The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-15
tighty-FWe of Commonwealtf's Most Prominent
Citizens, Representing Thirty-Eght Commercial
Bodies, Start Campaign to Place States
Opportunities Before World
ENTHUSIASM OF DELEGATES UNBoUNDED
From Every Quarter Come Words of Encourage
ment and Expressions of Faith in Future; Clubs
Determined to Put Shoulder to Wheel and
Bring in Thousands of Settlers

The development of the vast
resources of Utah is the aim and
purpose of the Utah Development
league, organized Tuesday. The
exploitation Of this states un-
bounded opportunities will be the
chief concern of this new organ
lzatlon. 1t will bring to bear the
powerful influence of two score
and more commercial bodies, each
determined that Utah shall have
more inhabitants, more industrial
enterprises, more trade and com
merce. All of these bodies will
act in concert to place before the
world the magnificent field which
Utah offers for investment of cap
ital and endeavor. Eighty-6ve
representatives of thirty y-eight
organizations met at the Salt Lake
Commercial club and decided
upon a course which will bring
about the desired end.
That the great agricultural resources
Of Utah are represented in the vast
dry farming areas waiting for the hand
TO till the SOIL the thousands of acres
of rich fertile soil with water ready
aud waiting to be turned into the fur
rows working the miracle of a harvest
of grains, fruit and the like from the
desert, and the unlimited acreage of
fruit lands capable of producing every
kind of fruit in the land, are the great
resources of the state upon which ats
future population and prosperity must
be based was the sentiment prevailing
the first line Of work outlined will be
campaign to exploit these natural
agricultural advantages and advertise
them properly to the outside world.
Recognition OF the necessity for the
development OF these resources thus
bringing thousands upon thousands of
new people TO the state, was paramount
in the minds OF every delegate present
at the convention That factories and
other industries will speedily follow is
conceded,
State Is Well Represented.
In response to a call issued ten days
ago. thirty eight Commercial clubs of
Utah had representatives at the opening
session OF the convention to organize a
state development league. The call left
open the nature OF the organization. It's
name and the scope of the work II
was a representative gathering OF Utahs
citizens when the eghty-five men sat
together in the gold room. making the
first session OF what will without doubt
be the greatest organjSa ton ever effected
i'm Utah for the sole purpose OF boost
ing, The delegates came 10 the conVen-
ton with the thought of making the or
ganiza tIon q strong one. and they went
into the first meeting fortified with the
enthusiasm for Greater Utah.
Earnestncss and delibcrat ton marked
the preliminary organization which oc-
cupied the attention OF the afternoon and
evening meetings. The first meeting was
called to order at 3 o'clock Tuesday after
noon by Joseph r Caiue. secre etary OF the
Salt Lake Commercial club. He read the
call as Il was sent 10 the various clubs
OF the state Joy II, Johnson pres-
dent Of the Commercial club, followed
with IA brief sketch OF the object Of the