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Show THB. | REP | CITY OFFICIALS. ARGUS. me OUS Movements; co-operating with we must awaken in every citizen’s mind the need of every other citizen, and having PROMINENT an eye single to the CITIZENS. greater growth of this City of the Saints, which Stansbury looked upon in 1853 and named the Diamond in the Desert. We need a revival in Salt Lake—a mental revival—a new birth of public spirit; more that is generous and less that is selfish; more that is broad and less that is narrow; more for the public at large and less for the Single individual. Then trade and population will increase, and out of the womb of the future will spring a Salt Lake City which will realize the dream of Brigham Young when he laid its limits so far from its center. EK. Home Advantages of Salt Lake F. COLBORN. City. To write of the merits of Sas Lake City as a place where one can make money and live to enjoy #t, one ought to have at his command a certain amount of statistical matter. But inasmuch as this dissertation is penned, not with a view of indulging in any “boom” business, but rather with an intention of setting forth in a general way the multifarious advantages which mudern Zion can boast of, perhaps the reader will be better pleased if figures and tables are tabooed. || | Street, Supervisor. The tions, lacking, men and women and, while true it has come of to * * K F, MuLtoy, ————— THomAS today are mercenary in their aspirahappiness may exist where wealth is be a part of humanity’s belief JoHN W. DonNNELLAN, Banker, that Se SS SEE SS felicity is best enjoyed where opulence reigns, in a _ greater or lesser measure. “Love in a cottage” is eminently right and proper, but the enjoyment of the lovers is enhanced when the head of the family is possessed of sufficient means to enable him to keep the wants of those dependent upon him well supplied. With means in one’s possession, he is prepared to indulge in all that goes to make earthly existence pleasant. Having, as it were, taken a text, the writer will now attempt the task of setting forth the natural r : . Ff . J. J, GREENEWALD, Sanitary Inspector.” TERE GEORGE M. Scorrt, Merchant. PROMINENT CITIZENS. Hon. and other C. C. Goopwin, advantages which Editor Salt Lake Tribune. are here for those who wish to profit by them. It should be a maxim that one can make as much, if not more, money in this region of country, and live longer to spend it, than anywhere else in the United States. And accompanying the enjoyments which are the result of continued years are many elements which are not at the command of other and less favored localities. ¥ & * W.S8S. MoCornick, Banker. Inasmuch as the position has been taken that in order to properly enjoy what is vouchsafed to mortals here below, the sordid portion of the theme will be first touched upon. Without bewildering with arrays of figures and tabulated statements, an attempt will be made to demonstrate the many methods by which wealth is being and will be accumulated here in the heart of the inter-mountain region, which is even now becoming famous all over the nation and the civilized world. % % ° * “Boyp Park Merchant %* ee rows een Salt Lake is the geographical metropolis of what is known as the “Great Basin,” a country so rich in resources that to attempt to depict all in detail would require even a larger journal than this issue of The Argus. From the location of the city, extending north, south, east and west, are fertile valleys, where one has but to sow in order to reap. Dependent upon no rainfalls, as are those in the Eastern States, but governing and controlling the waters of the streams, which are fed by the eternal snows which whiten the rugged pedfs of the mountains, an abundant harvest is always assured. The e&tremes of heat and cold which affect the husbandman on the arid plains of sister commonwealths are unknown here, and the buds which open in the springtime are never sacrificed to the frosts, while the ripened fruit escapes the chill of early winter, which too often affects the welfare of the farmer on either side of us. * * * weicewrens The products which are the result of the toil of the men who, like the Father of Mankind, “in the sweat of their face eat bread,” are ever ample for the sustenance of those who live in this fortunate section, and the gaunt wolf of famine is an unknown visitor. On the upland M. H. Wauxer, Banker, ranges are found countless thousands of sheep and cattle. Like the flocks of avraham, which “grazed on a thousand hills,” they roam O. W. Powers, Lawyer, a |