Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1890, Page 17

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDA 1890, ~SIXTEEN A. H. MAYNE & 0., 231 Main Steee, Salt Lake Gity, Ulah. AGENTS FOR WEST DRIVE SUBDIVISION Only 8% blocks from Postoffice. Lots $350 to $500. Also have la list of property in all parts of the city. CORRESPONDENCE SOLIC HARVEY HARDY, Manager. [y l_‘ICBRI'ARY. 2, PAGES. T. A. DAVIS, J. T. STRINGER. DAVIS & STRINGER, Real Estate and Loans 23 W. SECOND SOUTH STREET, SALT LAKE CITY. We have a large list of very choice city and outside properties, besides several hundred acres of fine lands located within a few miles of the city for sale on desirable terms. WRITE FOR PARTICULARS. e RHATL HSTATH. Choice City, Acreage & Addition Properties. INVESTMENTS CAREFULLY MADE FOR NON-RESIDENTS. Sole Agents for ‘“Rosedale” The leading addition, only one and one-halt blocks south of Liberty Park. lLots g2350 to $350 until February 1oth. Call on us when you visit Salt Lake. WE INVITE CORRESPONDENCE. P.0. Box [148. 279 South Main St. T s e et THE MIDLA. 177 MAIN STRLET, J. H. HIN MANT-']:?easurer. mF“TVI BISHO P, Secretary. SAIL,T LAKK CITY, UTAH. BUYS and SELLS REAL ESTATE in and adjoining SALT LAKE CITY on Commission We have handled over 32,000,000.00 worth of property in 'thc past 12 months, a large portion of which has been for non-residents. The members of the firm have had 1o years' residence in the city, and large experience in handling realty, and are thoroughly posted on values, CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. AMERICAN District Telegrap COMPANY. OFFICE UNDER DES NAT'L BANK, 79 South Min Strect. Messengers Farnish:d Day or Night Circulars, Invitatious, Packages, otc., deliver, ed promptly. Speclal attention’ paid to tho escorting of stran i tions and places of int A. W, Gallacher, Telaphonse 170. eat institu. lhout the city. Manager. ALEXANDER L. POLLOCK, LW, WILSO N POLLOCK & WILSON, LEADING Real Estate Agents. 10 East Second South St., SALT LAKE C s UTAH We bave a hundred of the choicest lots within nine blocks of the_postoflice, i) sell them at from &l to K75 cach : besides busi- ness property, acreage, and lots without num- ber. Informution prompi THE Conmercial National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah. HENRY G. BALCH, Presid ent. GEJORGE M. DOWNEY, Vice President. JOHN W. DONNELLAN, Cashler. Collectons Promaty Altended To. Funds deposited with our corrispondents in New York, Chicago and Omaha, avallable in Salt Lake without charge for exchian CORRES THE WALKER HOOSE SA T LAKE CITY. This 18 the Largest, Finest and Best Con- ducted Hotel botween Omaha and San Fran- clsco, Ivis first class in all its appointments, Headquarters for tourists, military and com- mercial men, Rates, $8 to $4 Per Day. GEQ, S. ERB, - PROPRIETOR. THE METROPOLITAN HOTEL, SALT LAKE CITY. ‘This 18 the most beautitully located hotel in Salt Lake City, Largé, fine and elegantly furnished rooms. Especlaily adapted to fami- lies, Table unsurpassed, Rates Only $2 Par Day. GEO. S. ERB, Prop. WILL ERB, Manager. PONDENUE SOLICITED. SALT LA UTAH. Salt Lake City isthe commercial eapical of the Basin, and of the main valley of the Snake rver, ldaho, a region as vast as Texas. 1t is the political capital of Utah territory, The land_area of Utah 2,601,600 acres; the water area is 1,779,200 acres. here are prebably 3,000,000 acres of irrigable arable land, one sixth of which 1s un- der cultivation. There is enough timber for the use of the people of the territory, and a world’s supply on the Truckee river. flowing into the basin from the Sierra Nevadas. There is enough grazing land to sustain do- mestic animals of the value of $20,000,000. About 13,000,000 acres have been sur d and about 3,000,000 acres, inclusive of 15,000 acres of coal land, and 1,500 iiil\'ur mines, has been disposed of under various lund aws. ‘With a sufficiency of water for irrigation, the land produces the cereals, fruits and vegetables common to the lattitude, which is about that of St, Louis, in pro- fusion and perfection. The plunt for irrigation may ordinarily cost # an acre, and the watering of a crop for the season 3 ar A fullcrop is always ured, however. The s no detention or loss from rains in sceding or ha ing. and if the water is properly ap- plied, it is held by competent