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Show _-. THE INTER-MOUNTAIN REPUBLICAN, SALT LAKE | Te is from first Clark, H. G R. Cleaveland, Crabbe. W. J. H. E. Davis i Doman, B. Dunn, W. H. Ellison, Albert Fisher, James L. V. Gardiner, M leh eine J, "Gustin: Bp. W. B. EB. Heywood, J.| Kittle, H. A. Knowles, Harold M. E. Lipman, Dewitt B. Lowe, or on her prop: | may Br aneriy, largely comparatively few lost proportionately pee hammer In- | let a oe the table once aie Richards, faeunneris more aubegbenl ae ie rebuilt. If rebuflt, population and|not to feel the property must be protected by a mam-, Should for moth sea wall four and a half miles/ "re always the level | tering the S.| S.| C.! long and seventeen feet above of the gulf, and the entire the city raised to this level, Lamb,| B. W.| an expenditure in tne public improvements James D. O' Donne iL, . C. Orem, | expenditures Samuel Poul, ‘Gas W./ of the city's Powers, W. P. Read, J. H. |} would O. D. K. Romney, Shaw, Sig. Walter Simon, Scott,| John grade of; me n involving |»Pe aggregate for of $4,200,000 W. ley, T. W. H. eens Partridge, talph P. L. Pritchard, Y-| nave Paulson, generally the cu ane mer et nee rv. responsibility | they the city ut large. Beil Is not strewn from personal hay eaabaer ie observaltio adopted the ition, ! ward Up gove rnments and Galveston oe alarge. ca goes first expensive was no the of BO Aaron: our in for city its a selected : away One. change In government nature; nor is it any one Indeed, man or any so far as my set the is not an at- of inquiry usua,|the most loyal eee In that year she adoptin a mayor] a Political movement tek or a reflection upon ae oe ficials, past or present. Our munic on @flairs have been administered Bavel |S the average-far better than many The evils to be cured are not the fault excep-| the of | political of national} government} the capital | and a presicarried into} had Not ; ‘this States|form throughout to 1895 she system. Movement a sufficient Sule basis will be those who are serving or 7 This system does with] have-served as municipal omecers, for |the ward politiclan as such, but re-|the very good reason that they under}tains the old machinery of operation|*tand best of all the utter impossiwhere every matter to be considered | bility of an efficient and economical adto a commitee, then to the} Ministration under the present sys- sattern from representative and suc-j| actly who to blame and where to go good for us to get together, to ex- | I if cessful business organizations. There! for redress In- Galveston the comchange aut sliments of the seanault was a time when the individual was] missioners are paid a moderate saland to rejoice over the wonderfu | t he unit. Now corporations represent- | ary-$1,200 for all but the mavor, who | rome dty which Salt Lake and Ut: uh i 1g Many individuals do the business] receives $2,000-but they are expected have enjoyed during the past year,| and to exult over the promise of great-| Ing I now to you for take the the year _to pleasure Gene country, and who of us has not|]to give only a portion of their time. trait the tremendous effectiveness of Personally I prefer a commission of come. in taastmaster i vot the of modern | 2 business its head men organization of strong having} three, personality,| the with larger expectation salaries that and they with will devote the' who are responsible to their stockhoJq- | negrly. all of their time to the service siti Joseph E. Caine. Captain Caine'in a few choice words of introduction outiined his pleasure| in being one of the gathering, and| spoke as follows: a for the success of the enterprise? | of the:city | What business corporation would sur: The aggregate salaries of our mayol Ji¥6 in competition with others in the and fifteen councilmen would pay three -ame ine of business if its affairs were commissioners $4,000 a year each conducted upon the same lines as those They should be in session at least five Introductory. of Gentlemen: We are assembled tonight to celebrate the realization of a dream-a dream that has been to hope : : > e brigh many of | us the one daysbright through all the dark since the panic of '93, the one fleeting light that a promised to : show a way out of the an ordinary Mode corporation? Government. _. sd accordingly adopted Galveston ness municipal of City methods in municipal afternoons government | g and put*her affairs into the hands of} See ee of a uae five Fr pee y are called commissioners, anc consist of a mayor or general manager, and four associates; but the wilderness of local business depression Year after year the rainbow has appeared in the sky, dropping an end with its promised bag of gold somewhere within our view, and year after year as we ran like happy children to find the lucky spot, the colors have faded into the blue, the promise dissolved into mist. But after all it was a happy dream, and now that it is all and two evenings in each week. Being themselves personally responsible for the well being of the city, they will have a pride in making busl busi-| good record. They should, of course. phe elected at large, each one repre senting the entire city, ‘ ; Gradually Grow Out of Politics. I do not claim that such a system will take the government