The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-21

able to state that in all our travels,
wherever we have gone, our work has
| received the heartiest and most en-
thusiastic endorsement.
In an extensive article in the New
! York Sun, May 2, descriptive of the
organization of the Great Eastern
Newspaper League and the work out
lined for the joint staff representatives,
1t was stated that:
THE plain meaning of this most ex-
traordlnary movement is to acquaint
the east with the actual condition of
the west from an industrial point of
view, and the series of letters which
will be printed during the progress of
the tour will present to the readers of
the four newspapers mentioned graphic
pen pictures of that interesting section
of the country as it exists today. In
word, it is to be work of education.
The letters will tell of the greatness,
the natural wealth and the possibili-
ties of the west. There will be no ex-
aggerated cOloring-nO fancy flights of
imagination. The writers will deal
with facts and figures as they find
them. The story of the progress and
the upbuilding of the west-the vast
mineral resources-the fertile fields
and the sections possessing special and
peculiar advantages and holding forth
inviting inducements for the invest
ment of capital or the home seeker, will
be faithfully described by men trained
in careful writing.
In order to afford every facility pos
sible for good work a. magnificent pri-
vate car has been purchased of the
Pullman company for the exclusive use
of this party. 1t is splendidly equipped
with all the. modern eonveniences of a
fTst-class hotel and it will make a
comfortable and fitting home for the
newspaper men while visiting the va
rious points of interest in half the
states of the Union. The car is now
being made ready for its long journey
in the Pullman shops at Pullman, H..
and will be ready for delivery the last
of this week.
without question this tour of the
west represents the most gigantic I'M
dertaking in the history of newspaper
enterprise and in order to give some
sort of understanding as to the mag
nitude and scope of the work, it can be
stated that the private car of the party
is expected to cover a total of not less
than 10000 miles, and that during the
progress of the tour about $50 columns
of descriptive mai tier will be sent for
ward and printed simultaneously in the
four newspapers represented.
This work on behalf of the develop
ment and upbuilding of the west is the
result of the energy and progressive
ideas of Mr.. c. F. King, a well known
newspaper man of Boston. 1t was
through his efforts that the combina-
ton Of newspapers here represented
was formed and he will personally con-
duct and manage the tour from begin
ming to end"
The Boston Journal. referring to the
work of the league, said on May q:
Perhaps no bit of enterprise ever
announced by a newspaper or a COM
bination of newspapers has evoked
such universal and hearty commenda-
ton as the proposed tour of the west
by the Great Eastern Newspaper
League.
This league, representing the New
York Sun, Philadelphia Times Balti-
more Herald and Boston Journal, has
about concluded the details and per-
fected arrangements for the long and
interesting trip, and the party of jour
nalists representing the organization
will leave New York this week for
their journey of over 90 600 miles in all
the states in the west, northwest and