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Show IN 1 9 tO WILL BE 2C0;Ciji); IT GHN'f BE HEADED 4f P There js one thing I wish tocominend; and I.'thjnkI voice the sentiments of every .member of the Real Estate association as well as others familiar with the jaets, and: that is the policy of THE TELEGRAM in boosting Skit Lake. THE TELEGRA3I has'bops'ted in seasbmand out of season, and is still boosting. 'My only regret: is that the spirit shown by THE TELEGRAM is not a partqf the spirit of every resident of Salt Lake. President Halloran of the Salt Lake Commercial Club. be a 4fia&1toiHt Uzls tt 'JiltJclaji wtrkineT.'-;TliT 'eai 'raala-xaoiwyllletw by Intertlcj; latjt rtat,f mJistj t ioxnxjoxhu yaivdts. -A WttMantr Uslt SmaJ- Nfw-how-Ui bai4Jottrf for Salt Lake rir estate. ';PiictldaUy:an of ttt inonn'w,i6'.njlo:rVl; Invert In.SAJ, I4e,.rtt:tT.'aA"BT they wnrhki-subf AVoat., WHEirf.BAnrjtAt SXLTxLAKE WTIi. riAYEAt,POpTU.tI0, OT 200,000 DTlS-ia X,Aif;iOLD AM At LjUST 5d,dorJ VsilORr-' OP ' ' Salt like . biilStd raf at .t rati of at tt ,10,000 Vxr'fVr.tto U'fro rear, tin tW)p.2jreiTw havebt had'tojdfferwate7a,vi;to'rlI.or nor wB?'w,will hvvt) oIer in the nexf.yeaj' oY-.two..A : i.. '.'Sajf LkselfXJyvi4a';ity on, a rock, the wiada&dvtBe'atocdcanot afleetit. It is tneicfnterofl000 inilea in.every direction f the grandest country that the sua . ever; shone -.on. Denver, the onlv possible,' rival of Salt Lake between be-tween the -river and the coast,- has no such eonntry;'to ;diawon . as has Salt Lake. .Denver-is. a, (neat rity, -but it has not the, poasibilltves of Salt Lake. . " To' the eat of Depver ia the open country., with its' farms jof from' a quarter quar-ter of a. section -fco-'avseetion or -more. To the'weit of'DnTr the contributory country-is eutoffbjvtbe-jrreat Rocky mountain- K'' "' "Salt Laka.laUie.gaat beatinx heart of the 4T8AtaatJrilon"tli' world arer taw. A couitryxsot7t'thJi the dream, of the moe optlinistico'f.'optlmirti cannot can-not comprehend tt. ' :. "Let us get rid,' of ''the pessimists. They are a curse to themselves and ev-erv ev-erv one. who cefnes in 'eonjact with them. Let us" be optiiriijti. . sLet everv one of ut be boost iJsr'nQt "knockers, and the population .of .Salt Lake will be 200.000 or better by 19Ki" W. J. Ifalloran. progident of the Com-merciaj Com-merciaj club, said:,-!.'.! "Two hundred thousand ' population for Salt Lake by llOlwill come true. And there are reaioas'for mv belief. Salt Lake is the ohlyjcenter of an area of raoe than 1000 milea.ia every direction. direc-tion. It is the logical, and only center of one of the greatest countries the. world ever saw. A country of'which the possibilities are just beginning to be understood. un-derstood. . ' ' "So Vast are the possibilities of this (Treat island -empire .that- no man. not even the most enthusiastic, can predict, pre-dict, much less tell what the future will bring forth. "So freat are the poeatbiliUea, not I guessed at bat known, that the wealth 1 of Solomon and of Croeava sink Into in- significance with what Salt Lake haa to offer. Solomon and Croesus were wealthy, aa wealth was counted in their ! day. Yet both of them did not have ; one tenth of what Utah haa today. ' "Alexander and Napoleon would ! have ranoruered the world by force of arms. I'tah. with Salt Lake as its cap-I cap-I ital. needs no armed force to win its battles. Her natural endowments, her minei, smelters, farms, stoek, rnanufac-; rnanufac-; ninns. railroads, elrmate are so great i that no man can predict the future. "Take for instance the smelting in-terer in-terer of Salt'l.ake, an interest that is ', n"t vet undertoM by our own people, mu.'h less thoe of the East and West. "Within a Short time the new smelters smelt-ers at Oarfleld will be reducing' 10. 000 I tons of ore per day. An amount so great j that It is hard to comprehend It. The output of the mines of Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Montana are something wonderful, won-derful, and every one of these States navs tribute to Salt Lake. "WILL SALT LAKE CITY HAVE A POPULATION OF 200,000 JN 1910 AND WHY?" This question 'was put by THE TELEGRAM to Edward F. Colborn, president of the Real Estate association and to W. J. Halloran, president of the Commercial club. "My reasons for believing that we will have a population of 200,u00 in 1910 are so many," said Judge Colborn, Col-born, "I will give you a few that come to my mind at the present time. "Salt Lake is the center for 1000 miles in every direction of the greatest country that the sun over shown on. There is no other city that I know (,f that offers the same opportunities as does Salt Lake. There mav le some who say that the 200,000 mark by 1910 is the dream of an optimist. 