authority that it imparts as much of the elements of plant growth as the crop ab- stracts. While the irrigable land in Utah is himited, thero is enough of it to sustain twice the population of Nebraska, and the farmer and fruit grower has a home market, cash and good prices, in the miners and urbane population. The population is estimated at 225,000. valuation for 1889 was about $31.000,000, 40 per cent of the real yaluation. Add 20 per cent for mines (not taxed), and we get a valuation of about $155,000.000 as the total wealth of Utah. The assessment list has in- creased from $35,000,000 in 1887, to 851,000,000 in 1889; a satisfactory growth. The annual product is not far from $40,000,000, nearly equaily divided between farming, mining and manufac- turing. Thesoe industries have grown up naturally to- gether, with no help from the outside, and are capable of indefinite elaboration and expansion. The territory, and every municipality thereof, is forbidden. by act of congress, to incur in- debtedness exceeding 4 per cent of the assessed valuation of property. The revenue law is liberal and taxation moderate—but 1.7 per cent for all purposes, The territory contains about 1,200 miles of railroad, with 200 miles Four hundred miles of narrow guage road, partiy north and pavtl, of being broad guaged. Railroad movements are in ity. Four orfive roads will gain entrance to Salt Lake valle ia the Colorado Midland and Rio Grande Western. There is every pro. road to the coast directly west from Salt Lake, and of the extension of the Union Pacific to southern California via the Needles. A number of local roads to important mining and farming districts are in_coutemplation. Salt Lake Cit) ated in the valley of the Gordan, where the Wasatch range towers highest, in a belt of fine land sheltered and watered by the great mountains, stretching 350 miles south and 150 miles north. The Oquirh range walls in the valley on the west, and low spurs from the opposing mountain walls enclose it on the south. Great Salt Lake lies west and northwest, twenty to twelve miles away. The city is located on the alluvial cone of City creek, which slopes gently south and west to the general level of the valley. From the de debouchure of City ereek, a line a mile and a half long swunyg from the last southward round to the west, would sweep over the main part of the city. The slopes or benches rising cessively to the mountains on the north and east con- stitute'a vast bay or amphitheatre, opening to tife setting winter sun. The cit y has an area of 5,412 acres, and an absolute aititude at the corner of Temple block of 5,354 feet. The strects are 132 feet wide, the blocks 660 feet square, divided into 8 lots of 1% :l\cl'f each. The trees in the groundsand Jining the streets fairly embower the city in the eafy season. 5 Water runs in secs along the stracts, and it is conveyed in pipes from reservoirs in the throat of City creek under the streets. The reservoirs have a capacity of 6,500,000 gallons, There are now about 30 miles of water mains, and they are being steadily extended. Along the main lines are 179 hydrants. Throurh these the head of the water forces a stream to the top of the highest buildings. A City creek, Emigration creek and Parley’s ereck furnish 8,000,000 gallons a day in the dry- est months of the dryest years. Between these streams the Cottonwood and Mili eeks and Utah lake, the latfer the natural reservoir of the city, lying about 40 miles south and 135 feet higher, and having an avea of 125 square miles, the city and the valley can never lack water, The city has constructed a canal 27 miles long to get Utah lake water, but to make a good job of it the canal will have to be built over at a cost of $500,000. It will then flow, if requirea 100,000,- 000 gallons a day. There is no city in the arid region of the United States more absolutely as- sured of an unfailing supply of water, even with a half a.million or u million inhabitants. The city is connected by rail with every notable yalley and every mining district of pres- ent importince in the territory, with the favbrite resorts and with tha entire country east and west. The Warm springs (sulphur) are piped into the heart of the ciwy for a swimming and bathing establishment. The Hot springs (also sulphur) are but four miles from the postofiice. Tho waters of the Hot springs espe.