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Show I fin ' Ml I I SITES FOR INDUSTRY Michael J. Prociv, left, shows Alva Kirk, Milford Development Develop-ment Committee chairman, boundaries of the area to be subdivided into industrial sites near Milford. They are standing on the old slag dump of the now-defunct Troy Smelter. OLD SMELTER SITE WILL E SUBDIVIDED m INDUSTRIAL USE A 470-acre site southwest of Milford has been subdivided subdi-vided and will be sold as industrial sites, according to Vlichae! J. Prociv, Seattle, Wash., real estate broker. The property was acquired by Mr. Prociv through in inheritance, and in cooperation with the Milford Development De-velopment Committee, he will offer the 10-acre plots to manufacturers or for other industry. "All purchasers will be part f a cooperative improvement roup," Mr. Prociv said, "and e will work as a group with he Milford committee." Mr. Prociv has a 2,000-gallon ater right, which will be suf-icient suf-icient for culinary use for all he property, and he is investi-ating investi-ating possibility of using wat-r wat-r from the Harrington-Hickory line, a few miles west and at n elevation of about 1.000 feet igher than the property, iiould additional water be jeeded for the development. The property includes the melter site of the old Trey 'urnace, erected in 1875 to melt ores from the Mammoth nine. The smelter was oper-ited oper-ited only a few months, and jurned in June, 1880. Mr. Praciv said the industrial :'tes would be advertised in a .ational real estate brokers' publication. |