The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-26

where he has been for the vast ten
with the several gigantic enterprises
which are to reach a successful cul-
mination through the efforts of the
members of The Utah Company and
the other influential local gentlemen
who, while not stockholders in the
company, are directly interested in
the furtherance of the projects of the
organization. In company with Presi-
dent George Q. Cannon, Hon. Heber
]. Grant, Hon. Frank J. Cannon, A.
H. Cannon and Colonel Nephi w.
Clayton, Colonel Weber visited st.
Louis and remained there IN direct
consultation with one of the strongest
syndicateS of capitalists that has ever
been brought together in the west.
the matters under consideration being
those which have direct
bearing upon the carrying out of the
plans of The Utah Company. While
he did not care to go on record as to
the details of the agreements entered
into between the interested parties
while in st. Louis, the colonel was
willing to state that the outlook never
was SO bright for The Utah Company
as now and its enterprises will, with
out doubt, be carried to a successful
termination. Upon his departure from
st. Louis certain agreements relative
to the project were just being signed
up. Mr.. Grant had left for Chicago
on personal business, but the other
members of the party were still in the
city.
It is now reasonably certain that
active operations on the extension of
the Salt Lake & Los Angeles railroad
from this city to the city of Los An
geles, will commence at an early date.
The st. Louis people now interested in
the affairs of The Utah Company in
clude several capitalists who are heavy
investors in this territory and also in
the city of Los Angeles. Among them
is Theodore f. Meyer, first vice-presi-
dent of the Meyer Brothers Drug
company, and owner of the Cove
Creek sulphur beds in the southern
part of the territory, in which may
be found pure sulphur enough for the
worlds supply for ages to come.
On Monday last the Utah gentlemen
and the eastern capitalists who are
expected to become personally inter-
ested in the projects of The Utah
Company were given a splendid dinner
at the residence of Mr.. Meyer, and at
that gathering was placed before the
St. Louis people the plans Of the visi-
tors. They are of an important ma
ture and the following report of the
banquet, given by the st. Louis G ODE
Democrat, will prove of great interest
to the people Of the territory Of Utah.
Twenty-one gentlemen sat down on
Monday night to dinner at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Theodore F. Meyer, first
vice-president of Meyer Brothers Drug
| The occasion was a remarkable ore
and the consequences of the gathering
| may prove to be of vast moment.
From the standpoint of general IN
| terest, it will never be forgotten by
those who participated in it. Five OF
the guests were leading men of Utah
Hon.. George Q. Cannon, one of the
| presidents of the Mormon church. a
wealthy and enterprising citizen OF
Salt Lake city; his son, Hon. Frank j.
Cannon, member of Congress from
Utah; Mr.. T. G. Weber of the Zion
| Cooperative Mercantile Institution OF
Salt Lake city, representing the bust
ness interests of Utah; Mr.. TIeber j.
Grant, largely engaged in banking and
mining there; and Mr.. Nephi w. Clay
ton. manager of the Salt Lake & Los
Angeles railway, a road destined, pos
sibly. as a result Of this very coca
sion, to become one of The greatest
| trunk lines of the west.
The other sixteen diners, including
| the host, were st. Louisians of emil
nence in financial. commercial and
manufacturing circles, men whose ag-
gregated interests, both in and out OF
| st. Louis, are way up in the millions
| Among them were: Ex-Governor E.
| o. Stanard, president of the Laciede
| National bank; Judge George A. Ma
! dill. president of the Union Trust
company; Mr.. Thomas H. West, pres
/ ident of the st. Louis Trust company
| Mr. David K. Ferguson, president OF
| the Mechanics National bank, and oil
| the Missouri Safe Deposit comps ny
MIR. Edward Mallinckrodt, president
of the Mallinckrodt Chemical works
Mr.. Isaac w. Morton, first vice-presi-
/ dent of the Simmons Hardware com
pany; Colonel r. c. Kerens, H. c
Haarstick. president of the st. Louis
and Mississippi Transportation com
many. and first Vice-president of the
ST. Louis Trust company; and George
w Parker. vice-president of the Con-
tinental National bank.
Many of these gentlemen have liber
ally invested their money in the west
and the host, Mr.. Theodore Meyer
was doubly qualified in that besides hi
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house which stands in high apprecia
ton throughout the world he alst
owns in Utah territory solid noun
| tain. containing birthstone enough tt
| supply the universe and still leave al
| ample margin for the use of his satanic
majesty in case Of emergency.
The dinner, it need hardly be sug
gested, was of the choicest. After the
! toothsome creations of skilled CHEZ
| and a selection of the rarest vintage:
| known to connoisseurs had been. dis
posed of, Ex-Governor E. o. Stanard, a:
spokesman for st. Louis, was intro
duced by Mr.. Meyer. He gracefully
welcomed the Utah visitors, assuring
them of the hearty good will and o.
the kindly interest of the people of the
metropolis of the southwest.
Responses were made by Hon.
George @. Cannon and by his son, the
congressman, in behalf of the Utonians.
Both addresses were profoundly. inter
esting, that CT the elder Mr.. Cannon
especially So He paid a splendid trib-
ute to the commercial prosperity ane
rock-bed solidity of st. Louis. He told
of his pilgrimages here before the civil
war. at the time when Utah's business
was almost transacted through st
Louis. The development of railroad
enterprises, growth of other cities
and various other causes have diverted
part of Utah's commerce from St
Louis since then, but the future state
has never lost its loyalty TO and its
faith in this grand old city. Now al
the head of the representative party
of Salt Lake citizens he desired to ex-
tend to st. Louis the most cordial
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