entirely out of politics. At first the machinery of the two leading parties will likely be used for the election of the commission; but gradually, here as in Galveston, the issues will be narrowed down between the most moral, intelligent and progressive citizenship upon one side and those who fatten upon mayor, like the president of the board of directors of a corporation, has veto power. He is simply one of the board, and all power is in the commission, a majority vote of the body being final. The mayor Is presiding officer and general director of the affairs of the city, but has no power beyond > _ presperity over and the dream has come true, we | Dis vote as commissioner, except some can look back upon the weary years ey powers to act in Ree of emaes of waiting and find in them many|SencyThe commissjoners subdivide the infirmities of mankind upon the other: and whé@n that line fe drawn, Pita right always prevails. In national hours we "would be glad to live again. | the ick of the city, one looking after for this long delay, for the| {mance and revenue, another police = third street many sesnooimtinents, for the broken andd fire 1 eneeinea rly a tgussh nd public properts 2}Dror vi 3 an g de ferred Sova hopes, Veewe will} and saweline ae rn waterworks affairs we can ene considerable extravagance and 3y: omit does not. get ~rht hame tO ofus right. is inadminta our own Stor clit xf € question of the Prodigal prospent Fates e have remains for you but to eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we begin to cpmunteing} affairs, becomes: £. ques, aveliofvlife and/death , Ralerhabercitecisartareat: bukiness me <i ,o| division of duties is not one fixed" ria . law. It is corporation, arranged as Hines in anytor other business aa nurs convenience or fitness for the ork, ye oF aw that the dream is no long- fice and men are with. a. view nominated f Pathe 4 : Pil oS a : to their fitness for Se‘ HAH Tttaebe ae Tait ITOH er a dre pam, and a the man who ho "toid | Particular positions, 5 : * The "toi When c iuzens are the stockholders. you so" has begun to talk out loud, it This commission entered upon. its | these citizens are stockholders in other does seem the simplest thing in the| duties five years ago last September. | pusiness corporations, the success or world town to transform of ours into a date city. It is but mighty this sleepy old modern, un-to-| natural that mountains, treasures through the lap of this Great city should proud place as the inland empire from pouring - George article Kibe Turner, in. his in October MecClures, their| have read with great paring this response, thetr) application fiery furnaces into; luxuriant valley, aj) arise to take her| capital of this vast of notable which I profit in pre-| says that the] business methods in failure simply affects As stockholders in a their municipal poration, the administration fairs jnvolyes not only the city count of the individual, cor- of its afbank. ac- but the moral, B¢vernment has saved Galveston one-| intellectual and physical well- being of third of her gross running expenses; | him<elf and fam y. that in the four and a half years of Salt Lake City has been largely in eS government ending Febru-| tye public eye. We have not deserved ary 28, 1906, there was a saving of| ai) of the unfavorable notices we have atur has: stood in the midst of | Over one million dollars. How was received; but, however that may be this earthly paradise with outstretch-} this saving effected? Just as it is In| we have' had more than our share of offering to those who would] any other business enterprise, by get- | ¢rjal. tribulation and but consent to accept, the wealth of| ting a dollar's worth of service for) i. within our power to humiliation. bulld up: here Ita Kingdoms and the glory of knighthood. | every dellar expended, by stopping the city government which shall be an exAnd it was but natural that men| leaks should arise broad enough, keen| feed ae idee fare. to grasp © opportunities at hand So it happened that when the pio- Samuel own our and is broken on the| As a bottle of wine thrown of for the the tonight that we born city ing ees in Having babe first into time may the baptize sparkling, presented nen we the the Wm. this naked} while who, congress, in state of The] this! has proved committee, carefuy the} choosers.. fortune of single the and the of its members King, H. this system tory. This Greater Salt Lake City, it devolves} upon another to tell you what her fu-| ture will be, and the choice of this one} is a compliment to man who is to tell cutting rep- was a member of the committee on peypeion of the laws and ordinances of the District of Columbia, where the commis- new-/| sioner christened L. Pritchard for one in having resenting the; effervesc-! to you have Sl and, William H.. King. | This Honorable having in was fortunate committee a who man is tireless for chairman i work which will tend to bring prosfortunate also perity to our state, ane Hon. battleship,| new-born we sea, may not} mothtr if, in a quiet, unostenwe break a bottle or two! of the arms be justified tatious way, quarter, R. Lawrence, W. Newhouse,| Saw as in a vision a great modern city) over this verdant plain, walled | spread and mountains re-| towering