Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1890, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1800.-SIXTEEN PAGES. A H. MAYNE & C0. | 231 Main Street, St Lake City, Utah. AGENTS FOR WEST DRIVE SUBDIVISION Only 8% blocks from Postoffice. Lots $350 to $500. EAlso have large list of property in all parts of the city. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. HARVEY HARDY, Manager. T. A. DAVIS. J. T. STRINGER. DAVIS & STRINGER, Real Estate and Loans 23 W. SECOND STREET SOUTH, SALT LAKE CITY, We have a large list of residence, business and acreage property, which we are always pleased to show to visitor and we wiil furnish maps and lists of our property (subject to provious sale), to our corraspondents, s We have associated with us Mr. ALFRED E. DUNCAN, formerly of Omaha..who will be pleased to hear from his friends, and endea- vor to give them any information they want. A.J. GUNNELL. F. I. GUNNELL § The Syndicate Investment Cofy REAT, ESTATH. Choice City, Acreage & Addition Properties. INVESTMENTS CAREFULLY MADE_FOR NON-RESIDENTS, Sole Agents for “Rosedale” The leading addition, only one and one-half blocks south of Liberty Park. Lots g250 to $350 until February 2oth, giving you 10 days after election, WE INVITE CORRESPONDENCE. P.O. Box 1148. 279 South Main St. T e J. H. HINMAN, Treasurer. THE MIDLAND INVESTMENT AMERICAN Distrct Telegrap COMPANY. OFFICE UND I NAT'L BANK, 79 South Main Strect. Mossengers Farnishad km] or Night Circulars, Invitatious, Pa otc., doliver, ed promptly. Spocial at Aid to the escortingof strangers to tha dlir: at fustitu. tions and places of interest thr. ut the city. A. W. Gallacher, - Manager, Telophons 15). ALEXANDER L, POLLOOK. B. W. Witsox POLLOCK & WILSON, LEADING Real Estate Agents, 10 East Second South St., BALT LAKE CITY, - - UTAH We have a hundred of the choicest lots within * nineblocks of the_postoflice, ) feet tront, and soll them at from 50 to 375 eachs besldos bass ness property, acreage, and lots without num- ber, Information prouiply given TH E Commercial National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah. HENRY G. BALCH, President, GEDRGE M. DOWNEY, Vice President, JOHN W. DONNELLAN, Casbler. Collctions Promply Altaded T, Funds deposited with our correspondents in Now York, Chicago and Omaha, avaitabls in Sait Lago without charge for exchiango, CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. THE WALKER HOUSE SALT LAKE CITY. «This s the Largest, Finost and Best Con- Qucted Hotel botween Omaha and San Fran cisco, 1u1s first class in all its appolutments, Headquarters for tourists, military and com mercial men, Rates, $8 to $4 Per Day. GEO, S. ERB, - PROPRIETOR, D —— L — THE METROPOLITAN HOTEL, SALT LAKE CITY, ‘This Js the most beautifully located hotel 10 Salt Lako City, Large, fine and elegantly turnished rooms. Especlally adapted to fami- lies. Table unsurpassed. Rates Only $2 Par Day. GEO. S. ERB, Prop WILL ERB, Manager, C. E. WANTLAND, REAL ESTATE, R. R. LANDS AND UTAH INVESTMENTS CAPITAL $100,000. Makes Correct bstracts of Title Showing all Errors. Titles to Real Estate and Mortgages Thoroughly Examined and Insured. Rents Safe Deposit ] char! Boxes and does an Escrow Business, Acts as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Assignee, }OSEPH H. Recelver, ete., etc, and Executes Trusts of every kind, 177 MAIN STREET, SALT LLAKE CITY, UTAZI. 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 the past 12 months, a large portion of which has been for non-residents, The members of the firm have had 10 years' r the city, and large expericnce in handling realty, and are SALT LAKE O, Municipal Election--Utah and Col radn, Comparison -Salt Lake City and Penver Compare Salt Lake City s Utah--Labor and Wag Markets. The city election of last Monda that the vote of Salt Lake has more than doubled within two years. Politics is not the field of Salt Lake Chamber of 2, but it would be idle toignore event of so much signiflcance age of the Mormon capital mon to Gentile control, an oc- currence that three years ago scomed o million years in the future, and which would not have taken vlace now but for the laws of congress disfranchising Utah women, actual polygamists, and theoretical polygamists who would not take an oath to observe the la 1inst polygamy. It would not have been now, either, but for the new poopl have come 10 us in the past thro: It was no ordi election. It v the contes en Gentile and ) mon hus t n, & struggle between ilizations, briefly and fairly acterized as Asiatic and Burope American). Judge O. W. Powe who came here from Michigan as a district judge under Cleveland, was at the he: of the Gentile committee; hisleadership was