The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25
A REMARKABLE GROWTH.
The Rapid Development of Clark,
Eldredge & Co.'s Business.

Among the remarkable growths in
the business world of our city are those
of Messrs. CLARK, Eldredge & Co. and Mr.
Spencer ClaWson. Tney,are neighbors
and are in different lines of business,
though they follow the principles OF
each other in that they both confne
themselves to the wholesale trade. The
growth of Clark, Eldredge & Co. has al.
most been rem arkable, and demon
strates that it has been upheld in good
business judgment and persistent labor
to have made so singularly rapid pre-
gress in such very brief time.
Were it fact that the competition
in this territory for the trade of retail
grocers and sellers of hardware was
but light, and had there been little
contest for supremacy save from those
within the border of the territory in
the same business, the present con-
dition of the firm and its past growth
would not contain so much for sur
prise, but when, beside most deter
mined competition from within the
territory, there has also had to be met
a decisive fight from irms With
out for the local busi1 ess of Utah,
then that the firm should have
done so well is certainly a matter for
commentator and for selfgratulation
on the part of the management and
those who are interested in the
firm, for it is a stock in cor
poration, The HERALD has already
fn ha
that the premises occupied by the
firm wien it began business had
grown altogether too small for the bust
ness they were doing, and an addition
had to be built onto the structure to
give them the room required. The
whole of two large stores have been con-
verted into one, and are used as a
display or sample room and for offices.
In all this space barely two articles
of the same kind are CARED
The entire stock laid out for inspection
is but varieties of the goods. The base
ment, running from one end of the
building to the other, and being in
width equal to both the stores, is piled
from floor to ceiling with the goods of
which the articles on the ground floor
are but the types or samples. The
rear establishment is kept for packing
establishment. and the amount of boxes
and the number of bales daily carried in
and then carried out, first as they are
received from the east, and then as
they are sent out to the different part
of the intermountain country where
their trade extends, is caution. Be-
fore the addition to the rear was made,
most of their packing and unpacking
had to be done on the street in front
of their store. But the change, while it
does not show to the public SO widely
the trade they are supplying, is of very
great advantage to the firm, as it keeps
the front of their store clean and open
and enables them now to handle the
goods by an elevator in taking them to
and bringing them from the cellar,
where they had to use ropes and main
strength before. And the business
continues steadily to grow, and further
additions to their quarters will soon be
necessary. But then tbs firm have Mr..
John Clark as manager, and Mr.. Nelson
Empey as a salesman and travelling
man, and if they cannot succeed with
this team there would be more surprise
than at the success they have achieved.