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Show MOW ABOUT INDUSTRIES ? ? New businesses, creating new revenues, more jobs with their additional payroll, are necessary to progress. A town can rock along for a long time on the revenues from the farmers, occasional drop-in tourists, and the "business as usual" around the town. But after a while the saturation point is reached; the farmer finds it more difficult to make both ends meet on the revenue from his crops, and the local merchants find their g-oods luigg-ing- the shelves for longer periods of time before they filter out to not-too-anxious purchasers., The only recipe for keeping a "going" town ticking is outside revenue selling nviie to someone else than you buy from them. Milford has known prosperity, almost to the boom stage, during the war years because of the stepied-up stepied-up mining activities and the accelerated railroad payroll. We have assurances that the mines in our county will operate at capacity for many years to come; the dairymen can't meet the demands upon them for milk and cream; the farmers are still basking in an era of heavy food requirements. require-ments. On the other side of the picture, the railroad, one of our major sources of inflowing cash, has already begun a cutback in personnel. And coming events cast their shadows before them. Milford could support industry. A town doesn't need a hundred thousand population to make a factory pay. Our market is a natural miners, ranchers, farmers, and plain everyday citizens for any small manufacturer who wanted a good location for an everyday item that was a necessity. And, a few hundred miles down the main line U. P. rails is an area of cities and towns housing many hundreds of thousands of potential buyers. Many of their purchases are articles maufactured in the east and shipped all the way across the continent, adding to the cost price with each freight mile traveled. If one, or two, or a dozen of those products were manufactured in Milford, they could sell here and in Southern California at a portion of their present cost, and Milford's merchants would have a larger, more permanent, perma-nent, more ready market for their groceries and clothing and gasoline and novelties, and all the dozens of other saleable sale-able items that stock a merchant's shelves. Milford must look around, find articles that could be manufactured here, and encourage the inventors or patent holders to select Milford as the site for their manufacturing i plant. It should be a personal project of merchants, power company employes, railroad employes, and plain citizens. |