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Show MS CITY ILL BE THE i ; WESTERN METROPOLIS compare even favorably with any Inland In-land city of equal population east of the Missouri river. Best residence properties prop-erties In cities of this size bring from $59 to ' J230 per front Toot,' -while the choicest In Salt Lake can be had for $100 per front foot. "The future of this city seems to me to be assured, for cllmatlo conditions, resorts. . hot and cold medicinal and mineral sprints, bathing, resorts, -etc., alone should make this a city .of 200,000 Inhabitants in a short time. "WJth the present push and agitation and enterprise of Bait Lake business men continued, and all our resources advertised In the proper maimer, nothing noth-ing that Is between Kansas City v and San Francisco can compare with our city for Investment and speculative purposes." - ' r " " " BY WALTER J. WEEKS. "We have mines' with - greater output , than Colorado. The BinghAm Consolidated Consol-idated produces mora money, than the great Cripple' Creek district," or all of Colorado and Nevada. One of, the future fu-ture chief resources In Utah, though i undeveloped, Is the great deposits. of coal and iron. "Utah Is said to contain more coal and iron than-the whole of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, rialt Lake will be another Pitts- J urg. This Is what Millionaire Phipps sees here that induces bim to spend bis money hero. "The output of Utah's mines In copper, cop-per, lead, tine, gold and rllver,' the Immense Im-mense sulphur depesits. the virtually j undeveloped salt industry, the new railroads beret and coming in these make Salt Lake the greatest city between be-tween Kansas' City and the coast. "The building of the Immense smelter smel-ter at Pelican Point, and Ihe gigantic conceniratora,t point of the mountain, moun-tain, all these will contribute-to Salt Lake's greatness. "A million dollars is to be spent in Improving the water system. ' New streets are being platted. Many miles of new sidewalks are being laid. New sewerage Is' being placed-.- We are to have a great new stock yards system. "We have a great agricultural and fruit district at our disposal. There s re a thousand and one reasons why. Salt Lake Is the greatest city, in the West" . " center of most of the railroad building that will be done west of Chicago. "These facts together with the immense im-mense mining" Interests of Utah tend to make Salt Lake City the most certain for growth and real estate investment of any city in the United States today." to-day." , ' , - ' - . . BY W. E. HUB BARD. ' . "There are many things to make Salt Lake one of the greatest cities of the "West. It is the geographical center of seven States, and no other mining country in the world equals this in extent ex-tent and richness. Utah has inexhaustible inexhaus-tible deposits of coal, and the greatest known deposits of high-grade iron ore, which are being rapidly developed. "Salt Lake City is the center of the Government's great irrigation projects, and the center of the arid 'West. A great fruit 'and agricultural country, as well as the beet sugar industry. With the three new railroads one completed com-pleted and two under way Salt Lake will have seven trunk line railroads,, making it the railroad center of the West. With the vast deposits of coal, iron and copper, and being the natural distributing point and railroad center, it is bound also to be the great manufacturing manu-facturing center between Chicago and San Francisco, and now is the greatest smelting center in the world. . . "Salt Lake City will be the great educational edu-cational center of the West. It has a climate unsurpassed, the 'Great Salt Lake.' which no other city has, delightful delight-ful surroundings, and is in the most beautiful valley in the world. It Is an ideal city for homes." ; BY "WALTER .G. TUTTLE. "Tuttle Bros, having had thirty-four yearB i experience, in the real estate business in. Grand Rapids,- Mich,, and Salt Lake City, want to go on record in Claiming for Salt; Lake City the best prospects and opportunities for investment invest-ment in the whole West. A couple of -years ago we predicted that Salt Lake . City- would have 100,000. population in 1J06 many laughed at us, but we confidently con-fidently expect the last laugh.' From present appearanceswe now conclude v we put the date nearly one year too far ahead.- That raark. will no doubt be reached this year. Why not read the eigne of the times, and wake up to the situation? A good, business man, at least once a year, takes stock. How many of you have taken the trouble to compare our resources and advantages with other Western cities? It is .worth while.; ' "Can any Western city boast better climate altitude ror pleasure resorts? ' No other city in the Union (off the coast) can furnish salt -sea bathing. - What other city has hot springs and mountain canyons in its city limits? What other city has ' such mining camps, as Park City, Bingham, Mer- . cur, Ophir and Stockton? All within a couple of hours'! ride, the output from -whose mines requires our six smelters, costing about $1,000,000 each, to handle the ore output; two more are building-all building-all tributary to Salt Lake City. "Then we have Fort Douglas on our eastern city limits, with $250,000 spent on it recently. Immense salt plants on the west. Some of -he- earth's finest - soil grows all kinds of farm products and fruit on our city limits. A new half million Government building is Just finishing on Main street, near Third South.. v "Tha Los Angeles railroad is now a fact, and with the Rio Grande rail-. rail-. road, Oregon Short Line railroad. Southern Paclflo railroad and Union Pacific railroad, make Sal Lake a railroad center to be proud of. Then the Moffat Denver railroad and the .Western Pacific now look to be certain all making Salt Lake the hub of this vast Intermountain empire between the Rdjcy and Sierra mountains. Franchises Fran-chises for suburban lines have lately been granted. "Then "Salt Lake is the headquarters of the Mormon ' church, which alone gives it more publicity than any other one thing. All eyes are turned this ' way! Salt Lake must grow, and grow fast! . It has started now! Nothing can stop It! Salt Lake City will be the largest city between Chicago and San Francisco iff a few years." BY MAYOR RICHARD P. MORRIS , BY ERNEST FOWLER. "The facts are generally known to the people of Utah. I believe that the mines alone wll ldouble the population of the State within the next five years. The mills that will be Installed in and around .Bingham will reduce something like 600,000 tons of ore a month. Smelters Smelt-ers are to be built at Point Mountain and Utah lake. The railroad from Bingham Bing-ham to Point Mountain . has already been surveyed, I understand. This will bring thousands of business men here, thousands of men wllr be given employment, employ-ment, and millions of dollars will circulate circu-late from these mines. . I expect to see Bingham-grow to be as large a place as Butte. Salt Lake City will get its share of the population, and will be the largest city of the intermountain region." re-gion." BY F. E. arGURRIN-.. "Because it has climate and agricultural agricul-tural and mining Interests to build it up. . - "Denver is built up entirely on the strength of her mining interests, and Omaha and Kansas City by their agricultural agri-cultural interests, while Los Angeles is developed by her fruit and climate. "Salt Lake is the center of the richest rich-est mining region ln the world today. She is also the center of a great area of the -richest agricultural land in the world. Irrigated crops are most abundant abun-dant and most certain. The plans projected pro-jected by the United States in developing develop-ing irrigating water and storing it will treble the area of land now under cultivation cul-tivation that is tributary to Salt Lake. Each acre of this will produce three times as much crops as can be produced on an equal area ln the Eastern States. "We are the largest smelting center ln the world today. There are rivers of gold and silver pouring ln here from the mnles of Utah and Nevada every day. We have more coal than Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania had, and more iron than Michigan Mich-igan ever had. "The arteries we need to put all this Iifeblood Into circulation are being constructed con-structed in the shape of new railroad lines, the San Pedro In operation, and the Western Pacific and Moffat roads certain. . s This, in addition to the transcontinental transconti-nental lines we already had. "The climate has been discovered to be the best, year ln and year out, for both sick people and well people. We have medicinal springs whose qualities are unsurpassed. These are some of the reasons why Salt Lake is the best city between Kansas City and San Francisco." --f m BY E. P. SEARS. "With Is marvelous resources, where the pure breezes bring health, where the sun shines almost every day in the year, and where endless opportunities exist to Increase material wealth; with the new irrigation projects, now under way, alone,, will give homes to 60.000 people. The opening of the Uintah reservation will add thousands to the State. X'tah's sparkling waters from the snow beds in the mountains contribute- health to the people of Salt Lake City and her natural hot springs are a euro cure for rheumatism. rheuma-tism. Then, too. this Is the Great 8alt lake (the Dead sea of America) where a few baths will cure the most severe case of catarrh. Besides the smelter, brewery, end sugar Jndustrles. there are 1MB manufacturing manu-facturing establishments, the value of manufactured articles annually being 3.273.1S7; our metal output -for 1904 was $26,606,321.54. 1 . "With the vast possibilities of the fu- ; ture with well established and fast grow- ! Ing Industries, with an Increasing population, popu-lation, with our- location and railroads, should we not growT We produced one-third one-third of all the bet sugar-made in the United States In 19M. which wae 60.000,000 pounds, worth $4,000,000. "There la no spot on the map of our country that Is more desirable to live In than the city of Salt Lake. With the beautiful snpw capped Wasatches on our north and east, and on our west skirting the Great Salt lake 4s the Oqulrrh mountains, moun-tains, ln whose heart lies the great Bingham Bing-ham mining camp, one of the richest in the world' BY THOMAS HOMER. ' "Salt Lake wiU be the greatest city between Kansas City and San Francisco? Fran-cisco? because she is the capital of a State whose -vast and varied resources are fast making her 'a railroad center. She has at her door a combination of the greatest smelting plants In the