-iu\ly are alleged to be more effleacions in serofulous, rheu- matic, paralytic and some other diseases, than those of the famous Arvkansas Hot springs. The bathing and bouting stations on the south and east shores of Great Salt Lake are about 20 miles from the city. Not iess than 100,000 persons took these baths lasy season, and two or thres regaftas were rowed. The water has been proved to be the fastest boating water in the world. The bathing vesorts bave peen improved and supplied with ¢ possible atteaction and convenience by the railway companies. In the long, sunny days of summer the water becomea very warm and the bathing has an exceeding fascination for all nges and all sexes. Without doubt it is, the safest and Plunsunle.fl, out door bathing known for invalids. 4 Fort Douglas, a well built, full regiment army post, liés on the east bench bewteen the city The assessed under construction. HMERCE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. and the range, about 600 feet above the city. Steam cars run to the fort and to the adjacent canons every hour in the day, and a charming bird’s-eye view of the valley and eity is obtmnable from any point on the Fort Douglas & Park City railway. By the latter, one can be carried through Pariey’s canon directly over the Waeatch range and landed in Park City, 7,500 feet above the sea, in an hour or two. One goes from the city out pust the silver ore smel- ters in the suburbs to the Cottonwood mincs in the Wasatch, and to the Bingham mines iz the Oguirrh, in an hour by 1ail; to the Stockton. Dry canyon and Ophir distr! in 40-50 miles, to the Tintic mines in 70 miles; to the Beaver county miles in 230 miles; to the I City mines, either as stated above, or by the Union Pa- 1n 100 miles, all by rail and semi-circling the city east, south and west. From these mines the yearly output is about 8175,000 tons of silver lead ores, three-fourths of which is ve- duced 1n our own mills smelters; the product at coining and sex d prices in 1889, about $12,500,- 000, Be Iver ores the great range overiook- ing the city contuains other minerals. Only once in about five years does the sink below vo or rise above 100= Iuhr. range averages about 20=; the monthly 50 in only one month out of four. thermometer The duily range exceeds There is no malaria, no asthma, no pyemia from sur- gical operations, pulmonary complaints are staid or cured; there are none of the more virulent fevers, and diptheria takes on a relatively mild type. The medical fraternity are agreed that Salt Lake City is almost an ideal high altitude health ort, and some of the ph, ciuns arc beginning-to venture to ¢aim that our mate, nearly a mile above the sea, is favorable to the cure of ameliorations of heart troubles. Most of the city lies well for drainage, and the sewer pipes for a district comprising 271 mcros are now going under ground., The whole ing sixteen miles of street railways are being ray equipped for electric cars, and such ears are running upon 11 miles. The present mileage is to bo doubled as fast as track can be laid. Sewer district No. 1 will be paved, sidewalked, curbed and guttered as soon as the sewers are in. A Gaynor fire alarm is in operation; the fire department is ‘well equipped, well paid and well sorved. The stroets are lighted by both gas and electricity. A million doliars went into new buildings in 18 $2,000,000 in 1839; at least $3,00),00). and of Salt Lake money, will be so 1invested in 1 Among these will be two 30)-room hotzls, a joint court housa a nd city hall, severa! busine: blocis of large proportions and probably a federal govaram ent building, a union passenger sta- tion and a wing of the territorial capital. The population i ut 45,00). The last city ass2ssment roll fell but little short of 817,000,- The city owes $45),000, bonded at 5 per eent, and has $175,000 in the treasury. The rev- d expanditures for ordinary purposes run together, and are about #200,000 a year, The debt was incurred mainly to bring in watar. les of real estate in 1837 were $3,022,267; in 1833, 5,656; in 1839, $1 5,142,000. has greatly appreciated in value, and continues to approciate, althouzh many caly higher than in Danver, Minneapolis or St. Louis. It is not only man to buy and sell realty that we want. Real estate mon do their part, but waalth