The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-12
WILL
EXTEND WELCOME
Gate City of Idaho Will Enter.
tain Two Thousand Wool
Men in January.
PREPARE FOR BIG EVENT
DEEP INTEREST IN GREAT MA
TIoNAL GATHERING.

William Wallin, proprietor and editor
of the Pocatello, Ida, Daily Tribune,
but who is at present devoting the
larger portion of his time to boosting
the coming national wool growers con-
vention, to be held in the Gate City of
Idaho in January, arrived in Salt Lake
yesterday on a brief visit, which will
be devoted largely to the matter of the
convention. Mr.. Wallin is secretary of
the ARRANGEMENT committee of the wool
growers convention. as well as acting
on several other committees in that con-
nection So thoroughly enthusiastic is
he that all he can talk is wool.
sheep wool and sheep dip is all we
know and think of in Pocatello these
days. said Mr.. Wallin.
I'VE are talking sheep until Ram
bouillet is one of the commonest words
in our vocabulary. and sheep dip is get
ting to be one of our favorite and daily
potions; even politics is forgotten in
the excitement incident to the arrange
ments for the convention.
"Pocatello will entertain from / 800 to
1000 woolmen, comprising the national
wool growers convention, for three
days beginning Jan. IA, and prepara-
lions of all kinds are in progress for
the entertainment and comfort of the
visitors. Every home in Pocatello has
been thrown wide open, and already
some 1,5O0 reservations have been
booked, and none of them over three
Salt Lake blocks from the convention
hall.
I'VE are determined that Pocatello,
the natural. logical, geographical and
popularity accepted metropolis and hub
of the great sheep industry, shall be
outdOne by none in its carr and enter
tainment of the delegates to the first
national convention of the association
to be held in the state of Idaho.
Every business street in the city will
be bright with thousands of electric
lights, and several hundred large flags
will fly from stores and public buildings
during the week of the convention:
merchants will vie with each other in
appropriate window displays, and bunt-
ing and natural colors in abundance
will be everywhere.
1T is a national convention, and our
people are fully alive to the magnitude
and Importance of it, and if the conven-
ton arrangements carry out as planned,
and for this, by the way, We have full
confidence, all the little villages within
radius of 800 miles of Pocatello will
sit up and take notice.
Senator Hepburn, Congressman Ha-
AilCi- 6ONtllibt government OTIl-
Gals viii be there, and when they go
away after the convention they will
sing the praises of the Gate City of Ida
no, because it will have earned the
praise.
Some zoe sheep of all grades. kinds
and classes have already been entered
in the midWinter sheep show to be held
in connection with the convention: six
ty pens of from six to twenty each are
already filled, and filed with the very
| best stuff in the world, some of which
| has never been exhibited west of Chi
caSo. The sheep show will be more than
| worth the money Utah firms will be
there, too, among them Allen BROTHERS
of Draper, and large delegations will go
from this state 10 the convention, which
will be the most important one in the
history Of the national organiza ton.
THE Oregon Short Line is co-operat-
ing with the city in every way. and spe-
cial trains. composed of Pullman cars to
provide sleeping accommodations, will
be provided by the company and placed
advanta geously within five minutes
walk of the convention hall"