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Show THE BOOM ON THE WAY. M Some gentlemen who reside in Los Angeles were in this city and bought a few pieces of real fl estate a few days since. One gave as one reason I for buying that "real estate does not cost very ifl murh in Salt Lake City." He had been accus- tomed to Los Angeles and San Francisco valua- H tions and the prices here were an astonishment fl to him. When the road to the southwest is in full H commission, a good many more people from both I west and east will como here; they, like the m others, will buy a little real estate, and it will not m H be long until It will be the fashion to buy, and it B will not be long after that until there will be a H! rage to make purchases, for the thought will come H that Salt Lake is to be a great inland city with H more natural advantages for a city, than any spot H between the seas, for the climate is here, H the inland great sea is here, the springs B are here, the mountains are here, the H valley is here, the air is here, and finally B it is the only spot for a great city any- B where within six hundred miles in either direction H, Again, it is the only city that has not had its B period of great excitement and temporary over- B growth. More, too, there has not been a time B since the war when there has been to much B money and so general a desire for invest'ng mone B where it will pay a little more than the low rate 3 B offered for general investments. Moreover, the B speculative fever is upon the American people as B it never was before. That always comes when B money increases to great volumes and interest B rates are low. It can be seen by the rush fcr H stocks, not in mines, but mere prospects in Ne- B vada. Men are gambling that surely one prospect B in tan will become a groat mine, so they gamble B In ten prospects as they would buy pcols on B ten horses in a race, confident that one of the ten B- would make up all they lost on the other nine. B and make them a stake besides. Denver has had B half a dozen booms, and to all prudent visitors B teems overbuilt for the present, so many signs B "to rent" are visible. Still a friend just arrived B from Denver, says that the people there are tear- B Ing dpwn really fine and comparatively new build- B Inga to build finer, higher and more modern struc- H turca. H This all means that it cannot be long now un- H jbil the. ware will strike Salt Lake. And the men H most interested should be proparing for it. Beck's Hj Springs and the ground adjacent should be got in H a shape for the building of a great sanitarium there. B That would increase the population here faster B til an any other one tiling. Then the streets should B be looked to, and the streets away from the buai- B neas center that cannct be paved yet, should have Hl a half-macadam dressing, for they are shameful B now in wot weather. That big pump should be set B in motion above Liberty Park to demonstrate that B there Is enough pure water right within the city H limits to supply one-third of the city. Then every Hj citizen should see that his own premises are made M clean, and the Board of Health should compel this H to be done. A little tramp about town will make l It clear that there are a world of people in this fl ejty who. will not be decent unless compelled to j b -'When the rush starts this way, there must be B no epidemic raging here to check it. |