Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-18 | Page 2 | Spry is Honored by San Diego Fair Directors

S SPRY PRY IS HONORED HONO R ED BY SAN DIEGO FAIR DIRECTORS Named on Advisory Board of Exposition and Accepts Accepts Ac Ac- Accepts Place Col ol D. D C. C collier pollier director general of ot the Panama California exposition at San Diego called on Governor Spry today and advised him that he had been named a member of the advisory board of the exposition Governor Spry accepted the appointment and took that occasion to exchange greetIngs greet greet- ings of ot the most cordial feeling with CoL Collier Utah will doubtless reap vast benefits benefits benefits bene bene- fits from the continuance of the San Diego exposition through this thi year Colonel Collier said The je present prosperity of Utah as contrasted with financial and industrial conditions in inthe the Middle West Is remarkable and is doubtless due In a large measure to Utah's advantageous location from the tourists tourist's standpoint while the exposition exposi exposi- tion Is in progress The continuance of ot the exposition will bring additional prosperity Spry Praises Collier Gove Governor nor Spry said that Colonel Collier Col Col- Colher Col lier her is a big man many and that he heis Is backIng backing back back- ing the Southwestern Pacific railroad projected to tap the riches of San Juan and the Kaibab forest region We look to you Colonel Collier Comer Governor Spry said to complete that railroad project and open to the world these vast storehouses of natural but undeveloped wealth We In Utah are prosperous now now now-I I dont don't know to what limits our prosperity prosperity prosperity pros pros- would go If the war would end right now You Your I 1 believe would have completed the financing of that great railroad project had the war not Interfered inter Inter- interfered with your plans Will Go to Limit Utah as a state is powerless to aid the San Diego exposition more than w we e have done our limitations having been fixed by the legislature But the people people peo peo- peo- peo pIe of Utah Utah all all of ot her citizens will citizens will do doall doall doall all In their power to help The Utah building was turned over to the exposition for a consideration of 1 The exhibits will not be removed not not one pound of the exhibit material material ma ma- I will be taken away from San Diego o this year vear