| Show l rR H HOE E ERVN I INT AlT lAKE A conservative estimate eSt ate places the amount nt of money spent by patrons p of the inte urban who ho have ve dope their shopping sloping in S Silt Salt lt Lake this t is year ear lat jat at The sum sLIm has been reached ed like this A tc total ta I. I of buyers buyers' hay have come come to S Salt lt Lake In the first nine nin months of 1916 on the from the the north north and south Ev Every ry sh shopper spends at least ast 10 so so 60 that sum sum ma may be taken at a fair average The Christmas pre season being an especially heavy one one one-as as a's regards shopping shopping shop shop- shopping ping the re remainder aind r of the year will likely bring this t total tal much higher perhaps an in increase rease of 50 per cent I UNITE CITY AND COUNTRY The are to Utah's capital capi capi- tal what the old Via Appia kopia was to toRome Rome Rom The Roman road united all alt the tributary territory Into a network of loyalty loyalty comm commercial and military military to to the parent city The electric driven cars from from as far tar as Pa Payson son to the so south th and from as far as southern Idaho to the north flash Into Salt Lake at frequent frequent fre Ire quent intervals bearing their human I II freight back and forth and uniting as nothing else could the city and its is I tributary countryside They have made possible something that is old to the East but new to the West West the the commuter More and more mor cit city residents residents men men of ot business and ariL men of salaries salaries have have taken their fan fam- flies back to the land along the interurban interurban interurban inter inter- I urban lines teor or they can there rear real their children next to nature and at atthe atthe atthe the same same time have e all the advant advantages ages of city life These men ride to J and I the city to to work each morning back each evening and ani bring their famIlies families families fam fam- into Salt Lake for the shows lec lee lectures tures recitals and other entertaInments entertainments entertain entertainments ments of pleasure and education While e the new Joint interurban ite ger germinal minal station is not entirely completed it Is in such shape that the public already already al already al- al ready is using it Popularity of the Interurban roads will be Increased d by bythe y the depots depot's convenient site an ease of ac access ess NEW NEVI STATION THRONGED Fair a and d. d conference visitors vIsitors' this thin week are using the electric lines t to advantage advantage ad ad- vantage and the station has been black with travelers every d day daly going or coming from or to the city attractions Eastern mart maH order houses have an antipathy to which is I claim I easy to understand as experts that such railroads with fairly good j service cut down own mall nall order revenues re amazingly amazingly- Mall Mail order experts have I analyzed the interurban craze as they term it and have found that as soon as an interurban line is built from small towns Into a nearby city Eastern mall mail orders fall off rapidly from the firs Jirs week Small town merchants have also had their commercial clubs working on the problem as to whether a frequent In Interurban Interurban interurban In- In traffic will cause their sales to and they have round to the contrary So it has proved in Salt Lake Every interurban means better re relations relations relations re- re trip of df an aM lations between Salt Lake and the thousands that dwell In the surrounding surround- surround ing ine territory every toot of a w whistle at some village crossing tells of bitter blows to Eastern mail mall order houses an and 1 added profits to rural buyers and sel sel- lers And the fact that Interurban lines of ofa ofa ofa flood of three-quarters three are are pouring a a million dollars yearly Into the marts astonishing but nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless never never- of ot this city is true |
