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Show Me Ba fa : $i EOUNTY OFFICIALS. CITY Still it must be admitted that Salt Lake’s growth has been retarded * * * Leaving this hasty review of the past, let us turn to the present. We find here a city of 65,000 people, a city havirg every modern convenience and enjoying fully the advantages of economical government. Its tax rate is low, the wants of its people are supplied by a productive surrounding country, and it is the center for most of the great mining, irrigation and railroad enterprises conducted in Utah and the surWhile other cities of the West are struggling to rounding States. overcome the evil effects of too much boom and over expansion, Salt The credit of Lake is conscious of having no such battle to make. the city stood the severe test of the financial stringency which wrecked so many of the great business institutions of the coumsry, and is conceded in Eastern money centers to be the best of any Western city. and The obstruetions to growth that sprung from Territorial laws eman by surrounded is It removed. entirely been have conditions pire containing wealth enough to justify a dozen cities the size of Salt Lake. It has passed the experimental stage, has established trade relations with an immense region, and is looked upon, not only in its immediate country, but throughout the United States, as the most promising, prosperous, geographically best located and most beautiful city It presents to the world many in the western portion of the Union. triumphs of architectural skill. It has a climate second to none in the United States; it has curative springs, and that marvelous attraction— the Great Salt Lake; its people are contented, industrious and lawabiding, and there is nothing to mar its present or impair its future. JoHN err an Te oon) es he ee ee ee Davip W. P. Lynn, Treasurer. Hon. JOHN D. SPENCER, Collector. JAMES GLENDINNING, Mayor of Salt Lake City. InOf the future of Salt Lake, the writer can only shrewdly guess. activity, indifference and selfishness may militate against it, as certainly as enterprise, energy and public spirit will insure it. There is no reason, geographical or material, why Salt Lake should not become a greater city than any other between the Missouri river and San Francisco, but whether it will realize this splendid dream depends There is no modern saying so true as the one much upon its people. that “Men make cities’—not men numerically considered, but men in whom energy, pluck, generosity and enterprise have their abiding If some of our much-talked-of neighboring cities had depended place. simply upon the development of their surrounding resources and had been deprived of the city-building men who inhabit them, they would not now be marked upon the maps of the country as important centers The history of the United States contains of trade and population. many instances where cities have been built without material tributary resources, but almost entirely through the irresistible work of men The criticism who put their genius and energies into their building. is not alone the writer’s, but is general throughout the country, that having at hand every needed resource—a site incomparable, a climate unequaled, attractions unrivaled, Salt Lake City has not in her people the enterprise and push which are essential to her receiving the most bountiful return from the future. * W. J. Lynou, Assessor, OFFICIALS. the materially by the prejudice among the Eastern people against This prejudice was largely due to misinformation, and now Mormons. not that the true worth of the people is known, has been nearly if It is probably true, also, that Territorial conditions wholly dissipated. Eastern capital does hampered somewhat the advance of the city. not take kindly to Territorial laws, so that Salt Lake did not really get its proportion of the wealth that has been pouring into the West in such large volumes during the past ten years. *K Bo If all we hope for is realized—if the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern segregation occurs, and over those highways we reach the trade of the Puget Sound country; if the road to Deep Creek is built, and that marvelous region is made to pay its tribute to us; if the long-hoped-for railroad finally reaches Los Angeles and the products of our State can meet the fruit-laden trains from Southern California— then we are indeed in a position to assert our supremacy over the great West. These and other conditions are most auspicious, but we must do something ourselves if we would have our triumph complete; we must cease to look to our neighbors and say, “What have they done?” whenever a public movement is proposed. We must have it true that our leading banks do not hold back their aid from meritori- L. May, Treasurer. S. Emery, Recorder. |