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Show HOW FACTORIES MAKE A CITY MOST PROSPEROUS J. A. Hendrick(on, who is down from Logan, states that among the cities that made special efforts to gel the cereal factory was Calgary ( anada. "In 1914 a few of the leading men of that city," says M. Hendrickson, decided that the would make It one of the great Industrial cities of the Canadian west Since that time, they have never missed an opportunity to add an additional industry to their already numerous factories. They are. at the present time, building a . ' munii ipal industrial building, for the purpose of housing industry, in which they propose to offer space to factories as large as they may require re-quire Spare in this building was offered to the Utah Cereal Food company. com-pany. They also offered to furnish electric pouer at actual cost, which was 1 cent per kilowatt hour, light at 6 cents, and water at cents They also proposed to take such an amount of stock In the company as the promoters might desire. "To give an idea of the growth of that city in consequence to the establishment estab-lishment of the many factories that have been built there In recent years, the following Is presented: In 1904 the population was ...10.543 1008 26,000 1010 42.000 1911 55,000 1912 74.000 1913 87.000 "It will be noted from the above figures that the population increased from 10 54.. In 1004. to 87 000 in 1913, an increase of 7fi,500 In nine years. Now. notice the building permits In creased also In 1910, building per-amounted per-amounted to $2,420,450; in 1912 build lng permltB amounted to 120,394,220. The assessments grew as follows In 190$ it was 17,941,000 1911 52. 747. 000 1918 133.007,000 "Bankers of Oeden and the business men in general, I am sure, will bo pleased to observe the amount of mon- that exchanged hands during the last three or four years in that city In consequence of the industrial growth started by the business element. ele-ment. "In 1910 Calgary'' shank: clearings were $150,000,000 1911 , 218,000,000 1912 275,000,00(1 1913 249,000,000 In 1910 there were SO teachers in Calgan with 4421 pupils while in 1913 Calgary had 182 teachers and 7424 children in attendance. In 19K there were four street cars, and 17 miles ot street railway, and 1,274,920 passengcrr while In 1913 she had 72 '.irs, 170 miles of street railway and 18:00" nun passengers carried d'.ir iug the year. In 1910 she had 12 miles of street paving and In 1913 there was 54 miles. In 1912 there was 127 miles of cement sidewalk.', and the following year Increased to 147 miles Water mains and sewer age increased proportionately. "If Ogden is to become a great manufacturing center, it must be done by the influence and efforts of her leading men. There are always a few In every community who make the pace for the others and, If these few men conclude that its up to them to make their city, they will be supported sup-ported by the remainder of the business busi-ness element and the citizens at large The best advertisement that any city can have Is that there is employment, and that the payrolls are growing. Last year Utah shipped to eastern cereal factories, 110 cars of oats at the average price of $1.25 per cwt. These oats were returned to us in rolled oats, and we paid the freight both ways, and purchased the rolled oats at about five times the price we got for them The same Story might be told ol many tars of wheat sent out. to be returned to us as rolled wheat." |