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Show A RETROSPECT OF THE DAN-IELSEN DAN-IELSEN PLOW COMPANY. Twenty years ago, in the little town of Mcndon, Utah, W. G. Daniclsen made, by hand, the first Daniclsen plow, which demonstrated to the people peo-ple of that section that he possessed rare inventive genius. His father before be-fore him was a plow manufacturer in Denmark. During several years of hard struggle strug-gle and poverty Mr. Daniclsen worked work-ed incessantly, to the limit of his means, to perfect his ideas, the result re-sult of which was that many good serviceable plows were placed on the market, some of whicn are still in active ac-tive use. The merits of his plows won him many friends and in 1899, men with limited capital came to his assistance and1 the Daniclsen Manufacturing Company of Logan organized, at whiqh place, and at great expense, his ideas were perfected to the extent that hundreds of plows were sold throughout Utah and Idaho, and a reputation for good was well csub- H lished. The earnings of the company Bj were sixteen per cent per annum H The superiority of the Logan a. K iclc attracted the attcutidn of men I of capital who also came to the sup- H port of. the enterprise, resulting in K the present corporation known as the K Daniclsen Plow Company. I The new company, under the able I management of Mr. Daniclsen, at once I began the erection of a new factory I at Independence, Missouri. This is I an ideal location, being in the agri- cultural centre of the United States. The new factory is 100x260 feet having hav-ing 26,000 feet of floor space. The building is constructed with cement bricks and glass and the capacity, when in full operation, is two car loads a day, or about forty disc plows It should be remembered that almost al-most every dollar invested is Utah and Idaho capital which makes the enterprise purely local. The general office and ware house are at Salt Lake City. During this year, many car loads of plows and implements, the pro- . -duct of the factory, have been sent to this city from which place they have been -distributed throughout the intcrmountain region, with the result that the line of machinery has gone -"-j far toward revolutionizing plowing in j general. For strength, durability, I. mechanism, and lightness of draft the l plows sccn to be surpassed by noth- 1 ing on the market. , The peculiarity of Daniclsen plow ( is that they arc adjustable in each and every part of them. They plow any width or depth and arc guaranteed to do their work in any kind of soil and at any season of the year, when there is no frost in the ground. The company's growth this its first year is next to phenomenal and the outlook for the coming season could not be more favorable. o |