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Show WHY 1911 SHOULD BE A BANNER YEAR IN SALT LAKE CITY General Passenger Agent of Salt LaKe Route Discusses Business Conditions. "There 1 every reason to predict that the passenger business over the Pstt Lake route during the coming summer will be by far the he ictt in th history of tho road. "The meeting of the Traneronti acutal Passenger association in this city next June will do much to -adertiso Halt 1-eke rite. "The sew Utah hotel will be the means of advertising this city ia a way that few people realise." These were among the assertions made this morning by F. A. Wann, general gen-eral traffic- manager of the Halt Lak route, who arrived in this city In his privat car. accompanied by his oldest sun. Mr. Wind la enthusisstic over the prospects for a busy year for the entire west and especially for the Halt Lske mute. Ho declared that the line is fsst , being put into snap where it would no longer have to fear from high watera In speaking of the prospects for pss-scnger pss-scnger business during the next few months, he declared that every indira-tioa indira-tioa was that the road would du a greater business thsn ever before. L'Of nur.", said he. "Ik moos business that w do the better it is for Salt Lake City, as a majority of the people who travel bv our lin will surely sure-ly atop off for a day or more in this city.'" Air. Wana called attentina to the latest folder of the bait Lake rout of which 50,000 are issued and distributed everv month. One entire page of this is devoted to advertising Hnlt I.ake (.'itv. There are pictures of the temple and tabernacle and of Kaltair, with the invitation: "Stop over at Halt Lak Citv." Mr. Wana declared that th meeting of th Transcontinental Pasncnger association, asso-ciation, to be held here ia June, would bring together th representatives of over flftv railroad avstema, many of whom bad sever visited this city, while other had not been her for year. "I feel confident that every one of them will return to hie home with a bigger and broader idea of Halt Lak Citv the he ever had before." Hpeaking of the new Utah hotel, Mr. Wana ssnl that it was without donbt on of th finest hotel west of Chicago Chi-cago and could sot help hut do much to Impress upon th minds of th traveling travel-ing public of th importance of Salt Lake City. Mr. Win say th citrus crop of souther California ha beea the largest in the history of that state, a conservative conserva-tive estimate placing the crop at not lea than 42.A0UV carloads. From tMI to 300 carload ar being shipped cast every week at th present time, of which, th Salt Lak rout is handling aa average of over sixty ear a weeh. Mr. Wana was busy today conferring with local officers of the road. U will return to Los Angeles tomorrow. |