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Show : WILL MAKE LONGER stops ira LM Manager of Railroad Tours Is Pleased With Treatment Treat-ment in Zion. A heavy tourist travel throughout iba west during- the coming year is predicted by S. A. Hutchison, manager of tho Union Pacific and Chicago & Northwestern department of toura, who arrived in Salt Lake yesterday. Mr. Hutchison is on one of his regular trips through the west to line up the coming year's tours, and stopped in Salt "Lake to confer with local passenger officials and airango lor hotel accommodations here for his tourist parties nest year. "Besides civins; Salt Lake a prominent ! nlsce in ail ot his advertising littsra-j littsra-j Hire. Mr. Hutchison has arranged to ' cive his winter tourists o. two days I :top in Salt Laio and the summer tourists a day and a half, instead ot the eipht hours in former years. The j chief reasons for lengthening the stop ! here, he savs, are the unusual hotel r.cconiruodations and the excellent treatment he received last year from Manager George O. Eelf of the Hotel Two winter tours to the coast -will Vin ran, one in January and one in February. For the main part these will be run to feel ont the eastern tourist travel, which in former years i has been diverted to Europe. Inasmuch Inas-much as the European travel will be ! curtailed on account of the war, Mr. I Hutchison thinks the time is opportune to promote the '-See America first movement, and -will put forth every effort ef-fort in that direetiou. j Already, he says, a great number ot special tourist trains havo been contracted con-tracted for through Colorado, Utah and the Yellowstono park and then to the coast. On account of nearly 300 conventions con-ventions scheduled to be held on the coast during the summer and tho additional addi-tional travel incident to the expositions, ex-positions, he is of the opinion that arrangements ar-rangements have been made for only a few of the special trains that will be ir. Hutchison will confer with TJ. "E. Bin-lev, general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line, and J. H. Mander-fiel.f. Mander-fiel.f. assistant general freight and passenger pas-senger agent of tho Salt Lake Route, this morning and then start home by way of Denver. |