Show Salt Lakers to See ee Big Gun Tuesday and Wednesday 4 Coast Cannon Will Be Exhibited Near U. U P. P Station This is one of Americas America's largest mobile guns a huge inch 14 coast artillery defense I weapon mounted on its own railroad car which will be on e exhibition The gun is I coming over the Union Pacific and will Avill stop long Jong enough for careful inspection b by lo local local lo- lo A I cal people I y v J o 1 Y J t jt 4 0 1 J. J t. t r r C Cs c. of 01 C c. c Wins Point After Red Tape Marathon Can rou picture a 8 hurling burling a pound 1600 missile from Salt Sali Lake to Lehl Lehi Salt Lake Is to be host to the thc giant of ot the United States army mi Tuesday and Wednesday a colossal I Inch fourteen cannon that if it turned I skywards would tower over th the n federal eral building by several feet teet for tor forthe the huge coast defense weapon is in ninety five feet teet long I The gun gu is to be exhibited on or I tracks at the extreme south end ort 01 of t the Union Pacific depot within I easy access to the people accordIng according accord- accord Ing log to II IL E. E Godwin general genera freight I agent The spectators spectator will not have hays to cross any tracks It Is announced Public of or the workings of ot the gun will be made math on Tuesday afternoon noon and evening and Wednesday forenoon The Th weapon will arrive e at Tuesday noon noor I and leave twenty tour hours later I After yards and yards of or red tape taps I had been unraveled in the genera i war war- department procedure the Salt Lake chamber of commerce has hall I succeeded In bringing the great gun gus gunto gunto I to this city The correspondence t that at resulted In the Uie final order for I tine the weapons weapon's transportation to sato Salt I Lake originated from a 8 request that developed develop d Into official lol orders signed b by Dwight F. F Davis secretary of ot war and pleas to Major Harold old E. E I Small in charge of ot the gun For U appear appear d Salt Lake would be ignored in the Itinerary lila Itin crazy and if It it had not been for tor the tire persistence of ot President Beverly S. S Clendenin of ot the chamber of ot commerce commerce com corn merce the great gun ml might ht never point Its snout out of ot a Salt Lake sky Having recovered from the hue haze of ot telegrams chamber offIcials officials off i believe twenty-five twenty miles of ot re red tape have been blen used The weapon arrived In Ogden early earb Monday londay morning and will be beon beon beon on exhibition In that city until Tuesday morning when it will be besent besent besent sent to tn Salt Lake to he hA a n i visitor m here until Wednesday The transportation of or the great gun is a a. story In Itself Army engineers studied every line over which the weapon could be transported transported transported trans trans- ported every bridge was Investigated ed ed for tor railroad officials had to be certain that each ach was trong strong enough to bear the amount of ot concentrated ed weight weIght twice twice as much as that of ot the biggest locomotive e for tor the I gun Itself weighs poun pounds I |