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Show i KEEP COOL. I BUSINESS IMPETUS ALREADY APPARENT HERE. Business transactions are going on here daily which indicate that an incipient boom 'at least has reached Salt Lake. Realty to the value of hundreds of thousands of dollars is being secured se-cured through the agency of outside capital, all of which shows that business in Salt Lake will be exceedingly active in the near future, and that the terrifying presence of the hierarchy will not appreciably retard the inevitable and rapid growth of the city. Capitalists of Los Angeles are anxious to invest their bullion in Salt Lake for a number of reasons, first, because they realize real-ize that the material resources of the city are vastly superior to those of the city on the other end of the San Pedro Route, and, secondly, because be-cause to the sagacious business mind it appears inevitable that Salt Lake within the next few years will be the greatest metropolis of t! iter-mountain iter-mountain region. While all of this is evident, it muoc be con- fessed that in a laudatory way Salt Lake has been I the most imperfectly advertised city in any of the I states. The resources of the region surrounding the capital are so great as to be almost fabulous, I and yet half of the people who pass through the I city are merely impressed by the physical beauty I of the mountainous environment or the remark-I remark-I able landmarks which an unexceptionable re- ligious organization has reared. In other words, I what is in realty tremendous with possibilities H is merely looked upon by the outsider or the H casual observer as freakish or worthy only of a supercilious interest. I t It appears to be about time for Salt Lake to become alive to the same business perspicacity I which has made great cities of its two biggest I metropolitan neighbors, Los Angeles and Den-I Den-I ver. A judicious exploitation of the advantages of both made them rapidly and inevitably what they are, while Salt Lake through a less comprehen-I comprehen-I sive business and commercial foresight has all I the time labored under a handicap, the result of I which has never been so conspicuously apparent H as since the recent establishment of commercial intimacy between Los Angeles and Salt Lake. I Salt Lake is ready for an awakening and every- thing presages its early coming. Nothing great-I great-I er in that connection having of late been brought to the attention of Salt Lakers, a hint should be derived from the recent visits of business men of K Chicago and Denver. Why cannot Salt Lake merchants show similar activity? Compared with the business men of these cities, Salt Lakers appear ap-pear to be in an unending state of coma, although al-though in expiation it may of course be pleaded that they have been entangled by most peculiar and distressing local conditions. But the time has now arrived for an awakening, and if the city will now cast away its old vestments and come forward with but a simple and modest pronouncement of what it really and inherently inher-ently possesses, its advancement will be as sudden sud-den as it will be substantial, and at he same time all the local conditions which have hitherto appeared ap-peared insurmountable will soon fade away before be-fore the remedial measures of a very enlightened and proper business policy. |
