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Show mlt Lake Continues Its Forward March With Increasing Vigor and Determination II I 1 . M M M M 81 Wonderful Achievements Are Written in Records of Year Now Hearing Its Close (I mBOITY tlie center of the solid west the pulsing SjropoK6 ot tlac Srcatpst oi- "-'dancl empires has reached S 1912-13 year-post of its invincible .inarch of progress and WLy. Bciuucl stretch twelve remarkable .months swift Stf achievement, growth and development that have built JLndations firmly laid iu years gone by. Before lie the Snonijis of the new year, whose still greater victories and all leading to the crown of civic, commercial and in-Bjsticccss, in-Bjsticccss, arc indubitably forecast iu the splendid record Srear how losing. lake City has reaped a harvest ol: benefits in the last Jjjcrfs that have been shaped and will continue to be ST through the enterprise of its citizens, nat-Sdvantagcs nat-Sdvantagcs and outside iuterests alike. On the Bpinals 1912 will stand out as a twelvemonth at! K. educational, commercial, industrial and civic ad-Xent. ad-Xent. in which a kind providence has all owed neither ca-Kior ca-Kior untoward event enter to mar the even tenor of pro-Si pro-Si and happiness. S city has unswervingly kept to a swift pace in its ou-Mjnruey, ou-Mjnruey, and its strides each year are found to have been Kd nii'iuii'old. Its people feel proud of their surroundings. Rices arc set Jirmly toward the future, happy iu the confi-K'ol confi-K'ol continued prosperity, and secure in the knowledge that jEcncies are ever strengthening the great mechanism that is ML out the destiny of this wonderful community and pro-Sthc pro-Sthc welfare of its citizens. miD ADVANTAGES tfitti unrivaled geographical situation and topographical ftgc?. Salt Lake has been well endowed for the growth Kgrcss of the years. Here are gorgeous snow-capped raoim-mjrith raoim-mjrith their waterfalls, Jakes, streams, forests, resorts and of hidden treasures, while the city itself is ideally set Si slope that gently declines from the Wasatch range ou into the valley of the Great Salt lake on the west, re again, at the city's very portals, lies the mysterious sea of salt, which furnishes one of the greatest industries Arcoiid. at the same time providing unique and world-faeilities world-faeilities for seashore resorts and recreation beneath Bsuininer skies. Be Oquirrh mountains, stretching southward from the Bffer scenic marvels no Jess grand than those of the Wa-fougc, Wa-fougc, and today are giving up vast treasures in copper Id ore that has enriched the country. The valley itself tad with peaceful and fruitful farms, while the city, Bfi'Oin an eminence, apiears half hidden by a forest ftctvees, from which tower up great buildings and sky-Bs-lestimonials of the great business heart beneath, ftrtcries ol: trade and industry reach throughout the inter-Bin inter-Bin region. m OF THE WEST Bit Lake City's natural advantages are beyoud compare. By's development has placed, it on the map as the center Byct. with great transcontinental railroad lines leading to jfcsll directions. The year :1912 has increased the city's Bold on that position, and never has there been greater for the belief that a forthcoming year will strengthen Wand prove the city's most prosperous twelvemonth. far as the municipality is concerned, the last year has Bw first under the new' commission form of government, B$t rightly be termed one of innovation and adjustment, c ultimate success or failure of the change in adiuinis-Br adiuinis-Br ? to c demonstrated. Yet in spite of unusual. BJ Salt Lake City's municipal growth in 1912 has Ml l)ai'ks and playgrounds have been beautified and IB 011ni large scale by the expenditure of thousands Bp The efficiency of the juvenile court has been in-B- lore than 30.000 feet of new water mains have been HSjj? sh'ects have been paved and graded and miles of gfcwalks have been laid. In nearly every city dc-j1 dc-j1 ew plans of operation have been adopted, but each jWal report for the year undeniably records Salt Lake ito 1 UU(1 exParision. -Cne "cy beautiful'' campaign, BT e(Uttional institutions, the commission and com-W com-W jjguiizations have co-operated, has brought splendid jB Dd will be made a permanent scheme. W W CAPITOL Wost among the notable building operations of the jBMie turning, during the last week, of the first spade, M,01' tlii foundations of Utah's great new capitol struc-jetimi struc-jetimi Work wnl sooQ be Aycll lluclcr way rpwo .llKl a "l01 have been provided for the construction of Utah's MP1! home, which will equal, if not surpass, in grandeur K ap)T similar edifice in the country. The completion SBCf fl 1 building on the grounds above the city on. the Kiii ? llead oi' State street, is scheduled within a year. Xht tor an extension of street car service and the dc- SKJ beautification ol! the capitol hill section on a ffle On the capitol. grounds, also, will, be constructed Jii? armoi'V for the National guard ol: Utah. K the new capitol building, building operations o?J2st yar, either completed or under way, reach Shi 282'97s) and smashes all records for several years. Si? 3S moi'c iaw twice as large as the figure given .activities in 1911, which was $3,124,000, and exceed . Mlf hy re than $2,000,000. . Seih east oench, upon a site commanding a superb view M:,1 valley, the new Salt Lake High school is rapidly being erected, at a cost of more than $500,000. Early completion com-pletion is assured, and the new school, of the academic type-, will be second to none in 'every respect. Another structure of education the central building of the State university is being erected on the university grounds ou the bench eaqt of the city. This will be the administration building of the urn versify, 'and $300,000 is available for its establishment. A. notable event in building during the "year was the completion of the new Walker Bank skyscraper in the very heart of the business district. Aside frorn three other buildings on the Pacific coast, the Walker structure is the tallest in the west. It reaches up sixteen stories, with a cupola of four additional stories, and room has been provided in the tower for an exliibit chamber and observatory, where the wonders of Salt Lake and tributary territory will be demonstrated. 