Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-01 | Page 12 | Chased by Landlords

raw materials are produced. The second cause of the shift of manufacturing Is In land values. Manufacturing attracts congested population, which automatically increases land values. As the landlord's levy becomes heavier, it increases in-creases manufacturing costs, also the cost of living liv-ing of employes. Manufacturing and labor are moving to the interior of the country to escape the landlords. Similarly, and a more Important movement, the tendency is for factories to get out of the cities and into villages or the open country, where land is cheap and rents low for employes. In this westward movement Utah should be alive to her opportunities. Thj state has mud to offer in raw materials, and the citizenship should endeavor to foster other encouragements, such as lower taxes and general production costs a Chased by Landlords . i . HERE is something interesting to all, especially espe-cially Important to men who carry dinner ' pails: The National City bank of New York discovers that the manufacturing industry of the United States, which began along the Atlantic coast, Is slowly moving toward the interior cT .. the country, where fuel and the bulk of manu-' manu-' facturing materials are produced. Fifty years go two-thirds' of the nation's manufactured arti-cjej arti-cjej were product n the eastern strip beginning In New England and extending from there down Into Florida. - Now that district produces less than half of the country's manufactured goods. Each year . ... the percentage of manufactured articles produced "1' - In the East grows smaller. What will this lead to? Easy question to answer. The Interior of ' the United States Is destined to be the great ' manufacturing center, as It now b the center of production of raw materials, especially, food, Most of the gam In interior manufacturing has occurred in the Mississippi valley and the states . : around the Great Lakes. Ohio, for instance, " turned out $749,000,000 of manufactured goods In 1900. In 1920 this had increased nearly six-fold, six-fold, to 15,100,000,000. Michigan, largely due to its giant auto indus- try, made the greatest advance, its output of manufactures Increasing from $320,000,000 In 1900 to 3,46'6,000,000 In 1920. California, reflecting the westward movement, jumped from $250,000,000 to nearly $2,000,000,000 in the aame twenty-year period. .Two things have caused this westward move-r move-r - ment of manufacturing. Both have to do with . exonomy. The first is the desire to save expen-;. expen-;. slve freight hauls by- turning raw materials into " finished goods dose to the localities where the . ' ' " ': ,'' ' '