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Show NEW ROAD '. ALL RIGHT Fisher Harris Enthuses Over Salt Lake Route and California. - ' , ' Fisher Harris, secretary of tha Commercial Com-mercial dub, and I H. FarnswoKh returned re-turned from . Los Angeles and San Francisco Thursday evening. "We bad a most delightful trip," said Mr. Harris Friday , morning. "But I want, to say right here, that I am tired. I went out there for a little rest, and If I rot three hours' sleep It was not the fault of my entertainers. We arrived In Los Angeles the morning of tha banquet ban-quet of the Chamber of Commerce, and never stopped going until I landed home. "That noon we had lunch on a yacht, and then the banquet In the evening. At the banquet I was seated between two millionaires, but It didn't affect my appetite, for Z ate as much as they did. ' , : "The new road Is certainly a fine one, but I enjoyed the ride on the west end more than from Salt Lake to Las Vegas, Ve-gas, aa they use the big- oil burner engines. en-gines. . "Blf ht now la tha time to visit Call- fornla. I stood under an orange tree and picked this (here Mr. Hsfrla ten-, derly handled an orange as big as his head) and with the other hand picked orange blossoms oft the same tree. It Is . certainly a delightful place. . (And then Mr. Harris absentmindedly placed that luscious-looking orange back on the table.) , "I do not care to say much, about what was accomplished by our trip until un-til after I make my report to the board of governors of the club, as It would be hardly fair to them. But I will say that we will have a great celebration over the opening of the San Pedro, Los Angeles A Salt Lake railroad." |