The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-16
VISITORS BOOST
FOR SALT LAKE
Many Tourists, When Inter.
viewed, Express Both Sur
prise and Pleasure.
NOTE WONDERFUL GROWTH
OF CITY In FEW YEARS
Praise Climate, Scenery and
elf-Eyident Opportunities
for Advancement.
They are all boosters for Salt Lake

4 dav of investigation, Of conversa-
ton and probing, of careful inquiry
among the hundreds of tourists who are
in Sait Lake, failed to reveal one who
had not a good word for the city and
demonstrated copclusively that the
great ma ioritv OF these visitors, many
of whom are seeing the city for the
first time, are enthusiastic in their
praise cf the beauty of the city, its
admirable climate. its self evident op.
portunities for growth and advance
ment and Ghe spirit of progress that
IS in tho very air.
Tourists who visit Salt Lake arc now
learning that thc city has far more TO
offer than has been made prominent in
;he wears gone by.
\ Tribune reporter boarded 'See-
ing Salt Lake ear Yesterday after.
noon and engaged in conversation
score or more of the visitors who were
taking the delightful trip about the
city MANY OF those on the ear had
never before been In salt Lake and
among these new comcrs the expires.
sions OF wonder and surprise related
chiefly To their disiliusjonment. That
the city was so modern. so up.to-d4tc,
so evidently in the front rank among
the other cities of the west which they.
had Inspected seemed TO occasion us
t>,ishment
Others who had been here before, who
had taken the same trip Il year ago.
TWO wears ago. fnnr wears ago voiced
thcir surprise at the wonderful growth
Of the city and The indubtablc evil
9ences OF the spirit of boost every
where manifest
Here are n few brief expressions.
typical - the general sentiment as ex
pressed by Ihc msny to whom The Trib
une reporter talked:
NJ II. Black. poultry and commits
sion merchant. West Town. Pa:
80 Was here five years ago and note
with surprise and pleasure the wonder
ful change in YOUR city since that time
Sal; Lake is being we'll advertised
throughout the east and there is no
doubt that it will receive careful at
tention On the part Of eastern investors
who arc now looking TO the west 10
find 4 nlscc for the profitable use Of
their surplus capital. You have Il truly
wonderful city. both in its present de-
vclorment and its vet more wonder
fu prospects for the future. -
George w Sha"klett. real estate
dealer Memphis, Mo:
Notes Substantial Growth
- was here only year and half
ago. at the time Of the Grand Army
cncampment. and am almost astounded
ut the changes and improvements even
in that brief period of time. There
j. absolutely no question that vour city
viii continue to grow steadily for many
wears. The Tributary territory war
rants IA metropolis OF 500. 600 inhab-
iiants and the next decade should carry
YOU . long way toward the realization
Of this.
.Tncidentalv ] want to saw that the
Ifp ,-l tph
Salt Lake extended 10 the Grand Army
veterans during the last encampment
are still talked of. always with words
Of praise and appreciation.
Dr., u. p. Cooper. Honolulu: "This
j. nv first visit to the United States
in si& wears, and it seems good in
deed 10 get back 10 the rush and
bustle of real American life. a spirit
that is well exemplified in YOUR city.
But ] am ready to confess my liking
for Honolulu, a strictly modern city. n
tyueal IaZv mar S country. You
couldn I work hard there If YOU tried
the rest OF the population would not
stand for it.
Climate Like Hawaii,
60 am aGrecablv surprised by the
beauty of your climate, for I did not
exnect snrh tvnicnl spring day Mt this
altitude IN 4 valley surrounded by
snow. canned mountains IN The middle
of March. In Honolulu we have vir.
tu1llv the same weather the year round
and .odav might be one Of our June or
December days. But YOU are moving
foo fast here for me. After a vacation
in nv ala home in Carrollton Mo. ] am
Going back 10 Honolulu where people
do nor hurry so much.
r.. a. Palen, lumber merchant. New
York ''What particularly impresses
nie IS the air of soliditv, the evidences
that your business conditions are good
and that Your growth is of the suo-
s.nntial. permanent kind, not the ephem.
cral sort that is 10 ne noted in many
hoom cities. ] have talked with many
who have recently visited Salt Lake
and everywhere ] find the same view
EXPRESSED The city will continue to
grow Backed by 4 spirit of enter.
nrise ii could not help but do so. ]
am sorry that mv business engagements
ing camps and smelters which ! have
read so much about and which are
now, more than ever before, attracting
attention.
Advantage of stopovers.
That Mr.. Palcn S viewpoint is shared
by many of the tourists who are flock. |
ing daily into the city is evidenced by
The number Of INQUIRIES made as to the
means ard opportunity OF visiting
Bingham Park City, Garfield, Tintic
and other nearby points Of interest.
both Ia Ihe siehtseer and the investor.
Residents OF eastern cities arc inst
ncgirninp 10 wake IN to realization
of the fact that within fifty miles of
ttnh's METROPOLIS are score of places
worthy TIN, attention Of even tho most
cxrerienced traveller Under the new
ruling Of th. railroads, granting ex !
tension Of stopoycr privileges oppor- !
'uuity is afforded transients 30 inspect
the mining camps at minimum of ex.
peDsc.