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Show PLAN TO ADVERTISE wnraire Proposition Favored to Present Opportunities of City and State. REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION WILL TAKE UP SUGGESTION Great Benefit Would Undoubtedly Undoubt-edly Result From Campaign of Systematic Publicity. Ways and moans for advertising Salt Lako in a business-like manner is the subject of thought nud discussion on (he' part of the directors and members of tho Salt Lake .Real Bstatc association, asso-ciation, and it is probable, that within I he next few weeks aomo plans will be formulated whereby tho goods that Utah has to olTor for tbe inspection, of the prospective investor and homc-scckcr homc-scckcr will be set. forth in. the advertising advertis-ing columns of soveral of the best publications of the country. J. L. Perkes, secretary of the association, associa-tion, is heartily in favor of this, provided pro-vided some plan can be devised tor meeting tbe expenses of the advertising advertis-ing campaign, " R?:i1 Kst'ito association as-sociation hopes to solve the problem 111 the near future. Will Prcacnt Views. At the meeting of the directors of the association, held at the chamber ot commerce. Monday afternoon, the members mem-bers talked ovor tlio proposition, and tho views of the directors will bo presented pre-sented ul the regular fortnightly meeting meet-ing of lhc association, to lio held at tho Commercial club AVodnesday afternoon. after-noon. The association has collected a number num-ber of advertisements that have been inserted by othor western cities and states in the. leading magazines and periodicals of lhc country, and Socre; tar- J. L. Porkes has the opinions ot the leaders in organizations siniilar to the local association regarding the benefits of such advertising. Tho number of requests for information informa-tion regarding lhc city and stale indicate indi-cate tho general interest in Utah on the part of prospective homesoekers from coast to coast, and they furnish ono of tho strongest arguments iu fa vor of the plan to lot the world know what I1 tab has lo offer. Monday's Mon-day's mail brought no Icps Ihan six requests for information regarding the city and state, the writers living in as many different states, from California on the west to Virginia on tho east. Possibilities Are Unlimited. "If, without any special advertising of the state, so many aro Jed to inquiro about; Salt Lako and Utah with n view-to view-to settling here, tho natural question is. how many new citizens of the stale would we have at the end of tho year if wo advertised as other western states havo done?" said Mr. Pcrkct. One of the requests for litcratnro received re-ceived Monday was from a woman in Portland, who said sho had been requested re-quested lo prepare a paper on tho Sail. Lake Temple and Tnbcrunclo to read before a club. This letter was an exception, ex-ception, however, for each of tho othor seekers after information about Salt Lako and Utah said ho was contemplating con-templating moving, and would appreciate appre-ciate any general information regarding regard-ing tho city and state that might bo sent. |