Show I I i FLORIDA GAIN SAIS PAYS U UI P MAN SAYS SAY Western Products Goto Go Goto o oto to Coast Markets Not South Claim Carl R. R Gray Grat president of the I Union Pacific system arrived ed in Salt Lake Thursday evening for forthe forthe forthe I the purpose of ot awaiting the arrival here of Judge Robert S. S L Lovett vett chairman of the board of directors Of t that corporation who Is Is d e to reach this city Saturday morning from Los Angeles Together the active c heads of the s system stem will journey to Omaha where Mr Gray will remain hile Mr lr Lovett continues continues continues con con- on to his New York office President Gray who spoke at th the Weber club in Ogden Thursday evening was the guest of honor a athe atthe at atthe the chamber of ot commerce luncheon Friday noon He will also be th the guest at a dinner Friday evening at the Alta Alla club FLORIDA ENTERS FIELD Reviewing existing conditions In Inthe inthe inthe the West Vest President Gray told Gray told th the Salt Lake chamber that Florida ha has become a factor both as a resor resort center and as a tropic semi-tropic fruit fruit- growing section which challenges challenge the of southern California California Califor- Califor nia In those fields This being true he said we of the Intermountain intermountain intermountain Inter inter- mountain V West st must realize that tha we get nothing out of ot the business which goes to Florida but we d do share in many wa ways s the destiny o or of orthe the Californians In other words as against Florida the bread o of and Idahoans is buttered on the same side as that of th the southern California people Although Although Although Al Al- though we may have some some- sectIonal feeling as to southern California California- especially because of or the we well known modesty of their boosting methods methods methods-It It is up to us to back them as against Florida L. L A A. A BIG MARKETA MARKET A report handed me only this thi morning Mr Gray continued shows that carloads of Utah and Idaho products were marketed around Los Angeles last year This total was made up of ot cars o ot of livestock 1949 cars of ot grain of 01 potatoes 9 of beans o ot of poultry and eggs and of dairy products These figures will show that it Is to our Interest to sta stand standby d dby by the West Vest since any deterioration tion or loss of population in th the Golden State will react unfavorably against one of ot the big markets fo for Utah and anti Idaho products On th the other hand we have nothing to gain by watching Florida cut into the business of southern Califor Califor- nia President Gray declared that tha wherever he has been recently In Washington Oregon Idaho and Utah fruit conditions appeared ex excellent excellent ex- ex and he predicts a bumper fruit crop providing there is no killing frost within the next weel week or ten days Aside from coal mining mining min nun ing lag he says the mining industry good shape and shipments are above normal HELPS INDUSTRIES Regarding the steel Industry in Utah the head of the Union Pa Pacific a a- a ciCic declared that it is the settled policy of ot his road to enable the steel interests at Ironton to secure their raw materials as cheaply as possible possible possible ble to the end of building up the steel teel manufacturing possibilities ol of this sta state e. e Every E advantage of ot rates will be given to that end he said as his company is looking forward forward forward for for- ward to the day when it will derive great benefits from the steel industry industry industry indus indus- try here Mr 11 Gray also announced that he would visit Zion park parle and the su- su rounding country next June but that no definite date had yet et been fixed for the trip W. W S. S Basinger passenger traffic manager of ot the Union Pacific system tern tem arrived in Salt Lake as one of President Grays Gray's patty party Mr Basinger will proceed to Zion park Saturday morning to look after preliminary preliminary pre pre- arrangements for the toe theof of of official official official opening of ot that playground on May 15 |