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Show Ir " Editorial Comment Salt Lake is greater and better than any other city of its size in the country. In fact, it is better than any city of any size in the country. These claims arc put forth by every earnest citizen of the city; and they have the facts to maintain their position. Salt Lake City has grown from a barren alkali flat to one that is a picture of verdure and natural beauty. Nothing remains of the bleak shore on L which the pioneers first cast their gaze save the mountains and the lake. All else is changed. And the change is for good. Progress I has been slow, but it has been sure. There has been one "boom," I that in the early '90s. But it did not last long, and it did no lasting harm. But today the city is progressing as no other city in the land is doing. Last month building permits of four hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars were issued, and of this great amount two hundred and ninety-one thousand three hundred dollars were for homes. In addition, there are now nearly six million dollars' worth of buildings being erected. This includes two new magnificent railroad stations ; the new skyscrapers on South Main street ; new business blocks on every important business street ; two new theaters ; a million-dollar hotel, besides apartment houses, churches and industrial in-dustrial concerns. In addition, nearly one million dollars arc being spent in public improvements, street paving, waterworks, sewerage and the like. It is a record the people are proud of. And it is only the beginning. With a population of nearly one hundred thousand : citizens in Salt Lake City, even the pessimists arc conceding one ' hundred and fifty thousand by 1912. Advancement is not caused 1)' any "boom," but by conservative investment. The population is I increasing because this is the place for the banker, the investor, the j homesecker, the health seeker, for those seeking recreation and so ciety. And it is only the beginning. When the progress of the ) city and state will end, no man can say. |