3sTo finer ofliee structure' exists in the west, and the new banking quarters of Walker Brothers, bankers, on the north half of the ground floor, arc as elaborate and elegant as any to be found. EXPANSION IN BUILDING The Hotel Utah annex also was completed during the year, at a cost of $150,000, while the L. D. S. hospital addition was erected, at a cost of $128,000. Two new public schools have been added to Salt Lake City's list the Hawthorne and the Ensign (latter now under construction). The former called for an outlay of $84,000, and the latter will cost $50,000, with provision for an addition in the future. Construction of a new Orpheum theater on West Secoud South street has long been underway, and when completed will give Salt Lake Cit.y another attractive new playhouse, at a cost of $200,000 or more. Another great step in the business expansion aud growth of the cit.y was the completion of the new Auerbaeh and Keith-O'Brien Keith-O'Brien department stores and the establishment of a new retail center at State street and Broadway. The new section is upbuilding with amazing rapidity. New buildings are going up all along Broadway and scarcely a month has passed without its important realty transaction there. The Paris Millinery company is now remodeling the structure formerly occupied by the Freed furniture and carpet store, at a cost of more than $100,000. and will soon be housed in an elaborate new home in the new retail center. In the establishment of "Automobile row" between Main and West Temple streets on Fourth South, running west from the Newhouse hotel structure, which is now being rapidly completed, is found still further evidence of the city's upbuild and business development. SOME BIG STRUCTURES On all sides are seen buildings that testify of the year's remarkable building operations. The National City bank, a new financial institution, is erecting a new building on State street at the corner of Victoria alley. The Fanners and Stock-growers' Stock-growers' bank is preparing to establish itself in the old Wells-Fa Wells-Fa rgo bank building on Main street, while the Merchants' bank has enlarged its quarters elaborately. Zion's Savings Bank & Trust company has remodelled its home, at a cost of $75,000, and McCornick & Co. is also about to improve its quarters on an elaborate scale. Among other buildings erected during the year arc the Mcintosh estate apartment house, at a cost; of! $73,000: the Utah' Light aud Railway company's new power plant, at a cost of $56,000: the Ciunmings apartment house, at a cost of $43,000; the Patrick Gibbous apartments, $25,000; the Wis-sing Wis-sing apartments, $25,000; the Roseubaum apartments, $22,000, and the Studebakcr Bros, addition, $20,000. The new Shubrick, the Holland and many other apartment houses and smaller hotels also were completed, adding to the year's upbuilding upbuild-ing record. During the year more than S00 building permits were issued, and it is authentically given out that from 80 to 90 per cent have been for modern dwellings. This in itself hints siguificantly at the fact that Salt- Lake City's remarkable building progress during 1912 has by no means been confined to structures in the business section or to apartment houses. ARCHITECTS ARE BUSY While these arc some of the facts that prove the building achievements of the last year, it is knowu that 1913 will bring forth its record also. Architects arc busily at work on entirely now plans that will materialize iu the year that is about to begin. As a result of the fair and equitable freight rates secured in 1931 through the victory won before the interstate commerce commission, Salt Lake jobbers and shippers have reaped untold benefits. The new .rates have opened up vast new territory to Salt Lake, which, during the year, took great strides toward its proper place as the big hub aud distributing center of the inland west. A, more or less accurate estimate for the year now ending gives Salt Lake jobbing and shipping activities a volume neighboring close to the $90,000,000. Financial conditions in Salt Lake City during 1912 have been most gratifying. .Reports for the year now ending show that twelve banks in the city have deposits on hand amounting to approximately $45,000,000, an increase of about $5,-000,000 $5,-000,000 over the figures for the prccediug yeav. This in itself is a' true indication of local financial conditions. A. more or less accurate criterion, of money circulation is found in the bank clearings, which, during the past year, have amounted to approximately ap-proximately $400,000,000, showing by the figures of the clearing houe an increase over the preceding year of about $33,000,000, and' an increase over 1908 of $110,000,000. Two of the biggest deals iu the history of the state vitally B affect Salt Lake City and were consummated during the last jHj year. These were the gigantic plan to bring the fuel resources .B of