The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-22
GIVE PRAISE TO
SENATOR CLARK
Utah Men Gather at Luncheon
in His Honor at Com
merCial Club. =
GUEST OF HONOR SPEAKS
TALKS IN APPRECIATION OF
SALT LAKE AND CITIZENS.
GUEST OF HONOR SPEAKS

Senator William A. Clark was the
guest of honor at luncheon given by
the board of governors of the CONNER
cial club yesterday afternoon. Those
in attendance were Senator Clark and
his brother J. Ross Clark; Charles A.
Quigley, president of the Commercial
club; Governor John c. Cutler, VIII
Sutherland, Representative Joseph
Howell. former Senator Thomas
Kearns, ]. w. Houston, ]. G. Mcdonald,
L. H. Farnsworth, Judge C. c. Goodwin,
P. ]. Quealy, w. j. Hailoran, Charles n.
Strevell, Charles o. Whittemore and
Fisher Harris.
After the courses had been served,
President Quigley in a few brief re-
marks, cordially welcomed the senator,
spoke of the gratitude of Salt Lake To
him for linking Los Angeles and Salt
Lake together, said that 1--WE love men
who do things, and that the senator
has done it." He explained that in adj
ditiOn to the honor intended to confer
upon him, it was the desire of the
club to bring to his especial notice the
advantages that would accrue to him
self and to this city, were he TO extend
his own road from TOoele or Stockton
| to the Deep Creek country, and beyond
that to the Ely district, and called up
on Judge Goodwin to make a little
statement of those advantages, which
he did from his point of view.
AS everybody knows. Judge Goodwin
was one of the original pioneers of Ne
vada, not only on the Comstock, but
in others of the camps of the argonaut
days, and few men speak with his au-
- TO-
state. He prefaced his talk on the Deep
Creek region by an anecdote OF an old
sailor who had been on the ocean so
long, had seen so many seas and so
many ports that he declared he knew
every wave on the ocean personally and
intimately. Then the judge outlined the
wealth of the Deep Creek region, its
traffic and mining possibilities, and the
I advantage to the Salt Lake Route and
the city of Salt Lake to be derived from
a branch line into the Deep Creek eOun-
try, tapping all it's best points and
reaching at least as far as Ely.
In response, Senator Clark made an
extended and interesting address, en-
tirely ifnpromptu. He opened his adj
dress by referring TO an occasion some
three years ago, when he enjoyed the
hospitality Of the Commercial club as
the guest of honor at d sumptuous ban
quet of 500 covers. This, he said, was
at the Inauguration of the great enter
prise which has now been completed.
On that occasion he had had kind words
of encouragement, had found spirit of
friendliness and a desire to forward
the work he had undertaken, which he
could never forget and which no man
could fail to remember with gratitude
and appreciation. Continuing, he spoke
of the weary session of the senate and
and the work performed, and said he
had intended to slip away to Europe
after the adjournment of congress and
take a little rest. BY chance he had
seen in the newspaper the scheme of
Salt Lake man, Fisher Harris, to sea
America first, and concluded he would
change his plan and see America first
himself. He had stopped off in New
Mexico to see a little coal mine of his
own, then spent a few days in Arizona
at the United Verde mine, going down
shafts climbing wines, chasing
through drifts and looking into reduc-
ton works. From there he went to Los
Angeles.
In company with Mr.. Bancroft, he
looked over ana sailed over San Pedro
harbor, which he expressed the belief
was one of the greatest in the world.
then MADE a run 10 MS own ana MS
brothers sugar plantation, then came
or to San Francisco, which he de-
scribes as the most pathetic scene OF
desOlatiOn he ever witnessed.
Faith In Nevada Camps.
From San Francisco. he and his
brother came on to HaZen and then
to Tonopah; thence by auto to Gold
field and RhyOlite, and to the junction
of his road now being extended from
Las Vegas. From Rhyolite the party
made a little trip by auto to the top Of
Chloride mountain, TO take in the view
of Death valley, one mile below,
which. he declared, was one of the
most impressive spectacles he ever wit
messed. OF the new camps Tonopah,
Goldfield and the others. he said from
personal observation of the surface,
from the assurances of miners. some
of whom were old employees of his own,
but now employers of others, and from
the spirit, thu confidence and the whole
bearing of the different communities
there, ne believed the mines would