Show A PHENOMENAL SUCCESS The Rapid Growth of a Hugo Salt Lake Industry I A meeting of the stockholders of the Cooperative Wagon and Machine Company Com-pany was held at the offices of the com pariyyesterday President H J Grant read a very satisfactory report ofthe condition of the company giving an account of the earnings and expenditures expend-itures for the last ten months Th sales during that period l at Ogden and Salt Lake have reached 300000 The stockholders after reducing the value of their buildings and fixtures and providing pro-viding liberally in a contingent fund for probable losses decided to declare a dividend of 1 per enrper monthpayable on the 1st dayof February 1887 The growth of this company has been almost phenomenal and the condition in Which they appear at the present time should certainly be very flattering to the shareholders They control some of the best agencies in their linein tile United States among them the Mitchell Mit-chell and Bain wagon the John Deere andMohne plows the Wood and Cham pion mowing and harvesting macbiues Oliver and Gale Chilled plows CommonSense Common-Sense Bob Sleighs and various others equally as reliable and well known some idea of their rapid growth in the last three years can be formed from a comparison of the annual sales during that period of course taking into Consideration their increase of capital stock Two years agolhe sales were 60000 one year ago l20000 and last season they reached the figure alfeadynamed which shows the hearty support which they urn receiving from the people of the Territory The directorselected for the nsumg year arev H J Grant G T Odell John Henry Smith C S Burton J F Wells J P Grant F Mt Lyman Orson A Woolley W W Ritdr Joseph F Smith and George Romney 1 |