Emery county uudcr one operating system involving millions 'ml and the colossal merger of hydro-electric power concerns in jjjl Utah, Colorado, Idaho and other western localities into the W Utah Power & Light company. Both deals announce the jfl dawn of a new era of development and progress for this on tire ID region, of which. Salt Lake City is the renter and (he operating m base. The vast benefits that are bound to follow are only jj too "evident. : jm Other vast benefits will accrue to Salt Lake City through ; the wide improvements of the various railroad lines that enter ; 1 1 here, while interurban systems touching the many thriving II j cities and towns from Logan on the north to Payson on the south, with probable extensions in other directions, are now l being either constructed or launched, and will play their great ym part in the upbuild and development of the city and state. ifl Th proposed electrification of the Denver & Rio Grande W& road from Helper to Salt Lake, the construction of the Moffat road from Steamboat Springs through the rich empire of the W& Uintah basin to this city, and other projects such as the es- jlffl tablishment of a transcontinental automobile highway through N Utah arc virtually assured and will be potent factors in m making Salt Lake City the center of commercial and indus- trial gravity in the great intemiountain west. Wg BECOMES CONVENTION CITY , II During 1912 Salt Lake City was veritably ;fthe conven- offl . tion city." Here was the gathering place of many of the tgl greatest conventions of the land, due to the efforts of public- mm spirited men who have an eye single to the welfare and J promotion of this city. EJS The trans-Mississippi Commercial congress, the National i Irrigation congress, the convention of master plumbers, the $ American Institute of Banking, the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks, the Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen ;ffl and many other smaller conventions held here during the year K brought thousands of people to Salt Lake, who learned of the city's attractions, advantages and possibilities, and then j returned to the' four corners of the country to spread the M good news and sow seeds that will assuredly be harvested jffl iu the future with great benefits to the community. Among , those who came were hundreds of men prominent in the public B eye of the nation. X In the forthcoming year will be held here the National Sjj Education association, which will bring to Salt Lake City JS thousands of the nation's educators. This is perhaps one ,$J of the biggest and most important conventions in the nation. Its executive committee has already visited Salt Lake City, ImB and passed excellent judgment on local facilities for handling the crowds and commending the great attraction of the city fron'i every standpoint. ffl SCHOOL SYSTEM ENLARGED Salt Lake's splendid school, system also was enlarged jjjffl during the year. iVs the physical condition of the school ijjj system has advanced, so also has the work within the class- M rooms, where the latest methods in educational endeavor are fj being put into use. Today Salt Lake City has a public school ;fl system of which any city in the world would be justly proud. As the city progressed during the year in business, com- : H mercial and industrial endeavor, and as it has grown in popu- H lation, homes and buildings, so has it gone forward in the H field of religious endeavor, improvement of church property ffl has been accomplished iu every locality of the city and the parishes have grown and flourished. Ministers are of one :W accord in saying that the spiritual growth of the people has jjl kept pace with" the city's material growth, and all report a ;i gratifying condition. ; Still further evidence of the onward march of the city !l is shown in the postal receipts for the year, which amount to approximately $500,000, an increase of about $25,000 over the II postal receipts of the preceding year. More than $10,000 was 1 1 collected in money order fees. The free delivery was ex- $ tended north of Ninth avenue in the Fourth precinct and to jg the new additions on Thirteenth East and Eleventh South. M The new addition to the federal building is virtually completed, fl and the mailing and registering departments have removed fl to handsome new quarters in the new structure. i H TRADE EXCURSIONS BENEFICIAL 1 During the year the postal employees received substantial gjj salary raises. Two uew sub-stations were established, and Salt; j . Lake' was made the distributing point for all incoming parcel ffi post packages from other lands for distribution in Utah and Nevada. J Commercial and trade excursions have been conducted ;H by the Commercial club into territory within and without jH the state, which have brought the citizens of the respective ifl localities into closer social and business relationship, paving jUM the way for new and greater business exchange. JB In every respect 11012 has been a remarkable year of Bj remarkable doings for Salt Lake City. The vast activities H of the year have been only touched upon briefly here. To B enter upon an account of the year's actual happenings would B require volumes. But in mentioning these tlungs that have ; had to do with Salt Lake, its people and their welfare, at- l3 tcution assiu-cdly has been drawn to a few proofs of the year's JjS great strides in growth, development and achievement, and to jH at least some of the reasons why Salt Lake City sets its face JH toward the new year confident of a still greater twelvemonth of B nroiyress and prosperity. jfp |
