The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-14

Bismarck. Mandan. Dickinson. N D.;
Billings, Livingston. Bozeman, Butte.
Helena and Missoula. Mont They ar
rived at Spokane June 4, and then
visited in turn North Yakima, Ellens.
burg, Seattle. Bellingham, Everett and
Tacoma, Wash; Portland. Ore, and
Walla Walla, Pendleton and Baker
City, Ore. After visits to Boise and
Nampa, Ida. the special ran to Salt
Lake City, where they arrived Satur.
day at 4:30 p. m. On their return
trip to Chicago they will visit prac-
tically all Of the more or less i'm.
portaDt towns along the Union Pacific
as far as Omaha, and will arrive In
Chicago at noon June II.
Among tho delegates was Frederick
II. Rawson. president of the Union
Trust company. Speaking as one of
the representatives OF Chicago's bank
Ing interests with the delegation. he
said:
This is my third trip to this sec
! tion OF the United States, and each
time l come out here it Is with re.
newed pleasure and increased amaze
ment at the remarkable progress one
finds everywhere. The thing that
strikes the man from the middle west
most forcibly Is the intelligence dis
played in your farming, your fruit
growing and the building of your
cities.
II regard this great intermountain
country as the richest In the United
States, and we look TO IT as being our
national granary and the fountain from
which we must get our fruits and other
necessities of life.
The people here are our kind of
people, most OF them having come
from east Of the Rocky mountains. and
the cordial reception we have received
makes us feel as if we were person
ally known to all Of you.
In my judgment, what you need is
more people of the right kind and
more capital. We are constantly turn
ing for investments, and this trip VIII
lead. am sure, to a better under
standing of the high grade securities
you can offer us. We have gone
through a great financial depres-
sion. and | am pleased to say
that because OF your splendid
resources l find it was scarcely felt at
all in this section We believe that
the speedy return to prosperity de-
pends largely upon the coming crop
and judging from the magnificent
wheat fields we have seen the past
few days there will be nothing to fear
on that score. We are going home and
| tell our people that your section will
| do It's duty in that regard and more,
| too.
Every financial man in the east in
all our large cities has his eyes turned
| to the West to see the crop condi-
| tions, and as they appear good or bad
SO up OF down goes the price OF COM
| modities In our exchanges, which are
| the financial barometers. And so as
| you grow you Will constantly call on
| us for more of our manufactured pro-
/ ducts and We In turn will prosper.
III | were foot-loose | would not
waste many moments in staying in the
| east, but would come and settle IN
your Promised Land, where you do
| big things in big way. With your
| splendid climate and modern twen-
| tieth century methods. is it any won
der that you have done in half gen.
| Grafton what 1t takes other people one
| hundred years to do? Your future
| looks bright to us and in my opinion
| it has just commenced. | find that
everything Is on solid basis; the
| farmer is rich. he has no mortgage
on his home. his home is supplied
with the telephone and automobile,
and he Is educating his family in the
| best way, Values will continue to in
crease in this country, as you have
| built on a solid foundation, You have
the natural wealth and the greatest
| resources of any region l have ever
visited"
Frederick Budinger. who has charge
of the credits for Keith Bros. G Co,
| wholesale hats and caps, was particu-
larly impressed with what he had
seen on the trip. and the more so be"
cause he had never been west of Chi
cago before. In part he said:
Il have seen so much that | have
almost forgotten how Chicago looks.
| In no other way can one gain prop
er conception of the present develop
ment and the great future possibilities
Of the North and West than by COM
ing in personal contact with the ener-
getic. progressive, up-to-date business
men We have met and by a personal
inspection of the mercantile establish
ments which are conducted along me-
tropolltan lines and In the most mod
| eIn metaods.
''The farther we go the more i'm
pressed ] am with the resources OF
this country and with the foresight
of the men who have had part in its
upbuilding, and where in the past
may have been disposed to discount
somewhat the glowing reports of our
travellers. in the future | shall add
fifty per cent to the statements that
come to me of the financial strength
of your mercantile houses.
Il was impressed even more with
the strong religious sentiment / find
among your people, and the rapid
growth OF your educational institu-
tions which are indicative Of cultured
people and of the high class Of citizen
ship which, through personal contact
| know you possess
f. D. Stevens, Of the American Silk
| Company, wholesalers of silks and
satins, in speaking of the purpose OF
the tour. said:
| Our delegation is out here not only
to become acquainted with the bust,
ness men in the cities visited and 10
| cultivate closer business relations be-
tween Chicago and the Northwest,
but realizing that in your prosperity
| lies the prosperity of Chicago, we are
/ IO1 In. hot trya n u