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Show MANUFACTURING INTERESTS <br><br> Logan and Cache County are justly renowned for their manufacturing industries. In this city there are numerous notable enterprises; and probably they are of a more varied character than can be found in any other one town of Utah. Certainly, it is that no other place of a similar size in this Territory, has so much to be proud of in this respect as has Logan. The industries have not been established without earnest effort on the part of their projectors; and they have not been continued in operation without many personal sacrifices. But under the counsel of the authorities and with wise and careful management, many of them have survived and are now in a comparatively flourishing condition. The one great lack has been a want of money with which to purchase machinery and materials for which cash payment is necessary. Yet this obstacle has been surmounted. One good feature of the enterprises here has been that in some cases mercantile establishments have been connected with industrial associations, and thus mutual benefit has been derived. This plan is encouraged and we hope will be followed. It is necessary; of course, that we should have mercantile houses, and the want is now and must be supplied by men who have means to invest. But it is absolutely necessary - in order that we may be a prosperous people, to have manufactories for the purpose of supplying us with those articles which we need not and ought not to import. For men, in our communities who have wealth, to invest their surplus means in merchandising alone would be a short-sighted policy. Fortunately it is one that is not frequently adopted here. If there are necessary industrial enterprises which cannot live alone during the first few years of their existence, it is in many cases of great advantage to combine with them stores where are sold their own manufactures and imported goods. As we stated; this system has not only proved practicable in Cache County but successful; and the flourishing institutions so conducted furnish proof of the fact. It would not be well to attach a store to every industrial enterprise nor would it be well to have a factory connected with every mercantile house. Manufacturing [unreadable section] many inconveniences, which our home industries have to contend against, are avoided - still it is not the best. The profits are sometimes very large; but the business is not so much of a blessing to our community nor to the proprietor themselves, as would be a thriving manufacturing industry. In the one item of labor alone the truth of this assertion is made manifest. A mercantile establishment that has invested in real estate and goods, the sum of forty thousand dollars, employs directly in conducting its affairs, probably five or six men - certainly not more than eight. A manufacturing industry - having half the sum invested gives employment to from three to eight times as many individuals. But by combining where practicable, the two kinds of business,and making each one the helper of the other, we preserve, in the matter of labor and in other respects, a fair average. Our people are continually counseled on this subject and they should realize its importance. |