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Show Spanish Fork Any company considering a plant site must certainly take into account the ability of the area to meet the cultural needs of its plant personnel. Spanish Fork has an excellent Vh million mil-lion dollar modern high school plant built just five years ago, a municipal swimming pool, airport, air-port, nine hole golf course, radio ra-dio station, playgrounds, parks, bowling alley, movie theater, a 22,000 student university plant (Brigham Young University), just five minutes away and numerous recreational programs. pro-grams. In 1968 a masters degree study rated Spanish Fork number num-ber one in recreational programs pro-grams in operation in Utah County. An almost unlimited recreational program is available avail-able such as: all of the normal athletic sports, skiing, horseback horse-back riding, fishing, pheasant hunting, duck hunting, deer hunting, boating, water skiing and numerous others. Anyone desiring additional Information In-formation concerning possible plant sites, water or power rates or a guided tour of the industrial points are invited to contact the city offices of Spanish Span-ish Fork at 400 North Main Street. In terms of solid industrial potential and the ability to meet the essential requirements of industry, the community of Spanish Fork must rank as one of the leaders in the state of Utah. This energetic city of approximately 8,000 hard-working citizens is presently playing play-ing a key role in the industrial might of Central Utah and is anxious and willing to take on expanded responsibilities. The city is located geographically geograph-ically in some of the most picturesque pic-turesque country in scenic western America. One unique but especially desirable condition con-dition existing in the city is that of being located at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon, Can-yon, where it is daily freshened by brisk canyon breezes. The presence of this refreshing breeze makes the city an exceptionally ex-ceptionally clean and stimulating stimulat-ing place in which to work. The city has rail, freeway and air shipment facilities adequate ade-quate to handle the shipping needs of practically any manufacturer manu-facturer or retailer. A fine modern airport Is located lo-cated approximately three or four miles northwest of the city and Is equipped with a lighted runway, and mechanically skilled skill-ed technicians to service modern mod-ern air equipment. The Interstate Inter-state 15 Freeway touches the north edge of the city and makes available rapid travel to Salt Lake or points south in matter of minutes. Far sighted sight-ed Industrial planners have loned an industrial park area located northeast of the residential resi-dential areas of the city. .' Electrical power rates as well as water needs are competitive com-petitive with any In the state and are adequate to meet the needs of most manufacturing operations. It was also recently recent-ly announced that the present Packing Company located just south of the city will be offered for sale or lease within the next three to six months due to the expanded operations of this company to a much larger facility out of state. Symbol of the continued en-rgetic en-rgetic drive for Industrial growth in Spanish Fork is the new city promotion symbol "Speedy Spaniard," a friendly fellow who kvites new industry Into the community. The types of businesses presently pres-ently located in the area Include: In-clude: cattle sales, livestock production, turkey production, clothing manufacture, metal easting, metal fabrica tion, fanning, poultry production, purebred sheep, dairy production produc-tion and sales, food processing, custom feed mixing, flour mills, building construction, ce-Kient ce-Kient plant, meat packing and processing, metal salvage, explosive ex-plosive production, commercial printing and newspaper production, pro-duction, mink production, and engineering services. Representatives of the types ef skilled craftsmen and workers work-ers found in the area would Include In-clude stone and brick masons, machinists, mechanics, cement finishers, carpenters, cabinet makers, electricians, sewing machine operators, plumbers, iheet metal specialists, contractors con-tractors and builders. |
