolis for this year. Salt Lako is the natural business, busi-ness, financial and iiupply center of the wholo intermountnin empire, tho ramifications rami-fications of tho city's Irado reaching far into Nevada, Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming. It is conservatively estimated esti-mated by experts who aro in a position to form an accurnto judgment, that during tho present year Salt Lako will roccivu direct from this double tracking track-ing of tho Harriman linos, not less than $5,000,000. called directly from the money centers of the east to be distributed dis-tributed hero. And there is moro to this railroad end of tho story: By the first of Juno the Salt Lake Ron to will havo completed it3 "high line" through that portion of Nevada where herotoforo washouts nearly every yenr havo caused the suspension of travel and traffic, sometimes for weeks at a period. The new "high lino" is located abovo tho possible reach of tho flood waters, and an unintorruptod, direct Horvico between Salt Lako City and Los Angeles iB now aeBurod. Of tho millions expended in this gigantic undertaking, a largo portion flows directly back to Salt Lako, but principal princi-pal and lasting benefit to bo derived comes through tho establishment of tho unintorruptod service Salt Lake is just as naturally an objective point for tourists as is Los Angolos; during the summer scasou its climatic conditions condi-tions and attractions aro unexcelled anywliero. Tho certainty of quick, through service between the City of tho Angels and the City of tho Saints means tho oxpondituro hero by tourists of millions of dollars during the summer sum-mer that would otherwise bo carried to tho western coast. Dovelopmonts of tho past week an Moffat road circlos Bhow that Colorado Colo-rado people are alivo to the necessity of another and Bhorter routo from Donvor to Salt Lako, originating in Donver to cut a great tunnol through tho continental divide and bo carry tlie road on from Steamboat Springs, its present terminal, by the mout direct route on to Salt Lako City. This tunnel tun-nel project will constituto ono of the most gigantic pieces of work in tho history of railroad engineering. It will cost many millionn, but it is confidently con-fidently believod will in tho ond prove profitablo, in view of tho vast aroa of fertilo agricultural land and the rich minoral regions to be thus tapped. tn connection with one phaao of railroad activity in tho territory ammo-diatcrly ammo-diatcrly tributary to Salt La'ke, tho prospective establishment of a factor' hero for the manufaeturo of car wheels, assumes moro definito form. Tho Grif: fin Wheel works, (ho largest manufacturers manufac-turers of car wheels in tho country, has already purchased a site for a locall No Period in History ol City and State Has Had Mdre Auspicious Beginning Than Twelvemonth 1 1 Upon Which People Are Now Entering; Pros- 1 1 ; pects for Advancement Are Evident Upon 1 1 I Every Side. 1 1 branch factory, and word comes direct from tho head of tho company that tho plant will bo erected as Boon as railroad conditions in the vicinity of Salt Lako City justify such action. Interurban Electric Lines This year means much to Salt Lake in tho further development of the interurban inter-urban railroad. Tho Salt Lako & Ogden, Og-den, or as is commonly known, the Bamberger electric line now operating a regular service between this city and Ogdon, with tho famous family resort Lagoon as -the central point or attrac-' tion. will expend during the year about $15o,000 in improvements and additional addi-tional equipmont. There is now in f rogress the work of extending tho sido racks along the entire line, with a view within another year to making tho en-tiro en-tiro line betweon the two cities a straight doublo track. Tho company is now pushing to completion its steam power house, and before tho season opons, Decoration day, will run its trains its own power. Improvements at the resort proper include the enlargement of tho main pavilion and tho elevation of the surrounding ground. Ten new electric cars of tho latest typo have bjen'ordered and will bo hero in time for the opening dny, assuring abundant abun-dant facilities for handling tho heaviest traffic. An electric locomotive will handle tho freight business oyer tho line, Bnpplantlng the steam engine now employed. Tho building of a branch line to Hooper, soven miles west of Ogdcn, is now contemplated, and it is intended that work upon this shall begin during tho present season. During the past year tho road has done excellent business busi-ness betweon the two cities, oven when the resort has been closed for tho winter, win-ter, and President Simon Bamberger is confident that with tho increased facilities facili-ties afforded by the now equipment and his own power plant the new year will establish a new record. Tho through electric trains mako the same time as tho regular passonger trains between the Bister cities, while the local trains afford shopping and marketing opportunities oppor-tunities otnorwise not to be obtained. A projected interurban lino from Salt Lako to Payson. thence to Nephi, is now taking such definite shape that th-re is littlo doubt of tho pushing of