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Show BRIGHT FUTURE FOR SALT LAKE . . . Denver Hotel Man Much Pleased With Outlook for the West. K. R. Cooper, for years one of the leading hotel ,inen of Denver and now also of Los Angeles, Is a guest with his wife at the Wilson, having Just ' arrived ar-rived from Los Angeles en route for Denver. In Denver Mr. Cooper Is proprietor pro-prietor of the twin Shirleys. At Los Angeles An-geles he manages the modern Lanker-shim. Lanker-shim. a -300-room structure with 170 baths. Speaking of the hotel season Just closing Mr. Cooper says California has never In Its history enjoyed so prosperous prosper-ous a season. The hotels have had all and more than they could do in the matter of. business. He credits it all to the low rate made by the railroads and says that the season of 1906 will be equally rich, as May will usher In a low rate that will bring In tens of thousands thou-sands of tourists from all parts of the country, with sixty and ninety-day limits. The winter season now beginning begin-ning to open will also be of the red letter let-ter order, he says. In this good fortune Salt Lake Is bound to benefit now more than at any prevloui time; because the Salt Lake route will get much of the travel which formerly went to Ogden and straight through, without stopping. Salt Lake he thinks will be good for a day or two of the time of most of the tourists tour-ists from the fact that their tickets will give them that privilege or even better. "Salt Lake seems to be on the eve of a big substantial upward move. I notice no-tice that it has largely improved in the last few years and the building of the trunk lines of roads now under way and in contemplation ought to make a great city out of Salt Lake, despite anything that can be done to the contrary." con-trary." Mr. Cooper went to Denver this afternoon after-noon via the Rio yrande. |