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Show LETTER IS SENT 10 PACK FIRMS Salt Lake Real Estate Men Want Factory in Zion. GOOD SITES OFFERED Boosters Promise to Spare No Pains to Assure Success. As a part of the plan to locate, a packing plant in Salt Lake tbe Bait Lake Kcal Estate association has addressed ad-dressed a letter to the leading lacking concerns of the country, setting forth the opportunities for such a plant iu this district. The letter calls attention to the (dieap electrical power, the great mining and smelting interests and the wonderful agricultural development of the state. Special mention was made of the extent of the beefr sugar industry and its influence of stock raising. The letter said in part: The production of hogs in this section of the country iu the last few years has increased very much, and ia increasing rapidly each year. Salt Lake City is the geographical geo-graphical center of seven mining states, and taken as a whole is the greatest in extent and richuess of any mining territory in the world. In this great territory Salt Lake City lias no competitor. We are a railroad center and distributing point and the center of a great stock-raising country. Taking all these things into aeouut, the leading lead-ing financiers and business men of this city have now come to tho conclusion con-clusion "that the time is propitious for a big packing- plant in or near tho city, and have decided to procure pro-cure one for this locality. They would prefer that one of the large and old established companies who have the experience and a business thoroughly organized in that line ' locate here and handle the business, busi-ness, and, failing in this, they have decided that they will proceed to , make such an arrangement as will insure the establishing here of a suitable plant to handle the business busi-ness for this part of the country. We stand ready to offer donations of land for a site for such a plaut, and perhaps other concessions, and to assist iu any way possible, in securing se-curing franchises, trackage, right of way or anything else necessary to make Pin'h a business a success. 1 s your company interested, and will you confer with our personal representative if wo send one to see you ? |