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Show "SW.T MM. un Dill I1V This valuo and benefit of home manufacture to any oommublly are thus commented upon under tha above healing by thu Omaha ll'orM Itiratit 1 IVirhaps tho best Illustration of tbe good effect of jalronlslng homo Indna trln la tho growth of tho city of Nail take. When tho lodi fsllgablo Mormon lea ler started tbetrainalt colony In tho now bloMOiiilng valley where tho city of Halt I Ako atan Is they w re somewhat In the posltl in of tho Creator at tho founds Hon of tho woil I. They were not exactly called tition to build a cltyout of nothing, but they lied lory, vvrf raw matorhl to begin with. Thoy ha I rock y moon tains with gushing streams an 1 e-iudy liottom Ian Is with Utile vegolaltou. Thoy were cut on from tho clvlll-oil world by a great deMrt waate, uncrossed by any lino nt communication oxcepl on end e wagon trait. They were forced by clrcutntttucct, tberofore, b ill that very thing which Omaha shoul 1 do from reference, namely, to bull 1 up a community within themselves by Industry, energy an I en lerprlso. There was work for overyliody an 1 every tioineln luslry Masimlront'od, bm-auso Halt Ikewaatoo Isulatcl from the re-itofthe v.orll lo take her patron age elsewhere ll soon became the bo.it of H-iH take City that her poople coul 1 protluca anything, from a horse shoo to the great pl organ In tho tsbernseln. t'mrrie wero opcnel an 1 a elty bullu Tho utoiintsln streams wero selsiii u-ou and oomjHitted to Irrigate the dosert volley until It beoanio a garden Agrl culture and mauufsctdro worke 1 shoulder to ahuuld'-r. Traloanl oommerco with the atirnmn ling regions utokty fol lowed, and a groat community Ihue grow up hundreds of miles from any other of lmiortauco and In the very ml lit of wlul ha I boon a desert. "In the strictest sense, Hall Lake City waa built by tho patronage of homo lu dtiatrles. the spirit that animated the ico' te was a aplrlt of fraternity, and the liol ! Intelligence of llrlgham oung and his Chunk gavo an Irresistible Impulso to the lnovomont to develop the com inunlty from within, and to ullllto the energy an I Industry r f every man In the community for the j rodiictlon of those things which tho community needed u. great many Industries have grown up In Dm iha and a good deal of menu factoring U dono hero on a small scale. Tho moro producers wo can keep busy In this city tho greater Kill Its prosperity lie. We cannot crest a ell) with consumers con-sumers only or with Ira los peoplo only. No community however blvaswl by coin uierce, can luis be) end a certain point of davcloj ment unless It produces And ore-atoe ore-atoe quantities of those goods sibkh It aniiuilly consumes. ' ( hlcao'a first growth was duo to ooinmcrce, hut her second greater growth hasbee-iduotomsnufai.tures,and ao It must be with Omaha." Tor several years tho slrlt of encouragement en-couragement to home Induitrlia lu this Territory seemed to bo Hiking a rest. Meriantllu entorirlsis huaniu all the rno. Various speculations wcru startod. Htal estate dealing mtlnn teniionry boom. And to homo manufactures dwindled, and It was m much aatlioso who wero Interested In them could do, to keep tin m alloat with anything llko fair returns. Hut attention Is now being returned to this lniiortant matter. The sugar factory la an Indication In this direction. direc-tion. That Is a tuagulflctnt Illustration Illustra-tion of what can be doue by faith, energy, determination and the combination combi-nation of small capltalUts. Wo hO-a to io a thorough revival of tho manufacturing spirit and the tslab-llshuieiutof tslab-llshuieiutof new lnduilrles,'or Ihu employment em-ployment of labor, thu conservation of money for liomu circulation, and tho permanent firowth und welfare of thu Territory. |
