Show I OUR MANUFACTORIES The Great North Salt Lake Scheme Revealed SODTH OMAHA TO BE REPEATED I I Union Stock Yards Iron and Smelting Works aDrlvlns lark and 3 Motor Line A Maiiufacturlus District I V The great North Salt Lake manufacturing manufactur-ing scheme which TiE HccALDhas repeatedly repeat-edly mentioned is at last revealed I is so vastin its proportions and sweeping sweep-ing in its projections that the mere announcement an-nouncement of its purposes will create 3 sensation and set property values rocking t adjust themselves to the new order of things While tho Commercial street extension ex-tension was big enough t occupy the thoughts of many men in this community the gigantic scheme of organizing a manufacturing manu-facturing district and establishing a populous popu-lous city in North Salt Lake was quietly being consummated The scheme 1 nothing less than to repeat here what was accomplished at Omaha i The following facts were learned from A w C 33 Allen one of the leaders in the enterprise An important real estate transfer was made Tuesday This was tho second movo being made by two or three large syndicates syndi-cates who are preparing t establish SOME JMPOUTAST EKTERPKISES north of the city and t organize a manufacturing manu-facturing district establish union stockyards stock-yards iron and smelting works open up anew a-new addition and a driving park build a suburban motor line etc This sale includes in-cludes SCO acres of level land adjoining the Cooper farm recently sold for 150000 and which was made t W C B Allen and associates i as-sociates for the sum of 56000 Out of this I tract it is proposed t reserve from eighty t one hundred acres for manufacturing Bites t be used under the auspices of the chamber of commerce as a bonus for such Enterprises as may be deemed worthy of 4 endorsement Certain conditions of course will be required by the chamber of commerce com-merce to secure free manufacturing sites hit the movement i in the right direction From other sources it is learned that three syndicates control 2200 acres of land in one solid tract and that the purpose of this generous grant to the chamber of commerce com-merce is with a view t sell their lots t THE THOUSANDS OF LABORERS that will be employed at the stock yards manufactories nnd in the rolling mills smelters and other The extension of the electric street rail way t Hot sirings is a part of this plan RS it will be within two miles from the heart of the proposed manufacturing district dis-trict The sale of the Cooper farm and the driving park scheme which was published exclusively in THE HERALD several weeks ago was but another adjunct of the great manufacturing district i W C B Allen was for five years secretary secre-tary of the Omaha board of trade and at ihe time that certain individuals quietly bought largo tracts of land south of that rity from the farmers at a small acreage I price Placing it in a large syndicate they sold 3000000 worth of property from it during the first three years of their existence exist-ence WHAT TiE STOCK YARDS HID FOR OllA The location of the Union stock yards on this land built up a city as i by magic The Union stock yards and the various racking companies give employment t from 2200 t 3000 men The building lades give employment in season t about 0 men During 1SS9 there were erected 10 structures valued at 112106 The Omaha cooperage works are now in opera Lion giving employment t a large number Df day men having a capacity of 700 tierces per During 1SS9 there were carried on the Union Pacific suburban trains 490337 passengers sengers between South Omaha and Omaha Nothing has contributed more to the sub Itantial and rapid growth of Omaha than the extensive stock yards and packinghouses packing-houses The yards now have a capacity for 10000 cattle 23000 hogs and GOOO sheep Fiftythree acres of ground are covered by pens ana tracks Three locomotives are Used for switching the cars in the yards The aggregate cost of the buildings and equipment of the four large companies e reeds 2000000 independent of the value pf the ground occupied by the plants During the season of 1SSSS9 Armour t Cudahy Packing company packed > y 159231 hogs of an aggregate value I of 5051541 and 40349 cattle of A an aggregate value of 5350155 and 94S9 J beep of an aggregate value of 23722 the years business aggregating over 0000 000 0 000Another concern the Omaha Packing company killed 311445 hogs during the year Swift Bros buildings cover three acres and have a capacity for 1000 hogs a day The Hammond company killed 157893 hogs CG76S cattle and 11099 sheep The total slaughter or these four houses For the past year were 1020035 hogs 234427 cattle and 49249 sheep Total number of men employed in four packing houses 2442 estimate of wages paid during the year 1475000 While Salt Lake cannot expect to equal this record it can take care of the hog product pro-duct of Utah as well as that of Wyoming v and other territories and snatch a few I porkers from western Nebraska What the North End manufacturing company will lack in hog itwill more than make up in the manufacture of iron and in its grert lead smelters The value of roll ing mil t a city was given in Sundays HERALD so that any allusion t their contributions contri-butions t the wealth and population of a city is unnecessary here cty May the North End boom and every 1 other end of this neverending city |