Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-20 | Page 14 | Salt Lake is after Big Cereal Factory

IT LAKE IS AFTER BIG CEREAL FACTORY Produce Man Points Out That This City Is Only Logical Point. Salt Lako City is the only logical locution lo-cution for a cereal factory In Utah in the opinion of Hugh V. Smith, cashier of the Vog'elcr Socd Sc Produce company. Several towns In the state, Including Logan Lo-gan and Trenton. In Cache valley, and Salt Lako City, arc seeking the location of the cereal plant "planned by the Utah Cereal Products company. "We have every advantage possessed by the other towns In tho state which want the factory, and some that none of them has," said Mr. Smith yesterday. In enumerating some of the reasons why he believed Salt Lake should got tho factory, ho added: To begin with, we have the market for the product hero In Salt Lake, right at the door or tho factory,-should factory,-should It be located hero. Naturally, Salt Lake would have to consume a good portion of the factory's products ' and If the factory woe located In one of the smaller towns of tho suite the cereals would have to bc shipped In. adding a freight charge. None of the "points proposed has the proper kind of grain needed for the manufacture of cereals grown In that territory. In fact, most of the grain would have to bo shipped In from tho Irrigated grain districts of Idaho. The trniin could bo shinned here at a "milling In transit" rate, which Is considerably cheaper than If the co-reals co-reals were manufactured out of tho city and then shipped In. Wo have box factories here, too, and a bettor market for securing tho necessary labor. Cardboard could bo shipped In here In broken cur lots, too, by combining with othor users of cardboard and having a carload of several kinds of cardboard shipped In at once, 'finis the factory would have the advantage of securing carload car-load rates on Its cardboard. I feel sure that the capitalists who are promoting the corcal factory will bc able to see whero It will bo groat-ly groat-ly to tholr advantage to have the factory In Salt Lake City. In the matter of marketing, for Instance, practically all of the jobbers are located lo-cated In Salt Lako. and It would be through them that tho product woufd largely bo marketed. Officers of the new concern. It Is expected, ex-pected, will decide definitely upon the location lo-cation of tho factory within tho next week or ten days.