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Show ni to CCOSTfflU The Western . DeTelopment League Flans to Show East What Is Here. TEN STATES WITH ' WHOLE CAS FOX EACH Fijtured That Expenditure of $50,000 Would Be Worth Millions. To lnvsda Ui eastern states from whence must corns tha thoasaads of nsw peopls to build up ths population and waalta of the west; to cause th Billion, Bil-lion, of dollars of American money th sock Investment at home Instead of crossing th border into Canada, nod to keep th cream of tbe grant mints of American dtliens at horn la ths achem of th Westsrn Development tnociatloa as decided npoa la mset- - l of too xoewtlvw osmmitw of h , association yastsrd.y afttrnooa at th Commercial einb. i To do this th five great railroad lines piercing the west with thousands of mile of eonnteting line throughout th east will be asked to eo operate. Tea states of the great west Callor-. Callor-. nil, Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming. Colorado, Nsbraaka and Mnntsaa will unit ia this work of saving the west for Americas by equipping a train that wilt tour th fast a far as th) national capital. This train will be equipped to carry th gospel gos-pel of I be west into th home of millions mil-lions of people, showing th vast opportunities oppor-tunities now awnitisg th man who will seek them iutelligcutly. Kkt mate will equip and maintain one coach. It will be filled with the choicest exhibit of the ststs's resources re-sources asd I: will he managed by "a rorue of men wc'l trained in exploiting the nntural arfvuotaiiae aad resources of tbeir re.pective section. It i the purpose of the soriatiun to start this trsiu esrlv ill September, visit eastern states and cities and carry its eampaiga of education tA the very doors of the whits house. Returning westwsrd th trstn will revisit part of the territory covered going cast. At Omaha th train mil dithand for the land show there in October, according to th teatativ pises so far arranged. Th hustling wasters stsles, seen latent la-tent on building up its own resources and population, hare never before unit- forces snd fininces for a general campaign, th results of which will be - echleniati'sl. as far as what part each individual stale will raven. Figure It in Oath. Th n. alter of financing th trsia will he left to the commercial bodies of of the varioui ststes. Krom the stsnd tnken by th representatives ysaterday there will he so question about that part of the plnn. It haa been roughly estimated that the cost of sending car t .111 each state will be about flO.IMKI. This would aia"- the catiro train cost e'iil.ll'10. 1 Wii Csmphell of Omaha, secretary ' of the association, savs the advertising 1 this train will do could not be bought 1 at regular rstes under 'J..K)0,0iKl. An I advance ramig inrotignout is east will bs made. The aJotnn of the trip will be "tV America first.' f Kxhihita parried is the tr;iin will picture tb diversified intereet of th western country, . its ftiMomn, people and growth. Karh car will be equipped with a moving pirtur machine with hundreds of th best film thnt rso b produced, besides sJid of viws by the hundred. Ta Interest th Toting. One fcatur of th paaaag of ths train through th east will be the in te-et that will be taken by tha. i Rfbonls of th places visited. As as oh jee t lr on ; geography the train wilt be of nntold advantage to school ehil-1 dren. Kor this reason snd others tt is to be ex pet ted that the train will be1 viitfd bv thousands of bovs sad girls ihn, ia a few years, w '. be the us aod women the west needs. All these miner plsns nnd more were diseutteed at lesgth bv the committee yesterday afternoon. "The meeting ad tourned at' 5:30 o'clock and th visitors visi-tors were the guests of W. W. Arm fcirong and Joy H. Johnson at dinner. Aa automobile ride over the city yes-terdsv yes-terdsv afternoon waa enjoved by th vimtors.' Th ansnimous opinion of th i teitors was that Halt Lake has reached point in its growth and substantia) ro-ipent- where it will continue to rrow steadily with nothing to hinder or iyn tt. Its claim to being the metmno- lis of th Intermonntaii states is established, es-tablished, aay th viaitora. . Ooosldar Ways and Kmum. At the meeting yesterday Jamea H. Brady, president of the association, waa in th chair. H will dsvot a littl tim to th workiag out of th pis as adopted yterday. Th plans wee brought to a poiat yaatarday wherby a second meeting of tn icu-tiv icu-tiv committee will not b nc ry for two months. In thst time meeting meet-ing will be held at Portlasd, where all th railroads will be represented by high officials aad tha real work of developing de-veloping schedule and itinerary, .adopted. i Permanent publicity headquarters are to be established Bt Omaha, where thej i secretary. Will Campbell, will haj charge. H will issue a booklet aa too aa possible concerning tb raourea of ; tha tea states which will b teat ml fr distributioa. A awmbarship rampaitrn will b la-! aug-u rated mob. Th work of th asso-1 ciatioa.haa takea oa taagibl form and definite eads will b warked ta by I th executiee eommittM, That th "trav.hna land Teroducta ex. hihlt" will Be mors or lea of aa adv.r-tlscment adv.r-tlscment lor the ex posit loa to be held In ran Francisco In HI. Is admitted br th ! executlv committe. In fact, th com nilltre ta vending J. K. Itame of Washington Wash-ington to Sen Francisco Tueedar to meet ! the oTActale of the snooUon aod aucaset j the ooportunlty to them. i i. H. Brady will be eeat to New York 1 Cliy and t'bicaso th Brat of April to aee railroad Intereete ther aad to 8t. Haul to confer with J. J. aad U W. Hill , of tb Great Northern and Hosrmrd Kt-llott Kt-llott of tl Northern Pacifle. and open i n.aotlatlone with tbem for partlclpatooa In th enterprise. Vt ill A. Campbell of Omaha wilt go to Denver to take the matter up with Ooe- I rnuf Shafn.th and to Cheyenne to ee liovemor t'arey on the matter. ! Kllev Atkinson, secretary of the tveaxue ' f southern Idaho Commercial clube and rtv president of the orsanlsatioa from , iiat state, eilt return to hla elate to net ' l tla exhibit car ready, and eerrelary I. K. Came f the Salt lke Coeimerrlal I luh said; -V"e r ia vur ta, will b -vJy. j |