alert, courageous, hopeful, good- nawred, resourceful, comprehensive, patient, successful. The host he mar- shaled presented a spectacle of self-sup- pression and cheerful performance of duty assigned, of devotion to a cause, by men, many of whom have long been leaders themselves, men of all parties and creeds, and of no creed excent patriotism, such as was never equalied, in o democracy, except perhaps in 27 2 moments of supreme national peril. : The Gentiles of Utah have always pre- sented a remarkable example of devi- R A A R 5 thoroughly posted on values, tion to a cause, but heretofore they have success. The Mormons exhibit the same unity, discipline, devotion and self-suppression, but they are not a democracy; they are a theocra 1 which a God-man orders, and the mass obey, asa matter of course. But the Mormons are rapidly changing. They have made and are mak- ing charges of fraud, but the vote pol ed on both sides was a fair and honest vote. The Gentiles succeed to the control of the city. They have been long and widely traduced, but in truth they are neither better nor worse than their countrymen in the other states and cities of the Union. They have a great responsibility, much will be expacted of them; but their countrymen are administering the government of states and municipalities all over the land with fair success, and there need be no apprehension with respect to the new regime in this city. They will do as well as men can under the circumstances and with the meaus at their command, and if the city receives the nccession of men and of money during the next two which it has every reason to count on, there will never be another contest for the city’s political control between Gentile and Mormon. Of course, the contest will go on for the county, and for other Utah towns and counties, and for the Territory itsell; but the Gentiles are providing a golden bridge, so to speak, upon which the Mormous may pass from taeir past to a better future; and while the Mormon dream of sotting up a kingdom in the literal sense must be abundoned, they have still left their share in the blessings we all enjoy. They will have the same rights that all our free and happy millions have. It is impossible that they shall long remain blind to the fact that the change is for the better, and after indulging their natural regrets amidst the ruinsof their kingdom awhile they will rouse themselves and look to the future with new eyes, new hopes and new hearts. It is all working out right. So much for politics. UTAH AND COLORADO. In a former letter I said that Utah and t Lake have the advantage of Colorado and Den- ver in all respects, save that the latter are east of the mountains—nea. i ppi valley The exception was not publi , leaving my statement questionable. Let me say that I wason the daily press in Denver and Black Hawlk and Central for six or seven years before [ came to Utah, and I have been here twentysone years. 1 have given much attention to the material resources and developments of both Colorado and Utah, and profess to know what I am talking about. Colorado boasts of her 84,000,000 acres of arable land. This includes some valleys on streams in the mountaius, but it lies mainly east of the mountains, and except for a strip per- haps wwenty miles wide, and the valleys of the Platte, the Arkat , their trib , and the Du[l Norte, it may be arable, but it can never be irrigable. And it is thin, gravelly land. There isn't water enough running out of the mountains on that side to ever ate 10,000,000 acres of land, br, I believe, the half of it. Somewhat more water flows out of the mountains e: than westward; but the land on this side, in the valleys of Utah, is low n altitude, stronger, more fertile, and the seasons are more propitious; enough in my opinion, to offset the fact that it may be 25 per cent or even 50 per cent less in area. So that I regard the agricultural possibilities of Utah and Colorado as about equal, To read the Colorado papers, one would got the impression, not only that it is a better and richer agricultural state than fowa, but a better and richer horticultural state than California. Such pretentions will not bear close examination, he lands on the South Platte have an ab- solute altitude of more than 5,000 feet, and the seasons are neither equable nor trustworthy. The horticultural regions of the state must be miainly confined to the Arkansas river section and to some small valleys on the waters of the Rio Colorado. Without going 1 considar the horticultural possibilities of Utah much ahead of those of Colorado, There is no better fruit region 1n the Union than Salt Lake Valley and other valisys south, and the valleys on the Rio Colorado