LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 017 055 939 3 9 IN EXPLANATION. [c^HIS little pamphlet has been prepared for the purpose of fi.irnishing' information |H| concerning the city of Salt Lake and the State of Utah. The data appearing herein II has been compiled with the utmost care from trustworthy sources and maybe ■''' regarded as entirely reliable. It is hoped that the significance of the facts pre- sented will commend itself to the tourist or parties desiring information while vis- iting Salt Lake City. The Bureau of Information is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and a committee is always on hand to show the visitor around the Temple Block, and to furnish additional information and literature pertaining to Utah and her people. No fees charged or donations received. OUR MOTTO : • "To correct misrepre- sentatioD, we adopt self- represenlation." —John Taylor. MISSION HEADQUARTERS. Eastern States— J. G. McQuarrie, 213 W. 135th St., New York. Northern Siates— A. H. Wuorfruff, 635 West Adam St., Chicago, 111. Soutliern States— Ben E. hich. Box 381, Atlanta, Georgia. Soutbern States— .J. G. Uuffin, Box 1132, Kansas City, Mo. Colorado— J. A. McBae, Box 551, Denver, Colorado. Northwestern States— Nephi PrMti, Box 1882, Spokane. Wash. California— Jos. E. Eobinsnn, 609 Franklin St., San Francisco, Cal. British— Heber J. Grant, 42 Islington, Liverpool, England. German— Hugh J. Cannnn, Hosch Gasse, 68 Zurich, Switzerland. Swiss — Levi E. Young, Hosch Gasse, 68, Zurich, Switzerland. Netherlands— W.T.Cannun,Isaak Hubert Straatl20,Rotterdam. Holland. Scandinavia — A. L. Skanchy, Korsgade 11. Coijenhageo, Denmark. Australian— James Duckworth, No. 8, Toogood St., Ersklneville, Syd- ney, New South Wales. New Zealand— C. B. Bartlett, Box, 72, Auckland. New Zealand. Society Islands— Edward S. Hall, Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands. Samoa— M. H. Sanders, Apia, Upolu, Samoa. Sandwich Islands — S E. Wooley, Honolulu, Sandwich, Islands. Japan — Horace S. Ensign, Tokyo, Japan. SALT LAKE CITY. (by fisher HARRIS OF THE COMMERCIAL CLUB.) Cfi AM not one of those who believe that the population of this city will reach the 300,000 >2A mark in the next decade. Of course, I recognize the fact that such an increase is pos- sible, though I do not regard it as probable. The successful exploitation of the very promising oil fields of western Wyoming and eastern Utah, or the discovery of a new and marvelously rich mining district within the state, are two of the many possible causes for such an increase as is expected by many of our sanguine citizens. But these are contingencies, and the conservative business man does not rely greatly upon contingencies. The fact is, however, that without these adventitious aids the future of Salt Lake is as- sured and neither clairvoyance nor the gift of prophecy is necessary to demonstrate that those of us who may be here ten years hence will see a great, beautiful, prosperous and progressive western city. I understand, of course, that this is generalization and in order to win credence should be based upon a more substantial reason than mere personal opinion. In the first place, consider how much nature has done for us here. Men and women of means and leisure spend thousands of dollars and circle the globe, in order to see more famous, but far less beautiful, scenes than those presented from almost any view point in this valley. Nowhere, perhaps, in the world are the mountains more ruggedly beautiful and picturesque than are those that en- circle the city, and certainly nowhere on this continent can one find more charming exhibitions of the ever changing beauties of nature than are found in the numberless canyons that lie at our very doors. From early springtime until the beginning of winter these great gorges, through which the waters of the mountains escape from imprisonment, are a constant delight to the lover of nature and furnish delicious places of rest and recreation for the tired business man and the wearied housewife. I can add nothing to what has been said and sung, in every land and language, about the great, blue sea that lies to the west of us. It is the crowning glory of the landscape, the wonder of the world. Can you show me another spot on Mother Earth where such a combination is found? There are cities that point with pride to their mountains, others