. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . ant from the shores of Great Salt Lake, in an elbow of the moun-tains, with great peaks towering over it on the north and east, anda valley, rioting in foliage and plenty, stretching away for manymiles to the south and west, is the most perfect a city ever had. As a business place there is nothing to compare with it in anydirection for six hundred miles. It is the beating business heartof an empire; a great railroad center, with that greatness but halfachieved; the largest smelting center by far in the w
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . ant from the shores of Great Salt Lake, in an elbow of the moun-tains, with great peaks towering over it on the north and east, anda valley, rioting in foliage and plenty, stretching away for manymiles to the south and west, is the most perfect a city ever had. As a business place there is nothing to compare with it in anydirection for six hundred miles. It is the beating business heartof an empire; a great railroad center, with that greatness but halfachieved; the largest smelting center by far in the world, and themiddle of a productive and rapidly developing area that takes inthe best part of the mining lands of the United States. A G L I M 1> S E O F UTAH pago eighteen C£ Whatever other cities have, Salt Lake has in some degree, andSalt Lake has many things possessed by no other place in theworld. The Great Salt Lake, with its marvelous bathing, is one ofthese, and the famous Temple of the Mormons—forty years inbuilding—is another. This structure and the queer round-roofed. City and County Building, Salt Lake City. Tabernacle by its side, are far famed attractions. Then there arethe broad, brook-lined streets with their trimmings of trees, thepalatial homes of Utahs many millionaires, and the quaint olddobies and other styles of architecture that still remain to re-mind us of the times when the wastes of desert were still to be re-deemed, and when to live in Salt Lake, was to toil and suffer andalmost starve. These are among the sights that make Salt Lake City the most unique and inter-esting place to visit in all thewest. There are many millionsbeing spent in and around SaltLake at this writing, and thecity, already with a populationof 110,000, is expanding at therate of 10,000 per annum.
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