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Show LOGAN AS A MANUFACTURING CENTRE. The advantages for manufacturing which Logan offers have scarcely begun to be appreciated. With a water power sufficient to supply a score of large factories, which may be utilized with very little expense, Logan contains a greater number of good mill sites than any city in the entire Territory. It is only a question of time when the vast iron deposits of Paradise canyon will be made accessible and when they will be drawn upon for their wealth. It thus requires no stretch of the imagination to see Logan a city of iron manufactures, especially in view of the early completion, from Corinne to Granger, of the Utah & Wyoming railway, which will open up to the people of this valley the Mammoth coal fields. For two or three years past the growth of Logan has been surprisingly rapid, and at the same time it has been of a most substantial character, and the future presents every indication that at no distant day our town will become a metropolis of extensive mercantile connections and important manufacturing interests. The business houses now established here, if managed wisely, and if their proprietors do not overreach themselves in the attempt to do an amount of business greater than what is warranted by the population and developments of this region, will steadily increase in wealth, business and stability. It is to be regretted, however, that at least some of the capital we have in our midst is not invested in manufacturing-in creating from the elements that which will produce wealth and furnish labor for the people. There are different branches of manufacture that if established in Logan to-day, would pay very well. A woolen mill, for example, that would turn out good and salable cloths, would pay handsome dividends upon its cost. This branch of home manufacture had a long struggle for existence in this Territory, but it has become eminently successful, and now all the woolen mills in the Territory find ready sale at good prices for their products. It would redound to the benefit of our town and of the individual interested in the enterprise, if some of the splendid mill sites in and near Logan were utilized by manufactures of some kind. |