by the flecting her splendor in the placid face | ofa majestic inland sea prow every presented this matter to the Civicslmleague for its consideration provemeut of which A committee was appointed, other the Is ehairman, Hewlett Mr. Henry H. Walker, M. being members were| and their work done neers had another} beyond, passing to the great band of men arose to take up the task! where they had left off. Harri-| Guggenheims, the Men like man, in' favorites out of every department, Consider Idea roi Salt Lake, ns z Some time ago Mr..O..H. Hewlett | exemin: so satisfac- after fon o the ernest . man,-and as ton. the city of Washington and other places, unanimously recommended its|, Judge adoption in: Salt- Lake, Under "their | follows: a Present System Ineflicien.. the United States In 1861, for each and every one thank you. gentlemen, Gannidaraticon. for Judge direction a bill is being prepared to HS introduced in the legislature this} of eet eu anon: Propoanl 46 to have that every oter will Have: an oppor- tunity to vote -~ business rest there seems to be some misapprehension in the community in regard to how the commissioners are to be selected should the Galveston system, or something iike it, be adopted. Some have been laboring under the impression that it was intended to have # commission appointed by the governor. To this suggestion we say emphatically-no. Any change in our municipal government must get the government nearer those most interested, not fur- pees littie maid is one who has done his ful | Winter, and whether Jt is adopted will! share in the preparation of a fitting) depend upon whether the representa-| nursery for her. Asa former governor] tive business men: of this city desire| of the state, as a fomer president of that it be done. the Commercial club, as an active, 2 progressive the of them. I alyour kindly making aeten to We can have it if we want it, and I hope that all present will give this matter the thought and consideration which so important a subject deserves. In conclusion, I wish to say that Goodwin ' Goodwin Speaks. spoke the long ago, Nevada was a In part as from part 1847 to of Utah Gateon Walleye The first settlements, made in what is now Nevada, were by a few Mormons, from this region, in the chain of valleys that ‘Ile in*the: eastern: base -of he". Slerr T 2 St boat, ek race" Zagle ae ee M. Se hae ae is We are al] familiar with the inefi-|‘'he bunch grass on the hills was good tell the jeuth about the future of Salt | (@NeY of the present municipal sys-| for stock and the seil in the valleys rc tem. We uxually blame the party in| was fertile power, but jt is not the fault of any The first mining done in Nevada was ae Harris Speaks, : Following the speech of oreo Heber M. Wells, Harris the was toast, The _| party, nor of any particular -set. of office holders; the fault lies in. the sys- former!tem. The responsibility of our city}; Fisher) jjeg with a mayor, fifteen councilmen introduced to respond to five members ofa board. <br public "The Commercial Club."| works and the other elective officers. response of Mr. Harris was" en- tirely Impromptu and in his short and] The council meets twice a week, once some 1} placer mining un. from. the. in the ravines Comstock lode 0" ; ee . 8 b> ROR island RM OUMORS. | MNOAmerican See, EEriver, Mormon on the California, who had come across the Southern jn regular session for legislative and|2nd trail to winter in Salt Lake, who, telling speech he related the incidents connected with the founding of the! Commercial club five years ago when! Governor Wells, who was then in the executive chair, called together 55) spring,ito other business and once subdivided nt reached thereturning Sierras. in. too. the early committees. In regular session often] Cross because of snow. They began nearly one-half of the time allotted tu| Prospecting and found what they the consideration of the business is|thought was gravel in Gold canyon taken up in the reading of petitions|and East canyon running down from e nucleus of the splendid organiza-| tion which celebrated its fifth anni-| versary last night. Frank Stephens Talks. Fy B. Stephens' speech was fol-| lowed "with such an oe of cheer- sented to the council are referred to a| gravel, but decomnosed rock from the committee; this committee meets when| great lode. This was about 1851. it can get its members together, The A § members of the city council are busiSuburb of Utah. N€S8 men who have their own affairs So you see that in one sense Ne‘to attend to and who are not paid sack has always been more or less a to give al] of their time to the busiuburb of Utah The first settlers prominent business men aud formed ing and applause as ha seldom, ever, been heard within he wa the Sle response club. Mr. and if| of}; ness Stephens: of the city. tee finally reperts, cil. follow communications. It may then Matters When the pre-|}the commit-|°. it goes to the counbe laid over, and If ria CAV OMOn tien En Municip! | finally acted upon it goes to the mayor ae anak ernm By Mr. yrenk B. Stephens. Meaeeta to Toa Comstock. went oe ae eos ti What they : had < was ‘ not . the first supplies were pe eters ar eee ee trom for approval; if it is a matter involy-| California the connection Pree cen; ing public