Show UTAH ENTERPRISE One of the first th ngs the Utah p oneers d d after settl ng in theee al leys table lands and tnounta ns was to start as mauj manufacturing enter pr ses as i os ble J3e ng hundreds of m les away from the neatest market necess ty compelled them to make the best use of such mate al as they could command and excellent results fol lowed One of the most interesting chapters of the early day history of the commonwealth is that perta n ng ta primitive manufactures which rendered material aid in conquering the country for the present generat on Descendants of the p oneers as veil as many of those who came to the mountain country more recently ex h b t much enterpr se n the manuf ac turmg field and the des re to make things s as strong today n Utah as ever it was "We manufacture sugar salt woolen goods s lk and othet art cles too numerous to ment on Our canned goods are famous all over the country and shoes made in Salt Lake are of the kind that don t vear out the first week they are worn We have knitting works in th s ctj in which many people are employed The above s a prelude to a recent report of the Farmers and "Merchants Savings bank of Logan upon the bus I ness of the Cache kn tt ng vorks wh ch commenced operations twenty five years ago In summ ng up the re port says that during the last year there were twenty n en employed as knitters and 260 women 100 salesman about forty employees at large and the value of the Utah kn tted products for 1914 was $60o 000 There as pa d out for labor Outs de Of management $92 000 Thirty one per cent of the products sold with n the tate at a value of $187 500 Sixty n ne per cent sold outside of the state thereby bring g approximately $417 500 into the state from outside sources It s such enterpr ses as the one at Logan that are bringing Utah to the front as a manufactur ng state and men at the head of t are entitled to cong atulat ons for the success achieved If the state mlw had the necessary number of factories to furnish employment for enough men and women to consume only a tenth part of the foodstuffs produced Utah people vOuld soon be rolling in wealth Tfyey are do ing pretty v ell as t a |