tributaries, Colorado has a wide strip of grazing land from the mountains eastward to the Kansas bor- der, but after leaving the mountains twenty or thirty miles there is no water to speak of save the Platte and the Arkausas rivers, and out of these the water is taken to irrigate the adjoining lands. Considering this, I believe that Utah’s grazing resources, inclusive of adjacent parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and devada, are more than equal to those of Colorado. ere is more grazing land in the mountains in proportion. too high to be farmed; and great use is made of our deserts when there is snow. Cattle and sheep are transferred with the seasons from desert to mountains, and back again, to their great advantage. Iurrijgrial @_ricunufal and M;myiaumring Sociaty, Exposition Building, lacked tne incentive to cohesion and discipline and energy inspired only by reasonable hope of CORRESPONDENCI SOLICITED, At last we come to n al resources, I have no doubt that Utah hasmuch the greater variety of minerals. She has not, however, within her own borders, rge an arven us the tremendous Sierrn Madre gives Colorado, extend- ing its vast mass from end to end of the state, as it does, and throwing off raft- ers like the ridge pole of a house on both sides, sweeping round in great curves and ox-bows, and projecting spurs that are in themselves immense mountain chains, But Utah i much the sm vart of th Basin. The mining region of Ne joins her on the west; 150 miles of rail- road thrown out 1n_ that direction will put Salt Lake in direct communication with a mining region t will more than equalize Utah’s miner s with those of Colorado. Of course the road woud have to be continued throngh and among the basin system of mineral- aring mountain ridges. clear across e to the Sierra Nevad Until 1o miners got over the ridge to 1le,and Aspen.,& about Silverton, her y v mineral output wasn’t half that of Utah. She gets out more coal than Utah, but not morve than Utah could were she not deluged with Wyom- ing conl. Utah has the western—most conl of any great consequence 1n this country. Colorado produces oil; so will Utah when she has time and means and the men to go at it. Utah excels Colorado in the equabil- ity and agreeableness and healthfuluess of her climate. She hasn’t quite so much sunshine, but she has, absolutely, gix full days out of seven, which is enough. Ulah and Colorado mountain and canon_und park scene ¢ much the sume; but Utah’s mountain resorts are the more accessible, I think, more o part of the life of the people. Utah without doubt €xcels Colorado in the number and variety of warm and hot medicinal springs; and of cburse Colo- - rado has no Great Salt Lake, the most unique body of water on the continent, and ultimately to be one of the world’s great resorts. SALT LAKE CITY AND DENVER. Comparing Salt Lake City with Denver, and only mentioning its preferable climate, its proximity to the great mountains, und to the salt sea, and its possession of copious hot springs within its limits, 1t seems to me that its natural and legitimate field of empire is very much more extensive than that of Denver. Denver has the S Madvre, and a section at the base thereof and reaching out on the plains as far as man can make any use of the plains, which is not a very great distance. Salt Lake will divide the Grand and Green river basin with Denver; her natural scope will reach from about Green river on the east to the Sierra Nevaaa on the west, and from the Rio Colorado on the south to the main range between Idaho and Montana on the north—an area of half a million square miles, With the extension of railroads, she will have a pull to the south and west bounded only by the Pacific ocean. If the Denver people had chanced in the course of events to have founded Salt Lake City, and the founders of Salv Lake City had chanced to pitch their tents on the site of Denver, the latter might now have 20,000 people; the former would certainly have five times what she has now. SALT LAKE THE CAPITAL. As to rivals in this valley, Salt Lake City does nov recognize such a possibility. Salt Lake county is a'little patch, like the heart in & human body, but her a: ed valuation last year was almost tly two-fifths of that of the whole of Utah. She has more than one-fourth the entire population of Utanh. ‘The population of the city has increased 117 per cent (n nine . Itis now held to be 45,000 (so estimated in Gov. Thomas’s report of last October to the Secretary of the Interior). By the same estimate the population of the seventeen incorporated towns in Utah north of the city combined is 42,532; and of the twenty-seven incorporated to' the city the combined