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Show GLASS PLANT WILL COME TO SPRINGVILLE Murphy and Fisher of Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Com-merce Bring News Here A plant for the manufacture of glass bottles will be located near the present site of the. Columbia Steel corporation just as soon as the contracts now on the books of a large West Virginia glass manufacturing manufac-turing concern are completed. The above statement was made be-: fore a committee or Provo business men at a luncheon held at Hotel Roberts Thursday noon by Frank C. Murphy, industrial secretary of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and Albert B. Fisher, chairman chair-man of the industrial committee of the same organization. Mr. Murphy explained that the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce had conducted the preliminary negotiations ne-gotiations with the idea of locating the factory in that city, but the surplus sur-plus gas made available by the operation op-eration of the Columbia Steel plant makes Provo the ideal location for this particular industry, ' "Utah alone uses 350 carloads of glass bottles per annum," said the speaker, "and the consumption of glass can be doubled in one year's time when adequate manufacturing facilities are provided which will give the people of Utah a .better price on this particular commodity. Morover the intermountain states use over $30,000,000 worth of glass products per year, all of which is shipped in from California and other states not; properly a part of this territory. "It is my firm belief that a large share of this business can be held in Utah when the industry is developed. devel-oped. Utah produces a high grade of silica sand and cheap gas, the two things so essential to the development develop-ment of this manufacturing enterprise. enter-prise. "The West Virginia concern is now tied up under contract with eastern jobbers but this contract will be completed within the next thirty days and just as soon, as It is fulfilled, ful-filled, the owners have assured me that they will dismantle the plant and ship the same to Provo, They are not asking a bonus, nor do they propose to sell a single dollar's worth of stock. All they ask is the co-operation of the chamber of commerce com-merce after the enterprise is established. estab-lished. Morover, we feel quite certain cer-tain that a window glass factory will be located at Provo soon after the bottle factory is established." ' President O. A. Spear assured the Salt Lake City men of the desire of the Provo Chamber of Commerce to co-operate with them in bringing the factory to Utah county. |