The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-08
LAND SHOW BIC
HELP To STATE
Utah Reaps Great Benefit From
Display Made at Los
Angeles.
j. EDWARD TAYLOR TALKS
OF EXCELLENT WORK DONE
Many Homeseekcrs Are AL
ready Here Looking Over
the Country.

"Utah has been helped materially
and permanently by the prominence of
the displays at the land show that
closed there last Saturday night. Our
state will feel the helpful results of
that show for years to come, because
| there were thousands of people there
| from the east who have held wrong
Impressions of Utah and its resources.
These were wiped out and from now
on it will not be so hard 10 convince
easterners that within the state of
Utah lies an empire in itself This
is the statement made by j. Edward
Taylor, state horticultural Inspector,
Friday, upon his return from Los An
geles, where he was in charge Of the
Utah exhibit Continuing, Mr.. Taylor
said:
By maintaining the exhibit and dis
tribnting literature we were able to IN
terest visitors, tourists and homeseekers
by the actual proofs and demonstra-
tions of what Utah win produce, On the
part of the workers at the show we
did two things that should and will
count in the future development of the
state: We established market for
two of the big crops Of the state-ap-
piles and potatoes. ! believe Utah fruit
growers will find hereafter good
strong market for apples in Los An
geles.
''Our booth was the only one on the
floor to maintain an apple exhibit. Then
we started n movement, gigantic in It's
proportions, let me tell you, of starting
people to Utah to investigate our cheap
farm lands, both dry farming and lands
subject to irrigation. That this move
ment means great things for Utah there
can he no doubt, as the trains leaving
Los Angeles after the show on the Salt
Lake Route carried many homeseekers
who attended the show and now are
in our state looking over for them
selves the land opportunities we told
them about at the show.
There With the Goods.
"While our exhibit was not as large
as at other shows, we had the goods
TO prove our words, and we had nm
advantage never before my privilege
at land show-we were able to take
hold of land seekers who visited Cali
fornia, found land entirely too high
priced and show them how they could
come into Utah locate 320 acres OF
dry farm land for $22 or locate desert
entries in the irrigable districts. And
ton. There were hundreds of people
there with money to buy land that
could not touch the California lands in
sufficient quantities to make living
With our enlarged homestead act back
of us and the large number of bona
fde irrigation projects to rely upon,
we felt no hesitancy in going after the
land seekers
"In many ways the eastern land
;an orl ,fo
western farm land and the rules gov
erning the entries. No small part of
our work was TO give out this infor
nation. then follow it up afterwards
with actual missionary work to get the
real results Visitors to the Utah sec
tion seeking information never failed
to return for more specific information.
In this wav we had two chances to
plug hard for Utah, and undoubtedly
results are showing up for the work.
Many Come to Utah.
Especial homeseekers' rates back TO
Lynndvl brought any number of peo
Pile They began leaving the train at
Modena. In some cases one or two
men represented fifty or more home.
seekers. These. men left Los Angeles
with instructions to buy if the pros
poets looked good. Right now Utah IS
best farming country is swarming with
land lockers, commissioned to locate
dry farms and buy land. Land agents
in some cases arranged parties. and
these people are now looking over the
best land properties in the state. That
there will be an~ number of land en-.
tries, 7 believe, Will be made sure
when the month s, business is summed
up in the land Office. Unless ! am mis-
taken. April will be record breaker
in that office.
Thousands Of pieces Of literature
were given out at the show We had
plenty of the best literature in the
state. The Salt Lake Commercial club
supply, including all sorts of folders,
went a long way to helping our work
ers. I am sure people at home do not
fully appreciate the good work that
has been done at the recent land shows
and especially at Los Angeles Every
Utahn that entered the doors of the
auditorium took off his coat and worked
among the boosters. On Utah day
we simply took the show by storm and
when night came everybody that Wis
tied the show knew something about
Utah. "
Mr.. Taylor left few hours after
arriving in the city, going to Brigham
City for few days visit