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Show SALT LAKE CITY. r.This should surely be a happy new year for this city. "Expectation" for her is surely "standing "stand-ing on tip-toe" now. We look to see more lots bought and sold, more fair structures upraised here during the coming year than in any former year of her history. The time is ripe. Commerce is pushing all her lines this way, the truth that this is the place for the great inter-mountain city that is to be has dawned all at once upon the minds of thousands the trend is all this way. There have been booms all around us, and there has come a lull to every one unless it be Los Angeles. And not one of all has so much to commend it as has this city. First, its superb location lo-cation at the base of the Wasatch range, with the lake only thirty minutes away; the magnificent magnifi-cent valley; the wonderful springs; the pure air; the sunlight which is almost a perpetual benediction, bene-diction, or which will be when the smoke nuisance nui-sance is abated. A natural sanitarium and the center of the mining and reduction works of four great states, the city of Saints is now linked by steel with the city of the Angels, and despite her . orange groves and her place by the sun-set sea, this city has vastly more natural advantages than Los Angeles. Why, Los Angeles has grown to be a great city on her claim as a health resort. Without envy or jealousy, but in simple truth, it is but fair to state that her climate docs not compare com-pare with that of Salt Lake. Los Angeles is a lovely place for cold old bones in winter, but ( there her especial climatic advantages stop. But this is a spot where weak lungs take on new life, while no spa in Germany has such fresh and salt water bathing as has this city. No place has more clear days than this; in no other place is the air purer or more of a tonic; no other place is so little swept by furious winds as this. Then this is a mighty business center, and it will in the coming year take on proportions never realized before. All the signs are of hope, all the premonitions are of an immediate great advancement. We have the business opportunities, the schools, the music, the grand new library, the things which men seek for who want either business or a place of enjoyment, and this New Year's day should ring with happy greetings and songs of hope. |