Show Slaughtering and Meat lacking In these days of singular and distinctive dis-tinctive boom when every city with any advantages whatever to boast of and enterprising mea enough to take initiative steps demands recognition j and notice the writer feels that it is obviously proper that a city in tho posi tion which Ogden occupies not only as the railroad junction of the west but in every serse whicn goes to make a city great ought to permit no oppor tunity to remain ungrasped to promote its own welfare and to develop it resources It is with this feeling of confidence in the continued and permanent crowtn j and development cf nf6n City n hy th tae t-ae writer places his pen upon the paper for the purpose of making a few select references to the slaughtering and meat packing bnsiness an avenue for the profitable investment of capital tban which no other place this side of Kansas City dare lay any pretension to equal it appears that the ntmbor of establishments estab-lishments engaged in this business in the United States in 1880 according to tbo tenth census report was 872 to conduct which 51478345 f capital was rrqnired which employed 36113 males over 16 years of ago and 1184 children and youths who received in wages 10194j385 The total product was worth 316210815 and the materials used in this vast production were valued 278 891685 which after adding the wages paid deducted from the total product shows that the capital realized a net profit of 26369775 or 15423 390 more than the total amount of wages paid to the 27297 laborers Our idea in producing the foregoing figures is not merely to show our wide awake business men the fabulous profits which capital invested in the direction indicated would bring but H is more to point out what we believe to be of still greater importance import-ance to the people in this vicinity vicin-ity that this is one of many industrial in-dustrial enterprises where capital is paid afar larger ratio of profit than the brains employed in producing the result snlts and hence is peculiarly adapted to co operative ownership method under which tho employees as well as the proprietors have an opportunity of participating in the immense profits It is not within the province of the present article to enter into any particulars par-ticulars In relation to the adyisibility cf erecting meat packing houses or to the sources of output as it is admitted and cannot be gainsaid that we are in the very heart of a section of the countr that consumes enormous quanitites of just such productions as are herein contemplated con-templated The subject so cursorily treated upon in this article is receiving candid and earnest consideration in other places and ve hope our feeble effort will not go altogether unheeded at home Vcrbum sat tapicnti C A S |