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Show THE 4 ARGUS. { yond titul heights neighboring the from where of 7vvv trom to 10,000 feet one grow indiscan see mountain range aiter mountain range, until they valleys tinct and fade into the aistant clouds, while below are Iair little ort Douglas, where is stationed the Sixteenctn and mirror-like lakes... the city. intantry, is three miles east Of and apout 70U teet higher than Salt Lake it commands a magnificent view of the city, the valley and ‘inere is a little park beautitully kept where away to the westward. two or trom the pavilion the military band discourses sweet music each evenings taree hall, ‘I'he week. little chapel to- and barracks, a little gether with the home-like quarters oI the ofiicers, make quite It is a point where the sunset is seen to. the best possible city of itself. the advantage, and as Salt Lake is famous for its peautiful sunsets pleasant two electric car lines from the city bring many people to this glory tades spot, where they linger until the sunset gun is fired, the the from the western sky, shadows fall softly over the valley, and lights gleam through the trees in the city belae * * A description of Salt Lake City’s numerous attractions would be is which lake, a trip to the to reference without incomplete It contains 22 per about seventy miles long and thirty miles wide. cent. of chloride of sodium, slightly mixea with other ‘There are nine rocky water no living creature is found. some to a height of 3250 feet. of them In tais salts. islands, rising We Zell’s Encyclopedia.) (From but here it 1s, as it read and marvel at the wonders of the Dead Sea. were, dramatized for us, and the stage setting is marvelously beautiful. each Liguccu vy silver moonbeams, twinkling stars, the setting sun, And for music, what can equal the change develops new beauties. on quiet ‘“lapsing waves ery of the gulls, gentle breeze and suri of this wonshores the on resorts pleasant many are 'There shores?” A pavilion, derful inland sea, but Saltair is accorded the most praise. proportions, one mile trom the shore, 1s symmetrical large and of The season opens reached by the Salt Lake & Los Angeles railroad. Saltair formally May 30th, and from this time until late in September is thronged A fine band with pleasure seekers. discourses music every and what a afternoon and evening all through the pleasant summer, How the bathers in charming costumes enjoy the bright spot it is! . | priny, invigorating water! | BS * * A constant disDid ever mortal man see moving water like this? greenest of things the Now shadows. shifting and light of traction darkly, beaugray, and the grayest of things green,’ and now deeply, it is One is never quite sure what color describes it best; tifully blue. ly thinks of chameleon-like in its changing beauty, and one instinctive lovely to be gray, the lover’s description of his sweetheart’s eyes, *‘too aiterThe lake is lovely in the summer too charming to be blue.” , ‘‘sets the sky on descending sun evening the as still lovelier noons, long track and trail fire with redness, leaves upon the level water one in new beauty. bathed are islands mountain The rugged of splendor.” snowy peaks, thousands ‘he sun sinks lower, the moon rises over the ‘rhe “Aladdin’s Palace.” of electric lights change the pavilion into an The waves roll against the piers, with a low, music rises and swells. And The heart throbs with a new sense of beauty. soothing sound. Salt Lake has asserted indescribable but intense. M. TRUESDELL COOPER. its charm, INTERESTS. HEALTH “The Health Interests of Salt Lake City,” matter, is a delightful subject upon which or any other city for that to write, especially when as has characterized our This city is situated as there has been such a marked improvement own municipality during the past five years. The climatic condition is not equalled no other city in the Union. any- The atmospheric advantages are such as to where on this continent. is insanitation if proper render disease next to an impossibility, it be truthfully said that man dulged in, and nowhere else, as here, can of ripe old age: has no excuse for dying save by done the department ‘since Health its formation has The work enviable reputation as a been of great assistance in creating this city’s attending a rigid enforcehealthful place of abode, but the good results of sewage, garbage, ment of enlightened sanitary rules in the disposal behalf of the theory that ete., furnish an unanswerable argument in The official records of the depart“cleanliness is next to godliness.’’ death reported, which, accord1163 were there 1891 in ment show that In the year of 23.26 per 1000. rate a was time, that ing to population at nearwas 717, or a rate of 11.93 per 1000, a decrease of 1892 the number rate of 10.37, For the year 1893 there were 726 deaths, or a ly one-half. deaths, or a rate of 8.09 a still greater decrease; for the year 1894, 567 of 7.91 per 1000. ea per 1000, and for 1895, 554 deaths, a ok rate has been steadily It will be observed that since 1891 the death This rate of mortality decreasing, until now it is less than 1 per cent. larger cities of the ast is astonishing, when we read the reports of the and West, and displayed by The obeyed. five years ago. it can only be attributed to the energy those death whose duty rate at this it has been time is but which has been to see that the laws are one-third of what it was And it will be observed that as sewers have been ex- ponded and connections made; into effect; as the purity of the as quarantine rules have been brought water supply has been improved, so has disease and death been checked. 3 ip Typhoid fever is one of There are diseases which are preventable. zymotic diseases for the all to refer to well be would it these. Perhaps g out one particular singlin of instead tion, purpose of this illustra alone, In 181 there were 388 deaths from this class of diseases malady. that year, was 33.36 per which, as compared with the total deaths for 1893, In 1892 the percentage was 34.58; in cent of the entire number. of typhoid cases 125 were There 16.78. 