1 am not one of that class. "When a city gets a population of 100,000 you can't keep track of its growth from that time on. Salt Lake is close to the 100,000 mark right now. "The struggle of the mother with the child is trom birth to about the age of 20 years. After that time the child can take care of itself. True, the child can 1 pushed and helped bv those who are interested in it, but if it cannot take care of itself at that age it never will be able to do so. "Salt Lake has passed the high-chair high-chair stage. She will grow of her own accord whether anyone does anything any-thing to boost her or not. But she will grow faster if people only knew what we have got here. "We have got a settled railroad sit uati"n in Salt Lake now. Mr. Ham-man Ham-man settled it when he decided to purchase pur-chase the treet railway system with the millions which will be spent on that system in the near future. Mr. Harriman is at the head of a great railroad system, one of the greatest in thf world, he is not investing money where he thinks it will not pay inter ct. Railroads make cities. And ofttiines thev make them where they please, but they alwavs prefer to make a city that has manv natural advantages advan-tages such as Salt Lake has. "Tin- action of Mr. Harriman is but a starter, other roads will follow; al ready vnu can see the evidence of this. TIip Moffat road is coming and coming fast. The Western Paeihc, backed bv the great (iould interest, is being built between thil city and the coast. "In addition to these the C. B. & Q. and the Northwestern have their eye on Salt Lake. They are almost within the borders of the State now, and it is my firm belief that both of them will be running trains Into this city within the next three years. That Salt Lake City will be a great railroad Center, and that, too within the next three years there la not a particle of doubt In my mind. "Take next as a basis for the 200,-000 200,-000 mark in 1910 the smelter interest. This city Is now, and will become more so within the next three years, a great smelting center, in fact the greatest in the world. The output of all of the mines of Utah, practically all of the mines of Nevada, the greater part rf the output of the mines of Idaho and a largo part of the output of the mines of Montana, are, or will be, coming to Salt Lake within the next year or two. "Inmy opinion the present output of the mines of these four States is nothing today to what it will be in the near future. "The output of the mines of Utah aid Nevada alone would be enough to make of Salt Lake one of the greatest smelting centers that the world has ever known, but this city and the immediate imme-diate vicinity will be the center for more than the mines of Utah and Nevada. Ne-vada. "The manufacturing possibilities of Salt Lake are boundless. Not only will the present plants be increased in size and capacity, but hundreds f new ones will be built to meet the growing demand of this great inter-mountain inter-mountain country. "The ;riftin Car Wheel companv of which Thomas A. (iriffln of New Yoik! is president, already owns a large tract of land in the northwestern part of d.e city. "They will secure more land and from information that I have, that is absolutely reliable, will erect in this city one of the largest car wheel factories fac-tories in the world. "The company already has four factories fac-tories in the Cnited States, en.-li f which is a model of its kind. The c ne which will be erected in Salt Lake will be the equal of any in the world. "These factories, smelters and railroads rail-roads mean the employment of thousands thou-sands of men at good wages. It means that these men will bring their families here, will make their homes here, will buy real estate and build houses, will have their children educated hire, in fact will become a part f the jroat city. " The plans of the (iovernment. some of which are now being worked "n to increase the water supply of diffetent parts of the State, will mean the tiringinjj under cultivation of thousands thou-sands ot acres of additional bin 1 TV.is will mean additional farm supplies to the great center of the in'i-rni"Un!liii country. Salt Lake Citv. Will the Government Gov-ernment stop at the Strawberry valley project J 1 think not . "The Irrigation interests of Utah are so great that the Government will be "Take the railroad. situation. Already Salt Lake is on two great transcontinen tsl lines. Tlve Moffat' road is coming, th Western Pacific lS'beinu huih. This will mean another transcontinental line for Salt. Lake. The c. H. Q. and the i Northwestern are knocking at our door, (Hnd bfvorjd a douht will havp gained entrance into this city within the next j three years. i "I am Informed that last year more than 200,000 tourista visited the Temple block. This Is a traffic -that no great railroad is