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Show U1ERWRITE15 GET "TASTE" OF 111 Members of National Asso ciation, After Brief Visit, Desire to Return GUESTS AT LUNCHEON Are Addressed by Govern or, Who Glowingly Pic tures State's Advantages Whatever you want we have it here n Utah Governor W llian Spry told ne nbers of the Nat onal Assoc a t on of L f e Underwr ters who were here yesterday on the r waj to the na t onal convent on in San Franc sco The 1 fe insurance men and the r fam lies number ng n ore than 100 persons n all arr ved n the morn ng at 9 o clock and were the guests of local un derwr terB unt 1 the r spec al tra n left at 4 40 o clock n the afternoon From here the underwr ters spec al went by way of the boutbern Pacif c to Lake Tahoe n the 8 erras and after a day s stop thero w 11 go on to San Franc sco Need More Than Day The v s tors were del ghted with the r stopover n th s c ty Governor Spry told them at the complimentary luncheon tendered them by the r hosts at the Commerc al club 3 esterday noon that they could not poss bly see all of the c ty s and state s interesting places n a day In replying Hugh M Willetts of At Ianta sa d that he purposed to make a longer v s t to Salt Lake after' the con vent ons on the coast He said he want ed to see the famous open face copper m ne at B ngham and other attract ons of wh ch the governor spoke Others of the v s tors expressed the r determ na t on to return by way of Salt Lake for a longer v s t and poss bly a b de trip to Yellowstone park The underwr ters spec al was met at Ogden yesterlay morn ng by D H L v ugston pres dent of the local assoc a t on and C D Kipp chairman of the local enterta nment committee Other members of the local recept on comm t tee met the v s tors at the stat on here and went w th them to Saltair The dav be ng pleasantly warm the guests donned bath ng su ts w th much sat s fact on and pronounced the r subseq ent d pp ng and exhil ration in Great Salt lake just as advert sed Hear Tabernacle Organ Upon the return from the beach the party went to the tabernacle for the noon organ rec tal Th s was much en joyed bv "the vis tors At the conclu s on of the recital the underwriters and their fam 1 es were escorted to the Commerc al club Luncheon was served in the gold room of the club At the conclus on Pres ldent Livingston extended a welcome in behalf of the local underwriters and called upon Governor Spry to extend greet ngs to them in behalf of the peo pie of Utah The goyernor remarked that Utah welcomed v s tors He told the nsur ance folks they were many times wel come that they should come aga n and again and invest the r money and get the r compan es to invest money n Utah Spry Gives Reasons We have enough copper in Btng ham alone to last for 100 3 ears at the present immense rate of mining we have enough coal to last the nat on for 400 years we have salt eno gh to p ckle the world and make sugar enough to sweeten it why shouldn t nvestments in Utah be good? de manded the governor Governor Spry remarked that Utah was do ng much more than many states whose pop lat on is far greater for the people and for development generally He estimated that there were 120 000 persons under 18 years of age in Utah and approx mately 0 000 waen earn ers who produce someth ng like $0 000 000 for the educat on of the yo ng He told the v s tors that about 88 per cent of the revenue from d rect taxa ton goes to elucaton Holds Utah in the Van The governor also nformed the 1 s tors that d fferences wh ch persisted n earl e days of Utah s h story have long s nee been forgotten and other states w 11 have to look sharply to keep abreast of Utah in progress wealth patr ot am and contentment Pres dent W lletts of the nat onaj assoc ation responded br efly express ng the apprec at on of the unlerwnt ers for the r recept on n Salt Lake It had been plannel to have short tal s fro n others present but the ho r was gett ng late and the autos wh ch were to take tl e tourists around the c ty we e honk ng outs de A flot Ua of a tos wh sked the n dcrwr ters to var ous po nts of u ter est in tl e c ty nclud ng beaut ful Wa satch dr ve unt 1 tra n t me Notables m Party In the party besides Pres dent W 1 lctts were several other present and past off cers of the national associa t on nc 1 g H Wilbert Sp ce of Detro t t easu er T Henry Johnson of C klahoma f ty secretary E prett M Fns gn of Now York orrespond ng secretary 1 rnest T Clark of Bait n ore past r res dent and Charlos W 80 e o( I t b r, pabt pres dent Co nty Clerk Thomas Homer had a pleasant reun on v th a f ion 1 of h B s hool lav wl lie the DBuraueo party was b c I the 1 arty were Mr and Mrn 7 la k of Oklahon a City fa n M Homer went to school together Kansas years ago When tl n lorwr ters special de pa tel (po g D Aller and fam ly of th e ty anl M ss Aloe I nd of Iih went w th Mr Alder and Mm I und are Utah lelcgatCB to tho nat onal convent on |