Show 1 e Q 10 t j 1 or tue Ula i 1 I wro Ruh th t l lU i i le o lh U A Shw Shows SA l T I l A K E S 0 Sum of In inI 1 it Thai This City II the of li ii II I i j al Bi o IMMENSE JOBBING TRADE Ci ru Which Make thi I J P CLOSING yea year ot of the con cn conI I fj THE I tury 11 will b be lo long rem I bred bored by the 11 public I 1219 was it Uon upon as a banner year Jr bt j the on one which II lii to I Ii a close will exceed I it In U the i cot 1 Ii ot of sobbing buln business 11 by fully uly twenty per r cent nt which hleb means Inen If 4 th thai the total wholesale trade 1 reached the enormous um sum ot of over t 1 It 11 I Is true that competition hl has F been exceedingly ken keen and pro profits t tIn In some Instances have been tal ti but bul the Increase will 1 more titan than ol off offset t set t th the lOB loss In Colleton Collections l ba have ve been o and 10 louei therefore tl 4 necessarily few Cew Taken as al a whole t 1 1900 is the most mOlt satisfactory year yeu the ti jobbers of kit Lake hal have eer ever 7 n I nI i may mar sound Ik like an Old story to say lay that Bai Salt lake IAk la Is naturally i 1 th jobbing center for tor the Inter Intermountain intermountain mountain countr country yet this tat fact is II being demonstrated mor more and more each year as new territory la is added H e to the routes ot of the various travel travelIng Ing men who represent the big jb job jobbing bing houses ot of this city A law few years i 5 ago aro the Ihl bulk of oC th the trade which the talt Lake was aa con confined fined to th lils ot of Utah with an occasional order from nearby Idaho p and Wyoming towns town flut ut now i the knights ot of the grip from Bit Salt Lake wi will 0 ho found hustling for business as tar far north on the Oron Short Line Une I U Dion Dillon Montana west et p on nn the Oregon Short Ite hine to 10 HUnt HUnti Huntington i Inton ington Oregon east on the Union Unton ti t Pacific to wet west weston on nn Ihl the Southern to 0 Dute Butte Montana and eat east on the no Rio It Grand Orande Western to Orand Junction while the man with the special t Ill reaches out to Butte and Hellna Montana and east to Chey Cheyanne t ernie anne Wyoming Inver and other cIties 10 so that to today today day tall Salt Lake do does a greater ti ot of strictly Jobbing business than any city between the Missouri rIver l i and Sn San Francisco What What ahead of oC Denver nver Yu Yes Denver nver has haa nearly I three times time the population of at Salt tt t lAke Ike but her big store are i pall retail She ha ha two or three 4 first class Clau grocery hou houses but her dr dry and shoe and ti meat hou houses do not begin to corn com compare p pare with lh our own t 1 Speaking ot of Implement houses houes ii th the writer wa was down State ti 4 street a few days ago with I a tra Ot fir ot of one of at the big trans Missouri railway lines when the il late latter rem remarked that no city that he 1 had west ot of Chicago could I baat boast of as al lne fine a lot of at big farm tarm i Implement houses an Sni Salt Lake and he marveled where the business 9 could come ome from to support such nt establishments But Dut he added I 1 know something of at the volume volum of M business the they do A few tew I months alo ago I fIgured with a representative of one ot of thele these firme on ont t hauling a trainload ot of Implements and machiner machinery from the MissourI rhe river to Salt Lake and when I 1 told him that a certain house In this cly city I had shipped a traIn ot of earn aa of oC dry gods goods at one OM onetime II time worth and that I another firm had moved Into i Salt I Lake cars carR Qt ap which weighed pounds cost p 00 consIsting or of bar barI barn packed In cases canes and It I I t STORY STOR o 01 1900 Da Based on the figUreS till to aate date S 1111 Pur lIr I el 1111 I amI Ir Dry Goods anti No I thone In iso I iii ll 0 III 30 Is nHI OOOO Iro r etc elc tol liotiNo u I I I Il a 01 Oi Oils anti Hass Sn Moats 1111 tutu 1010 1101 bios Total I stacked one box upon another would have made mad a Pile 16 U miles high he replied that It w was Ulu these kind ot of purchases which must b be dirt direct from the manufacturer that enables the fal Salt Lake Ike Jobb jobb r to met all outside competItion Aside from the h tatt fact that tho Sai Salt lAke jobber bu buys hi his general lne line In large lare quantities he II In cog cor cognisant ot of the fact that 11 in to 0 maintain hla he must mut buy bur In carlod carload lot lots such Uth artole articles a as envelopes note books and scratch lable tablets writing paper wrapping twine table lable 01 oil coth cloth In ha olum horse hone shoe hO nails wool twine sad d irons matches and even een tooth toothpicks picks e so that from th the standpoInt of