Show Thanks to Rio Grand Grande We Ve re think the state stale of Utah owes a special vote of thanks to the Denver and andRio andRio andRio Rio Grande Western Vestern railroad for bringing bringing bringing bring bring- ing to this state and to the intermountain tain west generally a group of representatives representatives representatives of this country's greatest banking houses insurance companies and investment trusts True the brought the 62 prominent financiers out primarily for a selfish reason The railroad proposes to float a refinancing bond issue and it seeks the cooperation of these controllers of vast amounts of investment investment investment in in- vestment capital in carrying out that bit bitof bitof bitof of company financing But in the process of selling these visitors on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad it was necessary to do a job of selling on Utah and this intermountain country Many of these visitors had never had such an opportunity to see postwar Utah's developments But during their V tour last week weck they visited the Geneva Steel plant the copper copper copper cop cop- per mine at Bingham the new copper refinery at Garfield as well as touring Salt Lake City and Ogden manufacturing ing areas and the typically thriving agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural area of Davis county feel confident that no one can visit this state with open eyes and not leave it sold on its many attractions These bankers and investors cannot but regard more favorably in the future proposals proposals proposals pro pro- for business or industrial developments developments developments develop develop- ments in our state And in many of the delicate decisions of high finance it takes little to swing the balance one way or orthe orthe orthe the other other to to Utah or away from our state Thanks to the Rio Grande some decisions decisions decisions de de- de- de in the future should be swung just enough to put them on Utah's side |