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Show Canning Plant ' Being Promoted Local Citizens to Focuj Co-operative I Company Enstcrn Company To Erect Building and Inslnll Mnchin-cry. Mnchin-cry. Representatives of on eastern machinery ma-chinery Iioubo have been in American Fork sovoral days "feeling out" the canning plant situation here A num-' ber of tho lending citizens hnvo ex-oxpressed ex-oxpressed u willingness to go into tho enterprise which it Is proposed1 to orgnnlzo on tho co-oporatlv'o plan, tho stockholders tnklng ono to five shares each, the. Bhares having n par value of $100 each. Tho plant, if orected, will coat approximately. $10,000, and will bo erected in titoa for noxt year's tomato crop. Pleasant Grove erected n canning plant this summer, but completed It too late to oporato on this ycar'a crop. Salt Lako City capitalists will co-operato with tho peoplo of Pleasant Plea-sant Qrovo and mnko it ono of tho biggest plants in tho state Lohl has Just commenced tho erection ot a $14,000 plant and will hava It ready, for operation noxt year ProyeV Sprlngvlllo nnd Spanish Fork iTave had plants In successful oporntlon'for sovor-' -year?, canning fruit, benW nn ' voob. $ rtu-uWcan Fork is equally favorably-located favorably-located with any of theso other towns In Utah county and undoubtedly a' canning plant, economically built and competently handled, would bring good returns on tho investment, and' bo a great boom to tho fnrmcrc and business men. What American Fork needs for its progress nnd dovolori ments Is a lnrgor pay roll, wjiethcr; It bo a canning plant, nn evaporated croam factory or tho opening up of our mlnos. |