is mads oaly by hard, honest worth. The raw products are so abundant hei now, and the opportunities so plentiful, that it is fairly bewildering. I will say that there is a de- mand for stores and residences that cannot ba met, and that our facilities for producing and furnishing building material of all kinds are unequal to the call upon them. T will say that neral output, which is in all thess Rocky mountain states and territories the of , might be doubled or quadrupled by the application of capital, skill and enterpiise to the business. frs BUILDING, 000. Prop- men say it nst we have sold our common lead at 3.8 cents per 1b., and bought our white I'or a year A ! 5 cents per lb, And that is but asample of all our short-sighted proceedings. lead at 7.2 We bring pressed brick 1,500 miles a at a cost of 20 per thousand, when we could better make them ourselyes and keep our mouey at home. So with our tile and sewer pipe, and iron pipe and store and nerchiant iron and almst everything we use. The demand and supply of labor run pretty well together 1n the city and territory. Trouble between employes and employed is less frequent here than east of the mountains, ~ Wages for ordinary labor are about the same as elsewhere in the west, and the same may be said of the cost of living. Wages of some kind of skilled labor rule pretty high. The municipal government is vestéd in a council composed of the mayor and 15 cou Salt Lake has the advantage of Denver in every respect. She has a better clims agreeable, healthful and congenial to all animal existence and activity, She has a mu scope of tributary coun and one more varied and rich in resources and attractions. That g r inducements exists here than there to build a great city is an absolute guarantee that it will be done, and there y no field 1n the union so inviting as Salt Lake City is today. It offers a climate which of itsslf reduces the power of most diseases that afilict mankind to a minumum, and being still relatively new and fresh, although long a metropolis and a capital, it offers unlimited opportunity, The writer has been west of the Missouri river since 1857. He has scen the men who took ahopeful view of the future prosperity through all these years of the creation of great states. He hus seen those who were always crouking and foreboding collapse and decrying the country as having nothing in it, faitand die in penury, No man can go amiss in making an inyestment in real property anywhore west of the Missouri river, It is all, the whole country, as sure to grow as the seasons are to follow one another. It is impossible it shoula be otherwiso. The thing to do is to jump in and eatch on, and be carried along by the general movement. The longer it is yed the harder it will be. Salt Lake »al as a site for a big city, = 8 just beginning to awaken to the fact, real life is yet all before her; still she will devour the future very fust. He who would “‘get in on bed rock.” has no time to lose. 0. J. HOLLISTER, Secretary Chamber of Commerce. Salt Lake City, D. AL SHILEY, OSCAR GROSY SHILEY, GROSHIELL & (0., | Estale UNDER - THE - POSTOFFICE. SALT LAKE CITY. Sols Agents for Muscatine Plas The leading subdivision in the city. Lots#110 to 8500 each. Size Hx150 and 40x150, being larger than any other 1ots now on the marke t. This subdivision ixbut five minutes' walk from the depots, and but 15 minutes’ drive from the vostoflico. BUY NOW! DON’T WAIT! Maps and plats furaisbed on application. Let Us Hear From You Quic J. L. PEKKES, MGELL & PERKES, Real Estate Investments Restdences, ties nnd I insalt 1ding L Dusiness Proper- Twes y years residence E SOLICITED. P. 0. Box 1213, - Sait Lake City, Uiahe A, VARNEY, H. 5. MATTHEWS, VARNEY & MATTHEWS, Real Estate Agents, 239 Mein Street, Opp. Walker Hyuse, SALT LAKE CITY. Make a Specialty of Investments for Non-Residents. Having given special attention to inside prop- erties, wo are thorougnly prepared with cholce bargains in business properules that insure a handsome profit to the purchaser. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICIT REAL ESTATE. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED, Reliable information given to inquiries 9 W. Second South St., SALT LAKE CITY, - UTAH. “WEBB & PALWER, Real Estate and Investment Agency. 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