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Show THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR. At this writing. President Taft is scheduled to reach Salt Lake on September 24. By the time this riche our renders, his visit here will Lave been completed, and he will have pone on his journey Procurations are all completed for his visit, and the entertainment in Salt Lake will be fitting. President Taft is the fifth president of the United States who has visited Salt Lake Ulysses S. Jrant, October 3 and 4, ISTo ; Puitherford B. Hayes, September 5 and fi, 1SS0; Benjamin Harrison, May !. 3891; Theodore Eoosevclt, May 29, 1903. President Presi-dent McKinley passed through Ogden while lie occupied oc-cupied the presidential chair, but did not visit the capital of the state on account of the illness of Mrs. McKinley. The present tour of President Taft is one covering cov-ering I.-J.Oim miles in its itinerary. It extends from Boston to Washington, D. C, and he visits some thirty states. He left Boston on September 15, traveling westward to Albany, Buffalo and Chicago. From Chicago he went to Minneapolis and St. Paul by way of Milwaukee, and thence to Des Moines, Omaha, Denver and Colorado Springs. From Colorado Colo-rado Springs his trip includes stops at Pueblo, I rand Junction. Montrose and Provo before reach- iug Salt Lake. After leaving here he goes to Se attle, where he will remain several days at the Alaska-Yukon-Paeific exposition. Leaving Tacoma i on October 1, his trip takes him down the Califor- nia coast to Los Angeles, thence through Arizona I and Xew Mexico into Grand Old Texas and Mexico, Mex-ico, where he will be received by the veteran president pres-ident of the Mexican republic. " From Texas the 'resident will go north to St. Louis, thence south 1o New Orleans, thence north and east to the Atlantic At-lantic seaboard to Savannah, to Charleston, to Columbia, Co-lumbia, Augusta, Wilmington, Richmond and Whirgton, where he will arrive on November 10. It is a great trip an education to the p-ople a Mil to the president and all unite in wishing Pjr.-ident Taft a pleasant and safe journey. |