The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-20
EASTERN HOUSES
OPEN HEADQUARTERS
Salt Lake City Is Distributing
Point for a Great
Empire.
MANUFACTURERS ARE NOW
REALIZING THIS FACT
Result Is Many of Them Are
Opening Branches in
Zion.

While the Salt Lake public is appar-
emily slow to realize or grasp the fact
that Salt Lakes future importance as
a business center. business men. large
companies and corporations IN distant
cities are not. These keen far-seclng
men and business institutions are onto
the fact that Salt Lake S business cx-
pansiop is going to be so immediate and
so great that the city will have no rival
In an eXpansc OF country larger in area
and richer in resources than that of any
other city between the Missouri river
and the Pacific ocean.
The consequence is that many of the
large Eastern manufactures are estab
fishing head quarters here and making Of
Salt Lake a distributing point for this
and adjoining States. In so doing their
business knowledge and experience tell
them they are getting a business foot
hold in this city on the ground floor.
st. Louis Firm Fixes Headquarters.
In talking with ?. b. Jamison of st.
Louis In the Kenyon, where he makes
his headquarters when in the city, he
said that the establishment which he
represents, some time ago, seeing the
great possibilities Of Salt Lake as a
business center for all this intermoun~
tain country, made this city the dlstrib-
utIug point for Utah and portions of
Idaho, Nevada. Colorado and Wyoming,
The increase and expansion of business
in the abovenamed territory has dem
onstrated the wisdom of constituting
Salt Lake the distributing point and
business headquarters for their Western
trade.
Mr.. Jamison represents the Roberts,
johnson G. Rand Shoe company. The
sales of shoes manufactured in st.
Louis last year amounted TO the enor-
A. ~ . n a..
lishment,' he saws, (Which is one of
the youngest in the city. being in its
ninth year. manufactured and sold S.
027 ,296 worth Of shoes last year. His
house, he states. has six factories, three
in St Louis. one In Jcrseyvllle, Ill, one
in Hannibal and one in ST. Charles.
Mo. These factories employ over 5000
hands the year around, The house en-
plOys l6I statesmen, each one of whom,
together with the superintendent, fore.
men and trusted employees are stock
holders in the institution. This plan is
found to work so well that the increase
of business has been so great that an
increase of the capital stock of the IN
stitution became necessary, and at the
last meeting of the directors and stock
holders the capital was increased from
$2,500,000 to $3,750,000.
Sale Are Enormous.
The sales for the first six months of
this year have amounted to S5,lS2, 900.
AT the beginning of the year, Mr.. Jam"
ison says. they started out to make the
sales of their factories amount TO Sl0,-
900 900. and now he says they will reach
that figure and 90 away beyond it. The
number Of shoes turned out by the fac
tories per day Is $4,000 Business is
pressing all the time and continually on
the increase, Material is still and often
hard to get. and great trouble is expe
rienccd in getting their goods shipped
on schedule time, on account of the in
freight tonnage rendered.