The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-13
ENTHUSIASTIC OVATION
is GIVEN SENATOR CLARK
Continued from page I

run in He feared this fate might be
fall him and had written his speech
30 that it might be read by a substitute
In case he failed to turn up. When the
speaker said that the welcome of Salt
Lake had the ring of true metal he was
cheered, and when he followed this up
by saying that Salt Lake was up
against the real thing the cheers were
renewed His tribute to the pioneers
who conquered the wilderness and laid
The foundation for the state of Utah
was a feature of his speech He said.
Mr.. Chairman. Gentlemen of the Com
merCial Club and of Utah, and Guests
from California
/ am here this evening as a guest Of
this club to assist in welcoming and en-
tertaining our friends from Southern Cal
1fOrnia- which i as president OF the San
Pedro < Salt Lake Railroad company
and you as hosts have invited to make
pilgrimage to the City Of the Saints
and to partake of your hospitality
1t has been "A royal welcome indeed and
am sure that our friends from the south
will vote that Salt Lake hospitality has
the ring o. the true metal and that they
are up against the real thing.
In ali my experience ] have never wit
messed such a manifestation of geniality
and good fellowship As glows. upon the in
4cIIigent faces in this grand intermiugliug
aof the best and highest type Of American
manhood. ] wish that IL could be vii
messed by every rustling young man in
SEPARATION to greater effort and higher
achievement to them while fitting them
selves to take their places in the stirring
activities OF life. activities that must
create new industries unfold new en-
pires of wealth. and make homes for the
millions. / don't know how the rest of
YOU feel but I myself am never so happy
as when 7 am out here in the mighty west
and in a crowd Of westerners- / like PEG
pie who do things. and as David
Harum SAYS do il fuSt
Now I realize that there are some
s'tenderfeet'' amongst US and particularly
in Southern California. but they soon
catch on imbibe the western spirit and
make the best kind of hustlers-
Praise For Pioneers.
We are all here in a live. wide awake
western town tonight but we must not
forget that its foundations were laid by
The pioneers. and that they were the fore
runners of the civilization of the west
They had the courage TO take their lives
in their hands and blaze the trails They
fought the Indians at every step They
discovered the mines in the mountains.
opened up farm in the valleys, established
the outposts. laid out towns and pre-
rared the way for the building of rail
roads and the establishment of state gov
srumentS and all the cOnvenienceS and
1uxuries of modern civilization which we
The early settlers Of Utah. more than
any Of US realize. were powerful in the
development and settlement of all this
great inteTmOuntain region,
Brigham Young and his brave band of
followers who landed in this valley July.
sF41 and staked out this city where We are
ENJOYING this great function tonight,
initiated an enterprise Of grand import
auca which at least from an Industrial
standpoint. entitled them to the highest
consideration Of gratitude In the early
r1ioneer days of placer mining. when the
first rush Of prospectOrs pushed into the
CANYONS and gulches Of Idaho and Mon
4ana. 7 recollect very well that we had TO
RELY on our Mormon friends in Utah for
the necessaries Of life and all the roads
out of Salt Lake to the mining camps
-xere lined with mule and bull teams and
pack animals loaded with supplies.
Recalls First Visit.
That business was the occasion of my
first visit here IN 1862. Salt Lake was a
email town then. but one could not fail
a. he struck with its central location and
commanding position as Distributing
Doiut At that time not rail was laid
17-sst of the Missouri river. and il was
Impossible for anyone TO grasp the posi-
biIities of the future.
To-day it is indeed a city and the gres {
est smelling center in all the western
S~oIInfrv Nevertheless il Is now cOmpara-
SivelV only in its incipient stage Of pro-
cross With extended railroad facilities
md larger development of contiguous and
snexhaustibie coal and iron deposits. tho
mineral products of the great mining To-
Cions for hundreds OF miles around and
5arficuIarly from the south and west, in
Guiding the marvellous gold deposits oil
Nevada will naturally flow here fol
>reatment and this will insure it's per
Ynanence and prosperity for ages tC
come
sured you a few weeks ago when / had