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Show HOW TO LURE CAPITAL THIS WAY. Regarding -the movement to make Salt Lake a great manufacturing center, we take it that the men behind the thought are not anxious for men with capital to come here to establish houses or plants in opposition to their own business. For instance, the co-op would not much welcome the starting of a great shoe-making plant; our foun-drymen foun-drymen do not think any more foundrys are ne- i cessary; the men here who are making "pure Dublin" ginger ale, would be apt to look askance were some company from Dublin to come here with a proposition to establish a Salt Lake branch. That is, there is competition when anything except ex-cept a mine is opened. What is wanted we presume pre-sume is that capital shall come here and create new industries. If this is the case, then the work of the committee should be to point out what new industries would be likely to be profitable, and what facilities might be looked for here out of which to promote such industries. Well, Great Salt Lake is not only a lake, but a treasure house. A scientist from Europe was here some years ago, and spent many weeks here, and in this vicinity. His conclusion was that there was no other spot within his knoweldge so favorable as this on which to establish great chemical works, and get the raw material to supply such works close at hand. No other place in the United States supplies i such perfect material for making glass as can be found close by this city. The same can be said in favor of a pottery. There is beautiful kaolin within twenty miles of Main street. The wares turned out of a pottery are heavy; were they produced here no eastern im- 1 ported wares could compete with them, and the market would include the best part of five states. ! A pottery on a large scale would be worth almost j as much to this city as a technical school, for it would fit a great many young men and women to acquire something through which they could always obtain remunerative employment, and the works would improve the taste of the whole city. It would be what the Kensington school is to London. Of course, the iron of southern Utah is well known, but that will require a very large capital to prosecute the work. However, it would be easy to point out what the demand would be. 1 At Provo, the expenditure of a few thousand dollars would make it possible for every man to have a slate roof on his house, and, moreover, fire brick3 of the finest quality could be. cheaply made, and then 2 rare rock for use here and to be ! shipped east and west at a profit would be the main feature of the industry. There is no lack of material here for new works; the thing to do is to make them clear to investors. A small fund would engage the services of some man competent to set them forth clearly. We presume the daily press would be glad to print the reports of such a man, and the papers could be sent to firms in the east who are so engaged that such reports would be of direct interest to them. That would be our way of inducing outside capital to come here. |