work, it then goes to the|the Saints sold out, the Calitorniant board of public works. Nowhere does|took charge, and the tendency was al! the subject matter feel the touch of On the 8th aay ‘of September, 1900,| one responsible for the outcome. Not Gaiveston met' with 2 terrible calam-lozxly this, but the cammon corinne toward San Francisco, That was forty-seven years ago, but the old order te°'s past) being 'ré- from first pase.) molors our vacate e | tropolis ‘oe where at onee wt xwallowed up in and are y trade and lost amid the he -the city's eombefore him and, busy marts Be"|: gz of' sparkling ahi whic holies *S Spi x , vhich have ‘40 enhanced the itu generalas J clash and clang : o E ae | be auty and symmetry of the city, was) merece . jortant factor In cor | brought. about under the Intelligent | The Oe ae advaneement of the direction of devoting their missioners municipal away with council l the the board who now year It of govern entire business the and towards that Mr. com-/tributing the to entirely mayor was 1906 | Stephens, now United States, city time and the})y close : stored. San Francisco is in sackeloth| oun ashes, and the road Ss alreaily others to) built and the prospect of be built in the coming year tend to make Nevada once more a suburb of Utah. If it does not bee ome more and more the habit of the new race to lean upon Utah as a aaply station | | and clearing house, it will be the fault! of the men of this region. And they are a_ plucky race over there. They are performing miracles.| The work they have done in Tonopah, | in Goldfield, in Bullfrog, fr 1 Manhat-! tan, in Falrview and in. Searchlight, | Is 4nq ah 3 club, jron Utah Cf Afr and a has in wae mining Nevada, ris bee in aie the to of i. the the time- the' Comlead marvelous silvei, district the eity of Ang visDaa : z he general of the! tinction 1 jy) recent years oneto ofthe the he greatest his celebrated of being Shi speech at a banquet of the Salt Lake] (io markets in the world, In -ad ro City Commercial club in which he lion to the ten great smelters on th t net cardosouth ofmthe city the entire adyocated what was then known as the | Galveston idea in municipal gover Nees cr front is honeycombed with mansteel and iron copper, of le a the stirring so. In' succeeded ‘and, ment; public mind that the idea was adopted | Ufactor Is made from them, in- } | as soon attorney made thereafter as of the legislature fect, with Colonel of the board man the could E. A. nails, mining put it into ef-|¢ luding Sea on a wheels, Wall as chair- j mac hinery, rails, ca ies : ¢ almost an and boilers machinery}9nd the goods engines, variate 3 ‘ a hardware. Results wire of Errigation, «= of (the sides of the Grand Arroya with their| The agricultural resources OF 4 1 walks and grasses, their shady nooks | West, also, under the stimulating alt and bosky dells everywhere? This 1S] fostering influence of the government but the entrance to the Pinchot aac Reelarnation bureau with its system ot so named in honor of Gifford Pinchot, impounding reservoirs, has brought chief forester of the United States, lthe formerly arid sections of the state who furnished ‘the at the intersection: road evith: "trees, and it begins | itG a condition of fertility of ‘the old PAnyOn'), nommausls Increased the Second .. avenue, for seven miles This is sald to i ‘his parks beautiful ‘extending - earden, up the Grand Arroya. |'* . be one of. the most 4 | |whieh ‘ resemb-|coplas. world. in the ranch ily necessarily : wealth of and that has yield of range, all pf eir col nutheir Nica lap. p ell the > real Se oe ab: pour into ling a beautiful woman-half nature,| resulting in Ons much as $600 per acre for farm ing} halt. art In the immediate - fore-| slaughtering oe ee 5( rain purposes and readily vields an ineo me]ground is the Grand Esplanade which |lishments, stock yards, hay and gre to both landlord and tenant on such a|/spans the entrance to the park, con-| markets, produce exchanges I and kinvaluation, necting Fourth avenu on the east\)dred industries and employments. Unexcelled grass grows upon our] with the capitol grounds on the west The railroads, too, ave thrown mountains, furnishing pasturnge for | This esplanade or viaduct is wide] their loving arms about us, twelve millions of live stock, with the che ee enough to accommodate two lines 9 of great trunk lines converging within est of Ww iter and shade in summer, so} electric cars. an automobile driveway,|the western portion of the city, with essential to comfort and growth; and a carriage driveway and a spacious|their intricate network of tracks and upon our great desert, the white sage,| walk' shad _ scale and acteristic of the dance, which similar shi ubs char-| locality grow in abunwith the winter's frost become palatable and highly providing . forage.for.-mil- for pedestrians, and is con- yards and structed entirely of stcel and concrete, fyivalline in magnificence the once famous Brooklyn bridge Fy 3 i Reul Estate Vs. Poetry. ang snow utritious,. hee of sheep, horses and cattle:.avhen in Ely and other districts in the past our runs mountain a are grass { .dry vi ind dead‘ , five years has never been excelled. | L gs are exceplionally free from the ‘eee way, tis therieetectad raising They have worked until N evada has} disease, of Pitt and, tins? byHéen become a household word t hroughout y nm < the nation and the concer nment here, although natural advant: uges for of its produ tion abound every financial center of the world. Our soil.and climate can not be ex= Surely a closer walk with those men! should be the effort of eve ry business!