| Show TOURISTS FLOCK TO ZION 7 RECORDS FOR r 11 l' l T YEARS ARE BROK BROKEN N o B Bt Between Beten t n and Trav Travelers er Pass f Lake in Past W Week ek Many Are Go Gong Going g to II J r I Yellowstone Park 1 I. Bet Between een e fifteen en and twenty wenty thousand nis' nis tourists tourists' visited I Lake City in the past week according to the estimate of those who co come n in close tou touch h with tourist travel A A coris conservative rv mate of tl the e daily tourist population of La Lake e City City f for p ih the past week is 2500 persons All AU agree t that at it has a heaviest w week ek of tourist travel this this season season when records have been br broken ke ev every ery ry day sincee since e early in May No city in the V West Vest st with th the exception of or San Francisco Los Loa Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles and S San n Diego Diero is getting as heavy heavy i n tourist traffic as Salt Lake Lale Git City according to railroad men and others others in t touch uch With ith the situation Salt Lake is in tho the hub getting those who make mako one way by he he southern route or one way b by the northern route Few travelers are missing Salt Lake In their itineraries Transcontinental Trans Trans- continental tourists over over the tho tho Union Pacific are all visiting here All AU Den Dener Denver Den ver er Rio Grande travel also has t tr to pass through Salt Lake and in this wa way Salt Lake is realizing a D. heavier traffic even even than Denver which is missed b by many Union Pacific tourists tour tour- Ista who refuse to make the side trip from Che Cheyenne Thousands of ot tourists are stopping over twenty four hours or longer while many more tourists whose time is limited for a a. long Western Vestern trip must rest rent content to arrive hero here on the early trains and go out tho the Same same i night But among them all at none have been found who did not vow that at some future da day they hoped to return for a longer stay In Salt I Lake City I Park Aids Zion I Yellowstone park has brought to this city many tourists and is 18 de declared declared de- de dared by D. D S. S Spencer ass assistant general passenger agent of ot the Ore Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon son Short Line to be the greatest single lo attraction that brings tourists here The park parl has experienced absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab unprecedented travel smashing smashing smash smash- ing all records The Yellowstone special special cial dab leaving lea here over the Short Line Lino every evening At itt o'clock h has ha's s been operated in iii two or more marc sections sections sec see IY o every da day since the tho park opened on Juno June 15 The Salt Sal Lake y gateway Spencer Bays h has be beer been n nb b by far tho the most popular entrance am dud nd has b been cn the entrance point for tor many times the tho number of ot travelers as ns have havo patronized the Gardiner and Cody Cod en en- en n- n tra trances A majority of ot the tourists who go to Yellowstone spend twenty twenty- four tour hours or more In Salt Lake L' City before going t to the park parl Some Idea of the enormous tr traffic In the park pam may bo be gained from the Information furnished by stage transportation trans trans ann companies that about 1000 more horses ar are working In tho park this season than were used last year carAll car All records for a D. single season were I broken before July 15 one month after the park opened In the first month June 15 IS to July ruly 16 15 16 approximately approximately perS persons were taken through tho the park while white in tho the entire season l of ot last year rear only w wore were re taken through The stage travel is now augmented by twenty to twenty five automobile parties ev every ry day Record Expected During the month from flOm July 15 to IG 15 it Is c conservatively estimated esti estimated estl- estl August will so go goto to mated that Persons will There wm b be four to me the the park park lime times at nJ many runny go through lie J this as ns there wera were last and rai railroad rail rail- year declare that this road foad and hotel men traffic will vill result in heavier traffic on as an the deli do- do ie- ie every ery year from now li lighted vl visitors tors to the national wonderland wonderland won won- to their will return derland this year homes li In the East an and South giving givins it the tIme park better advertising than has The Th ever value had o ot the tourist traffic tr tp cannot be bo estimated Salt Luke City busl- busl doing a capacity busi business all doing doing-a Hotels av ar are tho the Utah and N New New- w- w hotels ne ness s. s Two a alone handle approximately r PT r thousand a a. day Many more stopping just just- for tor the day Iday h vei t at at atthe the hotels and otherwise c contribute ute to the the prosperity ot of the ho city Bea ts are are doh doing g a ph heavier business nes than tho they hD have ever ver experienced even ya during convention times j It Is conservative to est estimate ml t that hat each tach tourist spends at least five Collars dollars Col dol lars lam in Salt Lake L. said saida a hot man hoteL Un n n yesterday Th Therefore tIg figuring that we had a dally daily average of ot two thou thousand sand sand Rand and that t estimate is t too o l 19 low wI 1 1 I believe during believe-during during th the past week would h have ve been spent here by tour tourists the tho sum zum of dollars each day That mean means something nom m tt b because cause that moneY money ia is 5 being spent with Utahn and much of at it is behig and will be bedspread sp Into other chan channels nels nets of ot b business w which may t beon e indirectly affected d j t the tourist City Advertised p 2 As to advertising the value OJ of that could not be estimated A AgIan glance I oy over r ari army any hotel register In the cl city an anday day now will revel reveal the fact tact that people are here front from every corni corner of ot the United States At the tho end of the tho season if it you time to ex amine the volumes of ot hotel registers register that will be filled I believe you you would would find that almost every elt city and vj lage in the United United States States Po postoffice director would he be recorded r N Now w these people are l Iea learning zing ln things th they have never known about Salt L' L and abo about t Itah Hotel eJ clerks can ean tell teU from the comments comment they hear that tho the overwhelmIng ma majority maJ of ot these tourists are are not nol only j getting favorable Impre Impressions but l' l are re being delightfully s surprised a at what whai the they find here bere Thousands of ot I Im m regret that the they did not act arran arrange G longer lonser visits here Whon When their n 1 are re coming comins West Vest o or who when they one como ujo again themselves you may rest assured aH- aH Salt Lake will be he favored with t Ith visits of ot longer duration Z The fhe dally daily attendance ce at t the 1 r recitals In the tab tabernacle have havo nil all r cord cord- Thou Thousands of tou tourists J t crowd Jn ln o the great o over every ry week to to hear the 0 and nd p ands mands go awn ua uway awed etl b by the tho wonder J it f the and arid insh More aI recitals r cit JieM licki W I for t r a part c f nd for tor noted persons S 1 been held this sea v n 1 than ever bej- bej fore Few 1 lays flays ys go o i l' l I v on one tt or more recitals in 1 a addition Ito to the noonday conceit concel for for the gener general I public |
