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Show u MONTGOMERY-WARD COMES TO PRICE Montgomery Ward & Co. is coming to Price with one of its . big . chain stores. R. D. Elder of Chicago, in charge of this division of the concern, con-cern, was in' Price this week making negotiations for a building to accomodate accomo-date the firm. Twelve thousand square feet of floor space is required. Plans are well along for their accommodation. accommoda-tion. Bids are soon to he tendered by J. C. Weeter and J. W. Loofbourow, who have vacant property just across the street from The Sun. Also the Bernardis, Frank Grosso and X. B. Braley, holders of realty east of Carbon Car-bon avenue. Either block is most satisfactory to Elder. A lease for ten years has been agreed on. This present year fifteen hundred new establishments are to- be launched launch-ed throughout the United States. Four of these are H Utah, Price, Logan, Provo and Ogden. Xegotia-tions Xegotia-tions for the site an'd: building are being made through the Equitable Real Estate and Investment company of this city. It is stated, by. J. Bracken Lee of that firm that some one of the four propositions to be. submitted within a few days will be accepted. It is the desire to close the deal immediately that building operations may start and the store here opened open-ed at the ealiest possible date. Work on the one accepted will begin as soon as possible. The stock here will be one of the largest anywhere in the state. Elder says about thirty-five local people will be employed Price Sun. and indusl rial use each year we nee' not he alarmed with the idea that the increased productivity of the reclaimed reclaim-ed land will prove a menace to our present production or producers; hut we must lie mindful of a need for 'gallic-ring as we spread' and we must look to foreign markets more and more' as uii aJditionul outlet for our surplus. The additional water supply and the electric energy generated the'ru-from the'ru-from will stabilize and stimulate growth and development in this great Western empire. Already we hear of big interests pulling out and dusting up their blueprints, surveys, claims and titles to mineral and timber locations, lo-cations, coal and iron deposits, existing exist-ing so extensively in Southeast Utah, Eastern Nevada and other Western states. The railroads are beginning to maneuver for place so as to take part in the enormous freight and passenger passeng-er traffic that will result from the building of this project, but there is no need for excitement because it will be several years before any appreciable ap-preciable results will materialize and the over stimulation of 1 mind and matter' may go a long ways to offset the benefits that will accrue in an orderly and logical development. develop-ment. It is a falacy to assume that the hundreds of millions of dollars expended for material and labor dwell for any length of time ' at the works' or even in the seven states. The concrete con-crete 'work, aside from the steel, will be largely of local origin but the equipment and machinery will necessarily nec-essarily come from Middle Western and Eastern states. The biggest part of the expense lies in the labor and that will come from all the states and our foreign neighbors will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be represented in the labor enrollment. The affair is too big to localize even if there was any disposition disposi-tion to do so. The monev we send back East for supplies go largely into the hands of Eastern labor and it is natural to assume that it will be used to some extent to buy the products of the Western farmers. It is reasonable to suppose that the Dam project and the things that come from it will encourage encour-age other activities and the develop ment of the great coal and iron interests in-terests which lie dormant in nearby territory may be expected to show signs of life in the near future. We must realize more and more that so far as the Western states are concerned our interests are inseparable. insepar-able. We should remember, too, that we depend to a very large extent on Middle Western and Eastern states to absorb our surplus and we are also constant buyers of their wares so that we must finally conclude that we are all dependent one upon the other. The only- thing that divides our states is an imaginary line. The mere crossing cross-ing of that line does not change the character of the' people, soil, or the climate , so that in every practical and wholesome way, we are one people' and nothing of a serious nature na-ture may happen in one section without.- reflecting itself into other sections.. The People in the seven states will ratify the compact because their best -'interests lie in that direction. There may be delays and interruptions interrup-tions but in the end, the project will be approved. The Boulder Dam situation is much like the countryman who had never seen a railroad train- After observing observ-ing for the first time, the loading down of the baggage and express cars, he concluded that they'd never start 'er!!The start was so rapid, he then concluded they'd never stop 'er! |