| Show Jr m b York W Writer Boosts S Salt t Lake Lak LakeE 1 E Intimate View Mormons ves S of VI H Oes O- O 4 il es Opportunity ity in Retail W Way ay YORK TORK YORI Dec 1 Mormon Mormon i ear ir the same kind ats of at I. I s eat the same kind ot of foods lie e same kind of ot pleasures Khe the same I kind Ind of at automo- automo peak pe the same language t same songs use the same a d laugh the same laughs 1 I and Bapa Bap- Bap such a a. manner does Harry RI R R. mond I draw a n. word picture S article on Salt Lake City I 1 lias las has just appeared In the theand ther r and Publisher of at New ew York rork rite a story of ot Salt Lake I t out Introducing the Mor- Mor Is as logical as spin- spin arn ari about Rome and inor- inor holy see for lor Salt Lake Laka r If the holy see of the Mor- Mor torI faith falth I h. h commences Drummond l article 1 ie great Mormon temple at Lake Kake City is to the Mormons Lt 1st St St. Peters Peter's at Rome Is to the tho Catholics and the of office rice at aLt t Lake City corresponds to toU U tl n n nat at Rome s Mormon church frankly frankly- Tinto into business and has per- per ed wonders vond rs in developing ins In- In lis s of all aU kinds I 2 Mormon church fathered g eat it Zion Cooperative MerI Mer- Mer I which now does lat Ian ban an business an- an 3 40 per cent of which is isAR I 1 JU JUAR AR INDUSTRY Mormon Mormon church fathered t beet sugar factory to a maJI market et for sugar beets iced it when it was ind ad now makes money Ii h L Mormon church has Ind eu ed irrigation projects which claimed thousands of at acres as asje e land arid made them them- Im- Im Ic productive e and profitable lormon Mormon church has always e id d In such matters a Lake City It needed a real 5 he Mormon Mor on church built ich Is managed by gentiles gentilE's I h maintains a aery very ery high a of excellence and service ro 0 lions ions differ from gentiles gentles a Presbyterians differ from 10 ts ant and as Episcopalians om om Roman Catholics and n. n o Jhon non church dignitaries how- how oar car no distinguished ral- ral Jt t I is easy to spot a aRoma Romah I I priest or a nun or an clergyman or a foal Kal- my worker by their garb Mormon lormon bishop or oi any other dignitary wears ordinary jt t r flon differ Uffer from gentiles gentile h IJ as It is against the laws lawa ml ch to use liquor tobacco 0 offee with an exclusive patronage ml might ht grow out put as fast as a hat check hec In iii an orthodox Je Jet Je agog gog agog I. I L KE OTHER FOLKS pOn on people wear the same sameER R E-R clothes eat the same samo kind kindi i enjoy the same pleasa cs the same kind of automo- automo Ids eak the same language Ii h same songs use the saim samu laugh the same laughs as Baptists or other kind of people yes people yes and the same God as asI asi I i or the rest I Ii h as been hinted that the non church dominates In busi- busi Salt Lal Lake e City This Is IsIt Iso o 0 It competes decidedly but buto o 0 dominate S the Mormon church being I business proposition ats atOn at- at On s 5 directed to the fact that le Ie tate of at New ew York wherein a ed Wall street Trinity cor- cor which is s the Protestant co o l church of New cw York r Ps lis the richest corporation in the state richer even than the New York Central railroad The Tho 1920 census gave Salt Lake City people of which per per cent are native born whites per cent foreign born whitesand whites whitesand and 8 S per cent negroes Of Ot this population 40 p per r cent are Mormons Mor Mor- mons moos and 60 per cent are gentiles It might be remarked that In Salt Lal Lake e City all non non- non Mormons are termed gentiles and It Is the theOne theone theone one city where a Jew becomes a gentile automatically There are fifty denominational i churches In Salt Lake City Including in including including in- in Roman Catholic Presbyterian Presbyterian Presby Presby- terian terlan Methodist Episcopal Baptist Baa Bap Congregationalist Christian Scientist Hebrew and others BIG fiG TRADE TERRITORY The 1920 census of Utah wa was a population of ot 65 55 people to the square mile but per cent of this population lives in the territory tributary to Interurban Interurban Interurban Inter- Inter urban lines entering Salt Lake City This means that Salt Lake City has all nIl of Utah to see and It stretches out be beyond ond this into western stern Wyoming southern Idaho and d eastern Nevada for retail trade Lying at the foot of at the Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch Wa Wa- satch mountains the Interior country country country coun coun- try back of Salt Lake City contains contain numerous valleys which are highly developed as to agriculture and antI inhabited b by prosperous farmers farmer who enjoy many unusual ad While Utah is new v in point of at development It is interesting to note that as a a. producer of raw I material Utah because of at the tho Industry in industry industry in- in of at its people has made mide some wonderful progress in production production production pro pro- and the 1022 1922 figures showIng showIng