The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-01
FOR A CoMMERcIAL CLUB.
saIt Lake City. D.. 81. 1sO1

Salt Lake City, Dec. 81, 1901
Mr.. Editor:
It has come to me that some of the
/ live business men of this city have de-
teImined that the reprOach of having
no central, public, general official or
ganization Of business men here shall
/ be removed.
They note that many surrounding
cities, such as Portland, Seattle, Spo-
kane, Denver. Kansas City, Minneapo-
lis, etc, many OF which cities are vast
" inferior in bank clearings to Salt
Lake, have each a grand central COM
mercial organization. of which they
are most proud, which in a sense gives
direction TO the city's business, and
which in every case has resulted in
such phenomenal success that its aban-
donment would be looked upon as
calamity.
These organizations supply a voice
through which the business interests
of the city speak; a barometer by
which business is gagged; their re-
quests are respected whenever made;
their endorsement always commands
respectful consideration; they are the
mediums through which information to
outside business men and seekers after
investments are authoritatively sup
piled; they are a power which every
city officer respects and to such Of
ficers request from such an organi-
zaucn amounts to a command.
They are, too, a vast assistance and
support to faithful officers who are
seeking to perform their duties hon
estly and with ability
They are a business stimuIant: their
work all tends to further the progress,
prosperity and success of both the pub
lie and private business of the city.
The conditions which heretofore have
been in the way of success here for
such an organization have ceased to
exist. All former causes of friction
have beeen eliminated; there is no rea-
son why such an organization should
not be a pronounced success from the
beginning.
1t is said that the gentlemen who
have this matter under considera ton,
While not welded to any particular
form, look with much favor and are in
clined to approve and copy after the
Kansas City &C -mercial club organi-
zatiOn, which has wrought such Won
ders in that city
Its progress has been marvellous, and
the work for good that it has per-
formed for the business interests Of
that place is almost inestimable
A prominent resident of that city
writes of the Commercial club as fol-
lows:
You come in contact and close per-
sonal touch with all the live, energetic
business men of the town. There is no
business man who has any standing in
the community who can afford TO stay
out of the club
The late ex-senator Stephen NJ.
White of California wrote of the Los
Angeles chamber of commerce as fol-
lows:
7 know that the chamber of COM /
merce has been most influential in
bringing about a large and desirable
increase of our population and in pro-
curing the investment in legitimate en-
terprises of large means, and thus in
creasiDg wealth and adding to the pos |
sessions of those who have located
here"
Every indication points TO the pros |
poets of the coming year as being more
full of promise and progress for this |
city and state than any preceding year |
has enjoyed.
This proposed organization would at 4
Once furnish a central bureau of in /
a consulting station for
business men and would swiftly become /
a guard for and directing force among
business men.
It seems an suspicious time for such <
IN organization. and if planned on cor
rect and high and generous lines it Will /
grove an unqualified blessing to the /
city and state.
BUSINESS MAN.