Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-15

higher than it did in Kansas
City, or about per cent.
| find that the price of meats, provi-
sions. sugar. eggs. fruit, vegetables and
groceries Will average from
per cent to 10 per cent higher
I'm Salt Lake than 1t does in Kansas
City.
The average family consumes about
110 pounds of butter annually. figuring
this Mt an advance of 31s cents. we find
that the average family in Salt Lake
City is paying about s4.00 more each
year for butter than the average fami-
ly Is paying in Kansas City, or as
stated before, per cent of an advance
Let us make a few other compar-
isons. A house telephone in Kansas
costs $4,000 per annum In Salt Lake
City 1t costs $4,000 per annum an ad-
vance of $500 per annum, or 20 percent
n suit Of clothes a crcss or your laun-
dry will cost you from 20 to so per cent
more in Salt Lake than 1t does In Kan
sas City, according to how expensive
and how good you want it. A small
home In Topeka, Kansas or Kansas
City. Missouri, can be rented for $1,000
to $500 per month; In Salt Lake City
nothing can be had for less than 5000
to $500 per month, an advance of
$4,000 per year. or 65 per cent A ton
of coal is $3.50 In Topeka, Kansas, or
Kansas City Missouri, 1t Is $500 in
Salt Lake. On the average family use
of 10 cents per annum this will figure
$500, or an advance of SO la per cent
II you travel on the railroad in Utah
you pay three cents per mile; In Kan
sas and Missouri you pay two cents
per mile. an advance Of 80 per cent
The express on cream is exactly SO l-3
per cent higher in Utah than 1t is In
Kansas.
These figures will be found approx
imately correct. They all help to
make living somewhat expensive in
Utah. But. let us consider the other
side
i. A good laboring man can be secured
in Topeka, Kansas. and Kansas City,
Missouri, for $4,000 per month; ho re-
celves from 5000 to $1,000 per month
In Salt Lake City. We employ approx
imately 75 people In Salt Lake and 100
people outside of Salt Lake In
Utah and Idaho. and find that
on an average l am paying 40 per cent
more In wages for the same service
than the wages prevailing in Kansas
and Missouri.
I am not in a position to make a
comparison on the Union scale. but |
know when we want a job of carpen-
tering, plumbing, electrical work. brick
laying. etc, we pay pretty we'll for
same.
Salt Lake is prosperous city,
growing city. There are very few poor
people here and throughout the year
there IS no idle labor While 1t costs
more to do business here and 1t costs
more to live here, the wages and bust
ness conditions generally are certainly
very much better than those existing IN
Topeka, Kansas and Kansas City. Mis-
souri, Higher wages must. of course,
mean higher cost of living. because the
principal Item of expense in all manu-
features and enterprises of every
kind is labor. We people in Salt Lake
City depend to great extent upon the
people in the country. If the farmers
make money the city people are pros
prous. and the best of all Is this fact
that there is still farm land to be had
at nominal cost for those in the city
who desire to reap the benefit of good
prices of all products raised on the
farm
1t will be a sorry day for Salt Lake
City should our people discontinue buy
ing those products that are manufact-
ured and handled here, Just because
they cost more than those articles
which are shipped in here from the out
side. No doubt at the present time
many family in Salt Lake City are
puyinS Oleo NdiSdrlIe ana supporting
someone in Chicago or Kansas City
where this product is made, and In
doing so the chances for employment
are lessened in our home city. and If
this principle is carried out on every
thing that Is made and handled here.
Salt Lake City will soon be a city OF
25.00o people instead of city with
100000 people.
w. F. JENSEN,
President