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Show THE ELKS. The Elks are soliciting subscriptions for their coming festival. They should have a generous response from the people of this city. The expense of receiving and entertaining enter-taining the visiting Elks will be very great. It is expected that 35,000 pairs of strange antlers will be tossed in the city in August. Suppose there are but half that number. Think what a tax upon the resources of the order it will be to house and to provide places for them to get food. But on the other hand, what? Elks are proverbially generous. It is safe to say that they will on an average expend $5 per day each, probably twice that amount. Let any one who is curious estimate the amount of money they will drop here during a week's visit. I Again they will be here from every state. They will see and report upon Salt Lake and their reports will be read from Maine to California, from Puget Sound to Florida. It will much depend upon how they are received re-ceived and entertained, whether that report will be cold or warm. It is up to the people here. They have never failed. They should not now. |