Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-07
FISHER HARRIS IS
AFTER BIG GAME
Would Land Two Large Conyen-
lions for Salt Lake in
1908.
GOING EAST NEXT SUNDAY.
object Is To Secure Next Meetings of
Credit Men and Travellers Protcc~
tive Association for This City.

Two big conventions will meet this
month In very different sections of the
Union. Fisher Harris VIII be there.
talking at each one of them for Utah
and the west. and his hope is to land
both TOR salt Lake during the season OF
1905
That salt Lake has advantages for
entertaining visitors that are not dunli-
Gated anywhere else on the globe is
the thing on which Mr.. Harris depends
In his fight to make this great con-
vention center, and these things he
summarizes as "trip to Saltair, tab
ernacle organ recital, and q visit TO the
scenes which have become historical
in CONNECTION with the settlement OF
this western country.
In addition to these We have to list
among the things we can depend on,
the fact that we can give every facility
and can draw attention from our geo
graphical position as the center of the
irtermountain country" says Mr.. Har-
r!s
Interest in the west is increasing in
the east. 1t is to their self interest 10
help this country grow, for It helps
their lines of commerce, md A popula-
ton Of $4,000, 900 west of the Mississippi
would be about twice as valuable TO the
east s the present population Of only
80 ,000, 600. So you see we have much to
present IN backing up our claims for
a hearing as a convention city
GOES EAST SUNDAY.
Mr. Harris will go east next sunday,
and will so first to Chicago, whore he
viii try 10 land for salt Lake the next
convention of the National Association
of Credit Men. Then he will 90 down
to Norfolk, in the dear old state of
Virginia, where he VIII attempt ~
drive out this way the next convention
of the National Travellers Protective
association. which meets there June
Il. From this convention he will go 10
jamestown where his task will be 20
arrange for a Utah day, draw up a
prospective program. and make ar
rangemeuts with the management
which will insure there being no rival
attraction on the day Utah takes the
program Mr. Harris viii bring home TO
submit to the governors commission
in charge Of the affair, for final APP
proval.
COMMUNITY ADVERTISING.
Leaving jamestown. Mr.. Harris vii!
not come home al once, but will next
wv ifdlNl Oh ~ IL SlluNlat OF IuNRlllSliE
la New York. II won't be advertise
ing of the ordinary kind, but 'commun-
ity advertising which places the adj
vantages of living ON the western --v-,,
less land, before the eatern landlCss
man, and produces a net effect of rapid
growth in tho section thus advertised.
Mr. Harris will do his studying with
the big magazine publishers and adj
vertising specialists, and expects to re-
turn heavy laden with ways to adver-
tise Utah where it viii do the most
good.
The first convention Mr. Harris will
attend is one TO which he carries Gre
dentials from the Utah Association of
Credit men. 1t consists of 900 delegates
from the largest credit concerns of the
nation, many of the experts on credit
who will be in attendance receiving
salaries Of from $4,000 to $4,000 per
year. This convention will last until
June is, and Immediately on its ad-
tournment. Mr.. Harris viii leave for
Virginia, where he is due on the 18th.
Meanwhile Utah viii miss him, for a
week after his departure the Omaha
delegation of business men viii arrive,
and will he entertained In the style MI
Harris has made famous at the Com
mercial club, but with the program in
other hands.