boast of their lake front, and still others of their valleys or beautiful homes. Here, we fortunate people have them all — mountains, canyons, lake and valley embraced in one grand scheme of beauty — and over all a sky as blue as any that bends over sunny Italy. Is it any wonder that with such natural environment Utah should produce more than her proportion of painters, poets, CITY AND COUNTY BUILDING. sculptors and musicians? Yet surroundings such as I have briefly mentioned are but desirable adjuncts to life. Man cannot live on scenery, and the visions of the day dreamer are contin- ually being disturbed by grosser thoughts of how he may earn his daily bread. The careful man in search of a permanent abiding place has many things to consider. He will want to know much about the material resources of the city of his choice; its promise for the future; its schools and churches; its climate, the character of its business men and its social life. We can confidently commend Salt Lake City to him from all these standpoints of interest. Materially speakinir, Salt Lake City is not "just entering upon a period of un- exampled prosperity." to quote from the advertising pamphlets of many communities. The prosperity is here now, and while it may not be "unexampled" it is nevertheless great, sub- stantial and comforting. It is in the air and is evidenced on every hand and in all the walks of our business and social life. Ride about the city and you will find in every business and residence block new buildings going up, ranging in importance from the cottage home of the poor man to the palace of the mining king. The records of the building inspector show that during the year 1902 permits were issued for the erection of new buildings costing in the aggregate $2,567,650, an in- crease over 1901 of $1,141,290. And still the importunate cry is for more homes; for the people who are making money on the broad ranches and in the rich mining camps of Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho, Montana and western Colorado are coming here and establishing their household gods in this valley of the mountains. They are drawn hither by the char- acteristic American demand for the best in life, and they find it here, in our university, schools, colleges, theatres, churches and institutions of music and art. If ever a community had right to pride in the high character of its schools it is this one. They are as nearly perfect as lavish expenditure backed by cultured judgment can make them. The numerous buildings in which the city's children are taught are models of modern educa- tional architecture and are not surpassed for comfort and convenience by anything of like kind in America. The oiScers and teachers represent the best imported and domestic talent and their efficiency is attested by the proficiency of their pupils. In my judgment. Salt Lake City will, within the next ten years, become the greatest edu- cational center in the intermountain country, and her schools will be filled with the youth of the great states that are tributary to her markets. Prom a commercial standpoint the city is most fortunately situated, being the geographical center of a vast region, the resources of which are being devel- oped with marvelous rapidity. For this inland empire with its increasing wealth and population, Salt Lake is the natural distributing point — the depot for supplies — and she has no rival within a radius of five hundred miles. The jobbing trade of the city amounted last year to more than $35,000,000, and the building of the new railroads booked for the coming year will PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS add greatly to the territory now invaded by her enterprising and successful merchants. Speaking of railroads, reminds me that every one of the past twenty years has seen the building of many great railway lines into Salt Lake — on paper. None of them have heretofore materialized as projected and the hearts of our people have been made sick with hope deferred. But it seems that even such gigantic things as railway lines come to those who patiently wait. The Denver & Northwestern railway, another connecting link between the capital cities of Colorado and Utah, designed to traverse the richest parts of both states, is an assured fact. Yesterday the calamity howlers declared vociferously that it would never be built — today the contracts are let for its construction and the work is being pushed with vigor and determi- nation. For a generation our people have been looking with longing eyes toward Los Angeles and hoping for a railway connection with that beautiful and progressive city. This year wit- nesses the fruition of their hopes in this regard, and busy hands are, even as I write, building the grade that will make easy the coming of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railway. I know nothing of what combinations of interest are behind these great enterprises, nor do I greatly care. I do know, however, that their successful completion is now beyond question and that the appearance of this city in the role of a great railroad center is inevitable. The wealth of Salt Lake City, which maintains her splendid schools and other institutions of culture and refinement and builds her beautiful homes, comes from many sources. Agri- culture, stock raising and manufactories, all contribute, but from the mines of the state there is an unceasing and ever increasing stream of new, clean money, flowing always into the channels of her trade and commerce. In 1901 the mines of Utah paid in dividends the sum of $4,545,500, not counting the sums paid by close corporations, the amount of whose profits is not made public. This year the dividends on the listed stocks are half a million dollars in excess of those of 1901. The greater part of this sum remains and is reinvested here. It is well to remember in estimating the city's future that the mining industry of Utah is only in its infancy now. Every day records a new strike and witnesses the opening of new districts, and every year sees the list of dividend paying properties grow longer, and the city is the inevitable beneficiary of this growth. The business of the community is transacted through fifteen banking institutions which hold in their keeping approximately $30,000,000 of the people's money on deposit. Salt Lake has always been noted for the conservatism of its bankers and it has been so long since Mr. Dun has had occasion to record a failure here that it is difficult to recall it. For the thoughtful citizen the future of the city has nothing but cheerful promise for the coming year and for the years that shall follow it. All these signs point to a continuance of the steady and substantial growth that has marked our history for the past ten years. We have not had, and do not want a "boom." PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS. TEMPLE BLOCK. Salt Lake Temple.— The Latter-day Saints have four temples and nearly four hundred houses of worship in Utah. The largest temple is that at Salt Lake City. In April 1851, the Church decided to construct this ..^-r_S Hotels. — The Knutsford of this city represents an "actual outlay of $750,000, while the Angelus of Los Angeles, owned and controlled by the same management, cost over $800,000, and, inasmuch as the proprietor is a Utah man, the two well-known hostelries are not only a source of pride to Salt Lake City and the intermountain country, but stand as a monument to the enterprise, pluck and energy of the builders, Mr. Gus S. Holmes is the proprietor, and is well known in Salt Lake and Los Angeles particularly. The Knutsford is built of gray granite, has a frontage of 165 feet on East ^s. r ' - . '^ .^-^^ Third South Street, and is seven stories in height above the basement. There are 300 j . '-;-; guest rooms, single and en suite, 100 of which have baths. Everything is magnifi- \ ! cent and the best that can be secured in both ^ " cuisine and equipment. Tourists usually j make these hotels their homes when in Salt V Lake or Los Angeles. ( ' ^ , The New Wilson is a hostelry of which ^ ' 'all Utahns are proud, having as it does all ( , the requisites of an up-to-date hotel. It is on the European plan with a first class popu- lar price restaurant in the building, and is located in the heart of the business, church and social district of the city. The New Wilson has 200 rooms with telephone, hot and cold water in each; is provided with 60 private baths, beautifully furnished parlors, and, indeed, all that goes to constitute a strictly first-class hotel ; and the rates range from only $L00 to $3.00 per day. It was opened March, 1903. Mr. A. Fred Wey is the proprietor and manager. Utah's public school system is one of the