Show THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE statehood Is I 1 a a reality now the next thing thine Is what hat Is salt lake going to do to advance her own interests under statehood as they ought to be advanced the chamber of commerce has been established eight years at first it thrived exceedingly it has the best showing of any chamber of commerce in n the alie whole west that Is the best showing allowing of uncounted and incalculable resources when faran gers come here with fill business views they naturally gravitate directly to the chamber ot of commerce for or anfor matlon M ablo and tor for the data necessary tor for rito t them hom to help make up lip their mandi over tho the advisability of selecting utah as a place for a home or a plate place for investment the chamber has be been en kept going for the lost last two years simply by the ilia exertions of three or four our men tills is altogether wrong people estimate a town by such showings as the chamber of commerce can make and when men come here and find that business men generally pay no atten lion to the business headquarters they instantly take up the idea that something Is wrong tong and there must be facts connected with this place which they havo have not been made acquainted with and they go 90 awny away certainly at least ot of our bu business biness men our merchants c our bankers and our men ot of affairs ought to get together and make up a determination that lor for this year to come they will help boom the chamber of commerce a little I 1 that hat the chamber may in return boom this region anti and we mean boom not in n K speculative sense at all we mean that it shall gle ghe simply the facts to the world las as they transpire compile data from all parts of the territory and give the result publication that there shall be frequent consultation and when anything Is required they all shall work lit in concert we had a 16 little silver congress here last spring it was a magnificent success the buildings were festoon ed the tabernacle was thrown open the strangers strange a were made guests and given it a round of entertainments which sent them all away delighted with the treatment they had received and caused them to be loud in their praises of salt lake now all that was due to tho the exertions of 0 three or tour four men except tor for them the w u holo hole meeting would havo have been it a flat failure instead of 0 throe three or four men there ought to have been one bundled and fifty men directly interested people often draw comparisons between denver and salt lake the natural advantages axe are all on the side of salt lake the spirit which carries things on progressively Is nearly all in denver denver cannot secure our resources Is it not possible that we can secure the denver spirit |