Show esI es- es 0 I I NOW AND THEN I 1 0 It was in 1868 that the cooperative live tive movement was inaugurated the month being October The first firs cooperative store In the territory was located In Provo The Z C C. M 1 I I. I was sas known as the parent tion It dealt directly with wholesale wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale houses in the east as also th the west and from this parent was obtained supplies fo for tor other othel institutions throughout the territory The great grea mercantile mercantil parent flourished It had rivals Inthe In Inthe the Auerbach Brothers and Walker Valker I Brothers but the cooperative mOVe proved a great success and It did die not interfere with the business o oIts of Its rivals rl All three flourished Althree All Al three became great institutions tand arid and andall all three are in business toda today It is believed today that the policy polley which BrIgham Young advocated of buying at home is largely responsIble responsible re responsible re- re for the manufactories which now are In operation In th the state this policy which sena sent sen senta a colony to Iron county to establish the Iron industry which has since sine developed into the plant of the ColumbIa Columbia Co Co- lumbia Steel corporation at Iron ton In the establishing of the beet bee sugar factories at various parts o othe of the state and the cooperative movement movement move move- ment meat is advocated today Just as 1 It was in the long ago |