Show THE SALT INDUSTRY A bulletin of the Census office has just been Issued which shows the details de-tails of the salt Industry In the various vari-ous States for 1893 I shows 150 establishments estab-lishments in tho country for the manufacture man-ufacture of salt with a capital of 27 123364 The land owned by these companies com-panies Is valued at SS1945S7 the buildings build-ings at S35S01S the machinery tools and Implements at 4523294 the cash oh hand and sundries at 5717165 The I salaried officers clerks etc number 40G the salaries amount to 499748 the wageearners number 4774 they earn 1911140 The miscellaneous expenses were 760539 the cost of material used 3335922 the value of the products pro-ducts was 79G6S97 For Utah the figures werenumber of establishments 5 capital C1C850 value of land 540010 of buildings 23740 of machinery tools and implements imple-ments 2o011 cash and sundries 58 089 Salaried officials S salaries paid 10580 officials iof Incorporation 1 his salary 2100 number of managers clerks salesmen etc 7 their salaries S4SO Men employed 6 paid SOOO woman 1 paid 480 Wageearners greatest number 120 least 38 average aver-age 59 wages paid them 23702 of which all but one were men the one woman wageearner being paid 165 The miscellaneous expenses were 24 065 rent of works 1275 taxes S102 rent of offices insurance interest and sundries 19388 The materials used cost 31759 of which 25288 was for barrels and sacks 500 for cloth for sacks 3871 for fuel 250 for rent of power and heat 931 for mill supplies SGG for all other materials 50 for freight The products were valued at 139488 being 235G71 banels barrels of table and daIr salt 1485 common coarse 62115 coarse solar salt 75893 barrels milling salt 88907 barrels other grades 7271 barrels The salt was made in 39 ponds with 38610728 square feet of surface From all of which It will be seen that the salt Industry of Utah Is i an important Item In Us business I will also b seen that there Is Infinite room for expansion for we have salt enough to salt the earth for ages |