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Show 18 w hd esalërs and ret ailers here o p p o rt unit ies not rest rict ed t o the size ot b ait Lake C i t y alone.^ Trad e nat urally g ravit at es t o this cit y from the nearb y co m m um t|es, which, since the com ing o f the auto m obile and good road s, have been drawn in to fo rm , f o r all p ract ical m erchand ising purposes, one unified m arket. Indust rial housing facilit ies in Salt Lake Ci t y are ad eq o at e in cap acit y and m odern in ch aract er. W areho uses and o t her st ruct ures read y f o r im m ed iate_use are availab le at reaso nable rat es, and t here are hundreds ot acres o f land within easy reach o f railro ad t racks, id eal f o r ind ustrial and co m m ercial p urp oses. Rent, lease o r p urchase term s are at t ract ive. Financial Being the larg est cit y and the cen t er o f the business life o f the t errit o ry. Salt Lake C i t y nat urally is the financial cen t er. Excellent banking t aah t 'es are availab le. The Fed eral Reserve Bank, a branch o f the Fed era Reserve Bank o f San Francisco , o ccup ies its own build ing, b uilt on an ¡h ist o ric co rner in Salt Lake C i t y . This b ranch was estab lished here A p ril !, 1918, the fo urt h b ranch t o be est ab lished in the Tw elft h D ist rict . The t errit o ry served includes Utah, thirt y- o ne counties in Idaho and to ur counties in N evad a. A g r ic u ltu r e Ag ricu lt u re has been one o f the p rincip al indust ries o f Utah ever since the success o f the early p io neer p ro ject s in irrig at io n . A larg e Variet y o f fru it s and veg et ab les are grown in Utah in comm ercia q uant it ies. The clim at e is id eal f o r d iversificat io n . The soil is g enerally rich, and the m ountain ranges usually af fo rd p ro t ect io n ag ainst t o rnad o es and o t her d est ru ct ive fo rces o f nature. The st at e is nat io nally fam ous as a p ro d ucer o f alfalfa seed , which is one o f the im p o rt ant "cash cro p s" o f Utah in normal t im es. It also ranks high in yield - p er- acre o f sug ar b eet s. Its yield o f b arley p er acre is seldom equalled b y any o t her st at e. Its celery, to o, is nat io nally fam o us. Livest ock Utah o ffers an id eal setup f o r the sheep ind ust ry, d ifferin g w id ely in alt it ud e, ranging fro m 2,000 f eet in W ashing t o n Co u n t y to King 's m m w '™ an alt it u d e o f 14,498 f eet . Between these levelsft d esert s, rolling hills, and high m ountains int erlaced wit h valleys, o f f er the sheep ind ust ry the vario us co nd it io ns and fo rag e necessary f o r the eco no m ical p ro d uct io n o f wool and lam bs. From the d esert s are harvest ed ano t her worthless cro p t h at m aintains t he sheep through the w int er. The rolling hills o f f er sust enance during the fall and sp ring , while the high moun t ain cro p s fo st er the d evelo p m ent o f the b est lam bs t h at it is possible t o p ro d u ce. AN during the year t here is being p ro d uced a luxuriant g ro wt h o f wool, each sheep p ro d ucing ap p ro xim at ely enough t o make a suit o f clo thes f o r a m an. The harvest ing o f this cro p returns to the st at e in normal t im es from the ap p ro xim at ely 2,300,000 head o f sheep, a cro p o f lam bs and wool which in normal t im es is wo rth in excess o f $20,000,000. Utah, the g eo g rap hical cen t er o f the sheep ind ustry, has long |