world. Her undeveloped bodies of iron ore are of such magnitude that the world need have no fear of a scarcity in that metal. "She can supply the markets of the world with copper and lead. "Her output of gold and silver goes a long way toward giving a value to the luxuries raised by our friends In southern south-ern California. "Sulphur and mineral springs surpassing sur-passing anything of the kind known to the human race. "She owns the eighth wonder of the world, a great Inland dead sea, whose invigorating waters and breezes strengthen the weak and heal the sick where some day, in the near future, will be located the greatest health resort re-sort In the world." -"We not only have natural resources, but more than that we have natural advantages that cannot ,be found any - other place in the world. Where is there a place ln the world where mountain moun-tain air and sea, bathing can be found together. Salt Lake is bound to become be-come the greatest health resort that the world has ever offered to the Invalid. In-valid. " "Our Iron Industry will be something that will startle the world. The im-- im-- mense deposits of 'iron, the great quantities quan-tities of coal, the vast-plains of tillable land, the superb climate, and a-people whose arms are ever extended to help the stranger, all tend to make the City of the, Saints, now the greatest in. the WesV the point of Interest for millions of pairs of eyes. . . "The greatness of our city, la Inevitable. Inevita-ble. It is now great beyond the dream of ten years ago, ten years hence will eee the fondest of dreams realized." BY J. IT. ELDREDGE, JR. "Salt Lake City the greatest city between be-tween Kansas City and San Francisco, simply because It has more advantages than any other olty west of the Missouri Mis-souri river. Smelters that will reduce more ore than -the entire output of Colorado, and they alone being supplied sup-plied from one district, shows the grandeur of Utah and Salt Lake City. It is a condition forced upon the city and one that if cannot get away from. "Not to the mines alone does Salt Lake City owe its greatness, but to the great fertile fields that are now here and those that are to come. Industries In-dustries are multiplying with marvelous marvel-ous rapidity. Developments are being made vhat will contribute greatly to the trade of the world." BY GOV. J0H3T.C. CUTLER. 000, and based on the output of the six months Just past, the production for 1905 will be 80,000,000 pounds. These great strides have been made ln the face of the Insufficient smelter facilities, which are being overcome by the erection erec-tion this year of two immense smelters, to cost more than $1,000,000 each, with a dally capacity of 14,000 tons. "Mining men of prominence make the prediction that within two years the camp of Bingham alone will supply the markets of the world with more copper than Butte, where the copper output alone has built up a city of 60,000 people. peo-ple. "This State has untouched iron deposits de-posits which are as large as any ln the world, the properties controlled by one concern having 200,000,000 tons of ore In sight, carrying an average of 68 per cent metallic Iron and when the production produc-tion of pig iron begins there will be many factories located here turning out the products of Iron that we are now compelled to ship ln. "Utah has large acreage devoted to agriculture, and the Irrigation plans of the U. S. Government will Increase this sixfold. One of the most important plans for the advancement, of Salt Lake Is the project now being worked out by a syndicate syn-dicate of capitalist to give us cheap electrical energy. About thirty miles due east of Salt-Lake are large .coal mines, the product of which, on account of the railroads, it has been difficult to bring into market. The coal is mined for JH) cents per ton, and the idea is to generate electrical power at the mine and convey it Into this city. The plan is . feasible, and the- more the mind I dwells upon It the greater the posslbill-tl?s posslbill-tl?s become. "Prior to 1905 we had but two railroads, rail-roads, and this year sees the completion of the one -to Los Angeles, with one more building from San Francisco and one from Denver. rwith Salt Lake a great railroad center, cen-ter, and. in fact, the geographical mining mi-ning center of the United States, its cheap- building material, the varied products pro-ducts of the State, all of which find their way Into Bait Lake, the natural clearing-house, the progressiveness of our citizens, and the unbounded faith they have In their city, will all go far toward Its upbuilding." BY. W. J. HALLO RAN. ' "First of all, I think we have the best climate between the points mentioned. Our puibllc schools are not equaled between be-tween these points. Our public school system and buildings are not equaled anywhere in the country. These facta are bringing a- great many home-seekers to the city. ' "The natural lay of the city, with Its broad streets, its extensive lawns and gardens, and so many beautiful and attractive at-tractive homes, are' not equaled anywhere any-where in the country. These have beautified beau-tified the city and made It attractive. . "Salt Lake is situated ln the richest valley In the Intermountain country. ! The scenery is unsurnassed .In the I West. The everlasting snow-capped mountain peaks furnish us with pure