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Show 1 host 10 GOVERfjORS Invitation Extended for 1919 Convention of ! State Heads. I Salt I-ake probably will be the scene of the next conference of governors j and governor -elect, according to the , belief of state official. Coventor ' Simon p.nnhf frm whn te atiMiHJlMg" the conference of governors In Annapolis An-napolis this week, has invited the governors gov-ernors to hold their next year's meeting meet-ing here, and the matter. It 1 believed, is being given favorable consideration. Sa It Ii ke wa chosen for t he national na-tional conference of governors in 1017. but. after being postponed several times, the meeting was finally abandoned aban-doned on account of war conditions, j War activities and the work of draft- iriR an army so occupied the attention j of stHte executives that the executive j hoard deemed It Inadvisable for the j governors to be absent from their 1 states even for a short time. j The last conference of governors, before be-fore the present one. was held 'In Washington In lfllfi. and It was at that convention that Salt I-ake was chosen. If Salt Iike gets the 1919 conference. President Wilson and members of hi cabinet, senators and congressmen pr44taldy will be here for several days, j The reclaiming of 4.0O0.A00 acres of arid and swamp land In the Colorado river basin for farms tor returned soldiers, sol-diers, sudors and munitions workers, which is receiving favorable copstdcra- ' titm from congress, should be well un- j der way by that time and should be I an Important object of discussion. Klght hundred thousand acres of this land lies In Utah. Former !nvcrnor William Spry 1 a memlw-r of the executive committee of t1e governors' conference and is expected ex-pected to add his invitation to that of. Governor Bamberger for the governors govern-ors to hold their next meeting here. |