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Show OTHER STATES ARE AFTER T SMI Salt Lake, May 30. The receipt of news from Denver yesterday that Colorado had started a campaign to secure the great Harrlman university for the Centennial state put renewed activity into Salt Lake boosters, who are making an earnest endeavor to have the institution located in Utah. The board of governors of the Salt Lake Commercial club Is to meet Thursday to consider the proposition. The Real Estate association and other oth-er organizations have taken up tho matter and will make a tempting bid to the Harrlman estate to build the university In Utah, tho home of the Union Pacific railroad. Tho Denver Chamber of Commerce, Governor John F Shafroth and Mrs. Helen AL Wlxson, state supcrintcn- ' dendent of public Instruction, have wired Mrs. B. If. Harrlman asking her to consider Colorado a3 an ideal location loca-tion for the university to be built as a memorial to her husband. Mayor Speor of Denver fears that Mrs. "Harrlman may have already decided de-cided to locate the big university In California, but nevertheless, he has taken a chance that her mind is not made up, or may be changed, and put In a bld for Colorado as a sito for the institution. The Denver ChanVber of Commerce is going to select one of the foremost men of tho city and send him cast to present the attractions and tho tender of Colorado as a proper prop-er location for the Edward H. Harrlman Harrl-man university. The Chamber of Commerce la now busy getting up a balo of arguments In fnvor of Denver, Den-ver, to present to the widow of tho late railroad king. Los Angeles has also started making frantic offorts to get the Harrlman university located In California. The Federated Imnrovoment association and tho university committee of Los Angelos will send a dispatch to Mrs. Harrlman telling her of the advantages advantag-es of southern California as a proper location for the memorial university. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and other bodies there are formulating plans to try and get Mrs. Harrlman to name California as the seat for the great college. The board of governors of tho Salt Lake Commercial club at Its meeting Juno 1 will consider a proposition to send a man east to see Mrs. Harrlman Harrl-man and con for with her about locating locat-ing tho memorial university in Utah. It is probable that the club will also ask the co-operation of other inter-mountain inter-mountain states in the candidacy of Utah, as this state Is the center of the Rocky mountain region and, easy of access, on account of tho railroads, for a vast territory and population. - Governor William Spry is going to do all he can towards bringing the university uni-versity to Utah. Tho Commercial club looks for the assistance of the Oregon Short Lino railroad, a Hard-man Hard-man line, as the Short Line's headquarters head-quarters are looated in Salt Lake and through It are operated the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific's linos in the intermountain region. As soon as tho report of the building of the university In the west can be confirmed, con-firmed, Governor Spry will write Mrs. Harrlman, setting forth the advantages advan-tages of Utah. The board of regents of the state university and the leaders lead-ers of tho Mormon church will cooperate co-operate with the Commercial club In the efforts to bring the Harrlman university uni-versity here. |