going to overlook if it is I possible to secure -a part of it. ) "The Moffat road, in -my opinion, wit ' mean cheaper coal forfait Lake; in one ; countv- alone the road'wnll pass through twenty miles, of coal. land. Cheaper : coal means, more manufactories. I do not wish to appear as knocking the rail ' road, far from it, hut this citv must , have cheaper coal. We'are entitled to ! it and there is but little doubt in mv j mitid hut what we will get it within the I next vear or two. "If, however, the railroada will not I do Justice to this city in the matter of coal rale's then I beiieve that the citizens citi-zens of Salt Lake should organize a company and build' a line of their own to the coal holds. "Such a b'a would pay good interest on the rnouev invested and would men 1 cheap fiiel for this citv. I would not b' favor of s'icb a lir? unless the I r:.ilri.:.i- sii ivv '.v their f'Cure action that thev will not trest Salt Lake right I in the matter of the price of fuel. I I "Who 1 s the pigmy who can expect to keep Salt Lake back'wifh such men as Harriman, tonM-and our own Newhouse interested in its future V Mr. Newhouse ha. shown his faith in t'.c future of Salt Like. "I do not believe tbat there Is or ever was another city that could show the record of five great skyscrapers to be erected at the same time by one man. "Within the last month or two Mr. New house has paid nearly a million dol lars for Salt Lake real" estate and he has announced that he wrll expend $.". (100, 000 on the improvement of the same. This includes $1,500,000 for a hotel which. 'when completed, will be the finest in the West. "The peonle of .Salt Lake ought to let the people o 'the rChfof the country know what, th.- 'havo to offer. Tell them vyhat we have got. Shout it from the house top and the mountain top. Tell it in letters, in the newspapers, tell it by wire, tell the storv over and over. "It is a good story, a true storv. and every Salt Laker ought" to tell it and keep on telling it. Salt Lake is going to grow, is growinf. bat it will grow faster if the people 0 the citv will onlv let those on the outside know what w have got to offer. Truly this is a city of c pportunitL's. '.' ' . willing to spena millions to .ia tntm and that, too, in the next few years. "The great dry farming intcro-t of the State, which is just beginning to be understood, and winch will tin. in so much to Salt Lake, will add thousands of acres of tillable land in the Mate. ( n t housrinils of acres in the tatc. that hve heretofore been look-d upon as onlv tit for grazing in the spring, fn m t.n to twenty five bushels of vvhe:it 1 cr acre will be raised within 'he next two or three vears. This means dour, which means bread. "Take the stock interest, with rattle on a thousand hills and sheep in a Tmu sand dells. The possibilities of the cat tie and sheep business in I'tah are just beginr.inp to be understood Look at the exhibit at the National Wo.il Growers' Grow-ers' ennv ent ion hi Id in Salt Lake last week. "Did anvone ever see finer sheep or finer wool than was shown theref Is it not a fact that every delegate to the convention admitted that i' vvs the finest exhibit ever had in connection with the association conventions! And let me sav that practically ev.w one of the sheep shown was a I'ta'i sheep. L01 k at the record that I'tah his made in the last two years in its shipments of beef and mutton to te Kat'-m mar kefs Thev have received as hin or higher prices for their aniinpls than anv other State. "The fruit interest of the State should not be oveaoked. True, it may only be in its inception now, but look at the possibilities. Nowhere in the world can finer fruit be grown than right here in Utah. "The I'tah exhibit at the Irrigation congress held in Idaho last fall took first pize. Vet this industry is but in its infancy. There is no reason whv the fruits of I'tah should not be known and receive a high price in every large citv in the country. Incidentally I might refer to ttfe climate of Salt Lake, one of the, if not I the, finest in the world. Where else in the world can you find such a climate as we haveehere, year in and year out f Where else in the world can vou find the same number of natural attractions at the very door of the city as you can find here in Salt Lake? "What other city haa a great dead sea, with the finest bathing in the world? "What other city has mountains with the finest of canvon drives over good roads within a mile or two of its heart 1 What other city can boast of eternal snow in sight every dav in the year and yet at the same time 3(55 days of almost perfect weather f "Another reason why I think that the population of Salt Lake will be 200,000 by 1910 if the fact that people can make money here. They can make money aa workmen because there will |