Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-27
BUILDING UP ITS INDUSTRIES
Utah Aspires High as Manufacturing
State.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR THRIFTY
western commonwealth offers Rich
Field for Factories OF Various
Kinds and Invites Inspec-
ton of Resources,

While Utah has not reached the large
proportions in manufacturing to which the
state justly aspires. yet she has been grad
ually increasing her output Of manufaC-
tured products for twenty years.
The Importance OF Utah canning indus
try may be somewhat realized when we
state that her tomato output last year was
10000 cases or 100000 cans. Her output
Of fruits, peas, asparagus and tomatoes.
aggregated 10000 cases. the approximate
worth being S1.5OO,OOO. giving employment
to 1,SOO people. the total annual outlay for
wages amounting to $4,000 and 100000 is
paid to farmers for fruits and vegetables.
This says nothing Of the employment OF
boys and girls out Of school season in the
open fields wedding. picking and handling
the products of the SOIL
Unlimited Opportunities.
There are unlimited opportunities for
thrifty industries I'm the line Of canning Of
fruits. our fruit production is very large;
its possibilities unlimited. The market for
Utah canned fruit is fast increasing and
with up-to-date sanitary methods of put
ting up the quality OF fruit which Utah
produces, this industry holds out OPP
portunities of very flattering proportions
may be realized from the growing OF to-
matoes and other crops between the trees
until the fruit trees are ready to bear
We are never short OF market for fruit and
contractors purchase the output as a mat
ter of preference while yet on the trees.
The tomato crop may be sold to con-
tractors and price agreed upon before
planting, which furnishes security to the
producer for output.
Nursery Business Grows.
Utah is today producing as fine nursery
stock as is raised anywhere in the United
States. The climate and soils, which are
so favorable to the production Of fine
! fruit, are also well adapted to the raising
| of nursery stock The state nurseries are
| remarkably free from insect pests and
diseases, and the nurserymen are produc-
! ing a high grade of stock.
No industry was ever established in
| Utah which has done more to build up
the agricultural wealth than the beet
| sugar industry. 1t has not only given
the farmers a profitable crop to raise,
but has provided labor for every member
| Of the farming community at good wages
with result that the home surroundings
| have been improved, mortgages have been
paid off, and other farm crops have been
made more profitable by reason of the acre
age being replaced by sugar beets.
The following is the sugar record for 1909
Total acres planted 81 767.
! Total tonnage (tons Of beets). 439 900
! Average yield per acre. in tons, 1873.
! Total capital invested, 100000.
. Total money paid farmers for beets
Freight paid on beets. $1O5 700.
Total paid employees, S691, 600
Output Of sugar in pounds, 97,5OOOOO.
gtlH Of
pound 1887, 500.
Total number of farmers growing beets
51S4.
Factories are located at Lehi, Ogden
Logan, Lewiston and Garland. The Leh
factory also has cutting stations al
Springville and Payson.
Beet Pulp Factor.
/ The beet pulp which is a by-product OF
the sugar factory. has become a factor
in live stock industry. and already large
quantities of 1t are being profitably fec
to live stock.
Y With the vast quantity Of coal and or,
being produced, 1t is not surprising tina
Utah has become a great smelling ant
ore milling state. Salt Lake valley is to
day one of the greatest smelling centert
in the world There are four smelters il
the vicinity of Salt Lake; the American
Smelling g. Refining company, the UniteC
States smelter and Utah CONSOLIDATED
Smelter at Murray just south OF Salt Lake
and the American Smelling & Refining
company smelter at Garland, a new tow
Just west Of Salt Lake. The last named
has a daily capacity of 5000 tons In ad
dition to these there is a smelter nea
Ogden, the Yampa at Bingham, Knight
smelter at Tintc. and one at Newhouse
in Beaver county When completed, tn
, great International Smelter near Tooel
City will be one of the largest smelter
in the world.
New Garfield, the Utah Copper compan,
and the Bingham Consolidated Mining com
! pany have each recently erected immens
concentrating plants with an aggregat
daily capacity of 1900 tons
The Coal and Coke.
Utah has other things In a mining wa
70 mention. Development work on her cos
fields shows them to cover an enormou
area, perhaps 10000 square miles II is es
timated that there are 1856 43S, 900 900 tons G
coal yet to be mined. There is a gres
deal OF country yet unexplored So plent
ful and easily accessible is the coal tina
the farmers in many parts OF the state al
able TO get their supply directly from adjs
cent mountains, mining It for themselve
: or they can BUY II Tor little more than III
y cost Of mining and hauling.
Nowhere in the world is salt more prevs
lent than in Utah. Great sale lake whic
= covers about $500 square miles, is nothin
y more than a huge reservoir OF saIt> TT
: waters OF that body contain from II p,
I, cent to 20 per cent salt. on the east DO
der of the lake are extensive salt fielC
= where the lake water Is evaporated ar
- salt collected and refined The output 4
1909 amounted to about $173,716
" Rock salt and Salt Springs.
r, Veins Of rock salt and salt springs a
l. found in several localities, particularly
At Nephi, where the rock salt is mined al
pr refined or sold as rock salt for live stoc
m vein Of pure salt is found In southe
AZ Utah.
70 one Of the natural wonders through whit
h. the Western Pacific line passes is the gre
lt salt beds Of western Utah. For miles d
n road passes over a perfectly level STREET
be OF pure salt The saline deposits cover
area OF over Pa square miles, located abo
m fifteen miles east Of the Nevada line al
ID about no miles west Of Salt Lake CJt