Show INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL Reviewing the splendid ltd present pr ent and promising future of or Salt Lake as set forth in the section of or this paper de devoted devoted devoted voted to the city there Is no escaping the th conclusion that the conditions all foreshadow a great Inland center for forthe forthe forthe the whole Intermountain region here The showing of ot Salt Lake industries in includes Includes eludes over people employed ed edwith with wages yearly yearb to the amount of ot nearly and a total product of over Of Ot this total the smelters contribute nearly of or the output and of the employed The building trades with men are next in number but do not figure In the to total total total tal output foundry work electrical construction flour milling machinery confectionery laundries shoe manu manufacture manufacture manufacture facture packing house business print printing prIntIng ing lug drugs and medicines breweries brick works work office fixtures creameries cement works these are the principal employers though a number n of ot them are not included in the figures of ot out output output output put from the nature of their business and the difficulty of getting accurate estimates The public service corpora corporations corporations are not included as industries though they furnish occupation and arid dis die distribute distribute tribute wages to a large number of em plo es esIt It the 1 l is ts encouraging aging though by rio Tio me Ws as t as It should be and win wiIl ty i w when ihen the opportunities of or the fieldfare field are e fully tully ap appreciated appreciated predated The shoes which are worn here are arc made of ot hides shipped to the New England states and back again In finished form torm the woolen goods are from western wool shipped to Boston and then reshipped as manufactured d goods Th amount hr of copper co per wire and other copper manufactures used here are made of or copper smelted in this valley sent east to the refiner refineries ies les manufactured and shipped back again Silver Sliver goods and lead products share the same late fate though thou h lead and nd silver are produced here In great quan quantities titles This too t o In tn the face of the th fact that Utah has magnI cent of coal and coke has unlimited water waterpower waterpower waterpower power and electrical power has Im Ini Immense mense deposits of ot iron awaiting dev clev level and with It 11 all Is an ai attractive Y c Y I place for t r labor l and the things nS Ih t go goto goto to build up manufacturing centers enters The finest clays In America for pottery po te of or various kinds lie Ie within a half days s ride of Salt alt Lake material material for Port Portland Portland Portland land cement is tb to t be had literally it rally in Ip mountains brick material ma is plentiful and of good quality yet none of t these thes In manufactured form can be b had in insufficient InsufficIent Insufficient sufficient supply to meet the thC local de demand demend mand mend The Jobbing trade of o the city reached this year y r nearly OO h and 1 the year closed with the est n the wholesalers have haye ever ver top New ew I territory has opened open d up favorably along the line of ot the San Pedro road clear I Into southern Nevadas Neva as new camps in Ely and even evel In the territory which used to be regarded as exclusively the property of or San Ban Francisco To the north the Irrigation development of southeastern Idaho has resulted in con considerable consIderable considerable new flew business and amI an l the th he pros prosperity Prosperity prosperity of ot the mining camps In Utah has added greatly to the purchasing power of or the people and the t e resultant expansion of or distributing trade Modi Modifications of or freight rates by the local roads have haye been favorable to increased trade and a d the rapid growth of ot all ali the territory contiguous to the city has set settled settled tied permanently the fact that Salt Lake is to command the th Intermountain Jobbing trade Bank clearings for the past three years show a total this year Oear of ot over as compared with uh last year ear and about In 1004 The gain in two years has been or over OYer 85 8 per cent an in increase Increase crease cream hardly paralleled parallel d by any city of ot its class In this country This increase ease is almost altogether due du to natural growth in legitimate business resulting resUlting from developments in every eV ry line Hn of commercial activity it is substantial as 4 evidenced by the statements of or the local banks and arid it is the most satisfactory satisfactory tory evidence of ot the material prosperity The coming year may ma rea rca reasonably be expected to surpass this showing |