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Show FORD FACTORY IRE HAS LONG BEENPLANNED Site Acquired ' 3 Yean Ago Recently Enlarged by Purchase of Adjoining Adjoin-ing Frontage to Build On Plans for a Ford Motor company modified assembling plant here, made mora than three years ago whea that company acquired title to property en tha comer of Third West and Third South streets, will materialise shortly, according accord-ing ta aa aassusnaisal ay H. H. Toung, district manager for Ford. Tremendous Increase In buelness throughout tha territory which the local plant will serve sine prelimlnsry plans were formulated will necessitate aa outlay out-lay greater than at first contemplated, con-templated, snd to this end additional addi-tional property adjoining ' lha rlginal parcel on the north waa acquired last Saturday. Approximately Approxi-mately :m.0S will be Invested la tba corn traction of a partial Ford asssmtillng plant, with showrooms show-rooms dlsplsylng the complete line of Ford products. Including tbs Lincoln and Ford care, Fordsoa tractors and Ford truck a The plant now contemplated, construction of which will commence com-mence within two weeks, will be a modified assembling plant one-story one-story high snd 14 by t feet In extent. where aasembled ears shipped here from Denver will be touched up for final distribution. Mr. Toung aald. Tha land enquired en-quired Saturday nearly doubles the epare to be occupied, the tract having now a frontage of SIS feel on Third Weet and lit feet oni Third South etreeu Salt Lake will not have a complete assembling assem-bling plant until IKS at least, according to Mr. Toung. , j SERVE. BIX STATES. - ' j Mr. Young will bavs charge of tha new plant, whloh will dla-trlhuts dla-trlhuts Ford products to Utah. Idaho snd sections of Montana. Oregon. Nevada and Wyoming. The Sslt Lake unit In the Ford chain will be tha tblrty-alsth Ford assembling plsnt In tha world, and will place Salt Lake along with San Franalsoa. Los Angeles. Seattle and Denver aa one of tbe Western centers from which Ford products sre. distributed. When completed the local plant will have a capacity of fifty care dally and will employ about ssvsnty-five persona, with a monthly payroll of approximately I24.0O, Mr. Toung eetlmatea. j Demolition or buildings paw occupying tha plant alts hss si-ready si-ready commenced and actunl construction con-struction of ths plant will begin within two weeks. Immediately anon receipt of plans and epeclfl-j cations for tha structure from the Detroit offices. It Is planned to have the plant on a production basis by January I. 114. to become be-come Immediately a vital unit In the company's production schedule of le.SOS ears daily next year. Eeverel years ago. according to local off Idala of tha Ford Motod company, experte laid out a eom-prehenslvs eom-prehenslvs scheme for expsnslon of Its baslnees. This plan relied, for' the erection of aaaembllngj plants at various strategic points, to serve such terrltoriea se increased in-creased businees should demand. The first Western plsnts were( built In raclflc coast cities, with I terrltoriee subdivided ss business' grew. Further subdlvlalona of territory will. It Is said, no doubt be msde ss the demand for Ford products Is developed. 8ITI BOUGHT IN IMS. t'nder the original xpanslon plan tha Ford company acquired title to the corner of Third West and Third South streets In 1!0. oontempUtlng at . that - time the erection of a plant aufflclent toi hendle the adjacent territory. - No Influence other than the logic of Cold bustneea calculation on the ! part of Ford's experts on distribution distribu-tion entered Into the declelon to build In Salt Lake. It la aald. After securing tha ground bora business conditions did not seem to warrant Immediate erection of a local plsnt and construction waa therefore held In abeyance, alwaya with tha underetandlng that when conditions should warrant an la-termountaln la-termountaln plant would be built here. New high production records rec-ords this year, which steadily In' creased until June It. when dally production reached S7IS ears and trucks, with a total of e.M for tha preceding week, and In contemplation con-templation of a 1S.S0S dally production pro-duction In tt:, resulted In resumption re-sumption of the Salt Lak plana. Decision on this point wss msde by Kdeell Ford, son of ths Inventor and president of tha company, upon a visit here laet fall, according to Mr. Toung. To fit Into : the Ford organisation aa It has developed during the paaf five years required some changes In the local plana. Aa a ooneequrnce tha additional footage on Third West street wss acquired Saturday open receipt of advices from Detroit as to lust what the enlarged plans would require. At the present rate of increase the local plant should be enlarged to complete assembling facllltiea In about three years. It la estlmatsd. |