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Show Home industry, which has been ' couraged in Utah since the pioneers entered this valley in 1847, has contributed in large measure to the present pres-ent day prosperity of the state. The early pioneers pio-neers were isolated from the world; the Importation Importa-tion of manufactured articles to any extent was a practical impossibility, ahd necessity forced them to use their wits and manufacture for themselves. This necessity made them converts to the doctrine doc-trine of home industry, and it is probable that the doctrine of home industry has been more generally gener-ally inculcated, in Utah than in any other western state remote from the manufacturing centers of the East. It is true, of course, that in any new country, manufacturing is the last Industry to be . developed; but Utah can justly claim that in this j respect she Is far ahead of most of the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain states. The result is that today Utah numbers among her manufacturing establishments the following: Woolen mills, sugar factories, boot and shoe factories, fac-tories, clothing factories, iron foundries, dairies and creameries, flour and grist mills, canning factories, fac-tories, candy and confectionary manufactories, pickle and vinegar works, and many other thriving thriv-ing industries which serve to keep Utah money at home and at the same time give employment to Utah labor. Some idea of the growth of the state along these industrial lines by quoting from a reliable authority statistics showing the value of the industrial in-dustrial output of Utah at various periods in the history of the state. These statistics are as follows: fol-lows: 1850, $291,220; 1860, ?900,153; 1870, ?2,-343,009; ?2,-343,009; 1890, ?6,83G,003; 1906, ?55,475,000. Wages alone paid to omployes of Utah manufactories manu-factories amounted in 1906 to over ?10,000,000 and over lP-,000 men and women wore given employment employ-ment by them. While the coming of the railroads to Utah in some measure modified the home Industry spirit, still that spirit has been strengthened in the past few years, and the figures show that the products of Utah manufacturing institutions has increased much more rapidly proportionately than haB the population of the state. The various commercial bodies of the state have sought to foster the home Industry Idea, and to their efforts is due muoh of the credit for the results obtained. Occasionally there is complaint that homo industry is not sufllclently developed and patronized; but the figures quoted toll a different dif-ferent story, and throw a strong light on the reasons rea-sons for prosperity in these valleys of tire mountains. |