The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-27

the committees on immigration, irri-
cation and lands. while the COM
mittee on public improvements and
parks. of which George Y. Wallace is
chairman and c. w. Johnson vice
chairman, has done excellent service
in furthering the plans for beautify-
ing salt Lake City.
The committee on oil, coal and gas,
of which W. J. Burton is chairman
and J. Charles Ross vice chairman,
has been responsible for a movement
which Is attracting wide interest in
the development of Utah oil fields.
Representative of Utah.
With an active membership Of APP
proximately 1900 business and profess
siOnal men OF high standing, the Com
mercial club is in a sense an organiZa-
ton which represents every interest,
not only OF Salt Lake City. but of the
state OF Utah. II has been said that
One-third of the wealth OF the state
is represented in the membership OF
the Commercial club. Whether or not
this statement be true, the fact that
the Salt Lake Commercial club is the
commercial OrganiZa-
ton OF the state of Utah cannot be
justly disputed, and this is in no way
said I'm disparagenent OF the excellent
community service rendered by the
commercial organizations in the vari-
Gus cities and towns OF the state out
side of this city
The remark has been made that the
Commercial club gives good dinners,
anyway" and this recalls one of the
good dinners" that was not only
good" for the Commercial club but
il was good" for the city OF salt Lake
and for the state Of Utah. This par
ticular dinner was one given in 1905
in honor of former Senator W A.
Clark, and while the modest entertain
ment taxed the treasury OF the Salt
Lake Commercial club to the Overdraft
stage. il was at this dinner that the
plan for exchanging visits with the Los
Angeles business men was formed and
started toward execution. This eXcuI
sion. the direct result of the CONNER
cial clubs ''extravagant' dinner
brought more than 100 of the biggest
business men of Los Angeles To Salt
Lake a few months later. and before
they left Salt Lake they had invested
in nearly a million dollars worth Of
real estate. Salt Lake gained inesti-
mably by the excursion, and the men
who were entertained by the Salt Lake
Commercial club on that excursion
were also gamers. while the Salt Lake
business men who visited Los angeles
formed business acquaintance that
shown a permanent effect in increas-
ing the TRACE between these two cities. 1
start in Real Estate.
If the man who asks: what has
the Commercial club done for Salt
Lake?" is serious in his query. this
alone might justify the existence OF
the organization. for tho fact that the
Commercial club has been directly re-
spOnsible for the start of the greatest
legitimate real estate movement In the
city in the last ten years is a good an
swer. Influences emanating from the
purchase OF a few hundred thousands
OF dollars worth OF real estate by out
side investors have spread from coast
TO coast. and every business interest OF
Salt Lake has been benefited by this
item.
II was only a few years ago that Salt
Lake City faced a condition where,
through lack of finances, the school
board announced that the public
schools OF Salt Lake would have TO
close for several months Salt Lake
did not suffer this inconvenience. hui
initiation and disgrace. for the simple
reason that the Salt Lake Commercial
club stepped In and in a few days pro-
vided funds 10 keep the greatest school
system la the west in operation.
One OF the first important move
mems fOstered by the Salt Lake Com-
merciai club was a series Of business
getting" excursions 10 Idaho. Nevada
and through Utah. the most recent of
which was held in May. 1910. On sew
eral OF these excursions the principal
cities OF southern Idaho and eastern
Nevada have been visited by scores of
salt Lake business men. and the com
mercial interests of salt Lake have
been vastly benefited. on the occasion !
OF the "All-Utah" excursion last May. [
100 business men OF the city /
were enabled to make a trip, which 4
included practically every important /
town and city in Utah. and no man /
who was included in the party has any 1
doubt as TO whether this movement 1
Is one that is proving of benefit to the /
city and state
Irrigation Congress.
II was through the Salt Lake Com
nereial clubs influence mainly that
he second irrigation congress was
procured for Utah. and the meeting at
Ogden was one which was of unques-
Toned benefit To every interest in
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