The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-21
bic EXCURSION
To END TODAY
Friday the Boosters View the
Fertile Valleys of North
crn Utah.
VISITORS AST0NISHED
AT THINGS THEY SEE
Given Warm Welcome Every
where, and VIII Reach
Home Today.
BY A. F. PHILIPS.
Special to The Tribune.


| Special to The Tribune
| LOGAN. May 20.-Today the Salt
Lake boosters have travelled through a
portion of Utah that is veritabc para
disc, the place which many people be
lieVc was the location of the original
Garden of Eden; through two valleys
that arc magnificent beyond compare
the Bear River valley and tho hidden
valley of Utah, Cache valley, the round
mp of the excursion occurring in this
valley in the city Of Logan tonight
This morning when the boosters
awokc they were in Garland. where is
located one Of the beet sugar factories
Of the Utah-Gdaho Sugar company. 1t
is tho center Of n beautiful farming
country. Later the party stopped nj
Trcmonton. and again at Corinnc. and
then at Brigham, in the Bear River val
| ley. And these one hundred boosters.
these one hundred members of the Com
mercial club, had presented TO their
view In their journey through this val
ley magnificent panorama the same
panorama was seen in the Cache valley.
! II was panorama with Kaleidoscope
effect. for at every turn, at every point
of view, the scene presented was mag
| nIhcent Such pictures of nature can
| be found no place else on earth and
| these business men, these boosters for
| Utah. these men who arc now, and who
VIII IN the future exploit the resources
| OF tins great state, were amazed and
astonishcd, for the major part Of them
had never been in tins section of the
state in which they live. SO when they
gaZed upon this magnificent panorama
of nature there could not be found ad iec-
tives enough TO express their delight
at the picture which no artist could
portray upon canvas, could depict with
| his brush.
Visit an Inspiration.
II was an inspiration. II was a reye-
| lation. II was everything combined in
ono superb picture. And at the sew
cral stops these boosters gathered in
formation that astonished them as much
as did the splendid picture. They were
told, and the facts cannot be con
! troVerted, that on every acre Of ground
in these splendid valleys there could be.
and is produced tons of alfalfa, 1000
bushels of apples, 30 tons of sugar
heets. l25 bushels of oats. 80 bushels of
| barley 80 bushels of wheat $50 bushels
of potatoes. 200 bushels of Strawberries,
| 1000 bushels of pcaches-this upon IT.
| rlgateed lands upon dry farms.
They likewise learned that the live
stock industry was feature Of this
section of the state, that the farmers
| In these two valleys owned the finest
bred Percherons, C1ydes, Coaches and
Shires, and the gentle, sleek. Jerseys
and Guernseys and the larger Holsteins.
They also learned that in the Cache
valley the dairy interests turn out
product OF one and half million dol
lars; that beet sugar factories turned
| out n product in the wear 1909 amount
ing to 33.O00.0Q0 pounds of sugar, and
paid the farmers. who number 1850. the
sum of S69S, 900; that the cement plant,
four miles north of Brigham. manu-
forty men are employed in the plant
Other Things Learned.
They learned also, that while the pco.
| pie in this section were north of Ogden
that their first and only love was Salt
Lake City, and that when these citi-
zens, these residents of these two val
| leys went away from home to make pur.
chases, that they would 90 to Salt Lake
They likewise learned that a railroad
corporation, the Oregon Short Line, over
whose system they Travelled, had the
good will of the people who were their
patrons, and that this corporation was
the greatest factor in the development
of these two great valleys.
Hence, when in this. the fourth city
| of the state, tonight, there was seen in
the addresses delivered that the capital
city of the great state in which they
| lived had friends innumerable in this
section, who were ready and willing
to Join hands with them to cooperate
| in every way with the Commercial club
Of Salt Lake City in exploiting the
resources of Utah, of the state in which
they live, and TO which state they are
asking people TO come TO live.
Welcome at Garland
| At Garland this morning the welcome
accorded tho Boosters WAS more than
n warm one There n parade by
the club from the station to Social hall
which had been decorated for the occa-
Sion, Joseph Jensen; momber Of the
George T. Odell, who thanked the peo-
! pie for the reception accorded. Glen
Miller followed with brief but pointed
address, Mosieh Evans mayor Of Car
| land, who is a member Of the Salt Lake
| Commercial club, followed with a brief
address. as did George Osborne, manager
| two songs. and the meeting was con-
cluded with brief address by ]. e.
Caine, who explained the object OF the
visit. All the aid necessary was prom
| ised to the club in its work OF publicity.
| At Tremonton there was a stop OF
thirty minutes, where the members OF
miles about the city. while others at
| tended the meeting at the town hall
| which was presided over by Mayor
Wantland, who also welcomed the party
| Other speeches were made by John
| Iolmgren. president of the Bear River
Valley Commercial club. and Wesley e
| King of the Boosters.
| A short stop was made at CoriDne,
| but the people of that town were not
out. Even "Billy" Rowe neglected 10 be
at the station to greet the Boosters.
Bouquets Presented.
| At Brigham City there was n crowd
| OF people at the depot including many
| handsome women and girls with beauti-
| fuI bouquets OF roses which were pre-
/ cnrInd a Ilc BOOSIorS. MAYOR Thomas