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Show WILL IT PAY ? When two yearn no the Salt Like Herald urwd tho corj (ruction of BmckinR f'urouc-H, and of separating and refninjt works io this valley, it was met wi'h tlio stale and unsupported MBcrtioD, 'U won't ray." Figure:! woro secured, from men thoroughly Tomcd io tho buMnois, and publi-lud, at the timo that ISitcmiQ, IIucI & Co were movirrx towards tlio construction of their worltfl io Jtinharn Canym; and when tlio fiwt that bdigIudu fur. nacoa would pay was practically do-mooatratod, do-mooatratod, thno who had held a contrary con-trary opinion full back on Bepa.atin and reGoioK work), ui a branch of industry in-dustry that certainly oouid not be made remunerative in Utah. EvorythiDg was ao oostly, and tho freight for transporting transport-ing tho previous motala was so enor- I mous, and a number of other equally i cogent reasons wero advanced, which satin fied thoao who claimed their authorship, until tlio Qurmania company com-pany quietly icttlod tho contented point by erecting worka of tho kind indicated and making it pay. So, too, wo bhould havo a branch mint hero, and tho matter mat-ter Bhould bo urged upon oongresa next session; and thoro should bo lead works - as well as separating and refining works, and iron foundries, and other similar industries, all of which would Day. But a low days ago a gentleman of aome esporionoo and muoh general information in-formation propoundod the question whether wonlon manufactures would pay hero? IIo oooiiJered th) cheap-ess cheap-ess of labor and tho many advanta-gee advanta-gee oojoyed by uriuuPtiotururd in tho east, and queried whether Utah could hopo to oompoto wi.h them. California Califor-nia Borne years ago oomtneoued tho manufacturo of woolen goodd, and though it had to pay higher waged than Utah ha3 ; and paid for all th" material udtrd in ooin, it oan to-day, and docs, ship woolen goods 003 1 and solid them in eastern markets, their superiority commanding command-ing remunorativo figuroa. Utah has nlrl Vnrlr-hirn nrvl writ rf tfr.t-lftnrl woavorn, acquainted with weaving tho best fabric made; Bho ha3 a start in such manufactures that no other part of tho country with tho same population popula-tion has ever had, and this through tho advioo and txauipla of President Brig ham Young; she has tho npindlca for epinoing the wool and the looms to weave it; she has inoJorato priced labor, skilled and unskilled; and if any person oan show solid reasons why it would not pay to manufacturo tho wool hero rather than ship it off a thousand to two thousand miloa and bring back tho oloth, they have not yet been made apparont. Yot every attempt to establish a p'ormanont industry which baa to oompoto oom-poto witL importations from Jong established and excellently appointed manufactories, needs cocouragemont and fostering. Hero, though, bo far as tho manufacture of woolen goods is concerned, but littlo is needed except ' an active public sympathy with tho industry. in-dustry. Thoro is no necessity to urgo upon capitalists tho importance of investing in-vesting in machinery, for machinery is here; what is wanted is, that wool-growers wool-growers should first sao if thoy oannot advantageously dispose of thoir wool for home consumption before shipping it off; and that the purchasing publio should enquire if they cannot find Utah manufactured goods suitable to wear, bofore thoy exhaust thoir powers of inspection in-spection on imported goods.. With this, and with tho best efforts of iac-. iac-. tory superintendents to keep pace with thotimoain improvements in tho quality qual-ity of tho goods manufactured, there will bo no doubt of tho answor to the question, ' Will it pay?" so far as tho mahufacturo of woolen fabrics is oonoerned; and when it pays tho manufacturers man-ufacturers it will pay tho public, for every dollar kept in the Territory is bo much added to the general revenue, increasing the general circulation .of means and benefiting direot y, or iu-direotly, iu-direotly, the entire 0'mmuniiy. |