Show sill 81 COMPANY IN BISCUIT United Organization to o Purchase Control of Purity Stock I The United Biscuit company company has has made arrangements to purchase a a controlling interest in th the Purity BiscuIt company or of Salt Lake ac according ac- ac cording to an Associated t d Press dispatch dis- dis patch from New York The merger merger deal involves the transfer or of 1500 shares of PurIt Purity BiscuIt capital stock to the UnIted BiscuIt company company com com- pany In rn for shares of United Biscuit common in cash plus het earnings of the Purity Purity Pur- Pur ity Biscuit com company pan for tor January and February ot of this year ear V. V A. A Trac Tracy vice ice president and general genera manager man ger o of the the- l local cal corn corn- com parry pan is in the tho east arrangements ar- ar for the merger and is expected to return to Salt Lake in I about a week The PurIty Biscuit company compan which has operated a plant at ai West Vest Fifth lUth South street sInce 1916 will wUl continue business under Its present name according to Arch W. W SmIth treasurer The chief chiet object object ob- ob of oC the merger h he saId is to strengthen the company in b buying and selling power Under the ne new rit It Is expected that Mr l Tracy Trac will succeed succeed suc- suc Stephen T T Knight r Denver as president of the Salt Lake c company com com- m- m pany and Mr 11 Smith will be secretary secretary secre- secre tary and treasurer The Purity Biscuit company has hasa a dally daily capacity ot of abo about t fifty barr barrels bar bar- r II or of flour It a day day- and and- its territorY includEs Utah e vada vada- Idaho Wyoming and part ot of Oregon The United Biscuit coni pang pan which has recently acquired control of at numerous smaller companies com com- I is one of oC the tho country's maJor major ma- ma Jor biscuit and cracker firms |