© lled in the production of choice fruits Jumping again motor cars'. we Eile } "n | the ©!°%' nth avenue: Sey . ro their tumultuous hullaba- lo: is of screams and bells. The pas| sengei depots, of which there are five laroall marvels. ol architectural mage es 5 i -onvenience nificence | ans conven Tn though aes none of the newer ones exce auintoour perfecte qd } stliness those two model = are Cyan destations whirled COStND erected as; along| | union : long ago as ct Popperton. Place = tor Popp re Sea *( ;1907 district E » by. roads. the these Hi. urriman having and been Gould planned in other : : ne where' Judge) Colborn: ant st ithe beginning by theirae shrewd designmillionaires reside, The judge has} : Yihe fe ae . 4 retired upon his income:from.the sale | &'s to ret rye s Bie a d wants of a of lots which he steadfastly kept off growing ane See c ty. erie the market until the ground was| It is with pecullar pride I am able foremost part man who is concerned in t rade who] 2nd vegetables of almost every variety. | orth' five sthousatid dollars a rod. Bele report that the coal famines, which the best in the we orld deals In money. They are su pplement- | It is probably also maintained to the last his iron}onee upon a time distressed the infor the sugar beet Irrigation see ms ing on a grand scale what the old race clad resolution of permitting no resi- | habitants, have been entirely circum| to be essential to its growth. As" mue uf did there and they have advantages dence to be erected {in Popperton cost- lve ‘nted by the combined action of the as thirty tons of beets to the acre which the old race did not have, ing less than fifty thousand dollars.) railroad companies owning the mines, | produced, and 250 pounds of su The country is filled wi th money gar The judge still writes poetry merely| putting enormous supplies into their per ton is a common yield Sixt to buy their stocks: it was very poor | een as a pastime, but it is said his verses|}own coal bins during the summer tons per acre Ye been the aver "age when the old crowd went there. lack the snay and vim that character-| months and furnishing the commod| yleld of vast are those earlier efforts when he used | ity direct to the consumer without the In Utah our fac tories are produc ing | ed Auto Beats Mule. | residents for wanting |eoal dealer's charge and cutting down | about 145,000,000 pounds ait sugar per | © roast the rich They have railroads anc 1 automo-! annum and in Colorado 275,000 ,0o0|'2 live round the postotiice and de-/the retail price, delivered, to $3.50 a biles, and the automobile erie clared that time seemed to pound but/;¢,, The Commercial club. under the beats the | pounds; Montana, just started in litt tle unon their adamant. conservative but persistent generalmule mightily on those sou thern des-| yusiness with one facte ry, has mi nef We next come to Fort Douglas, ship of its president, Hon. Richard ‘P. erts. They have the cyanide mn anent| its initial run with 10,000,000 pounds ; smelting a ae have been about reduced to exact sclences in these last} forty-five year. Just about half the men in Ne vad | in those days were rebels Ve liv under what might be called an arme "ad Probably more important than any other resource is that of our coal and undeveloped iron deposits, whieh . rapidly being acquired by iron railway interests in the anticipation 1 of ats eventually supplying this mounn region, the P acifle coast and the Gvient: and yet our iron. mines anc truce there for #our years, But, the} race in Nevada in those nave Was a | if lands are not operated, one." The world wes nyty to eplendiad popFyation or ake @ ali ess tic, \proxin IMCs of coal. One of ro though Riven te inet Prati eke erantey el wane tHe Bia esetvatia and o viey a canyon. This splendid. enlargement | W285 accomplished: through the persist- in close Morris, again played ent efforts a the Commercial club, g ably seconded and carried to fruition The street railway by United States Scnator Richard W.|came a. joy to every Young, who was accorded a in bringing about this most |!™8 benefaction. Railway Pacilitics. the unusual | Harriman experts gratify- system has inhabitant who took _beThe over the of naming fs first) com-|control-in L906 were quick to adopt and onormous \distinetion andant. He named Brigadier Gen-|the New Orleans, ov loop system, our small counGairorngs Wal picked to mrvirite a PRee | ties - Carbon - produced eval Frank Hines (son of the former) making Sehramm's drug fin the iast superintendent of waterworks), Who] base of the parallelogram and ¢xfor Nevada; Nigh and generous souis| year over 1,500,000 tons of market: ible made up that first people, fought side by side with the senator] tending in endless chains to the recoal, and, strange to relate, thousands in the Utah battery in the Philippines] mote-corners of the city. Rapid tranSome of them were fighters, but even| of acres of excellent coal and jron they would draw thelr pu "ses quick.