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Show SaJt Lake City Has Caught Her Stride: (t'liim Goodwill's Wcokly.) Did you hear a whlstlo Just now. nnd do you hear a bell ringing 7 Thnt was tho whlstlo on tho great now locomotlvo Progress, and It Is her bell that Is ringing. They mean that n now tlmo tablo has been adopted nnd It you do not hurry you will not get aboard. It Is n most magnificent train that tho now locomotlvo Is hauling. It has last year's Increased values on board and Is on tho way to mako a dluplay of them to tho world. What aro they 7 Why, you must bo a strsugor. A gold Increase ovor 1904 of $1,000,000; u silver Incrcasb of J2.000.000, n copper lncroaso of $2.-000,000; $2.-000,000; a mercury lncrcaso of $14,-000. $14,-000. This In tho motnl lino. Dut there Is plonty more. In sugar, In wool, In livestock, and $3,000,000 In tho Increased In-creased valuo of real cstato In Salt Lako City. Thoro Is anothor dlfforenco In this last Item. A year ago tho values wero latent peoplo woro dreaming' of nn unearned Incromont now tho values aro actlvo and tho mnn who puts oft a purchase until tomorrow will pay moro than ho would havo to pay to-day. That U, tho boom Is on. That Is what this train with tho Locomotlvo Progress attached to It means. And If you do not get nboard your child ron, ten years henco, will bo tolling of tho mlstnko you' made. Hocatiso you must know that tho nd-vnnco nd-vnnco In tho mIuoi tins only Just bo-gun bo-gun nnd, for It nil, Salt Lako Is the clearing houso. When on tho morning of Austcrlltz tho sun roso In glory ovor tho Carpathian Carpa-thian Mountains, Napoleon, who was riding with his start, stretched out his anvorolgn hand nnd Bald: "Deholrl tho sun of AtiHtorllU," and tho nwod staff doffed their chappcaus. tl Is llko that hero. When now, at diiwii. tho rising sun turns to purple . und gold, thn snows on tho lordly Wasatch Wa-satch rnngo thnt Is tho sun ot Salt I-ako. pr saving trlumps greater than woro achieved at Austorlltz( for It baH coma tn tho knowlcdgo ot men that all this groat region, Utah, with her copper cop-per anil gold and sllvor and lead and wool nnd sugar, turns to this city as n point of adjustment Moro, bait Kovada feels tho samo way, nnd Is bringing hither her gold and hor silver. Tho railroads that center here can- : not do the work assigned them, and moro nro coming. Tho now Hmcltcra aro being hurried tj completion lo moot tho Increasing : demand for reduction works, i Ah m cm In tho mlnoB grow rich they i nro saying, "Wo must find a place 1 with great schools, great churches, theatres. Mtorcs, libraries, a good ell- 1 mnto nnd Joyous surroundings for the children." Instinctively they turn toward Salt I jilt o, for Salt Iako has all tlioy want I nnd still Is so noar that they can run i In, mako n visit, and return, before i thoy nro missed. j" i And others, when thoy mako money lu our homo mlnos look nbout them and nolo how beautiful Is tho situation of tho city, and oxclalm: "Men dream of having monuments when thoy shall havo died, I will build mlno hero whllo I am yot allvo," and so thoy buy lotB nnd mako plnns and It Is In this year of our Lord 1907, that thoso monuments mon-uments nro going to begin to materialize mater-ialize .anil that Is why wo rnlso tho cry: "Cot aboard or you will ho loft!" Tho train Is nlready moving; tha respirations of tho locomotlvo aro but nn echo of tho throbbing Ilfo of tho city; tho boll which now rings out a Joy boll; will for you, lost you got aboard, toll a farewell. If you do not hurry, for tho great train la nlready In motion nnd In another dny will bo kawtit, which Is tho Shoshono for "gone," "Uoautlful upon tho mountains nro tho foot of him that brlngoth good tidings," and now no othor tidings nro being "brought Listen to tho mossago tepmn on our wireless: From Park City: "Hotter and better. bet-ter. This year wo will ccllpso tho last Tho Silver King has becomo an Emporor." From Illngham: "Do not bother about Illngham. Sho has turned wcdgcd-Hlinpcd, tho Bhnrp edgo upward and all tho work dono Is but an cm-est cm-est of far mightier works In tho future." fu-ture." From Cottonwood: "Wo havo waited wait-ed loug, 1007 Is to bring us realization." realiza-tion." From Stockton nnd Ophlr: "This year wo aro going to surprlso you." From Heaver: "Hurry up your now furnaces, or wo will swamp you with ore." From Ncwhouso: "Wo will this yonr put asldo somo millions to com-pleto com-pleto thoso 10 and 12 story buildings In Snlt Lnko." From Old Plocho: "Hodomptlon Is nigh. Walt until our llttlo road Is completed from Cnllonto nnd seo a second-birth for old Plocho." From Ely: "Ileforo this year Is out Ely will mako other copper camps boom second class nnd all our millionaires million-aires will want residences In Snlt Lnko City." From (loldflelil, Mnnhattan, llhyo-llto, llhyo-llto, Tonopab, Yorlngton nnd Fair-vlow: Fair-vlow: "Wo, before tho year Is out, will mnko Snlt Lako what Jorusalem was In Solomon's dny whon gold was noplontlful that nion no longer mado uny nccount of sllvor." Tho nlr ot Salt Lnko Is filled with tho ringing of tho Joy bells ot Irrepressible Ir-repressible business; this train head-:d head-:d by Progress Is compassing tho lnnd ttid tho famo of It fills all tho space jetwoon tho bcbb. It's smoko by day Is a cloud; It's icadllght by night Is a pillar ot flro jointing all uion ot tho desert to this :lty as a Mecca whoro tho banners f Hopo light nil tho air, and where ho tomplos ot a marvelous fruition iro about to begin to soar upward In nnrblo and In steel, (let nboard or itiroly you will bo left. |