The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
GREAT RECORD
OF THE N. & NJ.
Its Campaign in Favor of
Utah-Made Goods Bears
Rich Fruit.
LIVE MEN AT THE HELM
APPEALS TO PATRIOTISM OF ALL
RESIDENTS OF STATE,

That we are living in an age of Won |
derful development is apparent to all, |
and in no section of the country is this |
development more marked than in |
Utah.
Utah, with her $4,000 square miles of |
resources; her mountains of mineral |
wealth; her thousands upon thousands |
of bushels of choice fruit: her cattle |
on an thousand hills; her sheep indus |
try approximating over $6.00O,000 an |
nually; her $4.000,O00 sugar output; her |
livestock industry approXimating $780, !
900, 900 annually; her rich farms and |
prosperous villages, thriving hamlets |
and metropolitan cities; with coal fields |
unlimited in extent; with water power |
sufficient TO turn the wheels and fur |
nish light for an empire, with railroads |
threading hither and yon, and her peo- |
pie spreading out over the land, Utah |
presents a picture of activity that is
unsurpassed by any section of the
country. and yet Utah is scarcely six
ty-one years of age!
When the Pioneers Came.
How much Utah has partaken of the
spirit of progress is best told in the
picture of today, as contrasted with
the prospect that greeted the pioneers
when they urged their jaded oxen
through Emigration canyon and came
out into the Salt Lake valley, July "a
1S4T. Before them spread the valley,
parched and desolate A few cotton
wood trees fringing the Jordan was the
only green thing on which the eye
rested. Beyond stretched the alkali
desert, while far to the west, simmer
ing in the scorching July sun, at peace,
as il had been at peace throughout the
ages, the awful solitude of eternity, a
fit complement to its mystic self, lay
the Great Salt lake. But the enterprise
and the ability to cope with apparent
ly insurmountable barriers that has
ever characterized the people of Utah
was not lacking in these men and wo-
men. Before nightfall they mad pitched
their camp, and planted half an acre
of potatoes, and the subsequent history
of Utah has been but a repetition of
this same enterprise. Busy All the
Time IN Utah" is now, as it has ever
been, the slogan of her people.
What the People of Utah Make
The people were not slow in finding
out that Utah was a veritable treas
ure house, and subsequent develop
ments have proved that the state is a
perfect epitOme Of the United States,
producing virtually everything that can
be found elsewhere in the nation. The
result has been the establishment of
factories and immense mercantile in
situations, for the purpose of convert
ing the raw product into the various
commodities and finished articles, and
placing the same upon the market.
Space would not permit an enumera-
ticn of the various articles now made
in Utah. Among them. however, are
found workingmen's clothing, overaIls,
shoes, hats, knitted goods of every de-
scription, bedding and mattresses,
foodstuffs, flour, canned goods pickles
spices, compressed yeast. chocolates,
candies and corrections. soap, per-
fumes and toilet articles, printing, en-
craving and lithographing of all kinds,
monumental and artistic stone works,
fOundrles, iron works and structural
steel Industries, pressed brick and fire.
clay products. and, in short, Utah pro-
Vides practically everything her people
require
Why the M. & M. Was Born.
But all of the people are not &C
quainted with the fact, the result being
that many thousands of dollars that
should be put into circulation here at
home are sent out of the state, never to
return. Hence the organization of the
Manufacturers & Merchants associa-
ton of Utah. Not an organization of
individuals, but an association in which
the various firms throughout the state
are represented. Perfected for the pur-
pose of acquainting the people with
what Utah has TO offer, pointing out the
many benefits to be derived from fos-
tering the various industries through
cut the state, thereby furnishing en-
ployment to home people, and furnish
ing a market right here at home for the
varied products of farm and dairy, and
incidentally insIriug the maintenance
Of good roads over which TO haul their
produce. emphasizing the fact that
whatever contributes to the welfare of
the state is of proportionate benefit to
every individual resident within it,
and, in brief, to boost for Utah first,
last, ana all the time" such is the OBJ
ject of what has become Familiarity
known as the M. & NJ
What 1t Has Already Done.
What has the M. & NJ" done since
its organization ASK any man. Aye
talk to the man whose little manufac-
turing enterprise was struggling fit
fully for recognition two years ago. and
who now finds himself fairly swamped
with orders that come rolling in, and he
will tell you whether or not the IN. &
NJ" has been of any assistance in slim
ulating local patronage. Since its or
SANITATION two years ago, the associa-
ton has sent forth a tireless stream of
literature setting forth the various re-
sources of Utah, and calling attention
to the superior quality Of Utah-made
goods, that has done much To make
Salt Lake City the base of supply for
a vast inland empire. including Ne
vada, southeastern Wyoming, western
Colorado, Idaho, eastern Oregon, and
even parts of California and Arizona,
drawing patronage from a section of