best in the United States. / ( i ■ ) THE ANGELUS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. Of the big concerns in real estate the Houston Real Estate and Investment Co., (an in- corporation) stands in the lead. It has a capital of $10,000, paid up. The company occupies the ground floor of its own property at 251 South Main St., known as the Houston Block. The officers are J. W. Houston, president; A. W. Houston, vice-president; C. W. Johnson, secretary and treasurer. The company has a thoroughly equipped office for the transaction of its real estate business, collection and payment of rents, interest, or taxes, both for home and non-resident patrons. It has money to loan in any amount on improved real estate in Salt Lake City, at very low rates of interest. It also offers choice first mortgage loans for investment of trust funds, which investors will find both safe and profitable. In addition to these varied interests it represents three of the best fire insurance companies. THE ST^TE OW TJT^H. The State of Utah covers 85,000 square miles of territory and embraces within its borders every condition of climate from temperate to serai-tropical. It lies along the western slope of the Rocky Mountains and is the natural center of a vast area which is rapidly coming to be recognized as the richest section of the Union in natural resources and potential develop- ment. It was settled in 1847 by "Mormon" pioneers, and in the comparatively brief period that has elapsed since then it has made such marvelous strides in material, social and business prog- ress as to excite the wonder and admiration of the observer. Within the memory of many of its citizens, the country enclosed by its boundary lines was an arid, treeless and uninhabited desert; today it is the home of 300,000 industrious, prosperous and patriotic people; its val- leys are filled to the mountain side with fields of waving grain and orchards of choicest fruits, and its educational and charitable institutions are among the best in the land. SOME STATISTICS. OUTPUT OF UTAH'S SUGAR FACTORIES FROM ORGANIZATION TO DATE. Utah Sugar Compant : 1899,. 1900,. 1901,. 1902,. .Pounds Produced, 1,112,1 1,325,1 9,150. 3,676' 13',l?85 11,500 18,500. 21,000. Ogden Sugar Company. . . Pounds Produced, 1900,. 1901,. 1902,. Logan Sugar Company. 1901,. 1902,. 3,000,000 6,000,000 8,500,000 9,000,000 5,000,000. 8,000,000- Total, 145,777,130 At 5 cents per pound,. $7,288,706.50 INCREASE IN NEW BUILDINGS, SALT LAKE CITY. What the Official Building Record Shows : First Municipal Ward $ 301,080 Second Municipal Ward 1,209,720 Third Municipal Ward 164,520 Fourtli Municipal Ward 504,^00 Fifth Municipal Ward 388,030 Grand total $2,567,650 Increase over 1901 $1,141,290 OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE JOBBING TRADE OF SALT LAKE CITY. FOR 1902 Groceries $7,000,000 Meats $ 750,000 Dry Goods 5,000,000 Saddlery anii Harness 500,000 Hardware 4,40(),000 Crockery, China and Glassware 500,000 Farm Implements .3,500,000 Paper, Stationery and Books 500,000 Lumber 1,750,000 Bottled Goods 400,000 Liquors and Cigars 900,u00 Plumbers' and Electrical Supplies 300,000 Boots and Shoes 900,000 Drugs and Chemicals 2,(i00,000 Total $31,700 000 Furnlrure 1,250,000 Total for 1901 27,235,000 Clothing 650,000 "_ Paints and Oils ')50,000 " Confectionery 7e0,000 Increase ;$ 4,465,000 SALT LAKE INDUSTRIES. No. of Employed. Wages. Production. Assaying B5 $ .•<5,000 $ Awning and Tents 15 10,000 20,000 Artificial Flowers 5 3,500 10,000 Boilers, Engines and Furnaces 125 87,500 300,000 Bank, Kar and store Fixtures 30 21,000 75,000 Bottling Business 50 30.000 175,000 Haking Powder 50 25,000 75,000 Building Trades 2,600 2,000,000 Bakeries 50 35,(i00 275,000 Blank Books and Bindery 70 45,000 75,000 Blacksmlthlng 200 140,000 250,0f'0 Boots and shoes, manufacturing 200 130,000 270,000 Boxes, manufacturing 23 10,000 .^0,000 Brass Works 110 100,000 270,i 00 Breweries 120 100,000 600,000 Brick 240 155,0 190,000 Camping Outflts 20 10,000 50,000 Carpets 125 100,000 500,000 Carriages and Implements 250 ' 150,000 1,750,000 Cigars 60 4.'),000 250,000 Creameries 60 ' 40,000 325,000 Carpenters 500 Carvers 3 Cement 30 Clothing, manufacturing 50 Ooffln, manufacturing 9 Copper 25 Crackers 65 Dressmaking 300 Drugs, Medicines, Sundries 100 Electrical Supplies 75 Engravers. 22 Flouring Mill Products .