Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-06-13
MAI !. o, KOEprn
Happy Response by President of
Chamber of Commerce,

MAJ, J q, KoepnI president of the
los Angelica chamber Of commerce, I'm
Response 10 this cordial Welcome, smoke
M follows
Last mouth when you visited M ln
Los Angeles, we promised soon Ia no.
turn your visit Thanks 10 Sonnlor
rlnrkH generosity, We hnV not had Ia
curb our lmpalicnco very long So here
We are and mighty glud Of II we are
for We had sufficient sample of YOU
salt Takers 10 make w feel about YOU
~ the boy did about that po.,Whcn
he wanted II often and plenty " II,
| ma n most natural that the people
Of Sal, Lake ana Los Angeles yoiscss
u strong lillnily for each other since
Il lB the man who has done something
hllnNNlf VINO can best appreciate Nur,
d. active manhood IN hlp suocessflil
fellow You of Rut Lake found a
desert ANA on II you built great,
beautiful city ana you converted the
droaly waste around II into productive
farms, the homes of prosperous and
con,cnted people You tapped the
mountains ana they are yielding YOU
their hidden wealth DO We not hold
among our most valued possessions
that plate whcreon your skilled ana
artistic craftsmen fashioned from your
own silver your own gold your own
copper and your own mahogany wood
that beautiful invitation with which
YOU bid us horo2
Many men living IN los Angeles 10.
day remember southern California aA a
TomlsOfld waste, the beet ~ II thought
10 be III for little more than us past.
uro for sheep and cattle,
SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
when now YOU iournoyod westward
You met long lines of solid orange
trains, YOU met olhor trains Of freight
carrying varied products Of the soil
nnd factory. when later YOU pissed
through our groves ana our fields pnd
entered The city of Los ~. lev, tnW
her tan buildings her factories, her
burv streets her quiet homes vet IN
green, YOU must have said 10 your.
solves, Here ~ n people who have done
~ we have done what We did IN the
basin OF the dorNl salt Lake they have
dcnc on the border Of the Pacific
Such ladies and gentlemen were the
thoughts that came to me Us we ira.
yoled through Titan and entered this
city aud ! felt that the Sumo energy
the Same enterprise, the same porsoyol.
ing vlrllI,y must he common 10 both our
cities. Today we hnyc the start ~
You IN sl2c, but yun are much farther
along than We were when our chamber
" commerce hogan ~ mbore.
ALL pULb TOGETHER
our chamber hns worked many moro
wears than vour business mons clull
here, cur Frank Virgins MAS dis.
NM "A haInHt
your FISHER Harris was liut now
since yUu have this nno nssorintlon,
so wei cqug?od to do your work, anl
lhiA man whom mon who know beet
y.oak NJ ns tho double of ON own
Frank Nigains, let me urgc you people
Of SAT- Lake to bonohl by them Ia the
fullest extent Put plenty of power
10 their elbows Iol the association
and ~ secretary ai All times feel that
tho poonlo ~ Salt Lake are behind
them. not Hl one time pnrt Of the
people for one thing and az another
| time another part NJ the people for nn'
other thing, but that an tho people ar,
behind them az an times ior nll things
regardless of the special interest Of tn
individual IN the particular thing nj
| hand,
CENTRALIZED EFFORT
That IL what We IN l,os Angeles hay
! done for our chamber Of commerce, am
| n Nv that concerted, centralized olfor
that has enabled us TO lour.foll on
population IN ~ years, 10 very ncOll
! double II I'm the last nyo years,
The occasion which we are colobrat
! INK s one of equal import to both cillo
Tho opening OF tho San Pedro, LO
| Angeles & salt Lake railway the cas-
grade railroad TINT follows the ole
! mulo.tonm road from the western SLOPE
OF the Rocky moun,alns 10 the sea-
DISCOVERY on CLARK,
For years the saints ana the Angol
| both prayed for H. but Saints and IN
gels were unable ~ bring II about III
n man discovered another man. ana II
four short years thereafter this MAJ
had done what Saints and Angels ho'
failed 10 do, Tom Gibbon dscovero'
senator W ~ clark not that the solu
tor needed discovering, for We all Know
him and 50 did YOU but Iibbon mOl,
up his mind that Senator clark could
should and would build the mlssinl
| link, what Mr tiihbon goes after h
generally gets. However the building
OF an overland mllroud by one MAJ
| was such u revolutionary thought tina
| oven the giant business mind Of TN
senator might have refused Ia enter
| ran II, had II not been for \, llos
| Clark his brother Mr., clark " ~
| AngclonO 90 the fullest extent of Call
| fnrnh enthusiasm lie graspcd the tide,
| IN an ~ breadth and oYtoni ANA II wa
| undoubtedly due Ia the gonnlor'R conn
donco I'm Mis- brothers Judgment that ~
owo Ms undertaking this great work
| Thcra are uthrrs Whu should be romom
| bored .-mcn Ike Senator koarns an
| Dayid Keith but II w not my intention
90 monopolllo the floor
SOME THINGS no REMEMBER
The al.Omporlant fac, for NJ TO 10
member Ne that san Lake and 10
| Angeles are each AN important contor
| that YOU have many lhlngs W. want
| that we have many things which yo
want, That we have n nplondidly bull
rail route connecting W., that " bring
YOU closer lO the gonOoard than yO
hnyc ever been, ana over q road q
which n M said that YOU could start
chr AT gult Lake ana N would land 4
| Iog AuRrlrp of ~ avn notion Tina
for us the whole Rocky mountain rc
zion ~ opened up ns n meyer WnN bo
fore, that the history of both our elite
shows that the men who Inhablt thcl
cnn do n mans parts mat your rocop
tion of as hero today WAS an ont
mourning of friendship which came frol
Inc heart and went to the heart, an
that Il means that the two have iolne
hnnda ana VIII pursue thoir dcslinlo
together that unloss We bocomo unlru
lo our own record the future OF bot