Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-11 | Page 5 | Coast Prepares for Post War Business

C01ST PREPARES FOR POST WARBOSISS Business men and bankers of San Francisco Fran-cisco are making great preparations for an Increase in trade during the present year, according to Freeman Morningstar, real estate operator of Salt Lake, and they express confidence that the volume of business will increase whether the war continues for an indefinite period or not. They also seem to feel that a great wave of prosperity will follow if peace is declared, de-clared, and even greater prosperity if tho war terminates, because of allied triumph, and that a boom in business circles would be felt such as has never before been experienced ex-perienced in the world of trade. Everywhere he went. Mr. Morningstar says, business men speak in highest terms of Salt Lake, particularly of its standing as a solid city financially and commercially. commer-cially. Some of the more prominent bankers, bank-ers, 'he states, expressed the . belief that Salt Lake will soon be as large as any city in the great inland went. "They all want to come back to Salt Lake," said Mr. Morningstar, "and T was greatly pleased to hear a number of persons, per-sons, who had moved to the coast or to Denver, declare that as soon as their business connections would permit, they would return. They are all singing the praises of Salt Lake to their friends, who ! are living on the coast or who are visiting there from the ea-st and north. "All of this means much for the future 1 of our beautiful city, a city admired by all who have been privileged to spend an hour within her gates. "I am stirely glad to get back into the real sunshine of good old Salt Lake, for while they of the coast all speak of California Cali-fornia as the Golden State, of their 'Golden 'Gold-en Gate' and 'Sunny California. T must confess that fully two-thirds of the time that Mrs. Morningstar and I sojourned At Long Reach, Los Angeles. Sa n Francisco Fran-cisco and even at Fresno, and way down toward San Dieao. it was either raining good and hard or was misty and cloudy. 'Notwithstanding the fact that the railroads have greatly curtailed their p.isscnger service, in carrying out the conservation idea, and to meet tne demand de-mand for inere;isM freleht handling facilities, fa-cilities, the people of Los Angeles and Loner Beach claim that the number of winter vis; io-s this season was greater than ever before"