buying goods In lage large quantities and from first hands SIt Salt Lake jobbers are on a par wih wIth the big hou houses ot of New York Chicago St Louts the MIssouri River and San Francisco lut Rut says one are not the freight rt rates against Sal Salt Lake Ho How cnn can OU ship here and then reo re reship ship to outside towns agaInst the direct rte rates to such Buch pInt points The Salt Lk Lake would be hampered In this rt respect t It if ho he worked under the rIlar regular class rate rates which arl are so 10 misleading to the uninitiated In the mysteries ot of rate making Jowe However we have time the commodity tar J If which as It stAnds tOI today I I largelY the result of various arlous confer between the railway officials and the Utah mah Jobbers Association ton tion The commodity schedule on nor near nearly ly Iy al all articles I is 1 so ar arrange arranged range ranged that rates on such artl cbs cles are not nol greter greater when shipped into Inlo thIs city and again forwarded to tributary territory than the dl di direeL rec reeL rat rates would b be from Jobbing centers tat east and west to such points o If cour course It la is nt not to be expected thAt a tariff can n b be beIto so Ito arranged I that In ni nil lne hines can b be absolutely over overcome overcome come as new conditions constant 1 t 1 ly Iy arl arise which have to be met t the is II the Silt Salt lAke Jobber sees to I it that hil hUm ar are protected In oth other t tr er woods 0 r hI he nt 11 all legitimate tl competition alde aside from the fact that the country merchant can bu buhi buy hi his gol goods Just u cheap In Sal Salt lAke i U he can Ml east or wet west he knows knowl knowlI that time ellne science ot of merchandising la is turning hl his It stock o over often b by l I making unal small and leur securing 1 Ing quick ulek returns In this respect ti Sait lt Lake Ike h has A big advantage I over oer eastern cities bi For instance t ta I A merchant II in Idaho p calls Salt Lake cali up UI by tl at al it today and orders a aWit 1 bi Wit ot of groceries The same lame night the Oregon Short Line loads I a t through clr car to for the abe above point t tand and by tomorrow morn morning In at al 9 the Cn can l i iset set get Uon tion his gl goods from the railway sOt sla i The Jo Rio Western oter offers I equally as service on south A o anI and east at bund bound buln business Then l again In the maler matter of credits the t Intermountain mp merchant hant realises wh when lie tol hoes business with Ith the SI Salt It Lk Lake jobber lie he Is In the home of oC f hl his frIends Therefore the raon reasons t for Salt lAke IAk getting and hold holding Inn tt onto th the big En end 0 of the jobbing I business or of the intermountain I It States State are ar geographical situation l being midway between the MIs Us tl P lurl river ad and the Pacific coast l land and at the gateway which ledl lends to i Idah Idaho ad and Montana on the north It and Ile time Alan Arisona line In the luth south i Is the home town ot of ottO two tO mOt most excellent railway Ia t l teme time Short Line am arni i iRio Rio Grande Orande Western whose whole ri rails t penetrate the rIch mining camps t tand and fertile valleys ot of this region and who whose interests In building up l 1 this ely city u as a distributing center ti tiar ar are to the interest of at the jobber 1 for distribution ton tion and quick service ore are suo sti i to any uny other elt city merchants cry carry a amore l more complete I if not lager larger stocks t than any other ell city wet west ot of Chi Chicago t f cago ciO business follows not nat I the coura course ot of least resist resistance l lance ance Snit Salt Lake Is In a beler better po altion than nn any other city to get the joo good wi wIll of th the countr country mer merchants t chant chants on account ot of the various conferences conventIons and other gatherings which contInually brIng t the tho people to the capital tf Then looking forward to the ne now 1 century Salt Lake as al a jobbIng l center hal has R a brIght fl ti l tur ture I It Is by the traffic l men that the railway tap map or of Utah wi will be materially changed In the l next thre three years fr The Burlington Is not going to stop In a lite lIttle desert town out In Wyoming and tl when we get the Q lok look out for the great t rival the ChIcago and p Northwestern Jea then with the S L IJ f fIa I Ia A to the cost coast the S 8 P ex cx t tended to this elt cIty the R H O 0 Vi l with its I rails into Int ache Yaler Valley t 4 nUl and its eyes on the country 4 Salt Lake wi will begin to put on l airs d its a railway ren eon ter 1 as wel ell as bing being time the bt best job i city between n the Missouri rIver and the cast coast t tL L il t r t |