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Show : . t r :t r : v.-i.: . : . . : y c. :. .. iEAD THIS AND THEN BOOST SALT LAKE. : . !. ' Salt Lake is the best city between Kansas City and San Fran-'.. ' . ' ; cisca If some one asks you how you reached such a conclusion, be ' cooked and primed for, that person. Here is something to tell him: ' . r The people of Salt Late City have -voted bonds to the amount : of 1,000,00 to enlarge the water system to supply a city of 250,-n 250,-n i. 000 people, and to expend ?300,000 on sewer extensions in the south ' .: part of the city. - - y ; ' ' : ' ; ' Three miles of paved asphalrum streets costing f 330,000 are to I ' be laid this year. " . I The amount spent in building new homes in 1904 was f 1,750, I L 000. " The building in 1005 will exceed this. ! f ' Sixteen miles of new cement sidewalk costing 100,000 were l I -"O laid in 1904; 1905 will certainly exceed this. ' .. A new smelter at the point of the lake, to handle yearly an out-j out-j J - put larger than produced by the State of Colorado. Cost of this ! . j smelter will be six millions, . V I J The Oregon Short Line and the San Fedro, Los Angeles & Salt i Lake Railway companies will build a union depot to 'cost ?300,009 '; . this year. ' - A new roundhouse, railroad shops and a new freight depot are 1 ,- now'being built by the Oregon. Short Line and San Fedro, Los ' An- geles & Salt Lake roads. The estimated cost is f 330,000. ; ; J ' A large packing-house to cost f 150,000 is to be built at once. ' " ' The Rio Grande Western railway willJbuild n depot to cost i ' 230,000, which will also be used by the Western Pacific. The Rio Grande Western railway, will build additions to -its present railroad shops to cost f 1,000,000. - ' ' ' V Suburban electric car lines are to be constructed which' wifl cost several million dollars, containing about 200 miles of road f! through the richest part of Utah.- h . . , A new theater costing 1 00,000 is being built. .. - r .... I The new railroad to Los Angeles, just completed cost 50, -.. 000,000. .' v -i '--y. : The Western Pacific railroad from Salt Lake 6 San Francisco . is now being built at a cost of 130,000,000. Work on this road will . be commenced at both ends to hurry completion. . ' The Jloffat road, now under construction from Denver to Salt Lake, will cost about $40,000,000. The United States Government is expending 1,000,000 on im ' ' ' ' f ' . ' ' . ' ' - . , ' |