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Show A BOOM ON THE WAY. Property is up In the clouds in both, San Francisco Fran-cisco and Los Angeles. It is by comparison very cheap in this city. Still it Is clear that this Is the only place for a city within six hundred miles in either direction. Hence we believe the rumor that the men of capital In both the western cities are preparing to raid Salt Lake and start a real estate boom. If they should it would not be a month until the eastern cities, where capital Is abundant, would catch the infection and join in the work. We hear much of Tonopah, Goldfield and Bullfrog districts in Nevada, and there Is no doubt that a mining boom unprecedented since the White Pine scramble, and chaos Is on. But so far in the last two named districts tho speculators are dealing In futures almost exclusively. Men are buying stock on a hope of what is to be. But in this more than half the money is coming from the east. Tills shows how alert is capital and how anxious are the men of the east,1 who have money, to Invest it where there is a hope of better return than can be realized real-ized at home. Hence let it be known that there Is a determined movement in real estate In this city, that the men of the west are moving In It, and the men of the east will respond as they did In the seventies when Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, and a dozen other cities wore transformed so rapidly that the breath of old residents was taken away. We believe that a boom is already forming, as the weather signal men would say, and that Us center will, within a brief time, be over Salt Lake. It would not surprise us If It dates from the coming of the first train announcing that the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake road Is in commission com-mission and ready for business. There have been some rather gloomy portents of late, but they are liable to lie only the clouds proceeding a glorified dawn. We do not believe that this city Is much longer to be held back. It has the site, the air, the springs, the lake, the mountains, the valley, and when the smelters will permit, the sunshine, that no other spot on the con-tinent con-tinent can rival. It Is not an Ignus-fatuus that men see, it Is the coming day. |