The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-23

The AnoI a.. onrecedent, and to this fea
touna h;s methods the United States
.nTe .. owes WE its present position as the
USeE business nation of the world
uez'es., of science is no more
ne pSssn the Yankee application OF
rIa9 rsTies TO business. Our people
assul Ulv manifest extraordinary in
1ot em'; IN solving commercial prob
enun M they do things on scale
<ps, "an;tude' of which is astounding
~ f.la m.S more conservative nations OF the
Qle t .hort time ago consignment OF
~ nsrs wss made in East St. Louis
tIses u in Los Angeles, Cal. The usual
aD is TO load new rolling stock
c,ssp;n sp;a kind on hat cars for shipment.
1rSv nv not run them out to Los An,
~. IN their own wheels?" suggested
!. " ysntuYesome spirit OF ingenuity:
Ssr.S thing has never been done,
,si,ed cautious Precedent. THAT s
Preason why it can t be done, re-
1;sd Ingenuity, and the ears were
~sds ready. They were htted with 9
g,sres. and train of twenty-five
"a and a caboose was started; ollers
~ m the caboose to watch tor hot
and the scheduled speed Of fif-
-'s miles an hour was maintained.
- rss tbe first instance where street
~. have been run ON railroad track.
: Makers of American agricultural I'M
,.r,snts have been more aggressive
~ sJrost apy other class of Amsri-
.,ns in pushing their wares into for
~ markets. One Illinois concern
a man TO Asia Minor with intsruc'
.;ars 10 stay there until he opened the
srket, Catalogues, samples, much
..,t;no-nothing could overcome the
-uss3snt of two or three thousand
.srs NJ blowing with bullocks and a
;-oated stick. After three years or
,s;nre, the Illinois man got 1t into his
z-sd that these Asiatics were closely
,siated 10 the inhabitants of his neigh
nr;ro State of Missouri, and would
have to be shown,
a cround and divided it in half. One
al he plowed with an Illinois plow,
lnrowed il with an Illinois harrow,
nj pIsnted twenty pounds Of wheat
IN an Illinois wheat drill. The other
haif WAS plowed with native bullocks
srJ a crooked stick, WASH Z narrowed
n all and was planted with sixty~six
rsunds of wheat sowed broadcast.
IEyerybody waited for the harvest. The
jjlncis half produced 10 per cent
e,cztsr Weld, and the Asiatjcs were re-
mindcd that less than one-third as much
-sed had been sown on ii. After that
Iria Minor became good market for
IlInols agricultural machinery.
/ Boston threatens to break loose from
I,be erp of the ice trust. The owner
ID soda fountain in the Hub is now
irving a little science with every
, irink bought in his place, III way
i hat is as matter-offaet as oysters
|, sfd irankfurters are provided IN other
! drink establishments of cities less
1mdite. When a customer orders a
smou phosphate. or some other soft
1rjnk, the soda a-ierker pours a few drops
az liduid air in the glass, and the hever-
see becomes as cool as the North Pole.
/ Americans like TO buy East Indian
-rSs, but the native designs have not
moved particularly pleasing to Yankee
's,tes. Therefore company Of Ameri'
>n caTpet.makers went TO India,
touqht fcn large factories employing
Is,Q0O workmen and began the business
n msking Indian rugs with American
1Gsigus The material used, the dyes,
/ I'd the methods of weaving are all In.
'Iau. Last year 100000 worth of rugs
'rre made in these America an factories
] b Indian and sent TO the home market
y this country,
0be day last summer two business
I1neDds were chatting at club In a
nsnufacturing town in the Middle
Vest. One OF these men was manu-"
fssturer OF furniture, and the other
Fm buyer for a chain of ten'cent
fiofts located in prosperous towns IN
the Mississippi valley. The furniture
manufacturer WAS lamenting the fact
MI the dull season was upon him,
Aft many of his expert workmen
ON he wonld have TO lay off would
4ft away where he could not locate
PEN when the rush came on few
polths later, the buyer scented a
pwlnsfs opportunity, and asked the
''nsr II he would be willing TO turn
'uI stuff at cost in order to keep his
lEnl,ation intact. The manufactures
Hlo be would, and they figured NIL over
,he back of the bill Of fare. Result:
Sn order for several trainloads Of little
rand tables which were sold at 10
fp's apiece in the various stores of
pe buyers combination,
A land company in Michigan had an
,sghaDt on its hands in the form OF
Ivy acres so thickly studded with pine.
sf slumps that no indncemeut would
Hfact purchaser TO buy and clear il
" farming purposes. SO the company
lit ,distlllery i'll the middle oC the
as;;'' dug up the stumps and rl6's
oo made turpcntine. The venture
psed SO profitable that the stumps
fyogat In more money than the trees
wneu they were cut and sold for
nper some years before. Pine stump
sa ,s no longer drug on the mar
!or after the stumps are all made
,turpentine, the rich. cleared farm
una remains as additional profit
ane craze for using cigar bands TO
sr;fnt glass ash-receivers and like
suhIs created such demand that
ny snfeWd fellow began TO manufac-
~ Men, Soon there were half Il
ssn concerns turning ont thousands
oands that were entirely innocent
association with cigars or 70.
nv N any form. The manufacturers
a attractive advertisements of
5s;,s 10 sell cigar bands with the por-
n,s ny" 81 all the Presidents and a pic
VI inc Capitol at Washington for
ri;an plece, and other similar schemes
.n6saa would lend interest to the deco
I'M The fad still prevails, and nj.
a (. many cigar bands are printed
''S%Snd cigars. " '"'"e ~ ~
Som dpNe9ple Of the United States use
bottles each year for beer,
~ mineral yyatcrs ana ,ast a-;,1,a