Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-26 | Page 7 | Ogden Brewer Gets First Beer Permit

Ogden Brewer Gets Gets- Fi First r st B Beer e- e ee e r P Permit Becker Plant Authorized toMake toMake to toMake Make Decimal Brew to Ship Out Special to ll The Telegram m OGDEN June 2 26 Prosperity 26 flew I into this city i today day on the wings of Utah's new code of laws allowing the states state's only the brewery legal bre brewery thc ery the Becker Beck Beck- er Products company company to to send a flow of 32 per cent brew into neighboring beer states G. G L L. Becker president and manager manager man man- ager of the of-the the brewery was in Salt Lake early 1 today where he obtained the first beer manufacturing permit under under under un un- un- un der the Huggins beer act Governor Henry H. H Blood signed permit No 1 for Mr Becker shortly after alter 8 a. a m. m and an hour later the brewery head was here authorizing the bottling of the first legal brew for shipment out out- of the state With orders from 11 states on hand six refrigerator cars were lined up at brewery's loading platform ready to speed the new beer to its destination Mr Becker announced he plans to operate the brewery at capacity until he catches up on back orders many of which have been on hand here since the nation went on the b beer er standard in April in-April April He said at noon t today day that the thc plant had put men to work when bottling was started at 9 a a. a m. m We expect to pay the state from to a day in taxes at Lerate tLe te rate of 1 a barrell of 55 gallons he asserted Our payroll will be from to a day and we have orders from eleven cleven states which will insure stead steady operation of our plant The manufacturer also announced he plans to see that none of his beer seeps into the aridness of of Utah's bone one dry desert Shipments he said will willbe willbe be handled only through railroads and trucking companies which have permits for tor interstate transportation of the brew No beer will be be- consigned consigned consigned con con- signed on trucks he pointed out unless unless unless un un- un- un less operators have proper credentials credentials creden creden- tints showing they have authority to ship the product to beer states outside Utah's borders