Show EV EVANGELS A OF PROGRESS AA V A stranger er coming here and looking about th the ii city will naturally be impressed by the work going on the new great buildings and the private homes I under rapid construction the tremendous work being bei being be be- i ing ing ng done in grading paving laying lading of mains and extending extending extending ex ex- tending sewers and must naturally say to himself i itt tt C Why AYi this means progress sure enough I Then if of an investigating turn of mind he will 2 naturally begin to ask what is behind all this rush of of b building a city If he happens to meet the right man he will be told of sources of wealth the incomparable mines the daily ore and bullion receipts re re- re- re new new money not gained from other men in tr trade de but a new crea creation ion wrenched from the adamantine adamantine adamantine adaman adaman- tine the hills hills the great I works the rich r ch v vali valt valts lt leys leY s the stock live-stock and beet sugar industries t the e wool clip and finally how adjacent States lean upon t Sa Salt Lake City ity as a house clearing-house and supply staF sta sta- F tion Lion j 4 Then a 1 map will be shown the stranger and nd he will be made to se see that there is no other place for a city within miles in either direction His His' natural M. M impression will b be that nothing can stop tl the e building of a great city here Then when he comes to pricing real estate he will have to admit that as compared d to Denver or 91 Kansas City or Los Angeles th the pric prices s are not unreasonable r By this time he will be pretty well satisfied thit r wh in a great man many respects this city offers more advantages to the investor than any other spot on r 4 earth Then he gets his dinner lights a cigar and sits its its down to enjoy the evening paper r. r The News i is brought to him h he is struck with the teal real of the paper ho how v it praises the police that have haveIt fri It 1 brought safety to the city how because of it the ther thes r- r s r stranger may have no fear how the progress going i on is noted and 4 praised d how changed things are in ina a t a n single o year and anda a half and all in the interest of theo the people P le how while for quite forty years all the he reve- reve revenue reve reve- 1 nue lue of or the city was divided up among its officers all has been changed and now there is a struggle to toh i h keep the city up to the natural advance that is goi going g y an on that whereas in the old times tunes an inertia ertia settled here which seemed immovable now there is nothing nothing noth noth- in ing but th the progress of f the city t thought of The stranger retires and only pleasant dreams paint halos i around his head l I He e rises smiling He rings for a morning highball high high- f ball balland alland and the morning papers The messenger carries iB him the morning echo of the News and the rockiest rock est r of the rocky the H Herald ald He sees the News confirmed i but feels a s sense sense nse of relief th that t he was not held up the previous night when he crossed the street for a n V cigar He realizes that the real estate dealers are tM the true friends of the city that the re is is' is so che cheap p is that the citizen may not l lose se too much when vl en all he e has i is taken in ta taxes es that rea really y what wha is r. r I going on is idt work but the way all the city offic officers rs t tYs tY's k ad adopt ado pt t to wheedle th the stranger strang r into an investment that later he may be a victim That really what the theY Y f f city ity is d doing i g is mere mere hypnotism to deceive the un- un nn-j nn ii wary yary f The result is that the stranger does not even tarry J f 1 f for r breakfast but bait takes the first train and arid is now off f. f i f across across' the Nevada deserts and is thanking heaven j that he lie got out ont of Salt Lake alive |