| lands in Utah are yet part of the 4 vub-|'n the Spanish war of 1898. That) sit suburban Nnes with ten minute splendid monolith on the site of the service traverse the rich farming seecy as their guns, and, stood ready, | lic domain. It is said that there al any minute, their last beans with you to fight you iron in Utah to supply cue soldiers cemetery is the monument] tions petween Ogden and Provo and ov divide} sufficient the for centuries. and flour a nd to the memory of General P. vom ont nd equal facilities to Bingham and whisky | world Our inexhaustible deposits of ¢ | Connor, erected by public subscrip-| 5, 14 City with branches running into tion as a tardy. but well merited | the restful quiet of the many per and precious metals, with our : : cand| mammoth and inereasing ,smelt Sue: enone he a eer ous yons. Mr. Harriman himself has besome of which will treat 6,000 ton s of Arse ELE LOL z come so enamored of the city and its ore per day, are yielding a rapidly inieducational Institutions. jenvirons, partially because of the benereasing wealth of treasure to our nat1" Ae ee as , aceed down| @licial climatfe conditions and parural resources, which is attracting commanding the attention of ae Peas ight as we proceed down | Alcs In recognition of the splendid brick | returns on his investments here that greatest financiers Even Wall street|2 sveat cluster of stone and j«e|he has builded himself a castle at buildings with highly cultivated fields is now attributing its want of mo ney| Mary in Big Cottonwood canyon lo iivestments in the mines of our}are seen-the home of the combined} Lake where with his family he spends a new emplre, University and Agricullural college of | portion of each summer free from the In fortunate conjunction with our) Utah It has over 200 professors and eark and care of his multifarious and amazing products of gold, silver, le ad,} instructors and an attendance of about copper and zine is found vast bodies} 5,000 pupliz. ‘There ia -in ‘immediate mulutudinous | , engagements, He There were big-headed men among them, but not many who had the big-head. When the Com stock was found there was not a man in the} United Statés who knew how to work it. When the great assays were published, there was but one thought, ‘A ) way to work that ore will be found; we will go there: we will cease thinking about thousands, heneefoerth we will dream of nothing less than millions." Hardship a Joke. of baser minerals, such as mountains] connection with it an admirable oe | makes the trip from the Harriman After the hardship was but a joke of salt. The Great Salt Lake, whose tanic garden and farther down In the hotel. which occupies the site of the Waters at a nominal cost, aided with! yalley a series of experiment. fagms joid Deseret News corner, to his castle and their souls rose superl ov to distress. They learned to mine, t hey learncent of salt There also abound gr ed to reduce ore, they made a code eat) ural college, as well as the Polytecn- {NOW sso perfected by Santos Dumont gvpdeposits of gilsonite, eclaterite and established order, they exalted Normal Training | that its steering and searing appara», Sulphur, seda. oi), mineral fer- nie institute and mining by paying fair wage Ss, and esas little danSTheroass school, all richly endowed by private j}tus are as tractable and oa We > « a too numerous to-mention poke tablishing regular pay days, the! contributions of v ealthy They put; Utahns, are oe SP ene ee is s = ills' electrici mosafety cages in mines; they ventilated | What we probably most need are| *!! under the one \ faculty the hot drifts with comp1 essed whieh oa alr. oe great factories and forges in the place| PYesided oved by that dean of Utah In one mine they sent down five oie Public Schools. of repair shops, that we may supply educators, Dr.:J. I. of ice per day for years t« Kingsbury, ably F ; j men with ice water... They lifted min-| manufactured products of our Iron,}| While Hon. Waldermar Van Cott is} System ing from an experiment to a science. is not excelled: in tho': United copper, wool ete Probably before this| president of the board of regents. States, having 125° grammar schools, All the time they kept th eir hearts six public training and a| ten manual amid Descending a gentle slope pruvide must we accomplished js open. No cry of distress ever went cheaper fuel and transportation, and] profusion of brown stone fronts wet il igh schools managed by « school unheeded, that cought not to be a difficult prob-] pass the Judge home. for disabled | board elected by the people but kept ‘There were great miners there, lem, with our rapidly inereasing popu-| miners, so long itself Alsabled by non-|free from polities: and. conducted great lawyers, great doct« IVs, railroad building. great | lation, capital and support, which has heen donated by| Strictly in accordance with the irremen of affairs, and with t he® means! Vi such an undeveloped cmpire] its generous founder to the public and | Sistible drift of modern methods. at their command, they wrought mir- | and resourees so unlimited, and j acles. is now maintained entirely by state Churches and charities, public attracting the attention ef the wor oa is quite