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Show Wok.se than Contemptible. Wc ; notice, when passing around, numerous J specimens u! job-printing -bills. posters, : card:?, bill-heads, &c. done in the cat or west, at probably a shade lowerth;tn they would have been done here; and setting forth tho business of different parties in this city. These persons are engaged in business here, and make their charges at Salt Lake prices. If they sell anything or do any work they do not charge eastern or western rates, but those prevailing in this city; yet to save a few cents of the money thus received from tho people here they send off a little of the work they want done, on the plea they cannot can-not get it done quite so cheaply here as they can in Omaha, Council Bluffs, Chicago, or San Francisco; Such parties havo a happy faculty of viewing view-ing matters in a very one-sided light; it is all for them and nothing from them. They expect patronage where they live but decline to reciprocate because be-cause they imagine half a cent on the dollar is to be made by a different course. Suppose job printing is a little shade higher here than in the places named, the freight on material costs considerable. A job press costs a fourth more laid down in Salt Lake City than it does in San Francisco or Chicago. Typo is heavy freight, and so is paper, to the bulk; and the matter mat-ter of freight alone, excluding tho extra ex-tra interest that should come in for extra capital expended, would make about the difference between Salt Lake job printing and that of eastern or western cities. Wchavc soiuo excuse for traveling shows and circusscs who find it to their advantage to have many thousand bills struck off at one timo, leaving blanks, perhaps, for filling in the names of places where they may exhibit; but there is no excuse for residents in the city, only that they prefer not to encourage business at home where all their own business is obtained. Yet traveling shows and circusses so far, in this place, have patronized printers ink here when they could, and have done it liberally. There is not a town in the entire Rocky Mountain region where job-oflice job-oflice and nowspaper proprietors have so small a margin of profit for invested capital as in this city. In most places in tho west the smallest newspapers are sold at from twelvo to sixteen dollars dol-lars per annum. Hero daily papers aro published at lower prices than in places where the expense iu material aud labor is not more than two-thirds us much as it is iu this city. And men who cannot take such facts into consideration, con-sideration, hut send off their littlo job work a thousand miles or more to save the smallest possible . margin should bo treated to a similar dose by the people peo-ple letting them go for patronage where they send their patronage. |