Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-05-26
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are placing orders in Salt Lake for
thelr goods. This market is open to
the salt Lake and Ogden wholesalers
and Jobbers if they will go after it.
TOO great spirit of conversation
has possessed the business men of
Utah in the past. This spirit is be-
ing broken down, and the business
men are realizing more plainly each
day that what is worth having is
worth an effort to secure.
The ultra-conservatism of former
years, that has been contented with
slow gains and snail-lilie advance, is
giving way to another spirit-that of
aggressive hustling
consistent and determined effort
is being made by jobbing centers in
areas less favored than Salt Lake. to
seize the trade that is being diverted
toward Salt Lake, and the business
men of this city do not purpose to al
low that trade to be wrested from
their grasp.
A Business Excursion.
The aggressive policy of business
getting has been adopted by the lead
ing houses of the city, and as a result.
the Manufacturers and Merchants as
ISOLATION of Utah, which comprises in
its membership virtually every i'm
portant business house in Salt Lake
and other cities, has inaugurated a
Six States Business Mems Excursion.
to be run from the states of Nevada,
Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana
and Oregon, to Salt Lake during the
last week in June.
This excursion will be unique in the
business history of Utah. Reduced
rates on all railroad lines will be the
first attraction to bring the mer-
chants to the city. All of the leading
manufacturing, Wholesale and jobbing
houses will offer discounts on all
goods purchased during the days of
the excursion, as an inducement to
purchasers. These discounts will ap-
ply to all out-of-town merchants who
place orders during the period of the
excursion, for immediate shipment,
and the rebates will pay the expenses
of the merchants while on the trip.
A finance committee, with l.. r.
Martineau as chairman has been ap-
pointed to secur at least $4,000 to be
expended in advertising the excursion
and in entertainment of the visitors.
A programme committee will ar
range for the entertainment of the
guests of the merchants. The enter
tainment will include an afternoon
and evening at Saltair Beach; an ex-
cursion to Lagoon, one of the most
beautiful pleasure resorts in the west,
and other desirable forms of amuse-
ment.
The merchants of the city and state
have taken an exceptionally live in
terest in the project, and will give the
Association all the encouragement
and backing required to make it a
gigantic success.
1t is estimated that at least 10000
visitors will be attracted to Salt Lake
by this excursion, and that large
number of these will be merchants
who will purchase some part of their
stock from local manufacturers
wholesalers and jobbers. The city
will be advertised in a manner that it
has never before been advertised, and
it is impossible to estimate the good
that will result from this project.
Salt Lake railroad facilities and
shipping facilities; her value as a
shipping center and natural distrib-
uting base, will be practically and
perfectly demonstrated to these mer-
chants, while they will also taste the
unbounded hospitality of the citizens,
and will appreciate that Salt Lake is
a good city to which they may send
their trade.