Show A distributing CENTER if anyone interested in the growth and nd advancement of salt lake city and who is taking note of the concentration of indus trial and commercial activities will only study the map of this great intermountain inter mountain region he will at once perceive that salt lake is rapidly growing into an immense distributing center and espee especially ally so when it comes to the handling of mining machinery and twenty years ago there was hardly more than one mining machinery and supply house in metropolis now there are twenty or more and some come of the greatest machinery houses in the world are represented here to say nothing of the big local institutions tut ions including firms which carry exceedingly large stocks foundries and supply houses until within the past few years one or two establishments could bac ealy ly handle the mining machinery business coming to salt lake but of late the mining industry has assumed such gigantic dimensions that the firms now in this field are doing business on a scale that is astonish astonishing ingi truly marvelous ji As all roads lead to rome everything in this western country is attracted to salt lake city which is now the distributing point for a wonderfully large area of country all railroads rai roads lead to salt lake and these cover a number of adjoining states from montana mining men come to salt lake for mining machinery and supplies every day a score or more of mine managers come here from idaho wyoming nevada arizona and eastern colorado for mine and mill equipment it is so easy for them to make the trip and when they arrive they find almost everything here that is desirable in mining and milling practice and the transportation facilities are excellent so that every district every mining section athin a radius of or 1000 miles is easily accessible in salt lake many of the big mining machinery houses maintain fine of offices fides a and U d in this city is to be found engineering ta talent 11 e t the equal if not the peer of that to he be found in any place in the united states and every facility exists here that a big distributing point could desire or boast of ten years from now without a question of doubt salt lake will be the chief distributing attributing center of the west |