| Show SOUND KEYNOTE FOR A A- A GREATER SALT r t LAKE i H t y C J v i J- J SALT lAKE IN fiFTEEN YEARS i- i PI PICTURED ELOQUENTLY Y BY WELLS MELLS From an n Optimistic Viewpoint Taken in the Year 1920 the Former Chief Paints Executive Executive I Paints a I I l z Mountain ou M Metropolis olis I l' l REVIEWS RECENT REAL ESTATE DEALS AS BASIS 4 I In n Convincing Terms Former Governor and Banker Tells of the City to Be BeJ With Half Million of People and Boundless W Wealth r Heber M. M Wells former olmer governor and banker pictured at tho Commercial Commer Commer- cal cial club banquet last night the Salt Sail Lake of fifteen years ears hence hence ll a titanic city of or the mountain inter empire Following Following Fol Fol- lowing g a glowing Introduction by Toastmaster Caine Mr l Wells Yells speakIng speaking speaking speak speak- ing on The Future Salt Lake Lak said The relation between the thc Salt Lake Ci CIS y of or the past and anti the tho Salt Sall Lake I City of the future li ls that the Salt Lake City o of the hc past is the poor re re- lation Nevertheless the past is rich richIn richIn In iii hallowed memories and In memories memories mem mem- ories that are arc not so 50 hallowed from Crom tho ho days das when the pioneers first planted their feet upon the thc untried soil oil and began the precarious s building of a common commonwealth up through tho the struggling years years to the present so big bigI I with opportunity so mighty In re resource resource re- re source so prolific In promise for tor tho the thoi future i I They The Future City But come with me my nay fellow tellow citizens citi citi- zens out into the br broad md streets of ot your future city surging with a population population population lation of half halt a million people all singing the songs of ot Industry contentment contentment contentment con con- and happiness and bristling with enterprise am and Gaze Gaza with tie Upon lI 1 ro rotI tI of oI bro brocks k of of- fi five and aid soon seven o on and ten story buildings lining the principal sll streets ets r fir I an 1 of oC more than five square I I ove t or o Sn ned rb b some promising millionaire e who has has has' made nil all his money proney out of or the soil of ot Utah but as ns to him and an his 1 proved rov 11 corner It l is 1 confidently asserted as as- as- as that he will begin building In Inthe Inthe the tho spring The exact center tr o of business is dif dlf- I cult to cS establish but if the price of oC real estate Is any criterion It lies 1105 within a radius of ot a quarter of pf a mile mild of tho the Commercial club building located In Inthe Inthe inthe the heart of o the Place de do la Chateau so named In honor of or United States Senator Samuel Newhouse who gave ave the first Impetus to the city's growth by his audacious purchase of or live five acres of or business property in the the- latter part patt of ot the year car 1906 attendee attended with the Immediate construction of worth of buildings of the most approved modern cOn 1 construction Uon But let us its also view the hundreds ds of thousands of oC stately regI residences enc s 's more accurately described perhaps as estate estates adjoining the bc beautifully paved streets in the north northern rn and carters eastern east cart ers ern sections and note nole the tho myriad o of charming well ke kept t park park- parkIn In the centers cen cen- centers tel'S of ot the these o residence thoroughfares Do you see the magnificent state capitol at the head of ot Stale State street built of Sanpete marble and larger and moro more than the thc Joint City and County Count building It was begun I 1 think during the latter part of the second term of ot Governor Cutler Culler and finished during the administration of Governor Go Charles A A. Quigley It was wa paid for by hy an tn l 1 luc 1 uc of short hort time bonds which were 1 rapidly taken up and retired c out of ot the revenues derived d de de- I rived from state late taxes which without raising the rate yielded such prodigious prodigious pro pro- I sums during during- those wonderfully wonder wonder- wonderfully fully rully prosperous years succeeding what has gone down into history as tho o era cra i Governor Quigley began bes-an his meteoric meteoric meteoric mete mete- oric political career as mayor of Salt Lake City to o which position he was elected In fn recognition of or his successful efforts when president of the tho Commercial Commercial Commercial Com Com- mercial club to establish h the Wasatch boulevard afterward called The Great Quigley Highway Hishway In honor of its distinguished father After ACter serving during which I two terms as mayor Ol more than thun fifty miles of or street paving I was accomplished Mr 11 Quigley was wasI I elected governor of or tho ho state and here I xi j r 5 1 again In the most mo t marvellous manner r he succeeded In improving the public i highways of ot the state to state to such a an au extent extent ex- ex v tent Indeed that lint the Good A t t Roads Charley has b become come a household house house- 4 hold word from Lo Logan n to St. St George h hand and anel from flOm Vernal to Deep Creek t tI I Invite ln you ou now tow my fellow citizen t tr It r to to join me In a short drive over this great highway now famous throughout through