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Show Ilk A Hopefull Outlook WW' T T seems to us that the outlook for business in ' I Salt Lake is better than it has been before in a very long time. There is a' reasonable B," amount of money here for investment purposes; tho harvest this year ought to exceed any previous prev-ious harvest both in quantity and value, and we I have tho authority of first-class miners that the ' mines of the state were never before in better form or yielding more generously. , The money that will come from field and range will all be for use right in the state of Utah, and tho profits from tho mines will in great part remain here. Tho above is a fair statement for i I the state. In this city, it looks to us as though for the winter there should be no idle men. It is certain that the work on the new High school building will be pushed right along, also on the :; A Utah Hotel annex; we are promised that the building of the great Auerbach block and the completion of the Newhouse Hotel have passed the speculative and doubtful periods, and that henceforth the work will be on details merely and that construction will soon begin. Mr. M. H. Walker is busy on the details of his great block, getting the plans ready in such form that no changes will be needed when the work of construction con-struction shall begin. The great new Sullivan and Considine theatre is nearly completed and we have the assurance that when it shall be completed, com-pleted, it will be a fire-proof class A theatre in every sense of the word and there will not foe many others of more enlightened capacity for audiences. There are significant whispers that two more massive skyscrapers may be looked for on upper. Main street in the immediate future. fu-ture. A few words are in order here regarding the Hotel Utah. It has been a phenomenal success from the first, and still we do not think that it has seriously interfered with the other hotels in the city. But it has done this: a great many people who have come here to spend three days -have continued their visit for weeks. And this has been in the season when residents who can afford it have been seeking seashore arid high mountain resorts. The reason has been that they have found much more than they were looking for when they came a perfect house, perfect food, perfect service and reasonable rates. It is a significant fact, too, that in the city four or five high-class restaurants are doing a great business where one could not live five years ago. And though in public estimation times have been stringent for months past, more automobiles have been sold than there wore buggies, surreys and carriages five years ago, and within the past few months the people have spent for entertainments entertain-ments more than they ever did in double the time in all tho past of the city. We would think this fact alone would shame into silence those journals that have for years persistently advertised adver-tised that the government of the city has been a steady graft and Incompetency and have pursued pur-sued precisely the course that newspapers which desired to invite the riff-raff of tho world here, and to drive all decent people out would have pursued. Tho day has passed when the place that Salt Lake occupies can be successfully decried. The people all over this interior realize that it is the only place for a great city within six hundred miles in either direction. And the truth of that is becoming more and more apparent every day. There will be no more sticking of the engine ,on its center; it is pulsing along with increased in-creased rhythm and power every day, and the great expansion is yet to be. |
