Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-30 | Page 14 | Would Make Zion Livestock Genter

WOULD MAKE ZIOfi LSVESTDCK CENTER Commercial Club Is Working Work-ing Out Plan to Boost Packing Industry. Salt Lake, a lives toclt center, is the plan ot the Commercial club, and a special spe-cial committee is now at work on a livestock live-stock survey of tue territory tributary to Salt Lake. Partial figures were presented at a meeting of the committee beld yesterday yester-day at the Comniurcial club. These are most en cou raging and those in charge of the work are of the opinion that already al-ready enough hogs are -raised in Utah and southern Idaho to justify a market here. One section of Twin Kails county. IdaJio. reports more than .0,000 hogs sold annually and there are other sections with a showing as high in proportion. All of these hops are shipped to Los Angeles, Portland or the eastern markets. Most of the meats consumed here H.re shipped back from eastern packing houses, when, with suitable marketing facilities here, present packing- plants here would be enlarged, new ones would bo built and locally raised meat would be consumed locally. Managers of the plants now operating here say that all of their difficulties arise from the fa ft that they cannot aecure sufficient livestock to operate continuously. continu-ously. A central market in Salt Lake and the encouragement of the livestock industry in this territory would remove this difficulty, and it is with this in view and tho extension of the packing Industry Indus-try that the committee is working. It was pointed out at yesterday's meeting that durins the last two weeks of October Oc-tober hogs to the value of nearly 5100,-000 5100,-000 passed through Salt Lake en route to Los Angeles. This figure, the committee holds, may toe safely multiplied multi-plied by three or four to Include hogs shipped to Portland and the east. This caculation gives some idea of the value of the hog industry alone to this country. Partial reports ' from the counties of Utah and surrounding states show startling totals. Seventeen counties in Utah show livestock to the value of $15,-000.000. $15,-000.000. Fifteen counties in adjoining states show livestock to the value of $20,000,000. There are yet twenty-three counties to report. Many of these are the richest counties in the territory, so that the figures shown may safely be doubled, making a total of about $70,-000,000 $70,-000,000 in livestock in the country tributary trib-utary to Palt Lake. The committee is convinced that this amount is sufficient to warrant a central market here and that the livestock Industry In-dustry would grow more rapidly than ever as a result. Three committees are now at work on details for the plan. The first is a committee com-mittee on organization and finance, composed com-posed of P. M. Randall, chairman, George M- Cannon and Julian Bamberger. The second is a committee on statistics, composed com-posed of H. D. Landes, chairman; C. A. F. Orlob and F. YV. Reynolds. The third is a committee on railroad rates, composed com-posed of William Bo wen, chairman; George S. McAllister and E. F. Hanna. Work in connection with the plan la necessarily slow, but it is being pursued diligently, and th final report of the committee will be accurate and complete.