The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-23

In view of the numerous excursions
that have been made by business or
ganizations and business men from
Salt Lake, we arc surprised to find this
waspish editorial paragraph in our es-
teemcd contemporary, The Emery
County Progress:
Salt Lake City manifests no interest
In Utah outside OF Park City. Tintic and
Bingham. Why should the whole State
pay tribute TO selfish and ungrateful
a set OF pikers that constitute the bulk
of Zlon's business men?
We are at Il loss TO account for the
feeling of apparent bitter hostility to-
ward Salt Lake in that paragraph, In
view Of the excursions that have been
made to various points in Utah all
along tho line, extending to Logan on
the north and including in the pro-
gramme, Manti, Neph, and other
places in the south, it is unfair to
make that kind Of an accusation
against Salt Lake business men. At
the same time we consider the further
suggestion of the Progress that these
excursions should be extended, to be
quite in order. Another editorial par
agraph from the same paper reads as
follows:
Did you notice that an alleged bunch
OF Salt Lake boosters went into Wyoming
the other day and in their weak. puny
way endeavored TO inject life into the
have we read OF similar excursions OF
Salt Lakers into Idaho, Wyoming and
Nevada: but never into sections In our
own fair commonwealth. Now. isn't It
boosting put into and done for the Spring
Valley oil field, very little better showing
has been made there than Is found right
here In Emery county? Why can't the
people Of the city that gets all the money
that is made. In all the counties OF this
State; excepting one or Two. reciprocais
a mite and exploit a Utah oil Held2
Hasn't rural Utah any charms for Plker-
Vile, olIr sorry old metropolis?
Now, that Spring Valley excursion
was made up and managed not by
"SaIt Lakers,' but by the owners of
the oil properties there and those in
terestcd with them in like business in
that vicinity, There surely ought not
to be any objection on anybody's part
10 the owners Of an oil property or any
other property getting up an excursion
and inviting the public TO go and see
what they have. That sort of an ex-
cursion is altogether different from
the public business mems excursions,
such as were referred to first above
Our Emery county contemporary ap-
pears to have the two sorts of excur-
siops mixed. There would be no OBJ
lection, for instance, TO anyone inter.
ested in the OIL coal, asphaltum or
townslte properties in Emery county
getting up an excursion to have those
exploited and boosted in the public
press. AS matter of fact, it is not
long since the Green River Townsite
company did just that thing, and the
newspapers of this city sent represent.
atlves to write up the advantages, the
beauties and the probably good bust
ness opportunities embraced in that
scheme. and those representatives did
so in good style. There is no reason
why nybody should find fault with
that kind of an excursions; and as a
matter of fact, nobody did find fault
Everybody praised il, thought it was
just the right thing. In precisely the
same field was this later excursion to
Spring Valley oil prospects couple of
weeks ago,
With respect 70 the oil fields of En-.
cry county, no doubt the showing is
promising there. and il is probable that
development would. show good oil de-
posits rot only there, but at different
places along Green river. both north
and south. We think it would be
frst-rate idea for Salt Lake business
men TO take an interest in these de-
posits and put their money in for de-
veloping them. We believe also that
more could be done in that line by