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Show KNITTING INDUSTRY HAS GREAT GROWTH Twenty-five Years of Development Briefly Shown in Significant Figures. An interesting commercial study Is offered of-fered in the twenty -fifth anniversary of the knitting industry in. Utah. According to the Farmers and Merchants Mer-chants Savings bank of Logan, a firm under the name of the Cache Knitting works commenced operations In Logftn about twenty-five yearB ago this week. The following statistical report for 1914 Indicates the growth of thia industry in the state: During the last year there were twenty men employed as knitters, 20 women, 100 salesmen, about forty employes at large and the value of the Utah knitted products for 1914 waB $605,000. There was paW out for labor outside, of management, $02,000. Thirty-one per cent of the products , sold within the Mate at a value of $1X7. BOO. Sixty-nine per rent sold outside of the state, thereby bringing approximately $417,500 into the state from outrtide sources. |