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Show tittle further be will Me that by making ome hort rod and a little park, which will toot cost t7 mueh, a wonder of the world tn be wjade np there ao far aa aeeing the inert aeenery, imaginable, and with the roads begun Davie county would complete them, and Salt Lake would have soma-thing soma-thing to show visitors that no other city on earth could boast of. Some of the council have been up there already, and thought not very much given to poetry or high flights of the imagination, even those matter of fact eeuncilmen have grown enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the possibilities that can be worked out there without mueh cost. It is easy to go up there now in an automobile, and we advise men who are booming Salt Lake and who want to see it "the city beautiful" to make that journey and then lend their influence, stir up the council and have that work done. It wtil not cost much; it will be an everlasting glory when completed. We, here in tat Icwlands, are looking forward with mueh anticipation to when we shall see the new !apitol smiling down npon us; but with this work done it will be possible for any citizen in a short hslf hour's ride to look down tn the capital, not only that, but down npon this valley and to the mountains on either side, to take in the view north, west and south, which will include the lake, both ranges of great motrntuina, this valley in its snm-mer snm-mer splendor- a view altogether most beauljfnl and so angust that it will awe the beholder to see how nature can spread out its splendors when it tries. We suggest to the council that they go in a bodyT Uke' Tn the vteWTand while their enthusiasm is npon them, proceed to pass the necessary ordinance ordi-nance to insure the work that should be done ; and that Mr. Mayor should go with then and use hia influence to have the work begun and finished. If tbsy do mayor and council will after a while psas away, but they can have inscribed -on a piece of Utah marble: "This work was projected and carried car-ried through by the mayor and council of 1911," and in that way they will perpetuate their names sad their memories for as many years aa the marble mar-ble shall lsst, and the thousands who will go up there will read the superscription' on the monument, monu-ment, and will say t "The nun who waa mayor, and the men who were councilmen in the year 1911 must have been superior men," and while that tn soma would seen like something of an exaggeration, exaggera-tion, it will do no harm, and their work will result in booming Salt Lake more than thousands of dollars dol-lars apent in descriptions and advertiaementa, for the white man ia like the Indian, what he needa to get him started la an object lesson; when he will not trust hia own ears dr his own hands, he will believe be-lieve what ha sees. Although with that work done when men go up there they will have to rub their eyes and ask if it ia not some splendid mirage that they are looking at and not a real exhibition of nature's splendors stretched out for the admiration admira-tion of mankind. City councils aa a rule move slowly, and there is always a large class of people in every eity which only an object lesson wijl teach anything. Not one in a thousand of the people of thia ity haa any comprehenaion of what the high line boulevard northwest of this city would be if completed, and asy communication from the eity made to it. How immense the attraction would be I What a splendor it would be to the kity I What a delight de-light it would be to the people of the eity I - What an impetua H would give to the city 'a gowth 1 We suggest thst hia honor the mayor and eity council go up there and that they invite a few prominent citUens to go wflh them. We are satisfied that if they will, and will make the offer that they will give up $1500 of eity money if aome fifteen gentlemen gentle-men will contribute aa much more, that the offer will be promptly accepted, and that the work can be done while yet the ground is moist and aoft The expenditure of $3000 there would place the whole view in easy reach of the eity, and it would be such an advertisement aa the eity haa never yet received. . It could be completed in time for s Fourth ei July eelebration np there thia year. The roada ahould be constructed, and if there ia any water that can be got there, a little park be begun, enough at leaat to plant some trees, for there ia a natural place np there for the park. Thia should not be pat off. Tha espitol will be begun so soon aa preliminariea eaa be arranged ; it will begin to take form thia summer; tha work beyond ought to be supplementary to it, ao that by ths time . the structure eaa be finished, "all will be parts of one harraonioua whole," and when completed it will make the moat beautiful aeenery anywhere seem commonplace and tame by comparison. - . .-- -tv---ei 1 f ) u;i oa Ceptol till and go a |