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

The organization of the Great Eastern
the most unique combination of great
newspaper influence ever formed for
any purpose.
As is well known, the organization
consists Of the New York sun, the Phil
adelphia Times the Boston Journal and
the Baltimore Herald. four of the
strongest and most powerful news
papers published in the four great COM
mercial centers of the east.
The organization OF this League was
brought about for the sole purpose of a
most extensive tour of the west now
being made by it's joint staff represen-
tatives.
1t has long been recognized as a fact
that the one great need of the west is
TO have her resources, her advantages
and her opportunities better and prop
erly known in the east.
Up to three months ago when the tour
of the west was commenced by Joint
staff representatives Of the League
there had been no organized or system
attic effort put forth by any eastern.
newspaper of reputation and I.igh
standing, looking toward a proper
presentation of the resources of the
west
1t is a well known fact that in the
east the lines of competition are so
strongly drawn that the opportunities
Tor marked success in any line of COM
mercial endSavor are very much limit
ed. The field is almost completely oc-
cupled and Il can be truthfully stated
Inat the east never possessed the all
vdntages, the opportunities. the re-
sources possessed by the west.
business successes in the east have
been brought about and are being
brought about today by indomitable
pluck, determination and enterprise.
Looking out from our car windows for
three months journeying over 1900
miles Of western territory, the League
representatives have been wonderfully
impressed with the vast possibilities of
this great and bOundless expanse of
country That there yet remains in
the west ample opportunities for money
making, ample opportunities for profit
able investment. inviting inducements
for both the hOmeseeker and the health
seeker. one but needs to visit any part
or portion of the country thus far
traversed by the private car of the
Great Eastern Newspaper League in
order to be thoroughly and absolutely
NbllN lDteO.
If man is interested in manufacture
ing, the west holds forth substantial
inducements. If ne be interested in
mines, in minerals and any sort of
hidden treasures of the earth, these
can be found in abundance by proper
research in almost any western state.
If he be interested in agriculture. the
western fields, prairies and plains, val
IeyS and mountain sides give an
abundance of proof that the west is
indeed and in truth the haven of the
liler Of the soil. If he be a seeker
after health there are thousands of
places in the west where the wind is
as the breath from the fountain of
youth. The League representatives
nave been impressed with the fact that
The ola west has passed aWay-the old
west peopled with long haired men.
WIN sumbrerOs and six-shOOters, and
daring desperados. The frontiersman
is n" more. The frontier has been
th'.- ned The League representatives
nave sought in vain TO find specimens
V- The Wild and wOOly-reIics of days
uidl We're. and yet exist in the minds
N- many thousands in the east
Inc League representatives have