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Show I Salt Lake City Facts and Figures 1 II Salt Lake is interesting in many ways. It stands on a pre- j eminent height of its own as the foremost city of the Rocky mountain H j region. As an evidence of this statement we cite: H i A population of 100,000. Hj Cool nights in summer. HJ The capital of Utah. B An unexcelled free school system. B A splendid, unshaken business record. B A prosperous mining stock exchange. B Twelve banks, with deposits of nearly $37,000,000. B The best railroad facilities, with new roads building hither. Bj Good local and export markets for the products of her people. B Broader streets than any other city on the American continent. B The "fastest" and best bicycle tracks that were ever built. B Famous hot springs, salt water and mineral baths and a big fl sanitarium. B Lowest death rate of any of the larger cities only nine per B one thousand. H Numerous imposing church edifices of all the leading Christian B sects. B An up-to-date public library, literary and social clubs, and art societies. Three morning and two evening newspapers and other enter- H' prising publications. Hi A world-renowned Tabernacle and the grandest pipe organ that B was ever built. H A regular unpaid church choir (Mormon) of more than five B hundred mixed voices. H The great Mormon Temple, which was forty years in building! H and cost over $4,000,000. H A municipal and county building that has no counterpart west H of the Mississippi cost $1,000,000. H Magnificent mountain chains, pure water,, matchless climate and H bathing resorts that are without equals. H - A school population of nineteen thousand children between the H j , ages of six and eighteen years, and $2,000,000 worth of school H property. Hi A waterworks system that can supply a population twice as large Hi as it now has, and which belongs to the citizens and is controlled B by them. H A thoroughly modern street railway system, with more than one Bl hundred miles of trackage, and one of. the best electric lighting Bjt systems. Two great telephone companies, with residence and business 'phones exceeding more than fifteen thousand bona fide subscribers, the highest American per capita average. Great gold, silver, copper, lead, iron and coal mines at her very doors, with marble, onyx and the highest quality of building stone quarries close at hand. A mean temperature of 51 2-10 degrees ; extreme high temperature tempera-ture of 98 degrees, and an even zero record for the lowest temperature, tempera-ture, and an average of 71 per cent of possible sunshine. A population in the state of 400,000, which is being rapidly augmented by homcseekers and investors, who find in Utah probably prob-ably more inducements to remain than can be offered by any other commonwealth. The manufacturing center for surrounding states. Principal offices for all the great mining companies of Utah. Over 15,000 persons employed in Salt Lake City manufacturing industries, and more than $10,000,000 disbursed annually in wages, with a production exceeding yearly $55,000,000 in value. The University of Utah is located here, the grounds occupying 92 acres, and the college has an enrollment of over 1,000 students. I Dividends from one of the finest beet sugar factory systems in the world. One of the most extensive salt industries in the country, the lake being the source of inexhaustible supply. On Antelope island, in the Great Salt lake, one of the very few herds of buffalo in the United States, with a project on foot to make the island the government breeding place of these almost extinct animals to preserve the American bison as he was when the country was discovered. Eagle Gate formerly led into Brigham Young's private grounds ; also into City Creek canyon, which was at that time a toll road. The Lion and Bee Hive houses, Amelia Palace or Gardo House, were all built by Brigham Young for residences. The Bee Hive house is now occupied by the president of the Mormon church. Great Salt Lake is 80 miles long by 35 wide. Trains leave daily for Saltair at 2:15 p. m. from September to June. From June to September Sep-tember every forty-five minutes, beginning at 10 :30 a. m. Fort Douglas, a military post, three miles east of the city at thJfc foot of the Wasatch mountains, is 700 feet above the city. Reached by East Second Soth street cars. Salt Lake Thtucr, built by Brigham Young in 1862, is the fifth oldest standing theater in the United States. Seating capacity, 2,300. The