The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-21
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH,
April 10, 1881.
To the Stake Bonrds of Trnlle.

o tfte St1he boards or Trade.
There will be a meeting of lions
Central Board of Trade on Tuesday.
May II, 1881, at II am, at the Coun-
Gil House. Salt Lake City, for the
purpose of arriving at a better I'M
derstanding of what is needed to
more thoroughly develop and assist
our home industries; to establish
them on better and firmer footing.
and to utilize the natural resources
of the territory.
You Will therefore please instruct
the members who represent you in
lions Central Board of Trade to
meet with us on the above date, pre-
pared not only with all the informal
ton possible ON such subjects as
may interest and benefit your sec
ton, but to discuss the following
subjects, and suggest such plans for
carrying them out as shall tend to
the best interests of the territory.
The following subjects Will be
taken up in the order mentioned:
FirSt.-Manufacture of iron and
coke. Our iron foundries.
Tie deposits of iron ore in Utah.
are said to be the largest in the
world, and the manufacture of the
ore into iron would be the means of
giving employment to hundreds of
our people who, though skilled in
its manipulation, are to-day engaged
in less profitable and congenial en-
Fuel being required in large guam
titles, the manufacture of coke
would come under this heading,
being a necessity for making finer
grades of iron.
In connection with the iron ore
beds of the territory, red and
yellow Ochres abound. Samples
of lead, iron and chrome
venetian red, chrome rec,
yellow and green; and white and
red lead are to be seen in. our DeS-
eret Museum in this city, yet none |
Of these have been produced in
quantity sufficient to even supply |
the home demand.
SecOnd.-Manufacture Of white
cad, lead pipe, and sheet lead for
'OOling purposes, etc.
Pure lead is now being shipped to
California, and there manufactured
nto white lead and reshipped to
Utah, thus costing the people freight
10Th ways, and the labor and profit
Incident thereto are entirely lost to
Is.
Observation-Disclosures of glass.
F'OuTth.-WoOl and wooden manu-
actures.
FJth.-Manufacture of Clothing.
Si.rth.-Silk and silk manufac-
ures.
SeUenth.-Manufacture and impOr-
alton of wagons. carriages and agri-
cultural machinery.
Eighth.-Hides; manufacture of
Gather and boots and shoes.
Observation-Disclosures of paper.
Tenth.-Butter and cheese.
EIeUenth. = Flour, corn meal,
tarch, etc.
I1OeLfth.-SOap.
Observation-Disclosures of sugar
,ane and beets for manufacturing
sugar.
The importance of our making an
,ffOrt in this direction Will readily
De seen, when it is remembered that
he people of Utah consume annu-
lily over half a million dollars worth
If sugar.
Fourteenth. - Manufacture of
Fifteenth.-Salt.
SiGteenth.-Glue.
Secentee1th.-Hats and caps.
Eighteenth.-To encourage plant
ng and raising forest, fruit and
shade trees. shrubbery, flowers and
Iulbs suitable to our climate, and
5hus prevent thousands of dollars
leing annually sent out of the terri
.ory.
Nineteenth. - 10 encourage the
and raising of fine
stock, and discourage the
people from sending their means
)ut of the territory for
such stock, when it can be obtained |
here at as reasonable rates.
BY counseling together we hope
20 be able to see the way clearer for
establishing some of the industries
to; of deYising methods
FOR assisting those already started, |
and utilizing for the benefit of all, |
some, at least. of the many natural
resources of our rich and growing
In behalf of
lions CENTRAL BOARD OF
TDanE
I. G. WEBER, JOHN TAYLOR,
Secretary. President. |