Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-12-24 | Page 12 | Portugal Returns to Constantinople

PORTUGAL RETURHS 18 CONSTANTINOPLE 1 Turkish Official Entertains Friends and Ends .Sojourn in Zion. Tocsef Portugal, who has hcen in Salt Lake for a number of months, will leave at noon Tuesday for New York, from which place ho will sail January 1 for Constantinople, where ho will resume his duties with the Turkish government as assistant to the general Inspector of agriculture, agri-culture, forestry and mines. The principal prin-cipal duty which will command his attention at-tention upon his arrival at tho Turkish capital will be an endeavor to effect measures meas-ures which will encouraso foreigners lo aid in the development of tho latent resources re-sources of his country. Mr. Portugal has been greatly im-preased im-preased by American ways of exploiting and he will attempt to Insinuate many innovations in-novations Into tho decadent Ottoman government. gov-ernment. Ho says there Is Illimitable opportunity op-portunity in Turkey for tho investment of outside capital and that the fiords and forests and mines are susceptible of tho most extonsSvc farming ami InllnHc development. de-velopment. Monday iiigltt Mr. Portugal surrounded himself with a fow intimate friends, who partook of a sumptuous supper In a pri-vato pri-vato dining-room at tho Knutsford. Tho repast was accompanied by the utmost Jollification. Following, tha party repaired to the Orphcum. where scats had boen reserved. Mr. Portugal's guests were: Harry Corflcltl of Cardiff, Wales; Archibald, Archi-bald, Claronco and Jay Mllnor, Daniel Sullivan. Gordon McMillan. I'auntloy M. Miller, I1 B. A., Herbert F. Savage and Blalno Phillips.