The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-22
Commercial Clubs All-Utah Elk.
cursiOn Accomplished
Great Work.
CITY AND COUNTRY JOIN
HANDS FOR PUBLICITY
viii Cooperate in Explaining
the Resources of This Great
State of Utah.

The Salt Lake Commercial clubs
All. Utah excursion was ended at
o 'clock Saturday morning, when the
special train IN which one hundred bust
ness men of Salt Lake have lived for
4 week rolled into the union station
of the Hartman lines.
During the week thirty-six cities
were visited; about 80 speeches were
made, and tho distance Travelled wss
about 1000 miles, and everywhere, with
but one exception, the boosters, as the
All-Utah excursionists wero called,
were given n more than cordial wei
come. The one exception was in the
second city in the state. More than
quarter million people turned out in
the general cities and towns to listen
to the addresses and TO lend their help
III exploiting Utah.
No Conlmercialism in Trip.
There was no commerciaIism in tho
excursion It's prime object was to
meet and talk with tbe people of Utah,
to get acquainted with them, TO show
them that the people of the capital city
were interested III them more than they
ever dreamed; that the business world
of Salt Lake was glad and willing TO
exploit the resources Of the state. in an
endeavor to induce people 10 immigrato
to Utah.
And to do this, all that the CONNER
cial club asked was the corporation
OF the several counties. the money and
time to be furnished by Salt Lake IL
was an opportunity not often present
ed. lt was demonstration that Salt
Lake people had never before made II
was practical.
The people in tho cou9tes visited
turned ont by hundreds. Business was
suspended In the cities and towns on
the day the pilgrims entered. The pub
llc schols likewise closed for the day.
in order that the chilren might hear
what was desired of them in order TO
make Utah grow, in order 10 place it in
the rank of tho states where IL be
longs. That this was done is Of itself
an answer to the question, ''What was
accomplished by the boostersq''
All Willing to Aid.
AT every point visited, with but the
one exception noted, there was hearty
response. all were anxious TO aid: all
were more than willing TO aid During
the past two years practically every
visitor to Salt Lake from the state
has returned home astoniShed at the
rapid strides made by the capital city.
L nS HdENclouS increase IN t0c NaIuc
of property in Salt Lake. due 10 pub
lie Improvement. has been told and re-
told by these visitors, with the result
that the people in other towns began
agltatlne Improvement
This agitation bore fruit. In many
of the cities and towns this was shown
In the public mprovements-Elee a
sewer system, the enlargement of wa
ter plants, of electric light and power
plants, in sidewalks and in street work.
The building up of the state means
better towns and cities, better markets.
This can only be done by inducing
people 10 come to Utah to live The
way TO get them here is TO let them
know what Utah has, what her re.
sources are and what the opportunities
are This was the theme upon which
the boosters elaborated And tho
promptuess with which their theme,
their ideas, were seized has been shown
IN the quick, ready response.
What Salt Lakers Learned
Tho excursion likewise was a revela
ton TO most of the boosters. 1t was
an object lesson. 1t learned them moro
about the state than they had ever
known. 1t gave them a faint idea OF
what this great state in which they
1.-Two contains. 1t showed them that
there was more than a friendly feel
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