construction work during the year. This proiect is backed by Abel John Evans of Lehi, Georgo C. Whitmore of Nephj, both former state senators, and their associates. Franchises permitting the operation of tho lino for freight and passenger scrvico for a period of fifty years as the minimum have already been secured from all of the towns through which tho lino will pass, excepting ex-cepting thoso in Salt Lako county and negotiations for this franchise aro now progressing. This road is planned to furnish a quick, efficient electric service serv-ice betweon tho towns of Lohi, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grovo, American Fork, Provo. Spriugvillc, Spanish Fork, Payson and ijait iaKO uity, as now piannua wim extension on to Nephi within a few years. Its completion oven a part of tho way means much both to Salt Lake City and the rich farming communities of the towns named. Office Buildings and Stores While a few croakers predicted five voars ago, when tho construction of the Nowhouso and Boston sk3'scraper was undertaken, that the city would not grow enough in twenty years to justif y tho erection of such larget modern office of-fice buildings, these pessimists havo lapsed into silence and the work of building structures for office purposes that aro a credit to any city in tho United States has beon carried forward. The Kcarns building, now nearing completion com-pletion on tho west sido of Main street between First and Second South Btreota, is a strikiuc example. This magnificent structure will bo finished throughout and readv for its waiting tennnts by March 1. Tho building is strictly fireproof, artistic, of the most modern approved tvpo, and contains 300 rooms, overv room being fitted with fireproof vault, compressed nir, gas, electricity and hot and cold water. Moro than 100 mon aro now busy in putting tho structure in shape for tenants and it will bo completed com-pleted on time. At First Wost and Second South streets work will bo bogun this week on tho throe-story stores and hotel building, to bo constructed by Porry S. Honth. Tho cost of this will be $40,000 and tho contract calls for tho completion comple-tion of the work within ninety days. Tho orection of a now department store, ono of tho largest and best in tho west, iB new under way by F. Auerbach & Brothor company. Basomont excavations exca-vations on tho oito at Third South and State streets havo alroady boon prauti-callv prauti-callv completed and tho resumption of work on the $500,000 structure is contemplated con-templated within a few months. Improvements at Saltair Saltair, Utah's most fnmous bathing resort, built in tho groat lake, fourteen miles west of tho city, will bo in bettor bet-tor Bhnpe than over to handlo its throngs of natrons Joseph Nelson, president, of tho Saltair Boach company! says that tho expenditure of $25,000 in' repairs and improvements will bo mado and at the opening of tho soason nothing will bo lacking. For moro than two years plans for the electrification and doublo tracking of tho lino from tho city to tho beach havo boon under consideration, but a hitch iu tho negotiations nego-tiations for a franchise permitting the Saltair people to build an uptown dopot has resulted in a delay which is as 3'et indefinite In its extont. Churches and Clubs Salt Lako is distinctly n city of churches and clubs. During tho last docado tho city has led any other municipality mu-nicipality of equal size in its building operations along this line, and thoro is more work yet under way. Tho Immanuel Im-manuel Baptist church iB building a $10,000 house of worship at Fourth EnBt and Second South Btreots. This will bo complotod and read' for its parishioners by autumn. A local chapter house for tho Salt Lake members of the Amoricnn Woman's Wom-an's league, a nation-wido organization with headquarters in St. Louis, a long-considered long-considered project, has now taken such definite, shapo that tho sito has boon selected and secured, a most desirable bonhmrj turo costing about $15,000 will bo ill erected, and ns the club's membership n I S is now largo onough to provide ample funds under tho prescribed regulations 1 1 of tho national organization, thero is & 19 no doubt that the club houBo will bo 1 ; completed during the year. IS'! VCestern Union's Growth 1 1 j Indubitable evidence of Salt Lake's 1 growth as a business center ds found I I . m the expansion of tho telegraph biiBi- I m ness of tho city during tho last five I H years. Ten years ago tho small quar- I I ters of the We50111 Union Telegraph company f urniBhod sufficient room for II' ita business. Then the Postal entered ' I the field, yet as tho city grew in size I H and importance tho volume of business IS ; increased, and tho Western Union on- 1 largcd tho officos it then occupied, 159 I South Main street, and for a few years H was ablo to handle its work. Now tho company, finding more room impora- H tive, is transferring its offices to The a Tribune building, Main street, and will I occupy the entire sixth floor with tho 1 , operating department and offices for I the district superintendents, also a por- :m tipn of tho third floor, and the ontiro I south half of the lower floor will be 1 used as business