The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-03
WEST ON VERGE
Of GREAT BOOM
Everything Favors the West
During Era of Business
Expansion Coming.
IOWA BANKER SEES
IMPROVEMENT DUE
Copper Certain TO Play Very
Prominent Part With Good
Price Assured.

James G. Berryhill, prominent Iowa
banker and a director OF the Nevada
Douglas Copper company, arrived In Salt
Lake Wednesday. accompanied by Mrs
Berryhill. en- route TO Nevada and the
coast. The west has few better versed
authorities on the copper. industrial and
railroad situation. and few more sincere
friends, than Mr.. Berryhill and he is all
the more certain that the western country
presents an idoel opening for the eastern
and middle western farmer, for the west
ern crops today are in a far better con-
d!tion than those OF the Mississippi val
ley -.
and metal conditions, Mr. Berryhill stated
that In his opinion the country Is on the
verge Of a great revival in business. the
horizon being another period of tariff re.
vision. Tariff revision means a general
business reimbursement. and there never
has been g period of revision without a
greet uncertainty OF trade and unwilling
ness among business circles to expand.
Position Of Copper.
There is nothing from which copper
can suffer but continued d4llness In
this win pass away, though slowly. 1t
is noticeable that the agitation against
railroads Is subslding. and there is a feel
isletion already enacted before burdenInS
and vexing the situation with more. The
railroads are beginning to fee! that they
chases will help all lines Of Industry OF
this country and general business ex-
panson Is inevitable.
industry has been influenced very large
u by the business depression and decline
az result Of sh the 1907 panic bringing
Of me metal Fortunately for the United
te 3s has and ssra is
every. reason TO believe that before de-
pression seiEes Europe there will be
IN che URia Go place
And should this revival In business
in the United States he followed later by |
e tSs sTsa In aa of
one situation will equaiize the other and |
the price OF the metal will harden. In
vestors. l feel assured. can look forward |
to the future with very great confidence,
Fifteen-Cen Copper.
Copper belongs at Is cents pound |
and the country should be satisfied with |
such price A greater advance In price |
Will be attended by curtailment In con-
ed with a possible overproduct!on. The |
uses Of copper are widening continually |
by means Of cheap copper The tele-
try over are substituting copper wires for |
galvanized wires, and through the greater
efficiency thus gained there Is little like
lihood OF these consumers returning to
the galvanized material. The next de-
cade is TO be one propelled by electricity.
all which will naturally increase the con-
sumption OF copper so as TO digest all the
new metal produced by the new proper
ties now being brought into condition for
production.
I'VE are coming to the greatest era OF
business expansion and confidence In the
United States that the world has ever
seen, and this great western country will
he the chief beneficiary of this Railroads
win be, built. hydro electric plants will
be developed. new industries will be start
ed and new mines and mining regions
VIII be opened. The completion OF the /
keting many commodities not now avail
able Hor the lack Of market facilities.
bringing worthless commodities into
profit producing articles OF commerce.
West Excels the East.
For instance. in the Nevada Douglas
phate and the extent OF this still is un-
known. This material can be transported
20 a Gan and FaGcisSo 1a,1 dNS heSse through the
an expense Of $40 per ton The market
for this product today In New York is
SIS per ton. Our product Is so pure that
competition with that of Missouri which
state now monopolzes the production of
the same. but the Missouri barites is very
must be !eached out, 1t also is asso- s
ciated with clay. and to bring II 10 the
proper state OF purity an expensive con-
centrating process is necessary This Is
merely one OF the many that / could men, I
tion.
"Thore never was a more telling argu- I
Inent presented for farmers coming west :
for intensive farming than a present day
comparison Of crop conditions out west
with those of the Mississippi valley. The
west and northwest are In far better !