Show CONSOLIDATION FIXED Stockholders Ratify Action of Implement Companies TO TAKE PLACE FEBRUARY 1ST Xnmo of Now Corporation Will Jo Con oolldntcd Wagon nnd Machine Company Com-pany Dircctora Aro Xnmctl Capitalization Capitali-zation to Bo S1COOOOO With 1C000 Shares or Jar Value 0100 inch Will Bo 1000 Sharei Preferred Stock and OOO Shares Common To lleprc lent 20 Eastern Manufacturers Stockholders of the Consolidated Implement Im-plement company and the Coop Wa j I gou and Machine company met ycster I lay and decided to consolidate these two wellknown institutions under the name of the Consolidated Wagon and I Machine company The name was designed de-signed to preserve the Identity of the l two firms Consolidated being taken irom me name or one and Wagon and Machine company from the name of the other The new corporation will be ready for business about February 1stThe The board of directors will consist of thc following wellknown men Joseph F Smith president W S McCornlck vicepresident George T Odcll George Romney Henry B Prout Gilbert G Wright James H Moyle George A Snow Frank R Snow He bet J Grant diaries S Burton John Henry Smith Lewis S Hills George T Odell is to assume the general I gen-eral management of the concern Mel vln D Wells the present secretary of the Coop Wagon and Machine company com-pany will be the secretary of the company r com-pany and Frank R Snow at present secretary and treasurer of the Consolidated Con-solidated treasurer Implement company will be The general ofilccg will be in Salt Lake but there will be branch estab lishments at Ogden Logan and Vernal Ver-nal Utah at ACton Wyo and at Idaho Falls Montpeller Rexburg BlackCoot and St Anthony Ida In addition tho company will have n number of warehouses and distributing stations throughout the territory it covers which nov embraces all of al I Utah the southern half of Idaho the eastern half of Nevada and the ester est-er half of Wyoming while its trade extends to Montana Arizona eXlnds tarn rJzon and even to Old Mexico By the terms of consolidation term ronsoldaton the authorized capital Is to be 31600000 or 15000 shares of tho pal value of 100 each The stock will be divided Into lOGO shares of cumulative preferred at 7 per cent and 5000 shares of common The amount of stock to be Issued on II the completion of the consolidation will be approximately 1200000 about twothirds of which will be preferred and onethird common The following are the more prominent promi-nent Eastern manufacturers to be represented rep-resented by the establishment Bain Wagon company A A Cooper Wagon and Buggy company Ward Bushnell < S = Giessner Co Champion machines Oliver Chilled Plow company Stoddard Manufacturing company hay rakes Enterprise Carriage Manufacturing company Columbus company The O Armleder company Troy Buggy Works company D trOlt Stove Works Nichols Shepard Threshing Machine Ma-chine company Fuller Warren Co stoves and ranges S Plymouth Cordage company American Steel and Wire company Sweets CommonSense bob sleds S L Allen CoPianet Junior garden tools Acrmotor company and Stover Manufacturing Man-ufacturing company windmills The line of pumps and hay tools manufactured by Red Jacket Manufacturing Manufac-turing company and F E Myers Bros S Also several of the most prominent harness manufacturers in the United States Fish Brothers Wagon company McGormick Harvesting Machine company Deere sc Co plow manufacturers S Parlln 8 Orendorn Co plow manufacturers 4 Deere Mansur Co J I Casc Threshing Machine company com-pany S pany Racine Wagon and Carriage S com Kauffman Buggy company Columbus Carriage and Harness company William G Hesse Sons Manufacturing Manufac-turing company manufacturers of Ludlow spring delivery wagons As evidencing the magnitude of the Institution orders Have already been placed for more than two hundred cars for shipment during tho early spring George T Odell who lo to manage the affairs of the new corporation Is 53 years of ag He was born In London I Lon-don England and came to Utah In 1SCL with his parents Ills father the Hon Thomas G Odcll attained considerable con-siderable prominence In public affairs in Weber county In 1869 Mr Odell entered the employ of the Central Pacific railway Pnclfe ralwaj as conductor con-ductor He continued In this position until 1878 when he engaged in the mercantile business at Ogden InlSSO he went to Bulllonvlllc Nov to take charge of the mercantile Interests of n emelting company lie returned to Salt Lake in 1884 and went Into the Implement business In partnership with Heber J and J F Grant the firm name being Grant Odcll Co Two I years later the firm bought out Howard How-ard Sebree company and the John W I Lowell company and the three Institutions Insti-tutions were consolidated into the Coop Co-op Wagon and Machine company For the post ten years Mr Odell has been the general manager of this institution and the business has grown t largo proportions under his management George A Snow who retires from the management of the Consolidated Implement company was born at St George Utah in 153 His early life was devoted to farming In Washington county After the meager advantages of t country school education and a short term in the B Y academy at Provo he came to Salt Lake and accepted ac-cepted a position in a mercantile house lie resigned this to take the management manage-ment of the Southern Utah ForwardIng Forward-Ing company at Millard then the terminus ter-minus of the Utah Central railway A year later Mr Snow and a few of his associates bought out the business and made it a paying venture but v larger field was sought and the members of the company came to Salt Lake and formed the Consolidated Implement company Mr Snow was made the general manaGer and h held that position ever Ine At the same time he has steadily Increased his holdings in the company and two years ago he and two associates bought up the en Ur stock when he was elected president presi-dent After fourteen years of hard work In tho Implement trade Mr Snow will now retire from active participation In It and will go East in n short time to 1 engage In business the nature of which I has not yet been determined He will 1 I continue rew corporation to hold n largo Interest 1 the |