Brigham Young monument stands at the intersection of Main and South Temple streets. It is of bronze, was designed by a Utah artist, C. E. Dallin, and cost $25,000, exclusive of the pedestal, which is of Utah granite, weighing one hundred and twenty tons. The City and County building and grounds occupy Old Emigra-lion Emigra-lion square, a ten-acre block on State street, between Fourth and w Fifth South. It is five stories high and 272x156 ft. on the ground. The clock tower in the center is 250 feet high, and the four corner towers 120 feet high. The total cost, internal and external, was about $1,000,000. The Great Salt Lake, a wonder of the world, is reached in half an hour's ride by rail to Saltair Beach, where stands the finest pavilion in the country, built in Moorish style, on ten-inch piles, 4,000 feet out into the lake. Its total length is 1,115 feet and greatest width 335 feet; height of top of main tower, 152 feet; dancing lloor, 140x250 feet without a single pillar; 620 bath rooms; illuminated by countless electric lights at night. The cornerstone of the Salt Lake Temple was laid by Brigham Young on April 6, 1852, and the Temple was finished April 6, 1893. It is built of Utah granite; is 1851-2 feet long, 99 feet wide, with walls 107 1-2 feet high. Three towers on cast end, the center lower 222 1-2 feet to top of spire ; the others 200 feet each ; and three towers at the west end, the center tower 219 feet to lop 'of spire, the others 194 feet each. The walls of the building at the bottom arc nine feet thick, at the top six feet; the buttress seven feet thick. The structure rests upon a footing wall sixteen feet thick and eight feet deep. The figure on the top of the east center tower is of hammered copper, covered with pure gold leaf, and surmounting its crown is an incandescent incan-descent lamp of 100-candlepower. It represents the angel Moroni, sounding the trumpet of the Gospel in the Latter-day dispensation. The cost of the structure was over $4,000,000. The Tabernacle is 250x150 feet and 80 feet high, with egg-shaped loof; a gallery on three sides; the great pipe organ, pulpit and choir at west end; scats about 10,000. Large double doors at intervals around the whole building. First stone laid April 5, 1865 ; dedicated, October 6, 1867; cost, $300,000. Assembly Hall is 120x68 feet; central tower is 130 feet from the ground ; seats about 2,500 and cost $150,000. It is used as an overflow meeting house. The wall around the Temple was completed August 15, 1854, and is 2,640 feet in length. The wall proper is ten feet high and three feet thick. The weight is 2,232,440 pounds. It was designed by Brigham Young and the purpose was for fortification against attacks by the Indians. Bank clearings, Salt Lake City, 1907, $297,577,300. Salt Lake did a jobbing business in 1907 of $54,282,500. Expenditures for education by Salt Lake City for current year jlflU ending June 1, 1908, (estimated) $600,415. fil School census, 1908, 19,373 pupils. jffy Municipal improvements for 1907 in Salt Lake City cost $1,- f 200,000. I Utah's hydrocarbon mines in 1907 produced: ffiU Gilsonite 21,462 H Elatcrite 125 B Tabbyite 100 VM Asphalt - 4,000 ffl Ozocerite 1,565 9 Total 27,252 91 Utah's coal mines produced in 1907: Coal, 1,967,651 tons; coke, jM 324,692 tons. H Utah's metal output for 1907: fl Gold $1 1,804,383.33 Wk Silver 11,406,350.13 H Copper 20,370,596.70 U Lead . 7,649,076.38 M Zinc 391,127.49 Quicksilver 16,875.00 9 Total $51,638,409.03 fjfl Output, 1906 40,080,682.97 M Increase $11,557,726.06 l Dividends paid in 1907 (mining), $7,638,428. M Utah's twenty-eight canning factories packed, in 1907, 733,850 111 cases of fruit and vegetables, valued at $1,500,000. Ill Livestock valued at $23,000,000 is owned within the state of Utah. ' l Utah's crop of beet sugar for 1907, $7,500,000. IU Assessed valuation for property of all kinds in the twenty-seven jH counties of Utah, $161,325,450. H Wheat, 1907 Irrigated, 111,213 acres; average per acre, 28 bush- HI els. Non-irrigated, 108,664 acres; average per acre, 15 bushels. Wheat crop 1907219,877 acres produced 4,743,924 bushels, at H 75 cents, $3,557,943. Ill Sugar Beets 30,000 acres, 360,000 tons, at $4.50, $1,620,000. II Oats 48,112 acres, 2,068,816 bushels, at 80 cents, $1,657,052. II Wool Clip 1,850,000 pounds, $4,300,000. jl Honey 25,000 stands of bees, 1,712,500 pounds honey, $350,000. ffl Agriculture Agriculture and livestock produced, 1907, $49,901,- l 248 in state. jjfl . State Fair Building. |