Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-02-28 | Page 14 | Exposition Will Help Salt Lake and State

EXPOSITION WILL HELP s SALT LAKE AND STATE Traveler Believes Millions Will Be Invested In-vested In West Because of Increased In-creased Tourist Traffic. Ross E. Clark, representing the Hotel Alta. 1G5 Third street, San Francisco, is in the city for a few days, a gu:st at tho Cullen. During the past two years Mr. Clark has traveled extensively through Nevada. Idaho and other portions of tho west. Speaking- of San Francisco as the city now officially indorsed at which to hold tho Panama exposition four years homo, he said: "Tho early settlement of the question by congress is already having a stimulating stimu-lating effect on business all through this western country. The travel -westward this year will be markedly increased over that of previous years, and this Increase is good for at. least four years. It will be the means of circulating millions mil-lions of dollars throughout the coast and Intermountaln states that would not be diverted in this direction but for the forthcoming exposition. "Among some of the larger benificlaries may be put down Salt Lake and the state of Utah. This, not altogether on ; account of the thousands of tourists that will pass through tho city on their way to and from tho exposition, but also he-cause he-cause of the fact that many persons of means, on tho outlook for profitable investment, in-vestment, seeing for themselves the splendid opportunities, will not hesitate lo nut their money into mines, lands, farming-, fruit growing and stock raising. rais-ing. "This is the first time In tho history of the country that the great west lias been given an aoporl unity to show to the world the kind of an empire we have and the enterprising, energetic, hospitable hospit-able people that have developed it,"