through- a F 1 out the world and frequently cpm cpm- l' l J. J f pared to the great Applan Way Yay which V Vin I in former days extended from rein Home to i Capua 4 i Great Grent Quigley III hwa 1 The Great Quigley lcy Highway wa- wa coq con of oC a rod wide macadamized d p. p S 'S boulevard boule with shade shad trees fringing rinsing Its sides the folla foliage c of oC which Is carefully carefully care care- re- re Cull fully trimmed so as aa not to obstruct tho thu view If you OU are arc all comfortably r i seated In your our noiseless smokeless s. sm let lct us proceed along 1 j- j J State c tote street to Its Intersection with t t Capitol avenue immediately fronting the executive mansion and begin our pleasurable drive The rhe Grand Arro Arroyo f I formerly known as City Creek canyon can can- yon Is first traversed along Its western slope for about two miles to the northward northward north north- r ward then tho the Arroya Arroa Is crossed Sed amt anil wo 0 skirt the eastern castern slope and antl emel emerge at Eleventh avenue where the wa r t rm U fam u V It-V ot I W tl v ll jyO c ch h tho v iR t Jordan Jordan-Is Ir l so do o entrancing that this tl ls h 1 ha Improved 1 n tp tage ground has had never never 1 t I th the name namo Inspiration ii y n I. I t the l Har m ny- ny f ft I h t tei r r club U ra now flow occupies the po position of secretary I I i of oC immigration a new ne cabinet position I drew Created r eti b by c congress In n o of dt his hi distinguished fI ser services Icea Jo jp prevent pre Ing Americans from Crom going t to Europe until th they y had seen their thell own country country coun coun- t try first Is o tV Before pursuing our journey further ur l i ilet let us pauso pause to drink in the nectar and ambrosia of or the landscape It It In is Ina a day 11 in June the air is Cre h and balmy and so free from smoke mole that I nothing bu but the snow-capped snow mountains moun noun f I sins In the distance impede the tho I vision vis It was In the 1908 that a new smoke e consumer was In invented by byI I Ju Joseph A A. Sliver Slier that actually did didI I consume ume the smoke and an ordinance f was promptly passed makIn making its Hs use useI I obligatory so obligatory so that while the thc quantity of ot bituminous coal in factories in mills in public buildings in hotels and stores an and other othel great establishments establishments establishments establish establish- ments is a thousand fold greater than formerly the air all is 18 now as clear and ami I clean I nn us as when the tho eyes CB of the pioneers r I of 47 Ii first sighted their new found ij homo home The smelter smeller smoke I problem t I so vexatious alike to farmer an and smelter smeller man than In ear early eaily days s 's has also I been solved partially by tho the removal I of some of the tho smelters an and partially by a new nei process of arresting an and d r utilizing the sulphur as a fertilizer i x I dl discovered by Mr Ill Charles A A. Whitney c v J before he became president of ot the ll n Ida I Smokeless less Smelter trust It IL will bo be 1 z observed ed Cr that the city takes in all the intervening distance as far Car to the tho south as Murray that hat thriving sU suburb urb having hating been annex annexed ll to the ell city In t 1910 by a practically unanimous vote V 1 r of or Its Us inhabitants under tho the leadership of ot Its enterprising mayor lIon Hon John P. P Cahoon A City of or Trees The Tho foliage of the city has boon 4 very ven greatly beautified In recent years oars r many of tho the poplars which In early J days day were tho rho characteristic shade y 1 I tree leeo having been supplanted by other S and more mOle umbrageous an and hardier I varieties such as maple and amI birch box elder and horse hmso chest chestnut ut This 3 Improvement as well a as scores scores or of j erSt all so apparent and so gr 1 l of Continued on n page In t o. 0 c. c 1 SALT SAL T LAKE LAIE IN FIFTEEN YEAH EAKS ftAK n V PICTURED ELOQUENTLY BY WELLS ELLS V f l rom from lir-i lir p luc ce to lo the senses of tho the old oM resident as ml h ho lie I gazes s oit out omit upon tho splendid panorama which lies sparkling before e him and anti which Ics have so enhanced the lie general beauty and anel symmetry of ot the Uw elt city was brought about under the Intelligent direction of the time board of city commissioners com com- missioners who now govern r In the lie cit city I the tIme devoting their entire time to thel c municipal business and ant entirely doing oln away with lime ho mayor and common council It I s was wa as towards S the close of oC counci the tho year ar 1906 that Mr Mi II Frank B. B Stephens now attorney general of the United States made his celebrated at al a n banquet of or the thc Salt Lake City Commercial club chub In which he lie advocated ad what was then known as the thc Galveston Gal eston Idea in municipal government govern govern- go ern mont ment and succeeded in iii so IW stirring the lie public mind ml d that the tile Idea was adopted as ns soon thereafter as os the he machinery of or the tho legislature could put It Into ef effect effect of- of foci with silos wih Colonel E. E A. A Arul Wall Vail rul as chairman chairman chair chair- man of the thc board But let lot us make malc a closer Inspection of