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Show Another Big Factory for the City j Automatic Oovcrnor Plant. J r-r 1 ffl " Building and Hquipnionl Will Represent an OuUay of 25,000. Till') above view shows tho ncrr manufacturing plant to bo erected erect-ed at the corner of Kighth South :in.( .Fourth West struct. s for the manufacture and distribution of the pickcrson automatic governor, a device invented by Arthur Uickcrson of American Amer-ican Fork to regulate the power of any water wheel, impulse) or turbine. Plan's for the plant have been completed and construct ion work is to begin at an carlv date under Dallas' &, Hedges. The cost, of tho structure will be in the neighborhood of $SOO0. The building build-ing will bo JOUxilO feet, steam heated, with cement tloor and traveling crane, with which machinery in course of construction con-struction can be moved from ono place, to another while being manufactured. The building j.s to be so constructed as to allow of another storv being added later, and. the factory- site is large enough for a second building of the same proportions. Both additions, the pickerson company expects, to mako in tho near future, as the. business progresses. The buildiug and its equipment, equip-ment, it is declared, will represent an in vestment of about .iS.UOO. For a number of years, Mr, Dicker-son's Dicker-son's invention has been on trial at various plants and its efficiency over all other governors has been rccoguixod far and wide. The Commercial club committee com-mittee on new industries investigate! the device and demonstrated its worth, recommending that tho club support the move to establish the new plant in. Sail Lake. The acquisition of the plant is only one of many steps that aro being taken in Salt Dakc's growth and development as a manufacturing center. cen-ter. The men who are back of the move include Mr. Diekcrson, Dr. .1. A. Noyes, Charles K. .Street, manager; M. O. Packard Pack-ard of Springville, .1. Ii. Ambrose of American Fork, .lohn A. Burl of this cilv and others. Machines are now in operation at Fnirvievl Manli, Provo, Mill ('reek and at the -Ionian Khcr power plant and Ogdou Pioneer jdant of the Utah liight & Railway company ; also in Logan, Fountain Green and til her localities. The market is widening widen-ing rapidlv and it is declared that a nation wi le demand will warrant the establishment in Sail Lake of a much bigger plant in the near future. |