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Show PREFERS SALT LAKE TO PACIFIC COAST Wesley King Returns From California; Declares Utah Greatest State. Weslev King is back in Salt "Pake after a summer spent in S'an Francisco. He is back io stay.. Mr. King went to the ccast. to take charge of the surety and fidelity department of the western west-ern branch of the Aetna Accident and 1 i ability company of Hrr'tford, Conn. Tit1 was urged to remain on the coast, but declined to (!o so, preferring Salt l-:t l;e to any of the coast cities. Mr. ami .Mrs. King and Mrs. 13ertha Gyweg returned to alt Lake yesterday. yes-terday. .Iut before coming to Walt Pake ' hey had spent a week at the Los Augelc beaches. Mr. and Mrs. King had been on the coast since July "j and Mrs. Grow-g had been with them for the past three weeks. On his ro turn Mr. King said: Pord. but 1 am glad to get a dvink of good, cold water, to see some green urass and trees not eov-ev(-ied with dust and to get a view oi the wonderful Oriental carpets r.i the foot hills lief ore tiie snow ei er- them. P tab looks mighty Mood ti; us and feels bet ter. Eos A ii'jf-Ics wasi melting hoi. Wc had to sr.; on the seashore to keep from losing all the fle-Oi we had put on during the ten weeks of wonderfully c n o 1 a ml delightful we a t h e r in I h e t J a n Francisco b a v-district. v-district. t. I i t or n i a i I hi 1 ly a 1 1 bu t the dust, which covers everything, and i he , en I blight on the progress of the ente. the ' ' n.ttive tarns. " ' I v;i--h the people of the state of F'n;i- -all of them con I 1 see the --plfi.uid roails which lubvrinth the fatc. California has pledged her inlscr tam-e of future rears. lm b bondtd her wealth to build roads. Per wis men of today have appiC-' appiC-' iau d the fact that it is tistdef i to improve land and produce without with-out raving good roads to them and th: t whatever the eot future omf-its omf-its from the land will pay tor them and more. If Utah would bond . 'nersel f for ten mi II i On dollars yes, ten million dollars and put it all into wagon roads her future won b I be assured. Her advance, from that moment would be by leaps and bounds. I ha.) two opportunities to stay in Cali for nia. They were at t rac-tive rac-tive offers, too, but we decided to return to T'tah for good, because we love it here, heraue Ptah really real-ly has a big future and-we want to be a part of it. bcaue w(- like the people, the life, the climate and business conditions, becamn we have our home, an established business busi-ness and business connections and because there is more work to do here toward the building of a bigger big-ger citr aud state, and that kind of work is the best fun thero is. We can always go to i alifornia to escape- either the heat cr the cold, if necessary, if I don't get too busv and forget to rest. Whn the timr earna to saT whether we would "tnv or not I put it up to Mrs. King. Her decision de-cision war made in a moment. T had already decided. So we came back a quicklv as possible and right glad we aro to be here. We've been gone- too long. I mustn't forget to mv that erervbodv knows Ptah for the Hotel Ho-tel T'tah. ''Pest in the eountrv'' ii the unanimous verdict. I finallv got into tho habit of saying that I owned it. After that 1 was extremely ex-tremely popular. |