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Show COMMERCIAL CLUB MAKES A MISTAKE The Commercial club of Salt Lake l.ltr, after listening to an address by S. W. McClnre, secretary' of the National Na-tional Wool growers' association, yesterday yes-terday named a committee to cooperate co-operate with the Utah Development leogue In laboring for the establishment establish-ment of a packing house In Salt Lake. There is a very large packing plant in Ogden. and. as there is not 100m in thie state for more than one nlant of that kind, if the local establishment is to grow and become a greit market for all the sheep, cattle cat-tle and hogs of the mountain region, we fail to understand what action the Lvah Development league can take In this rivalry without becoming a Silt Lake institution devoted to the breaking down ot buBlneee interests outside that city. The Utah Development league would bo playing a most unworthy part If, instead of laboring for the upbuilding of the entire state, it should narrow Its activities to th tearing down of business Institutions already established In order that Salt Liike might profit thereby. The Commercial club has been listening lis-tening to a man who is poorly advised ad-vised on the subject ho has talked on. Evidently Mr. McClure does not know there is a packing plant in Ogden. and. furthermore, fur-thermore, he does not understand why there have been heavy shipments ship-ments of late of live hogs from this region to the Pacific coast Before the packing plant was established in Ogden, Og-den, the railroad transportation charges on live hogs were almost prohibitive. Since the local plant has developed a trade on the Pacific Pa-cific coast in dressed beef, the railroad rail-road people have suddenly decided t)Mt the rates should be reduced and within the last few months a heavy cut has been made, resulting in ship-uents ship-uents of live hogs by the trainload. The dressed meat rate has been maintained, while the charges on live weight have been cut. That Is how the railroads discourage the building up of Intcrmounlain Indus- ! trie. Mr. McClure is Ignorant of all tlie.e details, yet he pretends to enlighten en-lighten the people of Salt Lake and I the Salt Lakera are following his j vlli-o'-thc-wisp Another packing plant In Salt Lake ! undoubtedly would go the way of Other parkin houses which have been started there, rving no Rood pui pose while perhaps retarding the growth of the Ogden Industry. We cannot understand why hee Commercial club is so persistently , finding something to work on that It In direct conflict with the prosperity pros-perity of Ogden. There is a broad field outside the industries that are being rapidly developed In Ogden. from which tho Salt Lake club can draw new sources of employment to I the capital, and, out of regard for the welfare of this city, the Commercial j club should work In that direction In I preference to poaching ou Ogden perservea. |