Show I jy rR TALKS lAlK T Mt 1 I Of That Era Assures Them Thera an of f Great Development Is Ahead of W West es Three hundred members of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce and prominent promInent prominent prom prom- business men of Salt Lake and Utah gathered today in a spontaneous welcome to William Spry former governor governor governor gov gov- of Utah and now commissioner Utah As he ha of the U U. S. S general land office entered the crowded dining hall han of the club he was greeted with round after round of applause Commissioner Spry was the principal speaker He was introduced by F F. F C. C Schramm new president of the chamber chamber cham cham- ber who for the first time appeared before the membership since his election election election elec elec- tion yesterday He too was enthusiastically enthusiastically enthusiastically greeted and loudly aj al when he s said ald he believed he had come into office orfice under happy auspices with an organization that for the first time in its history was out of debt with a year ear of wonderful promise before itHe it He paid a tribute to C. C B B. B Hawley the retiring president EAST AND WEST Commissioner Spry said the East was looking to the West Vest for the production production production pro pro- of greater riches and under promise of greater aid to Western Vestern I projects which h seemed assured he believed believed believed be be- the West Vest was coming into its own as never before In this work worl 1 Salt Lake was pointing the way vay as the I clearing house of th I country countr He said he had no doubt whatever that the Green river project I would be e put through as well wen as big projects in Idaho and Nevada ad adI addition addition ad- ad The commissioner said that in I to the tho Green river project inthis in ini inthis i this state tho the Weber Provo river project loomed as a probability and andI would add from to culI cultivated cultivated cul cul- I I acres to the wealth of the state I I i Mr Spry spoke of the remarkable i i i evidences of oil activity in this state saying that records of the geological I I survey sur credit Utah with a better prospective chance for oil than any other state has or has had He said that he entertained no doubt but what oil would be found here In satisfying satisfying satisfying satis satis- quantities OIL DEVELOPMENT In the development of oil territory it would be the policy of the old general genI general gen gen- eral land office to cooperate to the I fullest provided promoters make bonafide bona bonafide I fide tide effort he said and a added that I he hoped for the closer cooperation of I the tho land office and the public I The officials of tho lan land office arc are not detectives They are not the I enemies of the but friends land and their services for advice and cooperation cooperation cooperation co co- co- co I operation shall shan always be readily at atI atI I comman command ho said The speaker commented on the circumstance circumstance circumstance cir cir- I that congress had thrown the administration of the mineral land leasing bill on tho the land office without without with with- out providing additional heap With thousands of applications for prospecting prospecting prospecting pros pros- permits on file the department depart depart- ment rent was swamped and was only I gradually emerging from the sion |