population is 47, The population of Salt Lake county is e the Governor at 60.000; of the six counties north of Salt Lake county combined at 61 two counties cast and west of Salt Lake county, 11,750; of the sixteen counties south of 5 county at 96,925, £ City has reason to be satisfied with her central and commanding position,whether with respect to the belt of fertile land sheltered and watered by the overshadowing great mou . and already plantea with two hundred towns and settlements, stretehing from the Rio Colorado in the south to the Snake on the north; or with respect to the vast and virgin i orts of resources, and especially in mineral resources, s\\'euf»ing away beyond J on to the erest of the continent eastward, and the blue Pacific westward, and even further northward and southward. In her immediate neighborhood there is the eastern shore of Great Salt Lake; in location, resources, climate and fertility, potentinlly the glory of the earth. The garden spot of Utah, with not 10 per cent of its capabilities drawn out, it supports more than thirty setilements and towng, and upwards of half the population of Utah. This is garden land; two railroads extend from end to end of it, and thence to all the world; it is all within ten miles of these roads; there is water enough to irrvigate the whole expunse; there is a cash market at good prices in the adja- cenv-mines and the urban populations. Planted in fine fruit and given five years’ time, 8500 an acre would be no price for it. The city is also encompassed by mines, uxveYt on the north, mines producing their ten millions annually these twenty years past, and stlll in their infan The smelters in the su urbs are making the entire Jordan Valley one town. Upon the extension of the Union Paci to the Needles, and the construction of a road out to and through Nevada, and upon the cheap- ening of fuel and the home manufacture of coke, all even now in sight, these smelters will be doubled and redoubled in capacity, Instead of reducing 75,000 tons of silver ores annually, they are in the near future to smelt a thousand tons a day. The most extravagant estimates ot the resources and capabilities of the empire naturally tributary to Salt Lake City will be more than realized in the future, 0. J. HOLLISTLER, Secretary Salt Luke Chamber of Commearce, 201 MAIN STREET, SALT LAKE CITY. LINCOLN PARK--The Leading East Side Addition. Lots,$175 to $400. BEUNA VISTA---The Leading West Side Addition. Lots $75 to $150 The Salt Lake Abstract, Title, Guaranty & Trust Co (Forrmaerly ETarvey, 2Teff & Ce.,) 265 SOTUTEDI MAILT STREET. i Incorporated Under the Laws of Utah Territory Holding Trust Funds Separate From All Other Assets of the Company, and retaining as counsel the OHN W. NEFF, Treasurer and Assistant Mana%er. EDWARD attorney through whom the business comes. Collects interest on income and transact all other business authorized by i WILLIAM J. HARVEY, Vice President and Manager. . GENTER, Secretary and Abstract Officer. MPANY IN UTAH TERRITORY. ter. Wills receipted for and safely kept, without charge, MITH, President, Denver, Col. THE ONLY TXOST C F. M. BISHOP, Secretary. = dence in DA FHILEY., CECAR GROSNELL SHILEY, GROSHELL & (0., | ESfl UNDER - THE - POSTOFFIGE. SALT LAKE CITY. Sole Agents for Muscatine Place, The leading subdivision in the city. Lots §00 to 00 each. Size Ux150 &nd 40x150, being larger than any other 1ots now on the marke; This subdivision i but five minutes' walk from the depots, and but 15 minutes' drive from the postoflice. BUY NOWwW!I DON'T WAIT! Maps and plats turaished on application. Let Us Hear From You Quick! C. E. ANGELL, 3. L. PEXRES, MGELL & PERKES, Real Estate [nvestments Restdences, Butlding Lots, Business Propor- es and Farm Lands, Twe; years' rosidence fics and Furh, Lands, " I\Wenty yours' residence CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. P. 0. Box 1213, - Salt Lake City, Olah A.J. VARNEY, [ HEWS, VARNEY & MATTHEWS, Real Estate Agents. 239 Main Street, Opp. Walker Houses BALT LAKE CITY, Make a Specialty of Investments for Non-Residents. Having given special attention to inside prop erties, Wo are tho; ly prepared with choice Dbareains in business properties that insure a hundsome profit to the purchaser. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED, C. L. HANNANAN, REAL ESTATE. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Reliaple information given to inquirics 9 W. Second South St., SALT LAKE CITY, - UTAH, “WEBB & PALMER, - Real Estate and Investment Agency. Cholce City and Suburban Property for sale at prices and terms to suit buyers, CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED, When visiting Salt Lake City, call at our office. (%