Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-13
Taft STARTS ON
TRIP TOMORROW
He viii Travel Through Thirty
States, Climax Being Meet
ing With Diaz.
He WILL COVER 1878 MILES.
Private Car WIN go over Twenty.
Two Different Railroad Systems
Reaches Utah sept ~.

Beverly. Mass. sept i2.-when Presi-
dent TAFT motors into Boston on Tues.
day, TO he the guest ~ the chamber or
commerce az dinner. he will have
actually started on one ~ the moe, not
able trips ever taken by president.
He viii leave at 10 m Wednesday
on the FIRST stage of his Ions Journey.
the nrst stopping place being AZ Chica-
60 where he viii be enterta med by the
Commercial club and the Hamilton
club
Leading through the 30 states. and
Doth OF the far southwestern terri
| tories. the presidents trip viii reach its
| climax at III Paso on oct rs. where he
viii meet President Diaz Of Mexico.
The presidents trip covers an timer
AIRY Of 1888 miles. and his private car
viii be handled over % different rail
road systems. The Southern Pacific
VIII get the longest haul Of @ 2Sg miles
The Maricona & Phoenix railroad I'm
Arizona gets the short haul Of IS miles.
The voyage down the Mississippi river
from ST. Louis 20 New Orleans on the
steamboat Mississippi. covers f.1s5
miles and occupies four days and FIVE
nights
The striking incidents of the trim will
Include moonlight ride through tho
ROYAL gorge and a night trip over the
highest passes Of the Rocky mountains
an inspection Of one OF the greatest ir-
rieation projects IN All the west. Al
Montrose, Colo: a visit to the smelters
AT Butte. visit 20 the Occur d'A1ene
country Of northern Idaho. a two days
stay AZ the A.-Y.-P. exposition at Seat
tie day or sight seeing down tho
shasta route In California; three DAYS
visit TO the Yosemite valley: a dav
passed about the rim Of the Grand can
yon in Arizona and four days on the
ranch Of the presidents brother
Charles TAFT. near Corpus Christi
Tex.
The cabinet officers who viii he with
the president at the meeting with Pres
ident Diaz are Sccy Knox, secy. Dick
inson. Postmaster General Hitchcock
and Secy Nagel
Secy. Ballinger is expected To be
with the president during the greater
part OF the time he passes in the north
west. The president has also invited
a number OF United States senators
and personal friends to make portions
Of the Journey as his friends.
REVISED SCHEDULE.
The revised schedule Of the principal
stops to be made by the president fol-
lows.
sept 1s-chicaso, afternoon and
evening.
Sept. Milwaukee. forenoon: La
Crosse late afternoon; Winona, MINI.
evening
Sept. IS and Minneapolis and St
Paul.
Sept. 2O-Des Moines. Iowa. forenoon;
Omaha Neb.. evening.
Cant n,nvr~ .ftart,,,
ing
Sept % Wolhurst. colo. forenoon:
colorado Springs early afternoon. Pu-
ebio. late afternoon
Sept s-Glenwood. Colo brief morn
ing visit; Grand Junction one hour;
Montrose, afternoon and evening
Sept. 24-Provo, Utah. afternoon. Salt
Lake. evening
Sept 25--Salt Lake.
Sept 26-Sslt Lake. morning: ogden.
afternoon; Poeatello. Idaho brief night
visit
Sept 81 Butte. forenoon Helena. ar
ternoon.
Sept. IS -spoksne. Wash. all day.
Sept 2a-North Yakima, forenoon;
Seattle, evening
Sept 80--Sesttle
oct Seattle. morning; Tacoma. ar
ternoon and evening
oct and 3--Portland.
oct. 4-sacramento. Cal. evening.
oct. 5-Oakland and Berkeley. cal.
forenoon; san Francisco. afternoon and
evening.
oct MERGED. one hour. on route 90
Yosemite
oct. Z. and yosemite valley
oct. i0-Fresno. Cal. afternoon.
oct I and u Los Angeles
oct i3-Proscott and Phoenix. Ariz.
one hour stop.
oct. H-Grand Canyon.
oct. i5-Albuqucrque. y. NJ
oct rs FL Paso and Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico.
oct. i7-San Antonio, Texas. evening
oct. lS-San Antonio, morning
oct ~. 20. II and % at ranch and in
Corpus Christi. Tex.
oct 20 Houston. forenoon; Dallas
awning