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Show CACHE COUNTY ENTERPRISE. For some time back there has been a general feeling among the people of this county, that there should be a Board of Trade organized for the general advancement of business, such as the handling of all farm products, machinery, wagons and utensils. Seeing the absolute necessity of protecting the people of Cache County from exorbitant high prices and securing to them a fair remuneration for all their products, a number of the leading business men and farmers, resolved to establish a Board of Trade. After having the matter fully discussed and on the 10th day of June the Board was organized in Logan by the election of the following officers: Wm. B. Preston, President, Logan. C.O. Card, Vice President, " R.S. Campbell, Secretary and Treasurer, Logan. Fred Turner, Superintendent. Being fully organized, the next thins in order was to secure the proper buildings for the carrying on of the business. It was decided to erect a two story frame building, 85 feet front by 73 feet deep on Main Street (in the tithing yard) which will be fully equipped with all conveniences for the carrying on of the business on the most economical and labor saving plan. A full description of the new repository will be given at a future date. The next thing in order was the appointment of a committee of experienced business men, whose duty it was to visit all of the leading houses in Salt Lake city, representing and handling farm machinery, implements, wagons, and all such branches that would be of benefit and economy to the people of Cache County. The following well known gentlemen composed the committee. Bishop Wm. Hughes, or Mendon. Samuel Parkinson, of Franklin. Fred Turner, of Logan. They at once repaired to Salt Lake, where they spent a week examining all kinds of machinery and wagons, giving each branch careful study, learning all the late improvements, capacity of the different houses and manufactories from which they intended to draw their supplies, this being one of the main points for a large house of this kind to consider. Can our stock be kept up? Can our orders be filled promptly? are questions that demand attention. After becoming fully posted on the capacity of different wagon manufacturing establishments, their ability to carry seasoned stock and finished work, this committee discovered that the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company had the largest wagon works in the world, with unlimited working capital, with its branch house located at Salt Lake, where they could deal just the same as if at the company's head office in South Bend, Indiana. The committee of course could do no better than recognize this large wagon firm, knowing as they did that the Salt Lake branch was a permanent fixture. The buildings, location, stock, &c., is noted elsewhere in our present issue. It is the finest and largest ever brought to the Territory. Thinking it of interest o our readers, we procured from the management of the Salt Lake branch to use, a full description of these mammoth works, which is worth any person's time spent in careful reading. From the Deseret News of July 5th, we take the following partial account of the works: [see next article] |