The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
SOME SALT LAKE INDUSTRIES

| is manufactured being grown in Utah
and the nearby states This home mar
ket for the farmers enhances the value
of barley fully % per cent.
The Salt Lake Brewing company, in
point of size and volume of business,
stands first in the list. This company
holds considerable real estate and ex-
tensive building in the eastern part Of
the city. the value of which is placed
at 100000. The company reports a 40
per cent increase in business and is
already charging the capacity of the
plant, the increase amounting to 10000
additional barrels year. The improve
ments are nearing completion and will
call for heavy increase in the num-
Der of hands employed during 1900.
The Fisher brewery is the Youngest
in the city, but it has far outgrown its
INFANCY in the volume of business done.
The year just closed has been a very
prosperous one for the company. An
increase of business of fully 25 per cent
is reported and arrangements are being
made to increase the capacity of the
brewery. The value of $125, 900. which
was placed upon the plant and build
ings by Mr.. Fisher. the manager, is a
very conservative one. The company
mas a steady force of about forty-five
hands and the pearly pay roll amounts
to between $4,000 and $4,000
The business of the Henry Wagner
Brewing company is one of the longest
established of its kind in the state The
manager of this concern also reports a
heavy increase in business. The output
or the brewery for 1899 was by far the
greatest in its history, and improve
mentS amounting in the aggregate to
So0,oO0 are under way, which, when
completed, will increase the output for
the year 1900 fully so per cent over the
year just past. The brewery is estab-
llshed at the mouth of Emigration can
yon and is valued at $4,000. During
the year 1889 an average force of
thirty-five men has found employment
WIFE the company and the paw roll has
been correspondingly large The COM
pany is thoroughly satisfied with its
years work and looks forward to the
coming season with confidence.
The old Margetts brewery is one of
the landmarks of Salt Lake City. 1t is
the smallest of the four here and has
value of about $4,000. This company
has great number of steady CUSTOM
ers, and during the year 1899 did a
very thriving business. the volume be-
ing fully 20 per cent greater than in
1898. 1t employs about twenty hands,
with yearly pay roll Of $4,000.
Bottling Works.
In addition to these four breweries.
there are four bottling companies es-
tablished in the city. These concerns
variety of mineral wa
ters and what is known as soft
drinks, and also bottle up large guam
titles of the natural mineral waters
which abound in the state. notably the
Lithia and Waukesixu waters. These
latter have very extended sale and
are marketed all over the Pacific coast.
as we'll as in the neighboring states. |
The aggregate business of the Salt !
Lake bottling companies reached about |
s1SO.OOO during 1899, being an increase
OF from 30 to 30 per cent over 1898. On |
an average, thirty-six hands are en-
pIoyed at these works and between $780, |
200 and $4,000 was paid out in wages !
during the year.
The Denhalter Bottling company has |
a. very extensive trade and during the |
year increased it's business nearly 80 |
per cent. The plant is valued at be- !
tween $1,000 and $4,000 Thirteen |
hands are constantly employed. and |
IN the rush of the summer trade this |
was materially increased. The /
volume of business during the year is /
placed at $4,000. Preparations are be- |
ing made TO increase the output during |
1900.
Metcalf g. Sons company reports an |
prosperous year. the in
crease of business being fully 80 per
cent over 1898. The volume of business
Turing the past year amounted to $500
)O0- Nine men are constantly en- |
ployed at the works and the force will /
De augmented during 1900
The Hewlett Bros. have done an ex-
-ensive business in their bottling de-
oartment at the works on South State
street and report heavy increase in
heir business. This firm also has ex-
ensive works at Pocatello. Ida, which
supply their northern trade.
The Salt Lake Soda Water company
s the largest concern of the kind in
he city and during the year has ex-
ended its trade very materially. From
fifteen to twenty men are employed by
he company.