The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

A food of merchandise whose value
is estimated to be $5G,000,00O passed
through the gates of Salt Lake in the
year just closed. This flood of mer-
chandise converged here from every
mart of trade in America. and from
most of the nations of the globe. If 1t
were all included in one great bill of
lading it would be found that little in
the way of the necessaries of life and
few of the. known luxuries were miss
ing. From this point this merchandise
was distributed again over cast
stretch of intermOuntain territory.
Groceries, dry goods, hardware, farm
implements, mining machinery. boots
and shoes, lumber, drugs, furniture,
clothing, paints. meats, crockery, Jew
elry. liquors and the hundreds of. other
articles so difficult to classify-an of
these go to make up the sum total of
the goods involved in the wholesale and
jjobbing business of Salt Lake City.
New Factors Exert Influence.
Two new factors have given Won
derfuI stimulus 20 the local jobbing
trade during the year. One of these is
the great development in the rich min
ing districts of Nevada, and the extern
sion into these districts of various
branches of the Clark railroad. The
other is the adjustment of freight rates.
which adjustment places Salt Lake City
more nearly upon an equal footing with
other cities with which the jobbers ana
wholesalers of this city must compete
for business.
II is not necessary here to tell of the
tremendous growth that has come 10
Nevada during the year just closing.
The inspiring story is told well in other
columns. Ii is interesting. however, TO
point to the splendid business that has
come TO local enterprisinS merchants
as the direct result of this new birth
of the mining industry in Nevada. and
to forecast some of the things the fu-
ture has in store for the men who dare
Fight for Every Inch of Ground.
It is a fact well known to every job
her Of Salt Lake who las invaded Ne
vada for business thar he must fight
for every inch OF ground with the dar-
ing merchants Of Los Angeles, anC
thar every dollars worth OF business
he secures in this new field he must Sc
cure in the fercest competition. To
win victories, he must start upon al
equal footing with his competitors, au5
he can carry no handicap. He is aided
very materially by the fact that muCf
of the ore now coming from the Nevada
mines finds its way TO the Utah smell
tiers naturally 1t comes this way FOL
the same reason that water runs dow
hill So long as these conditions pre-
vail Salt Lake merchants may reason
ably look Tor a good share of Nevada .!
business. 1t is fortunate that the Com
mercfaI club, the Chamber of Com
nerce and every allied interest recOg
njzes this fact and acts with this kuowl
edge clearly in mind at all times.
Good Record of the Year.
Local wholesalers and jobbers hav,
10 right to complain as to the treat
rnent accorded them in the minin.
camps of Nevada in the year 1906. The!
have been given their full share of pat
ronage. Representatives Of Salt LAX
houses have followed the stream of hu
MARTY from one FL Dorado to anothe
in the hills and deserts of Nevada
They have been on the ground wher
ever a new camp has been opened or :
new town established. They hav
bIazed the way for a tremendous bust
ness in the years to come. They hav'
PLAYED their full part in winning thi
great empire of gold, silver and coppe
effect of Better Freight Rates.
The fight in Salt Lake for better rail
road freight rates is so old that tn
story Of it's birth is lost in tangie o
tradition and mythology. One of tn
first things every newcomer for decade
rast has heard was that it was cheape
70 ship goods from New York out t
san francisco and then back 10 Sal
lake than il WAS to ship them direc
from New York to Salt Lake. This wa
9 relic of the dark ages, but it was
fact that every local merchant had t
face. In spite of this and because o
The great advantages Salt Lake pos
sessed as natural distributing centel
the local jobbers beat down opposite
mountain country
Within the year just closing there ha