The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

ployed; while the continued necessity for
additional buildings is ample testimony toL
the institution, and the certified payment
OF 81, 100000 in dividends since the begin
ming, twenty years ago, to home friends
and stockholders, is volume of itself which
''he who runs may read!''
The slow but progressive striving, in re-
gard to home Industries, which has been
inculcated for so many long years, bears
its increased fruit. The process may ap-
pear tedious, but to the observer it is I'M
doubtedly onward, and there is quite a
reaching out into new channels. The re-
Inauguration of annual territorial fairs
demonstrated this drift, but on the shelves
and in the warerooms of z. G. NJ. l. can be
found an immense diversity of wooden
fabrics, besides yarns and hose; home pro-
duced trunks, brooms, castings, dried
fruits, soap, whips, saddle trees, harness,
paper, are all now abundant; and among
the canned goods, no Importation can ex-
eel, if they can equal those put up in
Ogden and Provo. There are active steps
being taken to induce general interest in
the long talked of sugar factories the pre-
vention of an importation costing over one
million dollars annually, and still increas-
ing, is not only patriotic and statesman-like,
but it means profitable and diversified pro-
duct and labor to the farmer in many sec
tions of the territory. Steps are desirable
in some other directions though, which
might be quite as profitable, such as fruits,
oils, rope, bacon, hams, lard, canned beef,
oatmeal, cheese, butter, starch, willow
wares, etc, etc. Room exists even for the
export of some of these goods if they could
be had in excess of local demand.
A passing allusion to expectation is prob
ably here admissible. Z. G. M. l. possesses
considerable facility for outshipment of
produce. Its acquaintance with markets
and men gives it somewhat of an advan-
tage, and more, probably, has been done
by the institution than even it's friends
have understood. The shipment of grain,
lucern seed, and fruits in particular, which
has been attended to, so as to favor many
of our local stores has not always been
done at a profit, but the institution has
been pleased to exert itself in this direc-
ton when the margin was nil, or at times
an absolute loss.
Many have thought it desirable that z.
G. NJ. I. should, as an o organization, launch
out more fully in new directions of home
manufacture; but it may here be said that
while proud of the success already
achieved, no intoxicatiOn of brain is likely
to show itself in a discreet and conserva-
tive directory; because something has been
done it does not follow that anything and
everything can De, however sympathetic
in feeling or desire; nor probably is the
present unsettled condition of things a
time for much experiment, but that some
further effort will be made has long been
in contemplation. Whatever the directors
may determine in building or manufac-
ture, will be as for the public veal, to furn-
ish employment and contribute to the in
dustrial independence of the people who
have given this power to z. C. NJ. L and by
their patronage largely made it, what it is
to-day.
We shall here present the full list of the
present acting officers. The public have
discrimination enough to know their
friends. They also know that business
force is characteristic of the majority,
and those who are not so marked in this
wise are well known to be wise in counsel,
prudent in action, and reliable as the ever
lasting hills, which move not out of their
appointed places.
LIST OF PRESENT OFFICERS.
President. MILFORD Woodruff,
Vice-President, Moses Thatcher
Secretary, T. G. Weber.
Treasurer, A. w. Carlson.
Directors George Q. Cannon, JosephF.
Smith, H. J. Grant, John Sharp, George
Romney, ]. r. Winder, H. Dinwoody, P T.
Farnsworth, J. r. Barnes, W. H. Rowe,
T. W. Jennings.
General Superintendent, T. G. Weber.
Executive Committee Moses Thatcher,
H. ]. Grant, George Romney.
Their counsel to the people has been to
avoid indebtedness to practice economy;
to live within their means, while seeking /
earnestly to build up the country and beau
tify their homes. The spirit of prudence
dictates to men of business in all our settle
ments, that every sail be furled; that no
speculation as to large stocks unpaid for,
or unlimited and undue credit to patrons is
for the best. Self-denial is not unfrequently
d NlTGuc, anu W w WIGuOuG GudG WHICH CAN
not be paid for is a sound principle of do
nestle, social and political economy.
That competitive rush for trade, which
allows goods to leave the shelves of a store.
for fear some one else may get an undesir-
able customer, does not belong to the ethics
of Justice; and that disposition on the part
of dealers to fritter their purchases in IN
numbered channels, is not favorable to con-
fideuce or likely to bring friendly relief, if
unfortuitous circumstances required the
active sympathy of friend.
At the same time, Z. c.. NJ. l. is not
counting patronage on any other basis than
that of unexcelled ability to buy and sell
equivalent to the very best. Its reputation
requires this; its facilities, means and ex-
perience justify such an assumption; and
vet, after all, it does possess claims which
are based upon years of kindly inter
course and for many benefit conferred.
z. c. NJ I. aims to multiply its friends
by straightforward business methods, by
courtesy and attention, by intense study of
the situation and needs of the people, by
preferring genuine goods from,the best mar
kets by distribution unmarked of avarice,
and without seeking or waiting for the ad-
vantage over anyone, any where, or in any
thing. Surely this is its spirit, this its in
tent; and its undertaking record of twenty
years is the best evidence as to its I'M
doubted future. In this and other pages of