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Show 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by. Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg.Salt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.f INC. A. W. RAYBQULDj Business Manager ) SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. 311-12-- - 13 . 3 NO AVAILABLE FA CT0R Y SITES , . I C t Every community exerts itself to the utmost trying to secure-payrolindustries. Factories and the like make a big city and without them no city can grow to any appreciable size. Of course there may" be some citeis which would rather do without the factories, at least that opinion is formed in checking up some of our older cities which appear to nearly stand still, both as to population and in an industrial way. This city being in the center of the intermountain section and in the very heart of the richest mining district of the world is an ideal locality for factories and industries which handle and make products from materials we have here. ' The Columbia Steel company will fill an open field of the wrest by producing pig iron at the start, and there is no telling what this big corporation will develop in other lines. When it once gets going, other factories will come in to manufacture things made of iron in order to at least., save high freight rates. There is room here for a large glass factory. Hundreds of carloads of glass bottles and glassware is being shipped in every year and a local factory could be made to pay big money. Not only that. It would establish a payroll' and help support many good citizens. We have everything needed for the manufacture of glassware and no material has to be shipped in from the outside. A tannery would be a paying proposition. We are surrounded by cattle and sheep, and why pay the freight both ways when the leather could be marketed from practically the corrals of the industry? Raw hides are shipped to Boston, tanned there, and the leather is returned to us either in the finished product or unfinished product, and the present high freight rates both ways are about as much as the leather is worth in the first place. If there has been any special effort made in this city to secure factories, the matter has been undertaken in a very quiet way and was not given much publicity. The general opinion prevails that such industries are not wanted and it is probably for this reason that more outside capital does not come in. The Commercial club is about to undertake another drive to collect funds for advertising the city. If this money was taken and factory sites purchased, and these sites advertised to be given away to worthy companies who would establish themselves upon them, we would at least be making a beginning. A Texas oil company wanted to come in here to establish gasoline stations and sell gasoline, but according to reports our state laws were such that this corporation would be compelled to pay is the case unjust taxes and now they will not come in. If this our laws should be changed and be made more liberal, or as liberal as the laws of other states. Our city ordinances regulating residence districts and zoning is not what if ought to be. It appears that our present laws entirely overlook the industrial end and only provide where factories of may not be built. Just recently one of the largest dairy firms . ', t f the state intended building a large milk plant upon property which it had purchased several years ago in anticipation for just such a. purpose. But this spring when the firm wanted to build it found its land was included in a prohibited district which became effective this year. It is thus seen that the most important factor has been lost track of by trying to protect home. building, but if we have no. factories and industrial plants, who is going to buy the homes and who is going to live in them? Under the present ordinance a factory may be started in any part of the city and suit would be imme-- . diately be brought either for "its suppression or for damages. The law should create an industrial section where all such plants could l . -- be erected and be protected. Our gas plant is a good example. The Utah Gas & Coke company selected a site on the banks of the Jordan river and in thq rail- road yard district. It was a most suitable, site, but after the plant got under way it was sued as a nuisance.. Such happenings are most discouraging. No one would wish to have, a factory built in the heart of the residential district, but a place must be provided for factories where they can flourish and do business. But if factories are not to be built along the Jordan. river and along the railroad tracks, then were should they be built? We have got to have factories to have a prosperous city. Standing on the corner and yelling prosperity will not bring it to us. The real estate men would do well to appoint an industrial committee to take care of all such business. To see that we have proper city, ordinances passed for the protection of plants and to secure suitable sites. This city can secure some of the factories by going after them, but we will never get anywhere by sleeping on the job. At present no one seems to be moving in cither direction. -- TARIFF POPULAR. In order to forestall the reopening of the wool schedule and to forcefully resist any attempt at downward revision of the rates on ranch farm and mine products in the tariff act of 1922, Prager Miller, President of the New Mexico Wool Growers Association of the Western Division of the Southern Tariff and Association, is enlisting the bankers, producers and merchants of all Western states to join with similar interests of the South in preventing any change in the present tariff rates on Western and Southern products. All agricultural and livestock organizations, chambers of commerce, bankers and merchants of the West, including New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California have been requested by Mr. Miller to circulate the following petition of protest among their members and voters for presentation to President Harding and the members of the. United States ariff Commission: We are unalterably opposed to a reduction in the rates on Vice-Preside- nt |