The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-12
ZION 8 ACT|Vl7
ALARMS DENN|
Colorado Metropolis Fears &
Lake City Will Get Bull
of Tourists. &
MAKE DESPERATE ATTENp,
TO DIVERT FAIR TRlY.
Chamber of Commerce d.
Upon Every Denver CHI.
zen to Help.

Under the caption, "salt Lake i
to Beat Denver Out of l9l5 ~
Trade, - the Denver Express of u.
q says that the Colorado city !,
wake up if that very thing do.,
happen. owing TO the initiative
Lake has taken through the Co,.'
cial club aud the business men a.
city. What really has happened
cordiug To Salt Lakcrs who have I.
of the "big stir" in Denver IA E
Salt Lake, with its energy and 1.
has already scored one on the ~.
of the Rockies proud Denver
However. after waking up "a
fact that Salt Lake has secured
convention of general passenger "a,
for the coming June and by an
beginning has started sentiment
making Salt Lake the great e,
stopping place on the trib east
west TO the San t'raDcisco eynoj,
nothing is being left undone by
Yer to catch up with the prpes.'
The article as printed in the Dr
Express is reproduced herewith In I
Denver Is Alarmed.
That Salt Lake is cndeavoring IA
one over on Denver and grab a.
oulk OF the tourist trade .durfur
Ianama exposition in San Fmncisc
! 1915, WAS the rather startling inf,
tion conveyed to President c. 4. JoS
OF the Chamber OF Commercc tois,
the Denver Express. The chamber'
mediately got 10 work with III,
| blocking the plans OF the Utah civ
As result the campaign 10 cct
stop-over patronage. which was no
have been begun for time, win
| at once.
The chamber has not been ~,
| in this matter, President Johnson
! and VIII bend every effort to nave
| tourists stop here, Plans haye
made to bring all of the general ~
| ger agents OF the big railroads. heft
( let them have a look at the cIty and
how well Denver can entertain
! guests. III addition movemeni
been instituted to have the 4
places" of Denver exhibited on ma
! picture films in all OF the thcaters
of this city. Across the bottom Of
film viii he printed: stop over In |
yer in 1915"
Residents OF Denver will be asse
place st!ckers with this slogan pr
upon them, on all of the packages
through the mails. and THOUSAND
postal cards showing the wonder
| Denver VIII be sent out. A heaTy
vertising campaign is also contcmpt
! Members OF the chamber do not b
that Salt Lake can put IL over" on
ver, but nevertheless they are goir
redouble their activity TO prevent 81
result. And it's up 10 every reside
| Denver to help.
Salt Lake First in Field.
The following dispatch, sent BY q
mer Denver newspaperman who IS
in Salt Lake, was what caused tie
| element at the Chamber OF CommeI
Quietly, yet determinedly. Salt 4
City Is entering upon e carefully tho
out campaign 30 put one over On
Yer, Colo. The city OF Brigham Yo|
progeny is determined that Salt
| shah be the great gateway for the
elers in 1915 10 the Panama expo
at San Francisco. and that Dcnyer|
not even scent the dust of the nj
trek from the east when the expo
unfolds its glory.
Denver has announced Its pla1
attract TO the city the tourist 4
which will descend upon Frisco b
curing rates and considerations fToq
for the visitors from the east
through Denver on their way q
coast. Salt Lake City read the
nouncement and kept silent, but g
work. There has been no time v
In the organization OF 1915 clubs RI
committees, or boosters societies
the Commercial club has gone into
utive session. asked itself: VIII
Denver have the crowd answers
self: No" and gone TO work.
Every business man in the ely.
been asked by the Commercial ~
contribute $25 to Il fund with whi'
support the campaign which has
objective point the railroads. SAT-
City plans TO make itself Vie VIII
Francisco as an attraction 10 una
pie of the east during the big fair-
plea is TO be made TO the RAILROADS
Denver is big enough TO take care
self. but that Salt Lake. the land 0
mons and sweethearts, needs
and will pay for 1t.
Two Fairs at One Price.
"'rwo fairs for one price is 70 e
CdlCtl lllle lnal Is 10 pe SPtSuu ~
out the east by the Commercial
here. Then carnival 70
throughout the Frisco fair Is 70
ranged. The city is TO be tutns3
brilliant fairyland. church ana
working together. with all the
light leading TO the famous saes
An immense hotel is to be built ol.
Salt lake itself. with shadowy T.
plying TO and fro over the Wateis
famous by Brigham Young. Ine
TO transform itself into q dream
traveller Will want TO avoid. 49,
with the promise of all thls, sla
the money subscribed to aos9tsd1 s9s1
throughout the east. Salt LAKE ",
the railroads. through commistess H.
hundred business men, to rouls
visitors through Salt Lake civ n
ing no stop-overs on the eXcursion
except one for twenty days 81 u
mon capital. Salt Lakes aisqnt X.
the roads will be that the SAT- g.
vertising will be an especial lnu
for travel to the Frisco fair anu
turn the city should have inc
rights TO the stop-overs. ,r
''It is a big plan, and money
is being put Into It, Denver na'