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Show a WIMMIMHIIIW WMMHIIIMMMMUnWOMMMWMMW M W Mf MMMli W M1H WWtfftH WIM i rtlUmiHIIIMMIUm need a glass factory here, and this will be a splendid opportunity for some one to get into another new business. After this new fuel plant becomes lirmly established and able to take care of local demands, there is no doubt that several other large industrial plants will come here for manufacturing purposes. We can already see the new smoke stacks arising in the southwestern part of the city. Big industries create big cities. Payrolls assemble the people, much the same as fertile grassy hills attract the grazing cattle. AVhat we need most in this city is a bunch of progressive businessmen to encourage new industries rather than discourplant. THE CITIZEN A Thinking Paper for Thinking People" HmiHmiiiaiiaaaHaaaaiaaiMiHiiiiiiNiMiauaiiiMiiiaiiiaMiiiaiiaMiiiiaaaaaaiiiaHiiiiiimaiaaiaaaaiiNiianiHNHHaii Published by THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY. matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Can-iad-a and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Entered as u i second-clas- s or-jgjj- ,u FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Manager and Editor - -- --- BIG BUSINESS. j J jh This city secures another large industrial plant. We are speaking of the Smokeless Fuel Company, which has started of an immense plant in the southwestern part of the con-istructi- on South. The acreage secured Eighth West and Twenty-firs- t that locality equals ten of our large city blocks, the area of city Jin Avhich is 100 acres. I B. H. Mulvihill, chief engineer and manager for this new 'company, together with his associates, has brought to this a long needed and important industry, which when com- com-Jnuni- ty pleted will entail the expenditure of probably $1,500,000, and .which is designed to treat 1,000 tons of smokeless fuel daily. He returned from the East a few days ago, where he purchased the machinery for the first unit of the plant, which should he in operation in three months. Further development AVe age them. The Smokeless Fuel Company has come to this city prepared to do big things. After surveying the situation they have gone right ahead, purchased their land, and have started to build up a business. Asking favors from no one, yet we have those among us who have tried to discourage them. AVe make drives for advertising our city and state, but when we get an opportunity to embrace and encourage new business, there is always that RAP which has kept us back. It has not been so long ago when the population of Los Angeles and this city were tied with 30,00 Oeach. Now compare them! Los Angeles only had climate to offer, but here we have mountains of coal and iron and all the precious metals, leading the world in silver production, and the best climate on earth. Whats wrong f Surely it is not the old story! With the opportunities in this city for capital, we ought to increase by leaps and bounds. AVe have the unlimited resources in this intermountain country to make it the greatest industrial center of America. There is nothing that can hold us back now, and Salt Lake City will be the Queen city of this great section. BACK UP SMOOT. fast as the market warrants. This fuel is This itnermountain coutnry needs a bureau of mines. This a satisfactory industrial and household commodity, and can be is the heart of the present known mineral world, where most sold for the price of coal. of the precious metals are mined, and Salt Lake City is the I Mulvihill was the chief engineer and manager of the central distributing point of the entire district, and for that Moundsville, W. Va., plant, which is a big success and the comreason such a bureau should be located in this city. pany is unable to fill its orders in the eastern market. Senator Smoot has introduced a bill for a federal approThe Salt Lake & Utah railroad runs through the center of of $1,000,000, which, if allowed, will establish a station priation the property. Lateral and siding rails are now being built for here equal or superior to the experiment station at Pittsburg. the unloading and loading of coal. Work has been started on The government would get much better and more satisfactory the foundations of the proposed buildings, and when the ma- results from such a station here than anywhere else. chinery arrives it can be rolled on the rails to the foundations Utah mines today are leading the world in precious metals and set up in completed production, and the Salt Lake Mining Stock Exchange is fast place, and the proper in a very short time. The plant will be ready and making climbing the ladder as the most important exchange in the counsmokeless fuel by the first of June. try. Money is coming in from all over the coutnry for mine On one side of the railroad the new company will make development, and the purchase of dividend stocks, and the exsmokeless fuel under the Hayes process. This is not an ex- change has not seen such prosperity since 1907. Exchange scats periment, as has already been proven at Moundsville, AY. A7a. are being held at a high premium and brokers are rushed with Under the Hayes process, the company uses the common coal orders for stocks. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been jnine slack from which it makes brickettes, which produces more made in stocks during the past year, and millions are yet to be neat than the common rock coal, and there is absolutely no made. smoke. This also furnishes a The mining industry of this intermountain country has ready market for the big slack dumps at the coal mines, which heretofore have been considered never had such a bright future as at present. Big ore bodies Yaste because of a are tapped and much high grade ore is taken out. very limited market. will proceed just as super-structu- re the other side of the track will he established the J --Process, which treats the lump coal as it comes and which is turned out in small lump smokeless new J ensen from the mine, fuel. This is a process, but it has been tested far enough to insure its success. It is the invention of Jensen of this. city. In making smokeless fuel from coal, many important byproducts are made and saved, such as gas, oil, tar, etc., for which : Thousands ofv feet of gas for heating and manufacturing purposes are eloped each day. This can be sold to other industries gas 11Cl without doubt, pring up around this smokeless fuel iaS already been securod bv Mulvihill. 1 y The people of this intermountain country should get solidly behind Senator Reed Smoot and help push this bill over. BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT. The Senate Irrigation Committee has favorably reported the Jones-Di- ll bill, which provides for the largest irrigation project in the world. It involves an expenditure of over $300,000,-00and embraces 3,000,000 acres of land and the irrigation of 0, 1,883,000 acres in southeastern Washington, adjacent to the Columbia river. |