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Show ASKING- ABOUT BEAUTY SPOTS. Wo note that a European touring agonc3' has mitten for specific information infor-mation abont tho sight-seeing possibilities possi-bilities in and about Salt Lake. We are glad to seo such interest taken in this city aud rogion from tho sightseeing sight-seeing aud touring possibilities. There is no doubt but that development would bring Salt Lake City into high favor with world tourists. Wo havo here very groat and beautiful possibilities possi-bilities in this line that ought to bo utilized, and that must eventually be utilized. The sooner this comes about, tho bettor. We havo here, first of all, the valleys val-leys aud tho mountains, offering a splendid contrast; wo hav0 tho lake accessible, aud that could bo mado oven more attractive than "it is. W'e have tho canj'ons, but access to them so far is of a primitive order. During the National Teachers' convention in this city last July some of the teachers teach-ers went up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Brighton. The3r were enthusiastic, and one of the teachers who had seen the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, said that she preferred Big Cottpn-wood Cottpn-wood canyon' to that'. There is no question of the great beauty and r'ug-gcdncBs r'ug-gcdncBs of Big Cottonwood canyon. American Fork can3'On is even mare spectacular and nigged than Big Cottonwood. Cot-tonwood. The peaks would afford as gnuid views of beauty as Pike's Peak, if mcanB wore provided to get to their summits. The report that the Light k Railway Rail-way company of this city is, to build a track up Big Cottonwood cau3on is along the line that was suggested sug-gested b.y The Tribune long ago, that a street railway' liuo up Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood would open a pleasure resort and give a pleasure trip unequaled in the world. If the line could be extended over to Park City so as to make the loop, thus enabling one to leave Salt Lnke Citv in the morning, dine at Brighton, pass over the divide to ParK f'itA, and Toturn from thence on the evening train, it would be a day's delight of rare pleasure and exhilaration. exhilara-tion. Antelope Island could be developed as one of tho great resorts of tho world b.v the establishment there of bathing resorts and the building of hotel and cottagos. In fact, tho possibilities of this immediate, im-mediate, region for tourists' pleasuring pleasur-ing have so far scarcely been touched. Tho opportunities arc groat, and while jnan3 of thorn, as the location of a . great sanitarium at Beck's Hot Springs, havo been suggested" from time to time, there has been nothing done by "way of such development. The Warm Sulphur Springs baths-also could bo mado a great feature of Salt Lake; while we arc convinced that tho Hot Springs could be made into as great a resort, as tho Hot Springs in the Ozarks. It is largely a question of development. develop-ment. This development will eomo in timo doubtless, but agitation of the question, and inquirv such as has been received from Europe, will tend to give vitality to that development and bring Salt Lake City into tho scries of cities which offer to world tourists, as well as to local pleasure and health-seekers, attractions equal to those of any country or nn.y place. |