The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-01
THE JUBILEE BUSINESS
Merchants Did an Enormous
Trade That Week.
WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS
ALIKE REAPED a HARVEST.
Enormous Trade Done By the z. C.
NJ. 1.-The Visitors Combined
Business and Pleasure-The Big
Celebration Well Repaid Those
Who Subscribed to the Fund.

There is no doubt that the recent
Jubilee resulted in great financial ben
eft to the merchants of Salt Lake
City. The $4,000 people who came to
the city during Jubilee week did not
come here for pleasure alone, but a
very large proportion of them took adj
vantage of the low railroad rates, not
only to witness all the interesting fea-
lures of the celebration, but also to
purchase large quantity of merchan-
disc, and take it back to their homes
One of the prominent business men
of the city, who expresses himself as
thoroughly satisfied with the CONNER
cial results Of the Jubilee is Mr..
Thomas G. Weber, secretary and SUI
perintendent of z. c. NJ. I. He stated
to Herald reporter yesterday that
with the possible exception of a few
disgruntled individuals, he did not be-
lieve there was a merchant in the city
who would not give full credit to the
Jubilee as a means of increasing his
business. or who would not freely ad-
NIT that the celebration had been of
very material benefit to the CONNER
cial interests of the city.
z. C. NJ. I. HAD A BIG INCREASE.
OO ldf DIS OuI wv IL DQSincSS - COn-
cerned," said Mr.. Weber, the vol
ume for the month of July Gust clos
ing was far in excess of that of the
same period last year, and, of course,
the greater amount of the increase &C.
Cured during the latter half of the
month. We certainly feel repaid for
any outlay that we may have had to
make on account of the Jubilee cele-
bration, ard 1 believe that all the bust
g ost t1,e
same thing. There can be no doubt
that the Jubilee was great benefit to
the city not only in the matter of
bringing people here who would nat
urally patronize the stores, but also in
giving thousands of people here from
outside the state a grand exhibition,
and showing them the wonderful de-
velopment and resources of the state.
1t was a great advertisement for the
state, and could not but attract a great
amount of favorable attention to us.
Our store was closed in the mornings
and until o'clock in the afternoons, as
we realized the fact that there were
too many attractions on the streets in
the mornings for people to desire to do
any shopping then, and besides, by
closing the store it gave our employees
q chance to see the parades.
WHOLESALERS BENEFITED ALSO.
But even with our shortened hours
for business our trade was exception
ally good People from outside the city
would flock into the store after the
parades were over. They had come
here with the double purpose of en-
joying the celebration and attending
to their shopping. Not only was our
retail trade good, but the wholesale
business also showed the effects of the
Jubilee, for many merchants from OUT
side points called upon us during the
week and left orders. We were greatly
rushed all the time, and as an exam
pie of the amount of our business, we
did not complete the shipping of our
outside orders. including those of the
first four days of last week, until last
Thursday night. There can be no doubt
that the Jubilee helped US and helped
all other business houses in the city"