The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-09
Advertising Expenditure Ex-
ceeds That of All Other
Counties Combined.
IS $4,000
Remainder of the State Has
Subscribed $4,000 for
Same Purposes.

Utah, as state. will spend the sun
OF s50.000 In advertising her resources
this year. OF this sum the business IN
terests of Salt Lake city are subscribint
$4,000 for convention work and $1,000
for publicity Salt Lake City herself Il
subscribing the sum of $4,000, and Sal
Lake county, outside Of the. city proper
a similar amount. All other counue!
combined will subscribe All additions
$50. 600.
This fact" said w. f. Jensen,
chairman OF the committee on gem
eral arrangements for the Trans
mississippi Commercial congress. last
evening, should set at rest the state
ment made that Salt Lake is not do
ing her share as the capital OF the
state In advertising the resources OF
Utah. Right now there are more
than 100000 tourist passing through
Salt Lake every year There is no
reason why VIC should not all pull
together and make that total a quar-
ter of d million. The more strangers
we get here the better II is for the
state at large
THAT The coming congress will be
factor in this happy state OF af-
fairs liz already conceded. The fact
that See America First Is to be one
OF tho star topics for deiiberation is
the answer, When the congress gets
through with that subject 1t VIII
have accomplished something that
Will be OF benefit 10 the west gem
orally and Utah In particular.
Record of Congress.
:-The record OF the congress has
been from it's first meeting. when 1t
secured a special message to the fed
eral congress. which resulted In max
ing Galveston n deep sea harbor, TO
the appropriation secured last year
NJ Ipn Ia no
biggest waterways or America, that
what II goes after II gets. Believe
me, the See America First move
ment will mean something.
mot the least educational feature
OF The coming congress Will be the
exhibit of Utah products in the cham
Der OF commerce. We have mcn out
In the various counties that have
levying special tax. They are gath
erlng up the fruit. grain, grasses,
produce and manufactures of these
counties for shipment to Salt Lake.
The exhibition will be ready for the
public by August 25. 1t Is too bad
that all the counties cannot be rep
resented. but then IL would hardly be
fair to those who have given their
good money towards the exhibit.
Location is Ideal.
"The location of the exhibit is an
stands right across the street from
the Assembly hall wherein the con-
gross will hold its sessions. Every
delegate. and they are coming from
twenty-five of the western states,
Will pass by going 70 and from the
convention hall. and 1 promise 1t VIII
be an eye-opener for them, Then,
TOO, there are the tourists from all
points of the United States who are
passing through Salt Lake at this
season of the year by the hundreds:
The investment by the counties or
Utah In the form OF special tax
levy for exhibition purposes and the
proper advertising and publicity OF
the resources OF the state should re-
turn great dividends constantly,
How any county can afford not TO
be represented / cannot conceive, ana
as for the statement that Is ac-
credited in some quarters that salt
Lake wants 1t all-well Utah Is pay
ing the lions share. and the state
at large is being benefited
The committee on general arrange
uents and chairmen OF all the commit
.ecs connected with the successful con.
of the congress Will meet al
he Commercial club this evening. when
n all probability definite plans on en-,
ertain,nent, programme, decorations ano
Will be passed upon.