Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-19 | Page 12 | John R. Dos Passos of New York is Here

J0H1 B. DOS PASSOS OF NEW YORK IS HERE Well-Known Eastern Attorney and Democrat. Much Smitten Smit-ten With the West. IMr. John T. Dos Passos, of New York, was a pleased visitor in Salt Lake City Tucsd.ny. He looked up a friend, Judge 0. W. Bartch, and together they had many reminiscences in association. Mr. Dos Passos is charmed with llio west, and is especially enthusiastic over the results of irrigation, which he now has eye impression of for the first time in his life. )lr. Dos Passos is a prominent figure of the bar in New York and in Wall street. having much to do with corporate- litigation aud with large enterprises. He says that but little has been heard in the financial circles of New York about irrigation enterprises. He is confident" con-fident" that with a reasonable showing and ivith a proposition large enough, one that will bear practical investigation, investiga-tion, there will be ample money in Wall street lo float a substantial enterprise.-Bui enterprise.-Bui 710 smnll thiug need apply; aud a million dollars is a. small thing there. Mr. Dos Passos was very much taken with some of the irrigation projects he noted in Colorado, and with some of the large reclamation projects in Idaho. And doubtless when he returns to New-York New-York ho will spread before the financiers finan-ciers there somo general ideas on irrigation irri-gation and tho largeness of the enterprises enter-prises that may be undertaken that will wake up some of the .sleepy ones on "The Street." Tn politics, Judge Dos Passos is a Democrat, having had in thepast much hope of Judge Parker, of New York. But now ho has lost all expectation of seoing Judge Parker make much of a name for himself, because of Parker's come-down in Denver aud tho speeches he has been making in California. It is tho opinion of Mr. Dos Passos that Judge Taft will carry cveo'thing before be-fore him in the Easl, and that there is no doubt of Taft's election. From here Mr. Dos Passos goes to Reno, where he will stop to attund lo some business by appointment. From there ho will go to San Francisco, and then to Seattle to attend a meotiug there of the National Bar association.