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Show UTAH Manufacturing and Distributing Center of the Inter mountain West "Go West, young man, go West!" Such was the advice - good advice - in the days when our grand-fathers were young. Now it's simply "Stay West, young man, stay West-right here in Utah." Opportunity knocks! The eyes of American manufacturers and capitalists are turning more and more toward Utah and Salt Lake City. Probably the chief factors are the growing importance of the country west of the Rocky Mountains as a commercial and industrial entity, as well as the correlative importance of Utah's rich, apparently inexhaustible and highly concentrated mineral products, combined with Salt Lake City's strategic location in the intermountain territory for factories and for the distributing offices of manufacturers serving this growing market. Practically every mineral needed in modern manufacture is found in Utah. The more important ones, such as copper, lead, silver, iron, coal, limestone, asphalt, arsenic and zinc, occur in tremendous quantities and are readily accessible. Scientific advancement is constantly lifting others of the 210 known minerals of Utah to commercial importance. So far as raw materials are concerned, the manufacturer in Salt Lake City enjoys unique economic advantages that are not surpassed in any other section of the country. The coal resources of Utah are enormous. One-fifth of the entire state is underlaid by coal, and the recoverable amount is estimated to be about 196,458,000,000 tons-enough to supply the needs of the entire United States for 200 years. Iron ore, limestone and coking coal, found in Utah in vast deposits within a short distance of each other, insure the success of the recently established steel industry, which promises to make Salt Lake City the iron and steel center of the intermountain west. Fuel and power requirements are amply provided by the practically unlimited coal deposits in the state and by the hydro-electric resources. Coal has already been mentioned, while as for water power, it is estimated that the mountain streams in Utah can develop 1,472,230 horsepower, less than one-tenth of which has been developed to date, a condition which indicates ample reserves for the future. It must be remembered that Salt Lake City is the largest city between the Pacific Coast and Denver. It is the converging point for six railroad trunk lines, which serve all sections of what has come to be called the Salt Lake marketing territory. This territory, an area of about 516,000 square miles, taking in Utah, most of Idaho and Montana, western Wyoming, a slice of western Colorado and eastern Nevada, has a population of nearly 2,000,000. Salt Lake City is practically the center of it, from the geographical as well as commercial standpoint. Taking advantage of the city's strategic location in the center of this market, more than 100 leading national firms have recently established distributing offices or branch factories here, the logical zone headquarters. Salt Lake is the hub of the air as well as rail network of the intermountain region, and its airport is used by operators flying east, west, north and south. Page Three Hundred Twenty |