■ 75 Extracts and Essences 50 Foundries and Machinery 120 Furniture and Upholstering. Fur Goods Hair Goods Harness Ice Manufacturing Jewelery Manufacturing Knitting Factories Laundries Lithographing 250 50 50 60 40 7 16 275 „ . . 50 Lumber; manufacturing 55 Mattress , manufacturing 50 Marble and Monuments 15 Mantels .- 10 Merchant Tailors 200 Millinery 100 Mining M achinery 200 Photographers 40 Printing Products 20 Paints and Varnishes 150 Plumbins Supplies 9 Picture Framing and Moulding 12 Railroad Shops 700 Sheet Iron 20 Soap, manufacturing 20 Shoe Makers 15 Shirt , manufacturing 3 Spices 50 450,000 3,000 14,000 25,000 ' 7,000 28,000 37,500 145.000 76,000 55,000 18,000 18,000 15,000 100,000 200 000 30,000 25,000 40,000 30,000 9,500 4,000 110,000 35 000 45,000 35,000 10,000 7,500 100,000 60,000 315,000 30,000 15,000 115.000 7,000 10,000 550,000 17,000 18,000 10,000 2,500 25,000 4,500 35,000 100,000 45,000 75,000 175,000 250,000 850,000 210,000 30,000 600,000 80,000 300.000 1,500,000 200,000 50,000 175,000 250,000 35,000 38,000 50,000 275,000 80,000 40,000 30,000 500,000 225,000 2,500,000 57,000 33,000 500,000 150,000 - 60,000 30,000 100,000 50,000 6,000 75,000 o„it 75 43,000 250,000 smeVting." .■;.■.■.■.•:::::.■.■. . :.■.■.■ 2,000 1,50^0 20,000,000 Tallow ■ ° 2,600 7,500 Totals 10>*09 $7,686,600 $35,501,000 Coal Interests. — Practical operators who have made the coal deposits of Utah a study make the statement that these are inexhaustible. Just how many thousands of acres they embrace is not definitely known. But the state will be able to produce coal, and of the most excellent character, years after the extensive fields of Pennsylvania and the Virginias have been worked out. The state boasts of a number of large mines, located in as many counties, and innumerable smaller ones, but they convey no legitimate idea as to the vastness of the coal deposits. For hundreds of miles in the southern part of the state the out-croppings are mute testimonials of great bodies of fuel lying under the surface strata. They are easily access- ible, as it is not necessary to sink to great depths to mine. Therefore the cost of mining much of the coal is minimized. In character the coal of Utah is not excelled by that of any coal producing state in the Union. It is of two classes — steam producing and coke making. The demand for the steam coal is growing throughout the state, and large manufacturing concerns in adjoining commonwealths have learned to appreciate its value, and are buying it in increas- ing quantities each year. 1901 1902 Tonnage production 1,152,224 1,641,436 Value of production at mine at $1.50 per ton $2,828,336 $2,462,154 Number of men employed 1,724 1,833 Number of days mine worked 2,867 3,601 Coke production, tonnage 51,607 128,524 Salt Lake Schools. — If there is one thing of which the people of Salt Lake are prouder than all others, it is their public schools. The school system is as perfect as the experience of the years can make it. There is no one thing that has been overlooked which could add to their efficiency and keep them up to the highest possible standard. Throughout the city are scattered school buildings which, in architectural design and beauty of surroundings, are un- equaled in any city of its size in the United States. The magnificent sum of $1,170,865.53 has been spent in the purchase of sites and the erection and equipping of these school buildings. The interior of the schools is as perfect as their exterior beauty. All that is modern in the way of heating and furnishing has been supplied, until the very acme of comfort and health- fulness has been attained. In all there are twenty-six school buildings in the city, which are used for public school purposes, most of which are of recent structure. From the first the schools have been kept free from partisan politics, and some of the best citizens of the city have considered it an honor to be members of the school board and bring to it their ripest ex- perience. The highest possible ability has been always the object in the selection of teachers of the various grades, and as a consequence 322 ladies and gentlemen who are directly employed in the schools as teachers, principals and special directors form a body of educators which would do credit to any city in the world. 190J 1902 Increase School census 14,428 Enrollment . 