The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-14
NEVADA TRADE
COMES TO UTAH
Whether This Movement Is
Permanent Is Dependent
on Local Men.
MUCH BUSINESS ALREADY
MANY CAUSES AID IN TURNING
THE TIDE.

Nevada's tide of business has turned
TO and from Utah.
Whether for all time to come Salt
Lake Will suppIant San Francisco as
the real commercial and financial cap
ital of Nevada depends on the enter
prise and activity of Salt Lakes bust
ness men, according to those who have
made a careful study of the situation.
This does not mean that this city need
prey on San Francisco in her hour of
misfortune. On the contrary, the earth
quake and fire on the coast have
brought about results merely empha-
sizing what was already going on, de-
clare a number of business men who
discussed the subject yesterday.
Logical Distributing Point.
Since the rejuvenation of Nevada as
a mining state. men of long experience
in judging the probable course of fu-
ture developments have felt that Salt
Lake was the logical distributing point
for supplies of all kinds needed by the
SagebruSh state. Before the San Fran
cisco disaster, Salt Lake was handi-
capped to large degree, for the rea-
son that the metropolis of the Pacific
coast had already established herself
as a distributing point for the Pacific
states and the states on their borders
Trade flowed into San Francisco as ma
turally as water flowed from the west
side of the great continental divide into
the Pacific ocean.
There was a glitter and a gIamor
about "Old Frisco" that attracted the
miner. the merchant and the D-Ofes-
siOnaI man of the mining camps OF. Ne
vada- Through force of habit they
went TO San Francisco to purchase their
merchandise and mining machinery
and after their business was done they
enjoyed themselves for a few DAYS Wis
iting the places of amusement and see
ing the many strange sights and attrac-
tons that could only be seen in the
Paris Of America
Laws of Trade Are Fixed.
All that has passed-if not forever. at
least Tor q long time 10 come and in
dealing with this subject at this time
there are many men in Salt Lake who
believe that no deSeCra ton to the mem
DRY of the ruined city is committed.
They say the laws of trade are fixed
and that while sympathy exists for the
enterpTlsl1lg men who built up Their
fortunes in trade in the Golden Gate
city. and who lost. in many instances.
their all in the recent earthquake and
fire, they must enter the lists with new
lances and armOr TO contest anew for
trade supremacy. For the present, and
for some time to come. Salt Lake must
have the great advantage.
Nevada people are beginning to rec
ognize this condition and already they
are turning toward Salt Lake. They
placed
ders with wholesalers and jObbers Of
groceries and clothing. and with agents
for manufactures OF mining and other
machinery. It remains only for the
business men of Salt Lake To foster this
new trade to make it permanent
Men in this city have come forward
with the declaration that the business
and mining men of Utah's sister state
sought the first and nearest market
available after San Francisco was de-
strOyed, and that they will trade here
only so long as II is necessary. or so
long as they find this market to their
advantage Therefore. they argue Salt
Lake should be up and doing and keep
doing until this trade viii flow into our
city as naturally as it did into San
Francisco
Internal Development Rapid.
The internal development Of Nevada
is progressing with rapid strides The
construction Of the Salt Lake route
Now the Western Pacific is building
west from Salt Lake through Nevada
and on to the ocean, and the Southern
Pacific railroad is busy with the con-
struction of branch lines. with others
under contemplation. In addition to
this the gigantic irrigation enterprise
that the federal government has under
taken in the Carson sink country is
bringing results. This undertaking Is
known as the CarsOn-TruCkee project
and it is calculated to reclaim $50 600
acres of so-caIIed desert land. Between
$4,000 and $4,000 acres already are
reached by water
The latest project Of the Southern
Pacific is the construction OF a branch
from Hazen on the main line To FallOu
and thence probably on to Fairview
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