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Show OTIR CAPITAL IS JCTIM COAST Salt Lakers Interested in $1,000,000 Glass Plant in California. W. S. McCornick and H. C. Edwards Hold Stock in Enterprise. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Au(;. :3.An im portant addition to tie industrial estd, lishments of southern California, one i, which Utah capital i's well represent by W. S. McCornick, Salt Lake banker and II. C. Edwards, vice president an, general manager of the Continental In bu ranee company, is promised throng the erection soon of a factory in suburb of Los Angeles by tho Wester! Glass Products company, an enterpris recently organized with a capital 0 $1,000,000. A site of ten acres has beei acquired at Torrance, adjoining th plant of the Union Tool company am construction on buildings to cover abou eight acres will bo started soon. Will Manufacture Glass. The new company, among the or ganizers of which are well known Lo Angeles men, will manufacture sa9 caskets find glass cooking utensils Thi plant will be equipped with six mod glass furnaces and will, at the start employ about 100 men. The compan owns the patent rights for the manufae ture of reinforced or fabricated (laa burial caskets made of molded glass. 1 will also manufacture reinforced toi'nh stones and bases of the same material Cut glass, table and kitchen ware wil also form an important nart of the it dustry. According to II. S. Tyree, presiden of the company, this section of south ern California was selected as the loci tion of the plant because of its advar tages over any other section of th country in the matter of cheap raw rnf tcrial near at hand, climatic condition especially favorable to glass manufai turing, labor and transportation. Th company intends to extend its bnsines to the orient, both China and Japan 1m ing a promising field for the sale of it chief products because of the great it mand there for indestructible caskets. The other officers include E. I Steele, vice president; W. W. Vyh treasurer; P. E. Poindexter, accrctari and Frank Pierce counsel. It is ej pected that the plant will be in open tion by January 1. Is Nevada Corporation. The Western Glass Products compan is a Xcvada corporation with offices i the Hibernian building. The company decided to locate in thi district after "investigating many loci tions on the Pacific coast. Among California people interested i the company are J. S. Torrance, Geors V. Neil), banker of Torrance; K. I Steele, secretary of the Tnternation: Packing corporation; V. W. Wylie c Pasadena, P. E. Poindexter of Lou Beach, and Frank Pierce, attorney. Among Idaho men interested are 1 J. Merrill, banker, and Judge J. X Stevens of Pocatello; John Gillie, supe: intendent of the Anaconda mine, Butte A. L. Stone and Kels Nelson, bankei of Dillon, Mont. Other directors are H. C. Bawling and M. A. Warren of Keno, George V Neill. A. LaCourse of Colliu"swood, J., will be superintendent of the fat tory. |