showing show show- ing some of the sources of revenue for the Uie people who shop in Salt Lake Lale City are something like this Minerals excepting coal coal agriculture dairy products fruit for packing 92 wool Total These figures represent raw material mate male rial only Livestock valuation is while manufactured products of Salt Lake City alone total Some t in good American money lg ir accumulated annually in Utah by- by Utah people most most- of which Is spent for sundry sundry sundry sun sun- dry commodities retailed by merchants merchants mer mer- chants of Salt Lake City There are more pretty women In Salt Lake City than In almost I I any other city of Its size In the country They are not only pretty but they know what to wear and how to wear it it-a it a thing which is both pleasing and restful to the tho proverbial business mans man's tired eyes There are few bachelors In Salt Lake men Lake men men- simply cannot stand the pressure MANY TOURISTS VISIT CITY Some tourists visit Salt Lake City annually This is exclusIve ex exclusive ex- ex of the boxcar tourists' tourists and includes only those who eat more moro or less regularly sleep In beds buy picture postcards and souvenirs and in other ways become separated ed from the currency of the th realm There are homes in Salt Sail Lake not including the new Elks' Elks home Of this number of ol them or per cent are owned owned by their occupants and 2138 of ot them are are- by mortgage There are quite a number of at pretty apartment houses and family ram fam am- am ily Uy hotels Within fifty miles of Sa att t Lake City are eleven cities and tofts ranging from population down downto to 1231 1231 collectIvely collectively people all on interurban or ranI railI rail rail- I running into Salt Lake City I The Denver Rio Grande GrandeS S Western Vestern Salt Lake Garfield Western Los Angeles Salt Lake Route Oregon Short Line Union I Pacific and Western Vestern Pacific railroads railroads rail rail- roads and the Salt Lake Like Utah and the Bamberger Electric roads transport people In and out of Salt Lake City Six national highways radiate from Salt Lake City and the roads through the surrounding country while while hilly or mountainous rather are good roads and pleasant to travel MILES OF STREETS Within th the city limits are miles miles' of streets ninety miles of which are arc paved This low ratio is because the natural pavement s is quite good enough and good gradIng gradIng grading grad grad- ing makes paving an luxury except where traffic is un unusually unusually unusually un- un usually heavy and where trucking digs dig too deep or bears too heavily Again to to write a story abo about tt Salt Lake City without saying something about the city streets would be quite illogical for the wide streets are as famous as the Temple The streets arel are 00 feet from curb to curb which is wide anyone who has been there will de de- de I clare dare There are seven se blocks to toa toa a mile That means that in one I Salt Lake City block the distance is equal to that from Forty second Forty second street to Forty fifth street on Fifth Firth avenue New York and when you ou have sauntered around one of those E blocks you ou have have certainly been somewhere Great Salt lake and Salta II beach fifteen mlles mites from Salt Lake City furnish a Coney Island for forthe forthe the region adjacent to Salt Lake I The homes homs in Salt Lake are aregood aregood aregood good looking and one one Is impressed with the the- preponderance of genuInely genuInely genuinely good merchandise sold and used Salt Lake City Is not a I cheap town There aro are automobiles In Salt Lake proper and more moreIn moreIn I In the remainder of Utah In a way retail way Salt Lake City has collectively 1027 stores large I medium and small and these stores sell of annually annually an an- I an-I or something In excess of 1 a week or some a day not deducting holidays I Main street for or three blocks State street for three blocks Broadway Broad way First South and Second Broad I SoUtH constitute the principal downtown district making some twelve big blocks or a mile and three I of real stores five Eighty per cent of at the tho re retailers retailers re- re of Salt Lake City are are- Gentiles Gentiles Gentiles Gen Gen- tiles quite a few Cew being Jewish Gent Gentile Gen- Gen t tile M- M I Collectively the four l leading de department department department de- de stores do some business annually During the tho summer season eason Salt I Lake City is full tull ot of tourists and andIn andin in iii the winter the flow of tourists while whilo somewhat abated is heavy enough to be worth while Away out on tho the desert created from nothing by indomitable pioneers pioneers pio plo Salt Lake City is s a market and a very good market marlet With the I natural resources surrounding It it Salt Lake Lalo City is destined to grow v. PIa Play Salt gaIt Lake City as es s a retail I shopping cent center I can CUl admonish in inclosing inclosing closing for It is the tho hub of a 11 commercial wheel miles s each way rov |
