Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-08 | Page 5 | [Illegible] Development of Hot Springs

bh Richter Desires to U $500,000 for Exploit-Great Exploit-Great Resource. pb Richter, who has just ro-from ro-from an extended tour of tho rn and eastern parts of the- Unities Unit-ies and a visit to Cuba, ifc pro-f" pro-f" a project to purchase and de-iho de-iho hot springs at the northern l tho city. Bichtcr's plan involves an oxpon-Fof oxpon-Fof $500,000 in the construction ergo park, a sanitarium and a big li botol that will rank with the btels of the world's most faBh-3 faBh-3 'places. He believes that he fcerest 500 prominont and wealthy I tho state in the plan and that iplll contribute $1000 to the en- twaler of the sprinqs, Mr. Rich-ujtB Rich-ujtB outj ranks with the beat in 5rld from a medicinal point of lid it -would .attract tourists and j' of wealth from all parts of the if properly" exploited. This Is a resource of tho city which Mr. r sa's has been long and unwise-tocted. unwise-tocted. Tho construction of a fine fnd sanitarium and tho parking fpo tract of laud, with golf links tints courts would greatly add to no of Salt Lake, in his opinion, so "bring multimillionaires and hilars to Salt Luke. 10 on his tour Mr. Bichter bo-jouvinccd bo-jouvinccd of tho hip natural ad-e ad-e Salt Luke had over most of tho pf tho country and decided that return ho would urge the peoplo vcity and tho state to cultivate fntural resources to a greator ox-fed ox-fed especially to investigate the ptics of developing the great hot ".'(found at tho door of the city. PLake City Is a much better city i'everv point of view than al-fanv al-fanv city In the country of dou-b dou-b population. On this trip among Itles I visited I contrasted tho ess and prosperity of Salt Lake the depression I found In Kan-3!ty. Kan-3!ty. St. TjouIs, Memphis, New lis and Jacksonville. The only that I vlslled thai I thought iTeil favorably to Salt Lako Atlanta. However. In Atlanta ! apparently make no effort to the stranger welcome. -other cities of the country good inue property Is much higher jn Salt Lake. In the best resi- 11 sections of these cities the mce properly values are from ;6 $200 a front foot, while In Salt fine very best residence property be had for from $25 to 5100 per a"1 only drawback that Salt Lake Is the fact that she has unde-ed unde-ed tho best resource she has . Df a tourist city. With tho proper ptions Salt Lake would become iriecca of the tourists of tho Is She has a climate that compare favorably with that hy section in the world and has a great salt lake that Is iut a competitor In the world, it of all there are In Salt Luke i'of the llnest hot springs In the I propose to begin a movent move-nt once to interest the people e city l:i financing- the dcvelop-3of dcvelop-3of those springs and In con- ting a tine tourist hotel that pater only to the wealthy men Wish to make their vacation nmwr.ln Sail Lake. To develop tho wife3' construct the baths, park Jrroundlnf,' country hnlld a hotel 2o obtain the other attractions 9j5Menlthy tourists will involve an SKdlture of half a million dollars. hundred men. contributing $1000 ffMwouId supply the capitalization. iKnin satisfied that this amount 'ye secured. I am sure such a 'iffljt -would yield larse returns and 1Ja great thing for tho city and