Show THE BOOSTER EXCURSION E The booster excursion of ot the Com Commercial CommercIal Commercial mercial club is to start next nest Monday morning for tor a trip through the state According to advices ac vices received by Sec Secretary Secretary Secretary Caine the Salt Lake business businessmen businessmen men will be received with open arms everywhere The people of the cap capital capItal capital ital are proud of ot the state and the citizens of the counties towns and vU lages are proud of Salt Lake Its a reciprocal feeling Many people formerly residing in Salt Lake some of them raised here are now doing business In other por portions portions portions of ot the state and are naturally filled with wonder and admiration when they visit the old home bome Such we presume Is the case with the ed editor edItor ed editor of ot the Vernal Express a recent recen t visitor who went home and told the readers of his paper about the trip as follows follower Recent visitors to Salt Lake City have noted the wonderful strides being made In our capital city Some ot of o them remember well when they farmed the ground where now are beautiful resi rest residences residences dences deuces They also remember the muddy mud d roads and lanes fringed with sweet clover which arenow are arenow arenow now macadamized and paved pave d sidewalks have replaced the clo do clover clover ver They remember when the old white whit whitehouse e house where John W Young once lived was about the best beston beston beston on Brigham street Now it looks look s very lonesome something liken like a tramp would in King Edwards Edward s court There was one place the boys thought would be forever on the th hoodoo they called calle d It 14 There the slaughtering for forthe forthe fo the city was done and all around that uncanny place were bleach bleaching bleachIng ing lug skulls and rank odors Grav Gray Gravel Grayel el beds spoiled the natural con contour contour contour tour of ot the hillside Now the th e state university overlooks that once neglected nook and pala palatial palatial Palatial homes beautiful lawns and an d graded streets and pavements pavement s have forever hidden Butcher yule A trip to Fort Douglas used to b be e considered a Journey Now it is on the regular ca car L service and the fort seems to have come down from the moun mountains mountains mountains and is next nest door to the city The streets in the eastern part of ot the city are fast being parked and one can see the beauty of broad streets fresh green lawns and shade trees The asphalt pavement makes the best road in the world and It isa is isa Isa a pleasure to even see the ve ye vehicles vehicles either automobiles or car carriages carriages carriages gliding gIlding smoothly over the springy pavement Farms that sold twenty years ago for an acre are today bring ing 1000 for building lots Some of ot the boys who thought Salt Lake City and county too small to hold them moved out outto outto to new lands When they visit the old homes now they find the things they left eagerly sought after atter tracts way out of town are bought at high prices and anal men make a good living on them People are flocking from the east to get in on the ground floor think of It Itan they feel that land is selling cheap In Salt Lake City and suburbs It is a good sign when all the com corn communities communities of a great commonwealth work together for the thee good of ot all When there Is no jealousy backbiting or desire manifested upon the part of ot otone one to prosper at the expense of all the th rest That seems to be the situa situation situation tion In Utah all pulling together for forthe forthe the of the state as a a whole Regarding the booster excursion It may be said that it is sure to result In n much good in the way Va of ot establish establishing ing rig closer commercial relations and cementing the bonds of ot friendship al already already already ready existing Moreover it shows a commendable spirit of ot enterprise I |