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Show i ESTABLISHMENT OF GREAT LAWSON AIR LINE IS ASSURED OODEN BV SON OF THE PROMOTER! Ogden -will be on the route of lhe rent Lawson air line, according tQ vord given out here today b Marln I IWSOn, son of A W. Lawson. the pro riotor of the enterprise in the enst. Young Lawson spent 30 minutes in cdn today en route to Chicago &tyd stated thai this city would be repre-sented repre-sented on the great cross-continent ! line. , Young Lawson has investigated landing fields on the Pacific coast nnd stated that the company will also operate op-erate between Vancouver and Los? Angeles on the wfs! coast and be-iween be-iween Boston and points in Florida on ihe. ast coast While in this city last eck Lawson ; Sted the landing field at I tah Hot Springs ami wa- elated over the poa- Mbilities her,' m his u p to the OOasl be took this city into consideration irwl wired his father the details While at San Francisco he received the following message from hi - lather-Mr. lather-Mr. M;.rin Lawaon, St Francis Hotel, j San Francisco, f al Have investigated your reports on Ogden and find them satisfactory in every manner We have selected that Cit as one Of the landing points ind hope tb have planes wincing their way ' est within due time Complete your arrangements as soon as possible and return (Signed) a W. LAWSON. ' The concern when under operation will employ lifts- skilled m-ehanfes hen besides a number of other men to do like work on other phases of the game," said Mr. Lawson "The people of the Pacific coast are enthused over the possibilities of the game and are anxious to see our crafts making their trips in westwardly direc- I lion. At San Francisco in particular the people nre enthused over the air game and every possible aid will be : rendered by the city and state officials there In an effort to make the game broader in every phase, While the coast to coast trip wlin include two points only on each coast namely San Francisco and New York City, n la highly probable that we ye establish Hn. s between the coast cit-lei cit-lei of both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts The people of the east In particular par-ticular are enthused over this possibility possibil-ity and we are now completing plans for the work. "According to word which I received from father in due time the flights acrOB8 the Atlantic will be started with i machines capable of carrying fifty pas. sengrs and crew "Our engineers and other men will m be sent to this city within 'he next I i weeks to perfect plans for the landing land-ing field and their reports will be sent I to the main office at Milwaukee as soon as completed. "Ogden 13 an ideal city and a won (lertul landing field .s to be found at 1 , the north which in my estimation ranks with some of the best fields ri this country. Taking every point Into consideration it i- a hundred to one' shot that the people of this city will see our plans winging their way west within due time." Young Lawson together with three! ' Iriendo departed for Chicago this afr- 1 ernoon and assured this city ihat the j great line would pass through here, j Trial flights have been on the card in: I the east aod the flights westward will ; I be started within six week?. |