Show J j 1 J J LATER A TER SALT LAKE LAKEI II j t ITS PAST AND FUTURE I ot O S v P I D BY EDWARD T P gHE Greater Salt SaIt Lake thu ono OM on L f r we dreamed about for tor two Ono Op r Y decades and fought for or co irl at t th t the tides or of con conservatism o n has really arrived Thero will be bo no one to gainsay that When I look around me inc and und see sec what won uon wonders on ders ers have been wrought with brick briele and stone stoe In this good gool year ear 1909 and m l l lUlU uie UlU tho the t cit cRy ot of today toda tha Salt Lake 1110 that I came horo ti t boom 20 jean ego 10 I realize re that i 1 must then have havo been heen a ten times optimist to have conceived what tho tilL two next n t decades were to bring forth I r Wll wis In the tho bloom of ot In my youth and buty then and on my m head where whelo now flow now tho the hah hairless less w wastes isles aro found I lad iad a u shock of or hair hall that would have done Ione for tor any an football field In the tho world In those th so davs booming Salt Lake was no easy task and many man a aman aman I man who tried It went down don to defeat i iI I remember with a shudder how 00 her hel as us the tho Old Man or of the Sea lode rodo Sinbad the Sailor The These e men never neer ne r gave up tip 11 an anything thing for a a public purpose nor ever eer let any an ono one else give Ic up If they could help It Whenever real estate was offered they the said sahl it was too high hij l land and whenever anyone showed spirit anti and tried to put A little turpentine on Salt I Lake alee to mike make her go aster these men wagged their heads heids and said that 1 he was a boomer and do and ando co to o the sledding for or the optimist w is pretty prett hard and the thu panic of or 1903 1901 made It still harder But the panic wore away awa and an after lifter a II while time and circumstance removed these obstacles from the tho public path and bye bc and bye b e came a II HarrIman and anda a with their splendid cour courage courage age alte and the greatest people that ever lived were awakened and Salt Lake Lale came Into hii hir own TodaY roda there thero sits not on the surface of this continent a n city with such good red blood In her veins as has Salt Lake 01 or ono one that holds trade and x mining dominion over a gi greater cater em empire empire empire pire Long In the he trough of at the sea lea Salt Lake Lako now smiles on all the world from rom the tho crest of at the wave and no city of at her size In these United States Stales can measure against her In volume of trade total of or clearances and the sum of building operations operation Once the tho only Intrusions Into her skyline were the spires spire or of the temple and the steeple of or tho the county and city elt building whence Moroni and Columbia looked down In sad resignation upon tho the two story stor structures of ot a n one street town now the tho brick and mortar Is piling higher and higher and tho the sky sk skyline line Is ia broken with structures whose hundreds of ot window eves es sweep the valleys alle s of or Utah from Mt t Nebo to the Great Salt SaU Lake Lal e And we e have only OI Just begun b gull We Se Weare Seare are aio only Just getting the first feeble cobb responses from the development going on around us A thousand miles Is tho diameter of or our tributary circum circumference circumference circumference ference Within that vast ast region men inca and money mone are industriously at work and nud every dollar they the spend pend l every avcI ring of the hammer and Hound sound of ot blast and whirl wirl of wheels means eans a still fe er greater Salt Lake LakeI k I II I did not do o 0 It all au but I helped a n little littie and I am glad that I did We Wo shall shah have hao people living hero here In Inthe Inthe inthe the not far tar away sweet bye and bye b e and they the will have havo their homes from the tho mountains over oer to the sea When rhen men speak of or us as they w will more and more moie hereafter it will not bo be of or our religion but of or our greatness I M 11 much wo we had hod to explain fool no lions about the tho Mormons and a thou thousand sand tand other things such as that this was not a railroad center and never v would be b and that the tho Gentiles were not wel welcome welcome come and that money invested would I l e unsafe nato because it would be bo taxed to death and so forth orth and so on But anost most of or all I remember how little the people of or that time seemed to care are Salt Lake grew or not and how Jiow much nuch opposition was WS offered to I every evelY move that would make malc for foi a big bigger bigger i I i ger gel city t There was a coterie of o men here I I f then I wont name thom them but their I names are not forgotten a select few tc who by b the tho legerdemain eman of ot luck and andi i opportunity It had accumulated fortunes and on that account were considered bv by b the rest of ot the community to be tho the I i I repositories of ot great wisdom and to be beable beable able ablo to decide every question quel affecting the future of oI Salt Lake This element 1 of or the community was somewhat like I Old Man Banger In Wares Vares im imm Immortal mortal m poem who Worked and md schemed med with a grim de determination determination determination termination That hed gobble every dollar there thelo was t I In circulation I i And they the mounted Salt Lake and rode ode |