natural that the mas by©"! Nearly -all are zone now! Th cir| it appropriation, and still whirling along|braries, hospitals. gymnasiums, muwe enter the spacious and be autifuily|Seums, baths, workhouses, minds who are directing the great Braves are scattered, but their irotk relief socishines out in fait structures Liberty park, now extend-|etles. etc., are plentiful and splendid in many | 5,railroad systems of-the country should a th pee Mabagts d Ninth South to the Country in the accomplishment be competing for the lion share of « of good States and in cables under the seea works, club and thence eastward to State | While The | commerce and passenger service. theatres, best that pleasure San resorts Francisco and was in 7 hose of us deeply interested her glory came. of Nevada in| Street, the purchase of this yast tracp| Places of amusement abound on every Salt aah City and its growth as the having been effected at a time When | hand. xAnd they were a high and true | the land was classed as atreare capital. place of residen ; race. Their mianhood was st aniped on| natu al jobbing and business center of t ie could the state and ought to supply be acquired fs "the ‘phendune. Almos: the new | the Millenium. mountain country, is the conspicuc sus}| Nally low-price of two race there with = inspiration 8, to three thouThe aillenniumn: for inSand dollars an aere has not fact that this great empire, with 1 in-| 3 It may ferior men be Said, } ushered to them have founded in but the emso-e however, i! nd told and undeveloped natural weal th,| i res that the ety 8 funds for this] pilres and. on the pages « sible eonfiiet which Rainien surrounds it on all sides for about 500] purchase were very largely ane otra thelr numes are written in asTre-enlic inind It Is not only by far its larg-| so long letters all, j miles. maland has been forced publi. completel by contributions epiftee y of inns idaho of gold. submerged by est city, but it is the center to a a great tidal wave of oor, wwatch all the great railroads are! whom firat,andshould Moyle Makes Address, foremost the softand prosperity; progress and certainly Me be be we ment micas a dj et ening and refining influences of adJames H. Moyle said: Wwe on have direct connection by] stein, a bold but highly huccaentir co. 1m somewhat overawe dOe at ce lines of railroad with De n-)} erator In real estate: eee, ate ee ae \ Fal now a lowing thought of attempting In a few a nom2 ber In; its wake min-| Ver and the East over the Union P: 4-1of of the the have discords so mellowed and board of city aun contentio ns of utes, and with the limited t me at my | cite, Southern the of ars Colorado and the Bz past that opposing with the special desig politicians command, to discuss: before this audi- |; by the Rio Grande now Western: southe 1 public! speak as they pass by and ence of 'M! park commissfoner captains of industry-indus-| = Utah by both the Harriman and Gould rival*newspaper ‘ men_ trial he ive rulers-that |} subject , so pregnant] Systems; the Clark or Salt Lake Route liiiting More thigh Places ltakeof) Christan; to ade With thought and tO Dats our » supply ‘climate, freely yields its 20 the! our rapidly increasing demand per|/-phe school of mines and the agri¢ult-{{" for the| sisted by Dr. W. J. Kerr, of Logan, the mountains rhe Salt Lake in his - teroplane, City, public school far-reaching in its| to Los Angeles: the Southern Pacitic : s - clal in E togethe: Again rhe great the c Inter-Mountain Em-| to ‘San Francisco; "Olmmer Quigley highway el ub is entitled the Oregon She threads! to jts meed. Li ne of praise to western and northern Idaho| !* serpentine course through this. for assisting in su- ushering in this resources dispensation and nat-)#ud Portland, and by another braneh|Perb park to Fourteenth South of good pe and | fellowship, then are as var led makeg of the same road to Montana and t he| Colonel Straight as its Edwin for the F, Holmes climate, which practically include ani auptiean: with the Moffat road, be-| Within ets having remained whose shadows jt away from Europe an that can be found between the arctics| Ing built from Denver to Salt Lake,|/09g enough to con] Teenladtns to devote himself and tropics to © #nd the Western Pacific to San Fra n-| carburettor and presidency then of the club and Most noted, perhaps, rd our glori-| tl ie clseo Eight railroads are project ed] long rows of clean-ke attendant effort importance-the ire Its industries, ural productions ous mountains be their heights esty and and and grandeur, valle Blessed! ae chen ‘their maj-| their and being actually constructed in N e-| tages of the smelter ¥ vada. The Burlington and NorthwestWwnhitleyville ow.) y Known: now ? yohor ascaRin, eee thane systems are forcing their w: ay|Greater- theSaitCones To ep rer outSaltair, . inspiring and| ern ennobling edifices, which e ver point! through WwW econ for a western he mind and its aspiration s upward| and onward, to the noble, ge ood, pure (Continued on Third Page.) and great. However much the wheels of prog: | ress may at times appear to turn back, | ho people who ever were or will be | reared in the shadow of such tem ples--monuments of Deity's construc-| tion-could be other than guided by | a determination to be free. and