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Show NOKTU SALT LAKK. A Generous Donation to Knrnurage Manufacturing Manu-facturing Enterprises. Salt Luke is to have an addition to bo donuted to manufacturers, and the best of it is that If tho projector aro carried out, people whocomo hero or are hero with the bona tide Intention of establishing manufactories will obtain building sites fruo. The primn mover in thiw very Important scheme i Mr. W. C. B. Allen, who has been working upon it for some timo; and Tuesday last It hegau to assumn shapo by the purchase of over 5iX) acres of land adjoining ad-joining tho Cooper farm Iu Norlh.Salt Lako, for which the sum of 1,14,000 was paid by Mr, Allen and his associates. Theso gentlemen will placo about 100 acres of this land at the disposal of the Chamber of Commerce, under tho auspices aus-pices of which body It will be donaUid under conditions, to manufacturers who can establish claim to it by entering upon legitimate work in that Hue. About .2200 acres of land In a single tract in the vicinity of North Salt Lake are controlled by different syndicates, and it Is the purpose of the donalnr to put this upon the market In suitable Iota, which it Is believed will bo takou by the many jjia w hu will llnd employ- j nient In tho enterprise It Is contemplated contem-plated will be established. These will include a union stock yard, smelters, rolling mills.slecl works and other rmm-tifactoiii. rmm-tifactoiii. It Is proposed to extend tho electric railway system to Hot Springs, which will bring the district named within two miles of a rapid transit line to tlm cil v, 'and, If all goes well, North Salt Lake will be to Salt Lako City what. South IJmuliu is to Omaha. , Mr. Allen was formerly secretary of thu Omaha board of trade, which position posi-tion he held for live years; and he was witues to the purchase of large amounts of acreage property from neighboring fanners by individuals, who afterwards united in forming form-ing a largi svndlcato and disposed dis-posed of about M.OOO.ooo worth of the nurchmo In thre years. Union stock yards were located on a portion of the tract; packing houses, giving employment to nearly 8hso men, followed, and the building trades catiui next. In fact, a city came into exl. tencn like Aladdin a palace, and the enormous volume of Its trsllle may be Miniated from the statistics, which show that the suburban trulu between Omaha and South Omaha carried, during dur-ing tho year 1W0, nearly fiOO WW passengers. pas-sengers. In the same year VA structures struc-tures were erected at a cost of Ml?,t0H; and the Omaha cooperage works, which gives employment to many hundred men and tiave a capacity of 700 tierces a day, were among the manufactories established. The capacity of the South Omaha stock yards U 10,000 head of rattle, 2;),000'hoB and XX) aheep, and fifty-three fifty-three acres are covered by pens and tracks. Pour companies are Interested in these yarda, anil t'i.QW.m or more have been expended In equipments alone. There are four packing houses on the tract, giving employment to 2,442 men, the wages of whom amounted tot 1, 4 73,000 last rear; and (luring the same period l,020.0a hogs, 2'M.42. cat-tin cat-tin aud 49,2411 nheep were slaughtered. These figures are given to show the possibilities of euterptW'S establir-hcd on similar basis Iu north Salt Lake. |