Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-04
THE BUSINESS
OUTLOOK.
Views Of Consolidated Wagon @.
Machine Co. Officials on
1905 Trade.

IN order TO secure general view OF
the CONDITIONS OF the implement and We
hlcle trace obtaining IA utan ana lua-
no during the past year, and what tine
prospects were lor the season ol 1906
a News reporter called on General
Manager George 4. Odeii and Secretat,
Melvin ID. Wells OF the Consolidated
wagon Machine Co. at their omces ON
state Street, this city.
AS is well known, this mammoth es.
adjustment operates all over the State
OF Ctah. ana the southern half OF luano,
the eastern half OF Nevada ana the
western halt OF Wyoming maintaining
regular branch houses IN Salt Lake
CITY, Ogden and Logan, Utah; ldano
Fails and Montpelier, Idaho, with num-
erous sub branch houses throughout the
entire territory above enumerated
wherever there IL sufficient volume OF
trade TO justify and In localities where
there is not sufficient volume 10 Justify
the maintenance OF Distributing
house, the institution Is represented by
the most representative merchants. 1t
II, therefore, certainly a barometer for
trade conditions.
Upon inquiry with reference to the
trade conditions for the current year,
and the prospects for 1906, the above
Wagon & Machine Co. stated that the
trade for the season about to draw to a
close had been equally as good, II not a
little better than the season Of 1901
and that they believed that II was
largely on account Of what seems to be
the natural growth OF the inteT-mOun.
tain region The wonderful railroad
development and prospective Increase
In the water supply, the opening up Of
new land combined S-7rn the general
prosperity throughout the country they
cited as being strong factors I'm tn
agricultural implement and vehicle
trade, and the Improved methods and
Increasing intelligence exercised by the
farming communities generally
throughout the country they also re-
garded as healthy elements that had
entered into the general trade condi- |
tons 1t was also noted that the fair |
prices being obtained for grain the last |
two years had resulted In giving an /
Impetus to the raising thereof, and that 1
this had resulted I'm an increased trade /
along the line of harvesting machinery /
Then, again. the sugar beet industry I
had Independent Of It's own products, I
resulted I'm educating the farming COM |
In improved methods along the /
lines OF other agricultural pursuits AS /
'ertalning the generous yield that Moth |
ar Earth makes 10 the intelligent work
VI the husbandman the smaller farms
have been augmented, so that there Is
I large Increase Ia the number Of small
farms now being cultivated, ana the
general financial conditions OF the farm
'rs have been materially improved.
In View Of the foregoing conditions
here has naturally been an increased
demand for agricultural Implements,
vehicles, harvesting machinery stoves,
md In fact nearly everything along
hese lines. and the Well known merits
If the goods carried by the institution
nave naturally brought 20 1t a large
Iharc thereof
II was remarked by these officials
hat trade IN threshng machinery made |
~ the Case Tnreshing Machine Co. had
,een good az also tho Mccormick Hnr-
testing Machinery Deere, oliver and |
anton plows and beet tools Superior |
ecd-driling machinery, Balm and Coo !
YER farm wagons, Racine, Enterprise,
Ielie and Kaufman buggies and spring
wagons Mccormick and Plymouth Red ,