Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-15 | Page 2 | Miller Predicts Heavy Travel on Victory Highway

MILLER PREDICTS fA HEAVY Vf IRA TRAVEL ON HIG California Contribution Is Not Regretted AID TO TOURISTS Utah Coast Relationship Drawn Close Close- f We put up a few thousand d dollars dol- dol lars from C California to help bring t that wonderful highway across Jfe Xe vada and vada-and and Utah as our Ul contribution to a a. great work and we ae certainly I 1 Iare are never going to regret a a. cen en eI of It ft said W. W V. V I L. L Miller l' l secretary secretary- manager of the Oakland chamber of oC commerce and live wire Ro- Ro tarlan who Tuesday extend extended d the greetings of ot the Oakl Oakland nd Rotarians to the Salt Lake members of or the same organization at their Hotel Utah luncheon That avenue of ot communication Is Js but another link to draw together the Industrial relationships re relationships ye- ye of Utah and California already ady Joined by steel rails rans We will wUl send you so man many motorists from northern California that ff your city will wUl be swamped CAME IN CARAVAN Miller has just come a across ross from front Oakland with the motor that has been entertained along the tha theline line from trem the Pacific to Salt Lake with governors of three states state participating participating par par- In the dedication of the tho Victory highway Northern California Cali Call fornia is all enthusiastic says Mil Mu- Miller leI ler that a direct line now extends straight across the continent from front New ew York to the Golden Gate The news of the completion of this great grent work will brin bring thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of travelers through and the they are coming both ways was Every motorist in California has just about explored the state They have ha wanted to come to Utah since they began hearing about the wonders of ot Zion and Bryce canyons canons and the beauties of the north rim of the Grand canyon canon but they have have- dreaded the so-called so terror terrors pf qt the an I Utah deserts Now oW those terrors are removed With the exception of a few mites mite it Isone isone Is Isone one of the best highways highways' In the tha world DEEP SIGNIFICANCE There Is a a. deeper significance In Inthis Inthis inthis this connection of Utah and Call Call- fornia Down In the bay region people are beginning to learn that much of th the Iron and steel going into new construction at Oakland comes from the coal and Iron mines mutes of ot Utah The great plant at Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg up the bay front from Oakland Oakland Is turning out outa a great quantity o osteel ot of steel and Iron IrOIl products product's made from the pig Iron of Utah This material materials is s going Into new construction In Oakland that is now building at the tIle rate of a day We Ve have hava branches of ot national Industries and add added d hew new Industries to our list during the past y year ar DISTRIBUTING POINT For the people living west of ot the Rocky mountains Oakland Oakland Oak Oal- land is 57 7 per cent the best distributing point There Is deep economical economical economical econom econom- ical reason why Salt Lake and Oakland should get together since this Is the best distributing point for tor the Intermountain country countr The Pacific empire is getting economically economically econom independent of ot the East and It has two thirds of the earths earth's population tc tt the West est to look af at at- ter With Ut Utah's hs h's wonderful re resources resources rt- rt sources this state should take a R. prominent part In trade relations with states further west and with the lands across the Pacific We Ve in Oakland are spending this year jear ear for civic Improvement a goodly part of it to be spent nt for for harbor improvement ement We e hope to have the greatest harbor on the Pacific coast and from that we will ship all an the products you can send down from Utah