The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-25
sIEDUSTRIAL sRoRTsIGHrEBNESS.

Perbars no State or Terri
tory in toe west pays out NOR
money than does Utah for goods
the i'm portation of which might b.
stopped without inconvenience ant
the manufacture of which would b'
attended with fair, or even large
profit. Though The HERALD ha:
on many occasions given facts and
figures in this connection, at the
risk of being accused Of repetition
il will enumerate some OF the
articles largely imported, which
could be produced here at less
cost. Between $500, 000 and $3.50. 900
goes cut annually for pork products
that could as well be kept in Utah
In pickles the cost to the Territory
Is from $500 to $4,000 per annum.
Very little capital would berequired
to supply this demand, ard the pro-
fits, with reasonable management,
would be certain. Utah, the best
fruit raising country, embracing
the industry generally, pay to other
commonwealth annually, $4,000
for canned fruits. For vegetables,
where, if possible there is really
less excuse, the annual outlay lie
$25, 600. The item paid by the Ter.
ritory each year for boots and shoes
is $250,00O. This amount is sent
out by country which exports an
nually 900, 600 pounds of hides, and
gets as an Offset -$zS. coo, be
sides paying railroad freights
both ways on the hides
It is among the reasonable possibili
ties for Utah TO manufacture her
own clothing, even against eastern
figures. In this thsn Klone fully
100000 could be saved yearly. Oats
to an unknown amount are imIOr ed
into Utah, when q BETTER article is
raised here. It ia admitted by. COM
petent persons that, even a, the
higher figure which Z all Cs'e.b Ei 6, |
they are still cheaper fOr the con-
sumner than the imported cereal.
Tons OF apples rot On the ground |
each summer, wheIe waste should |
be intoierable, and froEl which ex-
cellent vinegar, superior 10 tie ar
ticle imported could be made in SUI |
fciert quantity for expectation. AS
it is, fully $4,000 goes out of Utah
esch year for the simple article OF
vinegar. Colorado gets IS 200 year
from Utah for crooks. Colorado
never bad and never will have thel
opportunities Utah has for the
of this article of com nerce.
In a country from which tallow is
shipped, where manufac-
lures exist with capacity to en-
Dloy more than the internal demand
'or soap, and where the soap ranks
IS high, if not higher, than does the
article-in such a country,
n Utah-there is an annual expen-
iiture of $4,000 for foreign soaps.
This lie sin. Figures are not given
or the money expended for brooms,
brushes, hops, nOr for articles the
ost of which is greater, as on III
lass, and iron, and other things. |,
Nor do they include the importa- Il
ion OF butter, which alone is very Ii
item. Iowa and Neb. Is
aska furnish Utah with butter, Y
Vhen neither place is better quail S
ed for the manufacture of dairy
roducts; and when over 1000
niles Of expensive transportation
tands in favor of Utah. In cheese
lone is the home market most
supplied. and this enter> Z
rise has driven out foreign compe- y
tion. 1t is not always possible to .
)rce expectation, but it is possible Z"
u Utah to save. by producings, me d
I the goods che now imports. about d
800, 900 annually. Not one of the l.
rticles enumerated but can bel
laGe here at figure to competed
18th the imported. The money "a
nus saved would amount to one. o.
ali the sum brought into the Ter p
tory yearly by exports, if the
rCducts Of mines are not included.