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Show way all mean that nothing except one of Nature's great cataclysms can prevent Salt Lake from doubling doub-ling in population, material values and in business ' during the coming five years. - In the Eastern States "bonds drawing 4 per cent interest command a premium. ,"When the rich men of the EasWealize that almost any: investment in Salt Ljjike realty now will insure them 0 per, cent peranum for the next five years, some of them will come here and invest. ' ' : ; " . Indeed, they are here now, just watching to have their impressions confirmed. - - The proof is that every, hotel in the city is crowded to its utmost comfortable limit, and realty is stiffening in value every day. Within five years quite- twice as . many people as are now here will want homes or' hotel accommodations; there will be just twice as many schoolhouses needed;. the mer. chants will sell more than twice the goods they arc selling now, for in. addition to the increased industrial indus-trial advancements of Utah, this will be the depot and ' clearing-house for all eastern Nevada. And this will have to be a real American State then, and the people will have to adopt American methods. ' . . . Shrewd . men will be needed for municipal and county, officers, to prepare for what is to be when the population of Salt. Lake City will number ,00,-000 ,00,-000 souls, and the volume of business be increased three-fold. Some great, new modern hotels will be needed; new great business houses will have to be established ; two new high school structures will have tojbe erected erect-ed ; the streets in the city and the roads outside will have to be improved. ' " On . every hand will be seen progress, and those who do not keep up with the rush will be pushed aside. Itris the inevitable that is approaching, and its voice is already in the air. IT LOOKS LIKE A BOOM. ( The signs are all filled with promises of good Material good to Salt Lake City. The Harriman , purchase; the extension of suburban railroads the certainty of the swift building of a railroad to the 'peep. Creek, Muncie and Ely districts; the netring '" of completion of the Garfield reduction works the . iew.Karhs shaft and tunnel machine the estab- . tishment of a factory for the making of the Hurst , Automatic switch ; the rush of the Moffatf and the . .Western Pacific roads to make, of Salt Lake a half- way station on another, great transcontinental rail- |