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Show TRUTH 1 : UTAH LEADS THEM ALL. According to the Butte News, Utah is leading all states in the canning business. The News says: Shoppers wonder at times why. they no longer pay the high prices for some canned goods they did in years: previous. Few know or care why thei cost is less, but the fact is the garden, state of Utah, that 10 years ago did. not have a cannery, is now taking: the leal in turning out canned vegetables. Four years ago all canned vegetables came from east of the Mississippi, with the exception of a few cheap tomatoes put up in California. Now, California has not only been crowded out of the Northwestern market, but canning has reached such a state of perfection in Utah that eastern canned vegetables are beginning to disappear and from present conditions it begins to look as though the next few years will find all eastern canneries out of competition. Utah now packs 300,000 cases of tomatoes annually, CO, 000 cases of peas and 10,000 cases of pumpkins. To this they are adding canned corn, beans, baked beans, succotash and asparagus. Nearly ail this product is contracted for long before the vegetables are matured or a wheel turning in the cannery. Utah has had no hold-over- s yet. The inroads made on California fruit packing can best be estimated from the fact that there has been no increase in the output of the canner-- , j ; i - 5 r ! L. 7 ics in three years, for Utah and Idaho nominated for tho presidency or not have begun putting up peaches, pears, the paper will bo a go. Of courso if apricots, plums and even catsup. llearst does this, a little matter, such California has turned its attention to drying its fruit, having that alterna- as a press franchise will not worry tive from holding over canned stuff. him a hit, bccauso ho can put a loop Developments in the drying process in his leased wire havo increased the business to an and supply his Salt Lako paper with enormous extent and ship loads of dried fruit annually go from the Gold- more and better stuff than is sent out en Gate all over the world, notably by tho Associated Press. to Russia. Maine corn has still, howA rumor has prevailed for some time ever, a firm hold on connoiseucrs, be- to the effect that the Utah State Journal was to be removed from Ogden to ing superior in quality to all others. o this city. Tho report has no founda- - ' tion in fact, and thcro is no intention LOCAL NEWSPAPER TALK. of moving it. Speaking of newspapers, Mr. Lan-nan- s It is stated that William R. Hearst morning newspaper docs not is making preparations to establish a seem to materialize very fast, almorning daily, democratic in politics, though perhaps when he returns thcro In this city. That whether ho is will bo something doing. trans-continent- al .. . 3E 1 M NOW ON OF 7 5,000.00 LACE MOUSE STOCK. ' i ' 1 , ' ' i Goods Cannot Be Replaced at Prices Offered. Never in the History of Salt Lake Has Fine Merchandise , i i , Been Slaughtered So. Another Great Reduction in Cloak and Suit Department i - . ' ' Entire Stock Will be Don't Fail to Give us awCall Anywav, Thousands of Bargains for Closed out. Everyone. Open at 9 a. m. ORE it WM. BARTLING. Proprietor. l ' |