mountain air and water. "The city is surrounded by the finest mining country ln the world, and every one knows all about our great railroads, in operation and under construction. This city is destined to be the great railroad center of the entire West. There Is no competing point within a radius of seven or eight hundred miles, and Salt Lake draws her great wealth from this vast area. . "Wealthy sheep and cattle-owners and mining men from all over the West are buying homes and investing in Salt Lake real estate. "All these things tend to prove that Salt Lake has a great and boundless future, and is today the greatest city between Kansas City and San . Francisco." Fran-cisco." BY a: RICHTER. "First, she is the mining center for all the intermountain region. "She is the distributing point for that part of the country embraced by western west-ern Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho and Arizona. .. , "She Is the headquarters for all tfc mining companies and wholesale houses doing business west of the Missouri Mis-souri river. , ' "Every other city west of the Missouri Mis-souri river has been boomed and property prop-erty values are away above the market. mar-ket. "Conditions ln this city are away ahead of any of the other cities east or west of hereC Our values are low, ln fact so low that they would 'not v BY JUDGE E. F. COLBORN. v "Why Is Salt Lake the best city between be-tween Kansas City and San Francisco? Because it is. In the first place, it Is about half way. In the old days of the pony express and the overland coach it was the half-way point on the. way across the continent. It was then. It has been ever since and always will be, the half-way point a place where the stranger will stop to rest and refresh himself. To feast -his eyes on scenery more beautiful than Switzerland. To bathe ln a lake deader and denser than that one In Palestine which witnessed the regeneration of mankind. "There is no city east of it for seven hundred miles. None west of us for eight hundred miles. None north until you reach Butte and Helena, five hundred hun-dred miles. Nothing south but the City of Mexico. "They usd to say over tu Colorado that Denver wss Colorado. Salt Lake is western Wyoming, all of Idaho, part ot Montana, eastern Nevada, and all of Utah. Within the vast region covered by these States are resources, developed and undeveloped, enough to build a city here in Salt Lake valley too large to be half covered by the neme o'f 'Greater Salt Lake!' . "All the climate, all Its vast metal deposits, de-posits, all the great fertile agricultural areas, all that rare and unusual attractions, attrac-tions, and all that men's tireless energy j and loyalty and love of-counrry can do to make a great city here will be done. "It will flow over beyond the Jordan towards the lake and creep up the terraced ter-raced mountainsides within this decade, and before 110 there will be 200.000 people peo-ple living here' in 'Greater Salt Lake City!"' """"'BY JESSE C. LITTLE. In considering the possibilities of the chief Western cities one Is amazed at the resources being developed ln and around Salt Lake. v- The mining Industry Is but In its infancy, in-fancy, as an Instance of which it is but necessary to say that ln 1900 the production pro-duction of copper ln the State ot Utah amounted to about 6.000,000 pounds, whereas ln 1904 It was more than 49,000,- (. . ....... "Uurt has a- climate that can vie with' h much-talked-of climate of Italy. I believe our climate is every bit as grand. No State ln the Union can boast of a finer; more health -giving, invigorating atmosphere. "Incidentally, I believe we have some "of the most enterprising people in the world. Honest.- hard working and hospitable, hos-pitable, to a fault. We may have been ' a little slow ln the past but the future -will magnify it so rapidly that-lt will roon be lost sight of. r "The resources are so large' that a t'onservatlve estimate cannot be given of them. There are so many undeveloped undevel-oped places. The iron industry promises prom-ises greater things than have ever been seen in the United . States. We have mines of coal, gold,copper, silver, iron. csphalt and ozokerite that promise greater wealth than the , dreams of Croesus. X'tah today stands as a star between Kansas City and San Francisco, Fran-cisco, tomorrow she will be a sun, radiating ra-diating as the greatest State ln the Union." BY ELMER S. DARLING. ; "Salt Lake offers better opportunities than any other Western city for this reason: It Is the metropolis of a very large area of territory, being the only . city of any size between Denver and Fan Francisco. Just at present, with the railroad facilities we have, and with those roads that are contemplated contemplat-ed and are now being constructed, it promises to be the biggest railroad center cen-ter west of Chicago. "It is attractive to the Investor because be-cause it is one of the best known and most talked of cities of the West. There Is no tourist but who stops here either going or coming. This results in many of them being attracted to the city on acocunt of Its wonderful climate, and results ln their making Investments and many-return to make thi' city their home. . . ''0 the last year the greatest part of the! railroad building of the country l.art been done ln the West. During the - next ten swart Salt Lake will be the ' |