The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-14
Vanguard of Thousands That
Are TO Come Will Reach
Salt Lake Today.
UTAH BEING EXTENSIVELY
ADVERTISED in THE EAST
Railroads Are Being Urged to
Grant a Stopoyer Privilege
of Thirty Days.

You travel through the most pros
porous and interesting section OF the
great west with the privilege OF i've
day stopover in Salt Lake City. which
VIII he of extraordinary interest TO every
tourist"
These words are part OF an adver-
tiSement being inserted in hundreds OF
in the central eastern states
by the Union Pacific railroad, writes Ger
ritt Fort TO Joseph r., Caine: secretary
OF the Commercial club, so when INC
great throngs OF tourists reach salt Lake
on their way to the coast between now
and April 10. there will be thousands OF
them already on the lookout Tor salt
Lake and its interesting. places for tour
lists In other words. the start will be
made before they reach here. and the
plan OF putting Utah literature into the
hands of every tourist Will be augmented
roads.
Railroads Expect Rush.
All transcontiuental lines are preparing
for the greatest rush OF colonists In the
history OF travel 10 the west. IT Is eS'i-
mated that the Denver Il Rio Grande VIII
handle an average OF cighty-tiNe tourist
sleepcrs each week during the time the
tickets are on sale. This means at least
10000 passengers handled by that road
alone, Utah VIII receive practically
every one OF these tourists from both the
Denver g. Rio Grande and the Union Pa
cl6c. They are almost certain TO pass
through Utah. as the tickets mostly read
10 Los Angeles. The Santa he Will
carry its share. but striking an average
more than two thirds are certain 10 pass
through Utah. The northern routes vii
round-trip proposition. Utah is in the
path one way or the other. Tourists
taking the Portland and San Francisco
trip will return by way OF Salt Lake City
as q rule
Special colonists' trains will be OPP
Grated over the Denver & Rio Grande and
the Union Pacific. The golden oppor-
tunity to show the many valuable assets
OF Utah is here. say the boosters. The
vanguard OF the tourist army will rcacf
Salt Lake In few hours. AMI hence
forth every day should and will see then
pouring into the state by the thousands
The way has been paved for active work
the people will he here from hundreds
or sections in the east, the things ar,
here TO interest them. and the people oi
the state, apparently, are determined tc
give them welcome.
To Interest the Tourist.
Plans are being laid TO make evelH
hour Of the five days coun, while the
tourists are here. II is regarded as un'
fortunate that tho privilege could not
have been extended TO thirty DAYS, as
1--WE DAYS will he too brief for many whr
will want TO see Salt Lake and Utah
Under the five DAYS privilege II viii
the best farming sections OF the state
Business men OF Salt Lake have beer
urging that the railroads grant Il thirty
dmv stopover privilege. They declare
that visitors To toe state should bc GiveI
q chance To get acquainted with all Tn,
resources so that they may he induced
10 make Utah their home or invest theii
money here. or do both. There vii
bc time. however. to take tho visit
ors to several of The surrounding
towns. the smclters and the like. fo
the next thirty days the real estate mci
of tho city expect Ia he husy. together
with other business men OF the city an,
state. preaching Utah resources an,
fortifylng the coionIsts with loads o
literature.