12,9'79 Value of school property $1,117,601.76 Number of teachers and principals 301 High school gradviates 69 14,543 115 13,253 274 $1,170,765.53 $53,163.77 322 21 86 17 SALT LAKE AS A RAILROAD CENTER. {by JOHN E. HANSEN, CITY EDITOR DESERET NEWS) The importance of Salt Lake as a railroad center has been long recognized by the lead- ing business men of the community, and by the big transportation companies of the country. Situated as it is, in the very heart of a vast tributary region, with no competitor of note be- tween Denver and San Francisco, and with none at all for a thousand miles north and south, its position is impregnable. And particula^-ly gratifying to the citizens of Utah, is the fact that conditions, natural and artificial, will continue to develop and strengthen the proud place the city occupies. The reason is obvious. Ever since the coming of the Pioneers, it has been a furnishing and distributing point. Year by year its trade has increased. The passing of each decade has seen it far in advance of the mark reached the decade before. The builders of our rail- roads have carefully noted this certain and unvarying trend of trade development, and have not been slow to make provision for it. In the analyses of business inquiry and acquirement they have seen dependent territory gradually added to the field covered by the wide-a-wake- hustling trade-getter, of the chief city of the intermountain country. All that has meant growth, and growth has meant increased facilities for handling both freight and passenger traffic. Few people realize that the jobbing business of this city, for 1903, will closely ap- proximate, if it does not exceed, $35 000,000. That is nearly three times as much jobbing business as Denver does in a similar period. That is a fact worth remembering. It gives a faint idea of what Salt Lake wholesalers are doing in the surrounding states through their acumen and the natural advantage the city holds over far-a-way sister cities, wlien it comes to supplying the demands of a great and growing area — an area that includes Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, and portions of Oregon, California and Colorado, with not in- frequent invasion into fields far beyond, where the superiority of Utah manufactured goods is recognized. Just now the railroads of Utah are making a big forward jump. Immense sums are being spent in an increase of mileage, and a general betterment of trackage and equipment, to say nothing of the acquirement in Salt Lake City, of new and valuable real estate holdings. Notable among the improvements is the projected new depot to be erected for the joint oc- cupancy of the Oregon Short Line and the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake, at a cost of $250,000. A similar structure is to be built for the Rio Grande Western and the Salt Lake and Western, the last named road being the proposed outlet from this city, of the Gould lines, which will then form a complete transcontinental system. As all the avenues of travel led to Rome of old, so do all the railroads of the great west lead to Salt Lake. This is the common center where they all meet. Prom here they extend east, west, north, south, threading evrey part of the state and furnishing each section with a rapid and up-to-date means of transportation and communication with the outside world. From the view-point of a railroad man, the city's past is a proud one; its present is full of promise; its future For information on Mormon Doctrines address, Bureau of Information and Church Literature, 214 Tbmpleton Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. '"^'^yCNNr GO BY TELEPHONE FROM SALT LAKE— A^K US FaR INFORMATION REGARDING THE Sap Pedro, Lo s Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad XV^t^ f»rt? l>fuicl for iirusvvei'ijrxg: cictesstioms. Daily tiains reach the principal mining districts. of Utah and Nevada, '.oilman Buffet Sleepers, Salt Lake to Calientes. lue connecting link between (' '' "' ""a, and Dagget, Uaiilonua, i :■, now being linilt, opoiing uo tHje ni ■ jvelooed minini? districts .., the West. Let us tell y^ ■ i. L. MOORE, T. C. PECK, E. W. GILLETT, i:i;:i)trcua Ajieut. Ass't, (ien'l. Passenger , lieti'L Freight and Passenger Agent City Ticket Office, 201 South Main St, Salt Lake City, Utah. l.argt LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS lUi 017 055 939 3 Three H Vinci red and Two Rooms. PJundre and Twr. ±1.111