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Show THE CITIZEN THE CITIZEN A Thinking t Paper for Thinking People Published by THE GOODWIN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Fostofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, 82.50 per year; 81.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, 84.50 per year. 0 sity of Utah and the Westminster College are expending large sums of money in new buildings. The new Masonic Temple has just been completed at a cost of $850,000. In the southeast part of the city a new bank, library, department store, radio plant and the Pioneer Film Company are business marks of great consequence. St. Marys of the Wasatch has recently been completed on the east bench at the foot of the Wasatch range, commanding a birdseye view of the entire valley. A smokeless coal fuel plant is to be constructed at a cost of at least $7,000,000. The Z. C. M. I. is building a large warehouse and a new salt works is going up. The Urado Oil Company plans extensive improvements for placing on the market preserving paints and materials. The Jos. Wm. Taylor mortuary is a revelation in this industry. The L. D. S. Groves Hospital is adding a $500,000 improvement, and the new St. Marks Hospital will cost $1,000,000. The Sunset" Mausoleum will be one of the finest in the entire west. KDYL and KSL have brought their plants into the first class column and are among the most powerful plants in the country. This city has one of the largest airplane fields of the nation. Farm interests will build a new market at a cost of $500,000, keeping pace with agriculture. Vem McCullough built a new athletic coliseum, having a seating capacity of 5,000 people. During the year Sears & Roebuck company established a branch store on the northwest corner of Third South and State streets. The Western Furniture Company will move into its new home farther north bn State street. The Dollar Stores have opened and the Kress store has moved into a spacious building with outlets on two streets. Railroads are making surveys for big improvements that mean other millions in expenditures. Is it any wonder that the people of this city look with delight upon the 1929 business prospects ? Real estate men say that 100 new apartment houses will go up and they look for over 1,000 more new modem homes to be built in various selective parts of the city. Bank clearings have broken all records, and the mining industry was never in such healthful condition as at the present time. The nation gave its birth 153 years ago, but its future greatness was an unknown quanity. Nearly 82 years ago Brigham Young led a small band of pioneers into this valley, but none of them dreamed of the possibilities in this great western desert. Thus has developed a high degree of prosperity by citizens industrious in peace and valorous in war, and today standing as the mightiest nation on earth. The pioneers gave their lives that we might enjoy the blessings of freedom with fair and equitable laws, enacted under a constitution where the chance to improve conditions might always remain open for the poorest child to become the heir to the greatest fortune. This sacred heritage of wise statesmanship has endured the test of time and will continue to stand superior to all vicious delusions, promises and inventions of paternalism and the wildest diva .ns of even the Russian bolshevik, where everything is owned by everybody and nothing is owned by anybody. The people hope that the country shall continue to be a government of the people, by the people, for the people, and shall not perish from . PRANK E. SCHEPSKI ED. 8. DIAMOND Manager and Editor Advertising Manager BIG BOOM COMING . this city for the BUSINESS prospects far eclipse anything heretofore in new an- The business skyline will be materially changed if all the good things are placed in construction as proposed, and it would not be surprising to see the city grow to 200,000 or over before the close of 1929. Many millions will be expended in new construction of factories, apartment houses and homes, and judging from present proposed improvements, this city should enjoy the greatest boom of any city in the entire nounced. west. The driving wedge into our anticipated pros- perity was brought about by the entrance of the natural gas company, which plans an initial outlay of over $20,000,000, and which will result in much cheaper fuel for the factory and the home, and which will be followed by numerous industries that entirely depend upon cheap fuel for marketing their products. Heretofore fuel has been so expensive that proposed industries for this locality could in no way find a way to compete with eastern firms located in places where fuel is cheap, with the result that this city, situated in one of the greatest sections of natural resources, has been held back. We have been onlookers, with our hands tied, but the cords have been severed and it appears that at last we will come into our own. The biggest project is the Boulder dam, which calls for an expenditure of $165,000,000. While this dam;will be built in Arizona, yet we will or should greatly benefit thereby. Next in prominence is the natural gas fuel promoted by the Western Public Service Company, which will pipe natural gas from the Baxter Basin, Wyoming, Ifaich will reduce fuel prices and open competition with eastern factories. Several new hotels are talked of to keep progress with the city. A $1,000,000 hotel is to be built on the northwest corner of West Temple and South Temple, across the street from the inter-urba- n depot. The Keith estate plans a modern hotel on North State street, and there is also some talk of building a new hotel across the street east of the Newhouse hotel. The Embassador hotel is being completed at a cost of $385,-000, on Fifth East street. The Salt Lake Tribune has expended several kindred thousand dollars to bring its huge plant to modern efficiency. The Utah Oil Refining Company has plans for big improvements. The Telephone Company will erect a large office building where stood the late Salt Lake Theatre. A new $1,000,000 high school will be erected in the southeast part of the city this year. The Univer- - 3 I the earth. BOULDER DAM THE BOULDER dam may create no end of trouble for Utah in its present state. While the law has been passed providing for building of the dam, there is a proviso in it which makes it essential for Utah or Arizona to join the compact. Utah was a member, but wtih-dretwo years ago. Outside of Senator King, Utahs representatives are solidly against building the dam governed by the present law. This no doubt will have some influence with the present Republican legislature which convenes shortly after New Years. Should Utah refuse to join the compact and stand against the present law, and Arizona be for it, Utah will quite naturally create unfriendly feelings with her neighbor states and there is no telling where the end may reach. The bill provides for the expenditure of and much of this money will come into Utah and the people will receive a direct benefit. Judging from street talk, a majority of the people are for the building of the dam, but it is another matter to get our representatives in the legislature to see it that way. Senator Smoot says he will in no way try to influence the state legislature, but will let them use their best judgment in the matter. Representative Leatherwood says he hopes the state legislature will not do six-sta- te w $165,-000,00- 0, anything in the matter. It appears that Congress got tired of the dillydally methods pursued by the western states and after nine years of consideration has finally passed the buck up to the states and will let them fight it out themselves. Arizona has six months to think about it and she has the power of having the dam built or of killing it. Utah has also compact, could a club, and by joining the ask that the dam be built, but judging from the fight Utah statesmen are putting up against the dam at his early stage, The Citizen does not look for any favorable legislation for the dam at this end of the line. We have yet to learn what the real objections to the building of this dam are. There are so many conflicting stories in circulation that many people do not know whai to think. Even Governor Dem is withholding judgment until he reads the new bill passed. six-sta- te CHEAPER SERVICE LIGHT RATES will come tumbling down and the people of this city and Ogden will save in the neighborhood of $250,000 per year. The Utah Power & Light Company has filed an application with the Utah Public Utilities commission, asking for a reduction of light rates to commence January 1, 1929. This will bring the rates down as low as IV2 cents per kilowatt hour for water cents per kilowatt hour where heating and 4 refrigeration and lighting are combined. The commercial lighting rates will be 90 cents minimum per month, and a graduating scale has been aramged for consumers of large quantities of electricity. Outside of Ogden and this city the. minimum charge will be $1, but also having a graduating scale. Under the new rates it will be possible for a majority of the people to modernize their homes with the latest appliances at a minimum charge for power and light. The people of Salt Lake City surely have a very bright future. It certainly is the dawn of a new day. SOME ONE says that our fleet is so weak that almost any time an enemy will be coming over here to give us a tanning. Know any more jokes? UNDER the terms of this Kellogg peace pact, does Uncle Sam obligate himself in any way to furnish the mazuma for future European A UNITED STATES cruiser is to be named Chicago, and if it is manned by Chicagos most expert bombing experts we know whos going to win the next war. Macon Telegraph. wars ? |
