The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-19

thousand dollars a few years ago, for
a factory. Many predicted failure.
Result-factory paid for itself in three
years: land values raised from $50 to
$500 per acre; city trebled in size;
over 10000 acres of and in cultiva-
ton for beets only; nearly 1000, 900
in cash annually distributed by beet
sugar factory to beet growers. Aver
age of crop, IS ton per acre; with
good care, is to % tons. Average
price, per ton, 1925. Sugar factory
paying so well, are now doubling ca
pacity, knowing before planting time
where crop was to be sold and price
it would bring. Merchants are pros
porous; plenty of money in circula-
ton, and but few bad book accounts.
Missoula has over 1000 900 acres of
good sugar beet land within shipping
distance. Then. why not a factory
here?
(2) A knitting factory. Thousands
of dollars are sent annually from
Missoula to Salt Lake alone for knit
ted goods. Why not make them here?
CD A canning factory. Everybody
knows hat it would tax quite Il can
ming factory to supply our home de-
mands.
4) Woolen mill. Now. YOU laugh,
but why? The writer remembers well
visiting a prosperous wooden mill at
Banden, Ore, several years ago. All
their wool was shipped from Califor-
MIA and all their manufactured goods
sold in Michigan; but the factory was
paying well ard giving employment to
hundreds.
(5) A pork packing establishment.
where meats car be properly cured.
NO better pork raising and fattening
valley in the world han the Bitter
Root; all that is wanted is an assured
market, and arrangements can easily
be made with farmers to furnish
10000. 10000 or 10000 hogs annually,
thus keeping at home a large amount
of money for lard. ham, bacon, etc,
that goes out of the state annually.
There are other factories and in
dustries that are bound to come to
us If we will but give them a chance.
You can have no prosperity where the
great mass of people send out OF the
country more money than comes in
from the outside. We must build up
our industries and curtail eastern pur-
chases.. And now that I have broker
the ice, is 1t not possible to get the
chamber OF mme to act in this
matter and get our business men to
come out in the open with the cour.
age to express their convictions.
A statement should be asked of the
Polleys Lumber company as to wheth-
er they are paying the wages of com
peting mills of same character. II
they are. the labor unions who arc
boycotting should be asked why the
boycott? And unless the reasons arc
more apparent than the writer thinks
they should he told to- keep their
hands off in this case, as well as IL
all Other industries Which pay a wage
equal to what Is paid at competing
points. And If the matter should be
amicably adjusted, then, for the goot
of the city. Missoula should be mad,
an open shop town.
The writer spent several months o
1912 in Detroit and Milwaukee. Their,
, times are good. Everyone can hav,
work who wants it. Factories arc al
running full time. What would be tn,
effect If Milwaukee paid 25 cents pc,
Gay less for labor than Chicago? Why
, 1t would be but a short time unit
Milwaukee would have all the activ,
factories and Chicago all the cmpt>
factories and homes. Competition IS
what does the business,
r. NJ. COBBAN.
Missoula, Jan. IS, 1913.