The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-21
GOSSIP OF TIE TOWN.
MISUNDERSTANDING

Recently The Herald gave the views of
some prominent business. men anent the
project to establish state bureau of in
formation. Those quoted were opposed
to the scheme. believing that all that
could be done in that direction was be-
in- and would be done by the chamber
OF commerce. Further, they argued that
would simply result in a division OF
strength and effort, when what was tes-
pecially needed was consolidation.
In the last issue Of the Utahnian, how
ever, colonel Pat Donan presents some
Ideas on the other side OF the question.
that are worthy of consideration.
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Under the caption. "A Push for Utah. -
Colonel Donan says:
From its first issue, the Utahnian has
labored. with all its strength, to carry a
knowledge of Utah's infinite riches of re-
source and possibility to the outside
world OF investors and homeseekers It
has urged some organization of state,
comfy and city, to push the interests of
every part of the Holy Land Thousands
or letters have poured in upon it. king
for printed and illustrated information
in regard to this glorious intermountain
land of exhaustless mines fertile soil
ana parad1Sean climate. SO Iar, there has
been but one book that could be sent to
these searchers for light The Rio
Grande Western railways booklet on
The Mountain Walled Treasury of the
Gods has been the only publica ton in
existence that filled the much-felt want
The general passenger department of the
company has distributed tens of thou
sands of copies of it all over the world.
But it has seemed an imposition for the
whole state and all its interests to de-
pend on the generosity and public spirit
OF n single corporation for advertising
general organized effort is needed. in
which the entire commonwealth and all
its component parts shall be united in a
grand push forward. The proposed Utah
in the right direction. The names of the
mer, who have gone into 1t ought to be
a guarantee of its triumphant success
There is vast and noble work to be
done. No region in the United States
has a greater variety of resources and
charms than this God-blessed Land of
Promise. In glories of scenery. soyeli-
ness and healthfulness of climate, riches
ties for pleasure and profit in summer
and winter resorts, il is unsurpassed and
indispensable in the old or new world
With proper. intelligent. persistent lib
eral advertising of Its advantages and at
fractions. 5000 new people and $4,000. 600
of new capital should be brought in here
within the next Il months. Skillful. world
wide advertising took 10000 people and
over $1000o0.0c0 of capital into the hideous,
blizZard-Swept. frigid deserts of Dakota
territory, in the four years from 1879 to
1885. Single counties in Utah contain
more of all that makes life worth living
than whole states like those snow-bound,
far-northern coyote pastures But the
world must be told of it. must be made
TO know it; and that cannot be accom-
plished without vigilant, energetic tire
less Woodwork, with big. big W
Chambers of commerce and boards of
trade are all right as auxiliaries, but
they are.-at best, but local and partial.
Utah needs-=must have-a mighty, con-