Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-07 | Page 14 | Glass Manufactory to be Established

i GLASS nIAIVUFACTORY TO BE ESTABLISHED Wjffl Articles of Incorporation Are B Filed; Paid Up Capital I Kg Is $250,000. Kg CRF5AT NEW ENTERPRISE Kg Big; Plant to Be Constructed HI at Once One Mile North 118 of Moroni.' I. largo glnes manufactory, one mile north of Moroni, is planned by the i Utah Glas company, which filed articles of incorporation with David Mattsou, ocerclary, of slate, yesterday. It is intended to manufacture fruit jar?, bottles, etc., ac first, 'but later the company will make window glass and other articles of glassware. The company is incorporated at $2511,000, paid up stock. Caroline Soy-mour Soy-mour is president, C. .15. Soyniour, her husband, vice president and treasurer, and W. D. Livingstou. secretary. Tliosc, with Goorgo Y Wallaco, chair-inau. chair-inau. and Van J). Spalding aro the board of directors. The incorporators have purchased thirty-nine acres of laud north of Moroni containing a largo 'body of silica, supposed tn be ono of the iargoht in the world. 1'tv ono placo it is 100 fect deep. This will be utilized bv tlie glass factory. It. is intended to build the plant this year at a cost of $25,000 and extend it i'roin time to time as the business improves. im-proves. A large tract, adjacent to tho present property has been secured for home silos for tho men to be omploycd aud their families. The factory -will 'begin operations with 200 employees. Riikf This uumbcr will be increased to "GOO nose year, according to oflicials of tho Igfr company. The corporation will build f$M houses to bo occupied by tho families. I "Last year t lie wholesalers of Salt Lake' and'Ocdcn epont 172,480 in Indiana, In-diana, Now .Jersey "and Ilicois for fruit ;j:irs, botiles and Himilar glass artielos7 said Mr. Seymour. "Wo expect ex-pect to keep this money in Utah. Wo i.yi also have a plan for glass columns for jSl the insido ot the capitol. and we ex-aj;f ex-aj;f -pect to furnish the window glass for a!' the building. ffWe will break ground for the fac-Sj, fac-Sj, tovy at once. Lewis D. Farnsworth is our constructing engineer. .Having i started ou jars and bottles, by next Wj; year we will bo able to begin on wid-wi wid-wi j dow glass. We orpect to be opcrat-i, opcrat-i, iiig by September of this year. A $H branch track will be laid from, the San-?eto San-?eto branch of tho Denver & Hio mj Grande railroad one mile north of our ASfi factory. "There is no reason why Utah p8 should not become ono of tho great glass manufacturing states of the I1 Tiuiop. There arc many vast deposits E -oi silica in this state, much of which f ! is OS piir cent pure and carries a large f iff proportion of alumina, which is aeces-