Show AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Communication 3 Gentlemen of the Commercial letter to you was crowded out of the Utah Independent last week because the space was all taken by Paul's nature study Before I proceed on the industrial argument of two weeks I desire to call your attention to a matter concerning one of your Senator George Sutherland is a member of yOur club he also a prominent lawyer and and eminent he has attained prominence in the United States Senate that but few men have ever reached in so short a time- his being placed as an advisory member of the senate judiciary committee is a position that only great lawyer can Sutherland was recently seriously considered by President Taft as an appointee to the United States supreme a position that would have been a great and lasting honor to the state of Utah and to your There was no other candidate the state of Utah or from your club for that Every Woman and irrespective of religion or who loved Utah and desired to see her rank with the other should have worked together for Senator Sutherland's But we have ingrates and tories in Utah who will attempt to block every progressive thing in our fair and the biggest of them all is the Salt Lake the paper that you and without your support it could not The Tribune did all that its scurrility could command to Senator one of your from obtaining one of the greatest gifts that a nation can bestow upon one of her The Tribune grossly cartooned and highly elated when a man from Wyoming was appointed instead of Senator a native son to the supreme bench of the United You certainly must approve the Tribune's or you would not subscribe for it and v your advertisements would not appear in its What you patronize you to get back to my theme of Your approved Tribune greatly boasted that Salt Lake City's population increased so much more rapidly v than the state of and the Mormons held back the state while the Kearns Americans advanced the We showed you the false statement of the Tribune in that We also showed you that j real- substantial wealth was the producing wealth of the the factories and the and that the Kearns Americans had done absolutely nothing along those lines in Salt Lake Now let us glance at Salt Lake the that the party has tried to get political control the big cypher indicates what the Kearns Tribune party has done to add to Utah's We will now your attention to one of Utah's real to one individual through whose personal influence the golden stream of real producing wealth is constantly pouring into this county at the rate of per month in real hard cash in wages His name is D. C. president and general manager of the Utah Copper Jackling is one of the largest stockholders in the and he was its president up till a short time and during Jackling's presidency of that publication the Tribune called it a Mormon paper and accused Jackling of being in league with the If we should take the Tribune at its word in regard to Ave would say that a Mormon sympathizer and has 1 done more to add to the real of Salt Lake county than all the other wealth producers We will say that Jackling is not a Mormon we do not think that he carries any religious trade jj j He is not a Kearns Tribune he is as tar from being a Kearns American as Kearns is from his off state of We are not hero wor yr and we do not believe in kneeling on the banks f of the Pactolus because its sands are but we do admire a business especially one who has added so much to the producing wealth of our We do not know Jackling at sight and we have looked over our 2733 subscribers and we do not find Z his name on our All hustling men have some in not subscribing for the Utah Independent is one of The Brigham Press Bulletin gives a short of which we duce herewith in is what the Utah Copper company has accomplished during the past fe dividends amounting to to its P the capacity of the two great mills at Garfield tp double their present r ground for the New Bingham Garfield the of which is almost and it is estimated that the road will be in operation by the middle of the coming v the mineral resources at the mine to such a as will ensure double the present in- crease of for years to a new record of extracting nearly 70 j per cent of the metallic contents of per cent copper M. a new record in copper production in- the state of fit in in the neighborhood of to Hf labor in the Bingham camp Greatest in the u I copper producers in the world the amount of dividends substantiated its claim to being the greatest copper producer in the years ago the company started breaking for its first The results it m actual production have been accomplished a little over three Prior to the present the dividends have been distributed aggregating The record breaking operations of the during the year 1910 have been conducted simultaneously with V all the new activities and which have been undertaken by the management since the first of There seems to be no limit to the of the management of this company to undertake new enter and at the same time smash all records in Md aCtual I Pro- 1116 t f comPa incorporated in 1903 by the Penrose syndicate I ground was broken on the site the same year where the big surface workings are now and a short later the Copperton mill was erected as an experiment plant to demonstrate originally devised system of reducing copper ores of extremely at a This mill proving to be a mill at Garfield was constructed along similar The system of steam shovel surface mining wise an original experiment undertaken by and the wonderful record of production attained by the company during the past three years bears irit ness to the marvelous success of the same shovel report of the management for the third quarter of the ensuing year gives a fair idea of the earning capacity of this The net profits of the ter from mining and milling operations were rents and other and from the Nevada Consolidated making a total of These earnings were computed on a basis of per pound for the average cost per pound of net copper produced after smelting and all other deductions were per Salt Lake's Progress During the Past Five The great prosperity of Salt Lake City has come directly from Bingham canyon and its If Bingham canyon should shut down its mines for six Salt Lake City would be as dead as Thomas Kearns' dear little And with all of the above Gentlemen of the Commercial you endorse by your patronage the which states that the Kearns Americans' and we killed a Yours V. 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