The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-27
MANUFACTURERS EXHIBIT.

! The Manufacturers Association Of
Utah is strongly supporting Senate bill
No. les, introduced by Mr.. Badger,
which approprates $4,000 n year for
two years TO maintain permanent ex-
hihit of the State S resources and in
dustries, In support of this proposition
the Manufacturers Association urges
that it sis eXpcnding something over
$4,000 year to keep up the display in
the Vermont Building, and the work
is too heavy for any one organization to
carry. Every portion of the State is
benefited by the exhibit. Not only do
the thousands OF tourists visiting the
city TO get n good idea of the State S
resources by going through the exhibit
| rooms, but home people are becoming
produced here bv seeing them on dis
play. Every dollar appropriated by
the State will be returned into the
treasury many fold by the influx Of
immigration and the keeping of money
at home. The Manufacturers Associa-
ton pledges itself TO appropriate n sum
equal to that asked for from the State
for period of two years. and agrees
thereafter not to ask for any state
aid The exhibit can be made self
sustaining in comparatively short
time. The building, which comprises
practically 10000 square feet of space.
will accommodate 500 displays, and
these at the nominal rental of 50 each
per month would make the display
something that would he credit to
the State. The doors of the Chamber
of Commerce are open every dav in
the year. and it is certain that n more
effectual way OF advertising the State
can not be found. If some appropria-
tions asked from the Legislature have
to be cut down and in some instances
refused, such n vital one as the ap.
preparation mentioned, vital to the en-
tire State, should not be among those
TO receive application Of the pruning
hook or process Of decapitation.
Inasmuch as the State has habitually
appropriated for exhibits at different
places from one end of the country to
the other, the Manufacturers Associa
tion is on pretty firm ground when
asking an appropriation for the sup
port of this home exhibit If we make
exhibits abroad why should we not
make them at home' And when we
consider that this exhibit will be under
the eye of thousands of tourists who
visit this city annually, IL must be
conceded that the plea Of the Manufac-
turcrs Association is strong one.
Having no immediate connection with
this proposition, and yet in the same
general line Of encouraging interest in
home exhibits, there is another bill in
the Legislature which if passed will
authorize the county commissioners Of
the various counties to appropriate lin
tied sums for the encouragement Of
county fairs or permanent county ex-
hibits of various kinds Juab county
made an exhibit some time back OF
them on view at the Manufacturers
Association headquarters in this city
There they were seen by large numbers
Of tourists, and the Juab county pro
moters Of this exhibit received up
wards Of sixty inquiries in regard TO
II, from different parts OF the country
This proves not only the value Of such
exhibits, but the interest which pee-
pie all over the United States take in
them. And now is the time to get in
line on this proposition, while the wave
Of inquiry is rising, and while every
thing else is rising 10 meet IL