1895, in and 26.03; in 1894, 22.92, that of the entire number, only fever in 1895, and it should be noted connections had been made. sewer eight cases existed in houses where during the year and only eight fever scarlet of cases 147 were There * fi ct acipa cement tas 2a deaths. es . have died: in this city. EfIn the five years 224 cases of consumption of these were native and many how ain forts have been made to ascert while not being able to but , success how many foreign, with but poor that a great majority were state accurately in figures, it is believed those taye se from other places to seek a relief which would here It might ed too long. been afforded had they not procrastinat old age, and from were 62 1895, in deaths 554 the of * that who came MANUFACTURING within a few miles of Salt Lake are many beaubrighton’s being one of exceptional attraction, description, and summer resorts, —~her had passed 85 years. INTERESTS. Utah has but just taken on the new and more becoming garb of State sovereignty, and in her new attire each and every feature which prought her so prominently before the world seems also to have acThe splendid array of cities, quired some additional attractiveness. and centers of industry towns, farming settlements, mining camps, and wealth generally, are being augmented continually; and with none of them is the progress so steady, so great, and so marked as with the metropolis and centripetal point, Salt Lake City, the praises of which have been sung so long and-so widely that anything strictly new and altogether truthful regarding it must come from a master of composition indeed. * * * It is not the purpose herein to do this, but rather to convey as concisely as possible an idea of the advantages which our city possesses as a mercantile center through its manufacturing and jobbing interests. The amount of money actually invested in the channels referred to would aggregate many millions, and cannot at present be told, not even It is sufficient to say that it is enormous, as may in round numbers. be inferred from a statement of how much one of the principal estabThe business referred to is Zion’s lishments of this city has invested. and buildings its own owning Institution, Mercantile Co-operative The actual investment foots stocks, and operating its own machinery. sum up the princely of $1,100,000. from be imagined It may this that its wholesale stocks are not only immense but comprehensive in every but its manufacturing it is not this alone However, department. The Z. C. M. I. shoe factory has features that demand consideration. a capacity of seven hundred pairs per diem. Its actual output now is The clothing factory of the same five hundred and fifty pairs daily. institution turns out fifty dozen pieces during the working hours of It pays its factory operators $60,000 per annum in wages; each day. and of any factory in America; has the most complete machinery operates its own steam and electric light plants. So much for a starter—a pretty heavy one it is true, but as there are Among many more heavy concerns in our midst it is only a starter. the heavy wholesale establishments, whose capital is represented by Walker Brother, & Auerbach named F. be might figures, many Brothers, Cohn Brothers, R. K. Thomas, Spencer Clawson company, in Kahn Clark, Eldredge & Company, dry goods and boots and shoes. Company, & Cunnington company, Grocer Utah Symns Brothers, The Salt Lake, the Utah, George M. Scott & Company, and the Western The Hardware companies, in groceries, hardware and mining supplies. Henry Dinwoodey Furniture company, the Co-Op Furniture company, the Freed Furniture company, and P. W. Madsen, furniture dealers and The Nelden-Judson Drug company, Z. C. M. I., Godbemanufacturers. Pitts & Company, Smith Drug company, and others, drugs and chemiRobinMost of these do a retail as well as a wholesale business. cals. son Brothers, and Solomon Brothers, boot and shoe manufacturers. McDonald company, Trumbo Brothers, M. Kopp and others, candy manuThe Grant We also boast of three first-class soap factories: facturers. Soap company, the Utah Soap company, and the Salt Lake Soap company; by each of which a quality and quantity of goods fully abreast Two large salt companies, with of Eastern competitors is produced. stocks continually replenished from our great inland sea, which lies just beyond our corporate limits, are able to supply the whole intermountain region with that indispensable product; and in fact come very These are the Inter-mountain Salt company, and the near doing so. The American Biscuit & Manufacturing Inland Crystal Salt company. company does a very large business in the plain and fancy cracker line, and importations are limited to the very few grades having special and other rather than substantial features; while Hewlett Brothers makers of baking powders and extracts are rapidly making a name Then we have the Home lire for themselves in every part of the West. Insurance company, a flourishing local institution with one-quarter of We have also three a million capital, and doing a very large business. And, in _great breweries, each contributing largely to the export trade. fine, almost every department of business, commercial and industrial actively life is fully and * is This it might by no many occupy * as designed means P represented. columns, and *k a statistical then statement, the whole otherwise not be told. The object is to impress upon the reader not only what we have, but what we are capable of in a commercial way, and in so doing to show, not merely what can be done now, but what the capabilities for the future Every great region of are, measured by the conditions of the present. country, presently or prospectively populated to a great extent, must rely not entirely upon what itself is capable of, but to some extent what In determining the question as to it can sell to and buy from others. what particular point or points should be consulted and cultivated in such connection, the matter of contiguity, convenience and cheapness are the first to be considered; while such things as excellence of goods, steadiness of supply, and reliability of dealers are by no means inPerhaps it is better to say that all these figured significant factors. together, neither greater nor smaller than any other, for all must be considered in connection with a reliable base of supplies, which any place reaching out for a jobbing trade must be if it would conduct a The ability to supply in quantity, quality, and variety ereat business. to any needed extent being shown, in behalf of Salt Lake City, the next matter of importance, and perhaps the only one remaining since prices need not be mentioned, as they surely speak for themselves, is that of transportation. oe * Salt Lake City is the natural railway * center of the vast region of country bounded on the east by the Missouri river, on the west by the Sierra Nevada mountains, on the north by the Northern Pacific, and on its ramifications throughthe south by the Southern Pacific railways. It is tributary, to all out this region are manifest almost at a glance. points within such territory, and all are tributary to it. Many trunk lines of railway reaching out to all points of the compass have their terminals here, and the connections of these make up a grand system Besides two more roads heading out whose only name is completeness. from here are now in process of construction, and give ample promise Nature has favored us to an extent, of soon being accomplished facts. and in a manner that but few communities can boast of—that none at all, everything being considered, can truthfully claim; so why shall we not, with all the artificial requirements being provided, lay claim to be not only the Empress of the Rockies, but the store-house out of whose exhaustless supplies all the people at all times can find the means to become greater to live, to progress, to be happy, and wherewith and stronger in the years to come? |