our surroundings Do you note the thc forests of trees In iii tho the delta tela and on the sides of the Grand Arroya Arroa with wih their walks walk anti and grasses grasses- I their hel shady shudy nooks and bm bosky I dolls delis els everywhere e This Is I but tIme the entrance to the park so o named in honor of Gilford Gliford Pinchot chief forester of the tho United StateS Stales States who furnished the trees Uces and it i be begins at the intersection of or time the old canyon I road with Second avenue a extending I for seven se cn miles s up the lie Grand Aro Arroya This Is said V to be one of the tIle most beautiful parks In the world Jn Ing a beautiful woman woman hal half nature half art art In the Immediate foreground fore fore- ground Is tho the Grand Esplanade which spans pans th the tho entrance to lo the thc park nark con- con Fourth avenue a on the lime east cast cst with the capitol grounds on oms the time west vest west This esplanade or vu viaduct Is wide enough to accommodate two lines hues of oC electric cars an automobile driveway a carriage driveway and a spacious walk for pedestrians and is constructed constructed con con- entirely of stool steel 1 and concrete rivalling in ma magnificence V the tIme once famous Camous Brooklyn bridge Real Heal E Iv Vs s. s Poetry Jumping again Into Into- our oui- perfected motor moton motO c cats cars rs wo we are whirled along Eleventh Elc avenue I to lo Place the he fashionable residence emice district where whore Jud Judge e Colborn and amid ant the other oilier millionaires reside The judge has retired upon his Income from the sale of lots Jots which he lie steadfastly l kept ept off the market until the ground was worth live five thousand dollars a rod He lie also maintained to the time last lat his Iron Ironclad ironclad lon clad resolution of permitting no ito residence residence resi rest dence to be lie erected In costIng costIng costing cost- cost Ing le less s than tItan fifty thousand thousand dollars The judge st still I writes poetry merely as a pastime but it Is said his hils verses erses erse lack lac tho the snap and amid vim that characterized character characterized V those earlier efforts when he use used to roast th this j rich residents for wanting to live Ivo round the lie and declared de tie- dared that time seemed scored to pound but V little upon uron their adamant We next come conic to Fort Douglas grown Into a brigade post and enlarged en en- to lo Include all al the lie country between between between be be- be- be V tween the old reservation and s scan can canyon on This splendid enlargement V was accomplished d through the persistent persist V cat ent efforts of the lie Commercial club climb abl ably seconded cd and amid led carried tp p fruition by United Slates States Senator Richard W. W Young who was seconded accorded the unusual distinction nr C IV I t commandant com V mandant Ito llo tr eral cral Frank nines son semi of or the Iho former superintendent of waterworks who lio fought skit sido itC by 11 f sub with wih the lie senator senate in the time Utah bater battery in the Philippines S In tin lii th Spanish war vat of oC 1 1898 That Thu t splendid monolith on 01 the tIme site of the theold In old soldiers cemetery Is tho tIme monument I. I to the memory of or General I P. P E Edward ward Connor Connol erected elected by public subset subset-in subscription crip- crip tion ton as a tardy but well V merited te testimonial to lo a valiant sol soldier iel amt and I first coma commander of oC tho lie V fort furt To th time the ri right ht as we ive proceed down town m the lie multi main avenue a of the Brigade post posta a n great eat cluster of stone slone an and brick buildings with wih highly cultivated cull fields field i arc are seen the seen the home of the thc combined University and amid Agricultural college of Utah It I has liis Over I wu professors tl's and Instructors and an un attendance of oC about pupils There Is in immediate V connection with si wih it I an admirable able bo botanic ho- ho 11 tunic garden gam-deum and awl farther down dowum In lii II the thc valley valey a series of experiment fa faring 11 1 Tho The school of or mines mid and lit tho tl agricultural ural uial college as well irell wul as S the lie ale institute ami Normal lI Training school nil all al richly endowed by in urinate private contributions of wealthy Utahn are aro all al under time the one faculty which is presided oved u by that dean of Utah educators Dr DI J J. J T. T 1 1 Kings bury ably a assisted 1 by Dr Du W. W J. J J Kerr Kel of Logan while shile I Hon UI Van Vun CoLt Cott Col l is president of the hue board of f regents Descending a u. gentle slope amid ami a profusion of if brown ful slone fronts we pass pas the Iho he Judge home for or dl disabled miners so o long lung I clr disabled by nonsupport nOli- nOli non non- support which ha hiss has beets been donated by H lly g founder r to I. I Vi the thc public and amid Is now maintained by b stat stale lation and still nih tl mt-hi mt ti-I ti lII JP l r I I I we enter the thc spacious and amid beautifully e appointed Liberty put park now extend ing trig from Ninth South lo to the lie Country Countr club and thence hence c ca eastward tl to lo State Stale street the lie purchase of or this hits |
