Show THE MERCANTILE BOOM For many years there has been no such indications for business transactions as appear at the present time Merchants I generally are alive to the fact and in the business houses may be found the true indication of what is to come In business busi-ness circles there is a feeling that we are already in the swift running current of prosperity and what should be done by all is to assist in every way possible the present activity Let differences be buried and each with an eye single to the glory of our beautiful city endeavor to add to our present brightness until Salt Lake City becomes a beaconlight in the West to which wise men will come with their capital and influence building up and strengthening our already permanent per-manent and rapidly growing interests The many valuable prospects will then become properties which yield to the intelligence in-telligence of economical management from which we can pour the riches of the earth into the lap of prosperity from which the citizens of Uth can sow the seeds of improvement in agriculture mining public building and comfortable homes That this is to be our lot in the the near future one has but to scan the horizon with the telescope of commonsense common-sense to be convinced The great railroad rail-road system of the West points to our city as the interior supply station of the Great Basin and with an outlet by the southern shore of our inland sea tapping as it goes westward rich mining districts as yet but little known except to those hardy prospectors who have carried their researches far into the mountains and are now awaiting the advent of a road by which the ore may reach a market Having disposed of a prospect means a search for more by the mountain stream and far up in the hills where men rarely go except in the pursuit of that which means so much more wealth for the world If capital would develop as rapidly as the brave prospector can find the deposits of rich ore there would be an evening up of that great I industry Utah owes much to her mines and is willing to increase the debt of gratitude Our merchants are doing their share It is some years since trade in our mercantile houses showed the activity that has developed this spring To those who doubt the assertion we can only say make your inquiries of the merchants themselves and we are positive you must agree with us In another column we publish a report re-port as gleaned from a few of our leading merchants and will give more as our space will permit |