Show ALT lAKE U URGED GED WESTERN CAPITAL OF UNITED STATES IN DIVISION PLAN I I United Regions of America Ameri Amen ca Comprising Six T Territories Terri Tern tories This Ci City Foremost j Salt Lake LIc ha has been recognized as asI j. j I holding the most eminent position of or the cities 8 in the states along alon the WestI West West- VestI I em era coast and the intermountain ln rel rel re- re l glon including Arizona and New Nev Mex- Mex I J Ico feo Word to this tills effect has been re- re j from Philadelphia where there is a movement on foot toot to erase elase slate state lines and complete our nationalism by byI bythe 1 I the tM creation of or six territorial divisions to be known as the United Regions of America with Salt Lale Lahe to be the capital of the Western rc region lon The Philadelphia Plan was vas laid before re the chamber of ot commerce last February and is 15 now in the thc hands ls of or a n I special committee of the thc national commerce corn com com I merce chamber The six great reat divisions 11 are arc divided according to the railroad I facilities o of each and their activities acUities along alon the lines Jines of similar production This would make Salt Snit Lake the capital capital cap cap- I ital of the great creat Icat stock tock region and mining min Jn ing activities of the West and also of the agriculture of the coast states It ItIs Itis I is said b by the advocates of or this plan the Philadelphia bourse that bourse that the I passenger traffic has destroyed the provincialism of the individual that it has given the tho average citizen a a. national national national na na- na- na political perspective and we wo have haye so tar far advanced ad from our grandparents grandparents' rand grand parents' parents allegiance to a particular state that we settle Rettie our amor patriae upon the nation as a whole The plan calls for a complete reorganization Icor of or the present interstate commerce comm commission ion and the destruction Ion tion of the nine forty masters 1 or of railroad control It would m make ke Salt rake the great reat center of Wyoming Wyoming- Colorado Montana Nevada evada Wash Washing lugton lug lug- ton Oregon California Idaho Utah Arizona and New Mexico |