Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-17 | Page 14 | Tourist Travel is Advertising West

TOURIST TRAVEL IS ADVERTISING WEST Chicago Railway Official Says Pilgrimages Pilgrim-ages Will Be as Numerous Next Year as Tills. i ! I , Tourist travel through the west will be practically as heavy in 191(5 as it has been during the sea.n "just closed, in ; the opinion of V. A. Miller of Chicago., passenger traffic manager of the Chicago, Chi-cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. Mr. Miller stopped here a few hours; yesterday on the way home from the expositions for a conference with C. S. Williams, commercial agent for the company. ''The heavy travel through the west this summer was chiefly an advertisement advertise-ment for the western country, ' ' commented com-mented Mr. Miller. The 'railroads look at it largely in that light. The reduced rates from all eastern points cut the earnings of the individual companies com-panies to almost nothing in fact. I am inclined to believe that most of the roads found difficulty in breaking even. Hut all of them consider it a good investment, in-vestment, as the people of the east had an opportunity to jet a glimpse of what the west really i. The person? who t-ume west this 1m -d summer will come again, and they will be the Fjpft ridvertisemenfs the western country has uvur had."