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Show UTAH WOULD SUPPLY IT'S POULTRY NEEDS If ALL DID AS THIS HAN DOES This is a story of what brains and push have done for one man In the building up of a successful and paying business. Sixteen years ago this man brought his family to Salt Lake to make their home. He was a traveling salesman and for eleven years after coming to this city followed his vocation through the Western country for the firms which he represented. For months at a time he was absent from his home and family and his visits home were but of few days' duration. He grew tired of the nomadic life and decided to give it up. The saving of years had gone to buy a little home on First street, this was sold and with the money a new home was bought between Twelfth and Thirteenth Thir-teenth South, on Third East. The price of the old home did not half pay for the new one, which consisted of a good house and "five acres of grdund. so a mortgage was given for the balance. "I will clear that mortgage oft in four years," said the new owner. Where Others Had Failed. With what little capital he had left he started a small poultry farm. More than one man has tried the same thing in Salt Lake county to his sorrow. This man did not make a fortune the first year. In fact, the owners of the mortgage did not hesitate to say that they wanted to foreclose the same that he was little short of crazy in trying to 1 make money in such a business to which he answered: Don't everybody go into the chicken business jn the strength of this story, but if you do, you ! may profit by the example of I Philip Flnegan. This is not an ! advertisement for Mr. Ffnegan, ! but merely a true story of life I () and activity and push, showing that energy properlv directed ! ( will bring its reward. ,' j Telegram reporter to tell the secret of his success Mr. Flnegan said: "First have faith in yourself and the plans which you have in mind, use the brains which are given to you, then work work work. Never doubt yourself your-self nor your ability to make a success of what you have undertaken. This has been my motto." To show how this motto has worked out it may be interesting to know that "Rosevella Poujtry Farm," the name which Mr. Flnegan has given to his home, has raised GOOO wnite Peking ducks, 3000 chickens and 200 geese during dur-ing the present year. The average weekly sales for the last eight months have been: Ducks, $200; chickens, geese and eggs J70 a total weekly sale for eight months of J2". This Is a. private family trade entirely. entire-ly. Mr. Finegan has never yet found it necessary to offer his goods to the wholesale or retail dealer. Comment of Poultry Exeprt. A representative of one of the largest poultry raisers in the United States visited the poultry farm of Mr. Finegan ' "I am paying my interest as it becomes be-comes due. If I do not pay the mort-! mort-! gage when it is due you may foreclose." I His neighbors, old settlers, told him that he could never make money In the poultry business; they had tried it and knew whereof they spoke. In spite of all this he had faith in himself faith that he could make a success of the work that he had planned. He Made a Success. Today, five years after his venture in j the poultry business, he owes not one cent to any man, he has money in the bank and is beyond doubt the most successful suc-cessful poultry raiser in the State of Utah. This man Is Phillip Finegan. 2450 South Third Knst. When asked by a last week. To a reporter of The Telegram Tele-gram he made this statement: "I can understand why this man has made a success of his business. He pays attention to his business. He knows his business. He has one of the best hatching and broodings rooms I ever saw in this country. Everything that he sells is clean and fresh. "Your Utah people are not alive to the possibilities of this business, which, by the way, I have been looking Into since I arrived in Salt Lake. I find that besides what your own State furnishes for your local market, from 40.000 to 60.000 pounds of poultry Is necessary to supply the local demand. Most of the imported poultry comes from Nebraska and Kansas. Besides this more than 4000 cases of eggs are shipped Into this State very year. Such a condition ought not to exist. "Utah should supply Its own wants and then some in this line, but it will never do so until its people come to understand un-derstand the proper method of raising and marketing their goods. The old idea of sending a chicken to market with -half the feathers off and the other half on. In order that the buyers may know if they are getting a chicken or a turkey, tur-key, has passed. The man who delivers deliv-ers his goods on the market in the most attractive manner is the one who will get the trade." |