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Show ' T ' - -J U. . Lww t.!, i 1 tl 1 Uv" ' I-"9 Cl:y ) .3 V ere teen f- ii V. "t twenty years," . '.'.. c : n:-. a leaClr.s wine mer- t i: i.iii Frar.ci -o, at the Wl'.son 1 ' iy. "The oi. !y rallruad entering the .i!y Cen was the Denver &. Hio ''ran.!?, Tl.e Tovjlhern raclMc tapped C I stopped at the White House 1 tel nnd It was the grandest hostelry l.i tf.e fc tate. O; pot'.te the "Wilson here w as tv.e F.il.i'ii of V.'agener, who had a 'l iewery ud the canyon somewhere. I 'rtter.t'.ed a llornion day celebration In this canyon and It stands out as an M-och In my life. Even then Salt Lake 1 -er had a reputation for purity and l.ne f avor. , r-lllln Credit to City. . "But It's the growth of the city I am Impressed with most. Why, many of your bulldlnrs would rrace New "York, Chicago or tan Francisco. A-score of years aco rorile took-things easily moved leisurely cs though tlme was not "an essence of the contract,' as the lawyers say. Now there. Is a steady bustle' and excitement that Is catching nd carries one 8 lor with Irresistible force. Tour Salt Laker who has lived here all his life does not know how much the city has frown. But tl Is startling In Its vividness to me. Instead In-stead of one railroad you have half a dozen or more or will have Eoon and have opened up what Is going to be a great .trade w ith southern California. And we of San Francisco are expecting to be largely benefited by the incoming of the Western Pacific; that will forge a strong bond between this town and the seaboard. v Ealt Lake Taking Notice..' "Really, Salt Lake Is sitting up and taking a wonderful amount of notice of the commercial world. And she Is attracting at-tracting the notice of the country on both sides of the Rockies. , Done well I should say so. But there are two things In which you people are deficient. de-ficient. Your streets are too. dusty. They are good streets, wide and full of fine vista and chlaro-oscuro; as the Italian artists say, but a little -dusty. This latter defect ,could bev corrected at small cost, too. How? . By olnng the surfaces. ' I am not an expert on oiled roads, but do know that the Job can be done on ordinary roads at a cost of $300 to $500 per mile. Two olllngs'a year Rre sufficient, and after a street is once oiled the cost of keeping It up Is inconsiderable.- Los Angeles is a fine example of oiled streets. So is Riverside. River-side. Thousands of Eastern people winter win-ter at the latter place and they are fclmply enchanted with the fine roads of the surrounding country. Success In Sacramento. , "Sacramento, too, has gone in largely large-ly for oiled streets, and the saving In cost of water for sprinkling la a cheerful cheer-ful Item for the taxpayer. Then the absence of dust is a joy. I, see some oil men of the southern part of the State have invented a process whereby crude oil Is converted Into what is called liquid asphalt. Oiled streets would be a paying investment for this city and the result would show Itself in dollars and cents and Increased population, "My second criticism applies to the whole State, but as Salt Lake City is the political and commercial headquarters headquar-ters of the State I direct my words to the business men of the city; You need a promotion and publicity committee. Indeed you do. Now I am not 'spelling for California we have a promotion committee to do that for us. The value of the. services of stich a, committee com-mittee to the varied Industries of such a Stat as Utah would be Inestimable. Look at the increased population that could be added to the horticultural and agricultural districts by concerted and intelligently directed publicity along this line. Why, as I came sweeping into in-to this city on the cars it was as though I had suddenly emerged Into a land of milk and honey. Everything green and full of growth and . vigor. Publicity creates curiosity, curiosity In-vestlgatlon. In-vestlgatlon. investigation the desire to possess, possession citizenship and increased in-creased . wealth. . . "Would Be Great Benefit. "Particularly would a bureau of this sort benefit your mineral Interests. How many people, do you suppose, are awtire that Utah is one of the richest mlrjeral States in the .country? Not maiy, because your people have not a paid bureau to make the facts public. But almost everybody knows about youv next door neighbor, Colorado, because be-cause Colorado pays to have the fact systematically shouted from the housetops. house-tops. What your moneyed people want to do is to get together and create a bureau bu-reau for the dissemination of this valuable val-uable knowledge. Do that and in another an-other twenty years Salt Lake will double, dou-ble, nay, quadruple her population and business Interests and the whole State will reap the benefit." . |