antMEDICAL mated with an unyielding ambition, united with the energy to do, to build, to progress. he choicest ere district of DR.PIERCES GOLDEN DISCOVERY OU> Deautien? walle =a fo BLoonT IVER. LUNGS.) > ap n 0) inland sea, whose SIspaci Eveat! OUS pavilfons, | 6d: bath in: houses, hotels, ais, fouesteur ele., are st at ase: 'rgpee precedented rise in cthe lake. | thence evel:l : Jey along of the-shore, the Smooth. hard through Vistas of to harmonize former confileting interests. This beautiful piece of descriptive prose, written attributed to posited the in Commercial humed in by me, the Fisher is Harris, intended cornersto club building ng, ao year 1929 by to b but d come eee be Captain Sands villus te othe rs r" » the aie #anitariuin, meee Hot millionaire and famous raconteur ‘y ia 2s Bockis, where Own writing bids S ¥ faim to .! houses and hotele tupend aicéommn bath | Etther of these Rentlemen‘tliy : thousands of guests have pee Cdating | authorized to edit the 3 ; = t mer the eee haste of 2 ~e we all. Hereby . mor Feaiearnainutes aeroana s for yea Na ees Pe immcoutaaee" any, oeand Mr. intouthe hears addi Hh rris's o¢ oo‘ag 7 We ‘are noe : a fe back/ti [tone faets which onal redo ay have any -addt& bean 6-!oOmitted tn the ‘ erlang only splendid geyelopment Of) Frank and mercial common) the to city.) city, second doing) But let us make a closer inspé pewhea jof our surroundings. Do you note the} forests of trees in the delta and on the} ES - THE QUALITY STORE apanee which will put the conduct of our ™unicipal business upon a_ business at (Continued to the senses of the old resident as razes out upon the splendid eS $4, $5, $6 and $ 7,50 has gone, eee éSALT LAKE IN FIFTEEN YEARS PICTURED ELOQUENTLY BY WELLS men council and then to the Mayor, never| tem ering and to wish you a happy and be ing during the whole course of proThe city of Washington is the best prospcrous New Year eding where responsibility can be] governed city in the United States and "Tam not going- to make a speech. Me entire located. When the calamity|is governed by a board of three comAs I gaze at the names of the select-|',ome the citizens uf Gaiveston saw the| missioners, who are paid a liberal saled spe akere of the evening I am satis-| jocessity of adopting business prinecl-| ary each, and the office is one of great ed that you will be weary enough | ples in the conduct of tnunicipal af-| honor. If things go wrong in the city before the evening is I over withoutit is) fairs" and she accordingly took her|of Washington, the people know exspeech from me; but feel that er If there is a single article in Boys' Clothing that is needed to prepare a boy for cold weather, or to make him stylishly dressed, it can be had at the Gavdner store, The usual Gardner value-a saving to the buyer-in every item, Overcoats in all the latest styles and patterns at $3.50, a lot outof ofSe vl life these ed pene and eee o we of a much- reget city ee ; for ay man ae every dollat as far as i United 5 R.} country, The evening's festivities were opened » with the short, though pithy, speech of Charles A. Quigley, president of the Commercial club, who said in part "Gentlemen: It fs a great pleasure for me as president of the Commer- | cial club to meet so splendid a gath-| in and cumbersome system government. When this was instituted we had at of our county congress dent. This stem was Zwick- | munici pal Quigley Opens Ceremonies. and making income go Municipalities Smith, O. J. Smith, Gideon Snyder, D.| S. Spencer, Ferd Strouse, W. H. Tib-| bals, S. B, Tuttle, J. R. Valentine, John) H, Walker, C. F, Warren. R. S. Wells, ! M. B. Whitney, W. N. W ie ums, BE. D.! Woodruff, Our Attention Is to Boys' Clothes. in a while, or fifteen live 3. | together Mendenhall, O. R. Meredith, P. J.| The situation was desperate, and Gat-; the city service. It awithout Moran, S. W. Morrison, F. S. Murphy,! veston was at once brought face t9| factory employment, B. A. MeMillan, Joseph Nee Theo. | face with the necessity of cutting down | }ower or responsibility. Nystrom, E. Boyd Park, Peck, O. W. oC ora- waste of linie: is property, with no insurance, and with | With its consequer ine na alocts an enormous loss of life. It became | !rresistible. ae "Ther neta ne dency a question whether the city could be|¢d from wards re 1 if eee _H. Grif-j A. H. P. one-thi mOuntloL sured, and Galveston Hall, J. M.| H. Hewlett,| Thomas Hobday, J. T Hodson, Horne, W. E. Jacobs, L. A. Jeffs, Joseph, J. A. Kahn, C. oO. ete ng, one-sixth page Ae H. J. Faust,) Franken, F'., J. F. Grant,, D. R. Gray, Henry Green, C fin, F. Hayes, T.| ity: Craig, T. R Cutler, Ben W. H. Desky, P te ~~" aS E. Cripps, Derrah, . a enarkable Re that bud and blossom in small | legislative bodies I know-how it is myself; I was once a member of a city council Three or five business |} men when in csion together never dream of flights of eloquence They page.) } A. = a 29, 1906. DECEMBER SATURDAY, UTAH, ~aee AT COMMERCIAL CLUB BANQUET 220 (Continued CITY, is that a member of a body of fifteen, will allow matters to go through which | } iw oii never receive his vote could the responsibility be brought right home Then there Is another dini1 m. : A BAS ALANS NVNSANSSAN : N NNSA NANSSNSAS SENS P P SKA 2 Compt!lation. |