| Show KO JOBBING TRADE II is not the Mormons But the Railroad Rairoa that has Hurt this City I wont give a cent towards getting out any boom edition said George Osmond genera manager of R G Dunn Co Mercantile agency These advertisements only bring in more Raymond tourists and the only persons benefited by that class of cass ravel are the hotels and who ever heard of them subscribing any money t a public enterprise J others want to spend their money in bringing tourists to the hotels they are welcome to do so but what money I cau spare will be given towards securing better railroad rates for our merchants There is not a city of 50000 population in this country but what does ten times as much jobbing business a Salt Lake Of ne SiOLVOi0 jobbing trade that belongs to this city by right of its being the metrono us of the intermountain country not mare than 0000000 of his supplied by thewhole sale houses of this city I dare say that the sleepy little town of St Joseph located a thousand miles away from here ells more goods in this region than the jobbers of Salt Lake We have but three wholesale houses strictly speaking and the only one that keeps a halfdozen men on the road is the Coop store They can talk about the Mormons all they like but what has hurt this city more than anything else has been the railroad When men come to me for information in regard to this cit rs advantages as a jobbing point I simply refer them to the railroads and that is the last of it And yet our merchants accept this ruiniou discrimination meekly and without a protest I did belong to the chamber of commerce but finding that hey were not making the right kind of a fight for the good of our city I ordered or-dered my name off It is all nice enough to talk about our nice climate and healthgiving atmosphere but after all it is the wholesale business that gives one city the prestige over another When a man from Sandy comes to Salt Lake and cannot find a wholesale boot and shoe house a wholesale grocery or a jobbing job-bing crockery concern not even a wholesale whole-sale hardware house he goes away with a mighty small impression of Salt Lake lIE HEHALD has repeatedly called attention at-tention to the heartless discrimination made by the railroads and thp chamber of commerce gave assurance that it would use its influence towards relieving the merchants of this city from one of thu most outrageous extortions practiced on any American city The fact that good can be shipped cheaper from Missouri river points to the Pacific and vice versa than to Salt Lake is a matter which should at once be placed before the interstate commission |
