The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-29
COMMERCIAL CLUB
WILL TOUR STATE
Junket of Business Men is
Planned to Include All
important Cities.
ANOTHER TRIP TO IDAHO
SPECIAL TRAINS WILL CARRY
GET-ToGETHER CROWDS.

At least two. and possibly three, big
excursions will be taken by the Salt
Lake Commercial club this summer, as
the result of a decision reached yes
terday at a meeting of the excursion
committee, of which w. L. Bailey is
chairman. The two outings arranged
for will be of somewhat novel de-
parture from what has been the custom
in the past. in that they will not be so
much understanding expeditions as they
Will be to create a greater interest
among the people of Utah, especially in
the resources and advantages of the
state.
One of the excursions. the first of the
two, will be tour of the southern part
of Utah, and another will embrace a
large portion of Idaho. Each outing
viii cover a week and the present in
dications are that several hundred
members of the club and others will
participate in them. Subcommittee to
take active charge of arranging the big
events will be named and another
meeting of the excursion committee
will be held Thursday, at which time
more definite details will be decided.
The first excursion, that to cover the
southern part of the state, will leave
Salt Lake on or about May 10. A special
train, consisting of Pullman sleepers,
dining and buffet car, will leave over
the Salt Lake Route, making stops the
first day at Murray, Bingham Junction.
and Pleasant Grove, and arriving at
Provo that evening. The first night
will be spent at Provo.
On the second day out the excur-
sionists, switching to- the Rio Grande,
will go to Nephi, Fountain Green, Mo-
roni, Manu and Rtchfield, spending the
night at the latter place. The return
trip will then be started. Salina, Eph-
RAM and Mount Pleasant Will be visit
ed on the third day, the night being
pleasant
fourth day Fatrview, Thistle Junction,
Spanish Fork, Santaguin and Eureka
will be the points visited.
"And Rest on the Seventh"
The fifth day the Salt Lakers will
visit Bingham and arrive in Park City
that night. On the following day they
will go to Brigham City, and then to
Logan and other points in Cache val
ley. The return to Salt Lake VIII be
made on the seventh day.
The trip will be made over the Salt
Lake Route to Nephi, then as far as
Manti on the Sanpete Valley road, and
the remainder of the trip over the
tracks of the Denver q Rio Grande and
oregon Short Line railroads. Every
possible accommodation and convent
ence will be afforded those making the
trip and a most pleasant, instructive
and beneficial iunket is planned. 2
Chairman Bailey will name a COM
mittee ON advertising. committee on
transportation and a committee on
music, and these bodies will arrange
all of the preliminary details.
Trip Into Idaho.
The second trip planned by the com
mittee yesterday will cover a large por-
ton of idaho. The date for this ex-
cursion has been left in allegiance, but
it will probably take place the first
week in september. 1t is planned 70
visit Boise. Wieser and the Twin Falls
country to the west, and Idaho Falls
st. Anthony. Rexburg and other points
as far north as Ashton in the eastern
part of the state. Details for this trip
will be decided upon at a later date.
Like the Utah trip the excursion TO
Idaho will cover practically a full week.
The idea is to have the board of gov
ernors of the Commercial club and as
many merchants and bankers as can be
secured make the trip. The object is to
take out the heads of the different Salt
Lake institutions and give them an OPP
portunity to meet the people of the
southern part OF the state, and Incident
ally to bring about closer relations be-
tween the different commercial clubs
of Utah. The chief object will be to
start the work of educating the peo-
pie of Utah in enthusiasm for the state,
thereby bringing about general awak-
ening to the resources and richness of
the vast domain.
The southern portions of the state
are, in many instances, so remote from
Salt Lake that few of the business
men and consumers ever get in touch
with the manufacturers and wholesale
merchants. A trip of the nature planned
will, it is felt, do a great deal towards
bringing the northern and the southern
portions of the state in closer harmony,
and will serve TO eliminate much OF the
feeling which now exists that Utah is
a back number and is not keeping
progress with her sister states.