Show JOBBING JOBB BUSINESS c v SCORES GREAT GAIN n is Shown own of o Over During Duri g 1 the Year ear Just us Closing r Every Branch of Trade Excepting One Has Shown Shon a aFf Flittering Fi n Improvement 7 j 4 Groceries 6 J t Dry D goods Hardware e r 4 4 Farm implements t 1 1 1 Lumber 1 t Liquors and cigars tOO OO 4 Boots and shoes M Drugs Drugs and chemicals 1 t t Furniture 75 7 t f J Clothing M f 4 Paints and oils T Confectionery t t Meats S 4 and harness barn i fc 1 f Crockery china hina and glassware jt Paper stationery and books Bottled goods Plumbers and electrical supplies r t Total i Total for 1900 38 4 Increase 4 t HE striking feature of Salt Lakes THE Jobbing business during the year was the splendid gain of over In volume over the previous year a gain that is distributed through eVery branch of business In the city with the single exception of the farm Implement trade and this is accounted for by the tremendous volume volume vol volume ume of business done in this line in 1899 1869 and by the poor crops in much of the thi territory contiguous to Salt Lake this year It Is only within recent years has assumed importance as asa a jobbing center When in 1810 the hustling merchants of or the city rolled up a total of over many ID y thought that it was a spurt due to special special cial conditions and that the could not be kept up But the next year the total was pushed up to almost 23 and this year to more than thau 27 These figures are gratifying as show showing showing showIng ing a steady and certain growth The he Increase this year over the business cf f flast last year Is 20 per cent Groceries still stand at the head of the list as to the amount of business done The increase In this particular department is accounted for in part by the great gret output of ot beet sugar mush much of which is jobbed in this city and to the tomatoes that are ar canned in the see rounding country Hardware WIt includes mining machinery shows show a big gain gala owing to the Increased ity sty In the mining districts The great greatest greatest est eat per cent of gain is 18 found In lumber The gain here is 50 SO per cent due to tire the great activity in building In this city There was no addition to the territory terri territory territory tory reached by the Salt Lake jobbers during the year there has baa been very little reaching out for more distant points in any lines of ot trade But the territory already won has hap been coveted covered with more thoroughness during the year roar just juat closing than ever V before fore This I 1 to is shown hOWD by the greatly increased nuts num number her ber of traveling salesmen now on the tte road representing Salt kIt Lake houses ho notice Every wholesale whole ale house of Importance has found it necessary to add to its it force and call on its customers oftener This has bas been found to be effective in shutting out outside competition Ev Every Ery ery jobber is looking forward aJaX anxiously anxiously to the time when a much larger number of ot railroads will wUl center canter in III this city and give better opportunity distributing goods from this tit point Al Already Already Already ready a good line of trade has hu been beeR opened up along the proposed prop route of the San Pedro railroad in Utah and aad Nevada |