offices. Complete new (1 equipment for tho operating dopart- W ment has been ordered, all of the newest I type and highest quality. The West- d 1 ern Union will bo ready for business in ' it3 new home by April 3, according to II tho intent and belief of the manage- l ment. U B Good Roads Jrfovement 1 1 Salt Lakers are awake to a realiza- I I tion of the fact that good roads lead- I I ing to a metropolis are ono of tho prin- I I cipal factors in its growth, and as a 1 1 consequence . the work of the Good IB Boads commission in tho move to secure I I better highwavs has met with hearty I m co-operation. In Salt Lake county alone I u will bo expended for the improvement 1 1 of roads about $110,000 for the year II 1911 and the work dono the preceding IB twelve months ran a close second. IH J But the good roads movement is now ! ' taking a wider and more significant I I : scope, well defined plans now being un- 1 I der consideration for the construction 1 1 ; of a boulevard between the cities of II 1 Salt Lako and Ogden. It is estimated I that owing to naturally favorable con- I ditions, tins boulevard could be con- I II structed for $100,000 and tho work eas- I IB ilj- completed within a year. Should I I such plans, which have now gone be- 1 II yond the prospective stage, be carried 1 jlj' out the benefits to both cities are not I to be lightly estimated. Tho boulevard, I I skirting the base of the mountain, over- IH" looking tho many villages, the thousand fertile farms and tho great Salt lako ft I would prove an ideal driving place for I D every local autoist and for thousands I who annually spend a few weeks in tho 1 1 The project to construct a boulevard I from the city proper to Fort Douglas 1 1 is also taking definito shape. I it Advertising City and State 1 1 Thero were many years when, even I tho most progressive," hustling element l: of Salt Lako City seemed either not I to realizo the need for exploitation of W Utah's opportunities in a. general pub- I lie campaign of national and even I world-wide extont, but that day has 1 passed. Tho magnitude of the stato's I yet undeveloped, almost, untouched re- ' sources is eo great, the opportunities R for profitable investment are so mani- W fold, the inducements to bring to Salt I Lako and Utah seekers after plcasuro I or health so numerous that it took years for investigators to gain even a II fiartial comprehension and still more II imo to formulate an adequato presen- A I tation of tho actual facts for the world IH at largo. In n limited way, Salt Lako HI City and Utah havo heretofore been IH advertised, but tho steady, persistent, IH clear and specific delineation of what IH awaits tho new-comer is of compare- III tivoly recent origin. Ill As applicable directly to Salt Lake III City and Utah tho work now being llM done by tho Commercial club's pub- 111 licity bureau is taking the load. Under 111 tho supervision of Director of Publicity lis Carl Williams, this bureau is now send- MI ing out dnily from 200 to 1000 pieces of IU mail descriptive of tho city and slate, IH with special roforence to that scope of H information sought b' the person male- IH ing inquiry. IH Tho Salt Lake Real Estate association Mil is also doing some good work along In this lino, and has rocontby takon up a IH plan or the construction of a municipal IH power plant in City Greek canyon, bav- HI ing asked that the city council ap- IH Fomt a committee to investigate the IH oasibility of the project. If B oosting ly Railroads Eh When tho directors of the Harriman I lines appropriated $75,000s000 for tho I doublo tracking of their lines west of I the Missouri river, thore was also made I an appropriation of $1,250,000 to be I used exclusively for advertising pur- , I poses. This as good nows for Salt Lake a City and Utah, for the story of the 1 wost and its resourcos cannot bo told I without giving the Beehive state Its due sharo of publicity. For the horae- seeker the railroad literature will tell fl the storv of tho groat Stmwberry val- 11 ley project, by which nearly 100,000 H acres of fertilo land will soon bo ro- H claimed, of tho 1.000,000 acres of land H suitable for dry farming and avnilablo for entry under the homostoad act, and If of tho unlimited opportunities for H profitable fruit growing with a small H invostmont of capital. For the man H who prefers to wrest hist wcnlth from C tho hoart of the mountains, a volume I will be required baldly to stato tho u great work thus far accomplished in , n tno development of tho state's mineral I resources, and ovon barely outline tho R opportunities yot presented. It will K take tho seeker after ploasuro many lg of his Bparo hours to acquiro a knowl- Rg edgo of the mountain retreats, of tho U climute that is almost made to order. H of the scenery long the inspiration of H world-famed painters, and of the many f points of historic interest to all students Bl j of the nation 'a growth. flas Only investigation 4 and inspection In can bring to tho inquirer a knowledge fif of the truth. II And tho truth about Salt Lake City III and Utnh in onough. From 1900 io 112 1911 tho city increased in population 111 from 53,531 to 92,777. Tho now decade Bp opens with every prospect of a still Jjjyi |
