Show OUR IR9N AND C AL Opening of Great Deposits in Utah Says Louis Cohn Where Greatest Great-est Hope Centers Tho pressing needs of Salt Lake City ncccf ot what will best promote its interests and make It the greatest city between the Missouri Mis-sourI river and the coast Sweepingly we may assert that our greatest need is for industrial enterprises enter-prises that will give steady employment employ-ment to large numbers of men and women The answer to the question Of what should these enterprises consist is not so simply stated We are situated In the heart of the Intermountain regions re-gions with no waterway to connect us I with the centers of commerce We are virtually at the mcrc of the two railroad interests arc road corporations whose closely pooled These corporations have always discriminated against us in the matter of freight rates and will do their utmost to discourage any productions here which might tend to lower their tonnage to Utah and Idaho points However the great success of the beet sugar enterprise Is in itself 0 beacon light and points the way to other possibilities possi-bilities To that body of business stalwarts stal-warts and able men The Commercial club should be given the freight question ques-tion to solve We have dealt fairly with the railroads In the matter of franchises fran-chises and If they will show us a reciprocal recip-rocal feeling much will be possible We would be able to establish cannerIes can-neries and our canned fruit and vegetables veg-etables would be better and perhaps cheaper than the imported goods I would be possible to establish paper mills and glass factories and other Industries In-dustries the products bi which would find ready market in the mining and agricultural fnd regions hereabouts I is scarcely necessary to add that large neceesrj numbers of wageearners would he thus employed and the army of thi unemployed un-employed in this part of the country would be considerably reduced But what Is probably our greatest hope is centered in the vast Iron and coal deposits which abound to the south of us and virtually at our doors I no dis seems altogether likely that at tnt da alogether Iron mines will be opened and worked to their full capacIty capac-ity Great iron foundries will be established es-tablished in the valley to the southward south-ward such articles as can readily be disposed of in the Intermountain regions re-gions will be manufactured and thus 0 great item of freight expense will be cut off There can be no doubt that we are fairly surrounded with possibilities which when developed will make our city one of the greatest between the Missouri river and the Coast 1ls LOUIS COHN |