The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21
Official of Union Pacific Says
Company is Advertising
This City.
Los ANGELES LIMITED
ATTRACTING ATTENTION
Suggests That Salt Lake Make
Efforts TO Get Big Cen
yenti0nS.

GerrIt Fort, assistant general pas
senger agent OF the Union Pacific rail-
road, with headquarters In Omaha. Neb.,
with his wife and three children, stopped
over IN Salt Lake City Friday, On route
10 Los Angeles, Cal. Mr.. Fort will only
stay a few days in the City OF the Angels,
on account OF heavy pressure Of business,
but his wife and children remain there
until spring.
Limited Attracting Attention.
The Union Pacific railroad said Mr..
Fort to a representative OF The Tribune,
is doing all 1t can 60 push salt Lake
City TO the front It's efforts In this di-
rection have been most effective In con
nection with the Los Angeles Limited
and the Salt Lake Route The limited
which travels over the Union Pacific
tracks from Omaha, is attracting great
attention. and we are loading IL as
heavily as possible out Of Chicago.
Advertising Salt Lake City.
In all our advertising We arc tcrmlng
the San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt
Lake system as the Salt Lake Route,
and thereby are directing attention to
Salt Lake City. The people down East
first came to know the new road as the
san Pedro Route. Many people. some
right here In salt Lake, continue to refer
10 II as the San Pedro Route. but we
are gradually educating them TO call II
The Salt Lake Routc. and have in
structed all our representatives. TO use
Sunday Stories in Newspapers.
Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake
Route arc also I'm FOR considerable notice
through the newspaper mems excursion
from Chicago 10 Los Angeles. made on
the initial run OF the Los Angeles
Limited Many of the members Of the
newspaper party have written special
Sunday stories for their respective pa
pcrs describing the trip. and featur-
ing Salt Lake City, as we'll as Los
the benefits OF these stories in the in
crease OF travel ON the Los Angeles
Limited.
Some Advice to Citizens
What Salt Lake City should do Is to
make an effort TO get more big convcn-
lions. IL is an ideal convention city and
such meetings would he n means of at
tracting greater attention TO the city.
Denver and many other cities have what
might be termed boosters orEanlZa-
tiops. which make point OF trying To
get as many conventions for their rcspcC-
tive cltcs as possible. There may be
such an organization I'm Salt Lake. but /
have never heard OF ii.
Wonderful Development of Country.
Nothing can possibly retard the de-
Nclopment of this intermountnln country.
1t has simply been wonderful. and it Will
continue TO be. The building OF new rail-
roads Into Salt Lake VIII be q great bcnc-
nj and create new business, without in
juring the operations ef the systems now
running In and out OF Salt Lake.
Phenomenal Travel This Year.
''Wc anticipate that the travel next
spring and summer will be exceedingly
large Last year was certainly a
bumper. but we have every reason to
believe that the tourist traffic OF the com
iEg spring and summer will eclipse all
previous records. We look FOR a heavy
increase In the travel over our system to
the Yellowstone National park as soon
as the extension OF the St Anthony
branch Is completed and 1 understand
from the Oregon Short Line officials that
this line VIII be In operation by July ]
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