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Show PAGE SIX PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERA LD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1936 SECTION FOUR ami 4- Pro n)B In MMwM! s) Utah County Ideal For Manufacturing; 1600 en Employed In M PlIMts By CLAYTON JENKINS, Secretary Provo Chamber of Commerce Provo's industrial career began almost as soon as the pioneers arrived here and set up their first crude cabins and houses. Their first and most urgent need was food, and after their crops were planted and harvested some of them immediately im-mediately turned their attention to manufacturing. Flour mills, blacksmith shops, lumber mills, etc., were the first to get started, and in 1867 the Provo Manufacturing Manufactur-ing company (later Provo Woolen Mills, and more recently the Knight Woolen Mills) were established by Brigham Young-. The purpose, Brigham Young said, was to provide employment em-ployment for the people and to enable them to make their own blankets and clothing. Grows Steadily The industry grew steadily and for more than half a century it provided constant work for hundreds of Provo men amd women. Its fine woolen products became famous and were shipped to all sections of the United States. Although Al-though the mills were partially rebuilt after the disastrous fire of 1918, they never fully recovered from this blow, and eventually discontinued business in 1931. From the combination of rich soil, favorable climate, abundant dustrious farmers, which prevails irrigation water, (abundant at in Utah county, it was Inevitable least until recent years) and in- that there would be produced great W e, Too, Express Our Confidence in the Growth and Development of Utah County Coun-ty and Provo City! - - - - BRIMHALL BROS. TIRE MERCHANTS U. S. TIRES TIRE REPAIRING USED TIRES Have Your Tires Repaired and Save "Phone 260 EAST OF FIRE STATION 121 West First North Provo, Utah Do Women Really I " ' " ' ' '""'""'mini i I iriTT l-T t.rn , , , Dress for Women? We .say YK Because other women know what's right. nott, ,. things that mere man pa.es by.' Tht y notic- colors that have laded .. woolens that an- stiff and shrunken .. silks that have l st their original lustre. They notice odors, too. ;md grv-isy fabric;-,: And because be-cause they know ,-:at other w-im-n nonce these things, more ot them ar turning to Mad.sen Cleaning every day . . . and actually wearing their clothes longer, getting more pleasure out of their., finding that it doesn't cost so much to pass that most critical test . . . the greeting of another woman! Try Madsen Cleaning Co See for yourself how amazingly new each garment grows, how clearly colors come hack to life, how soft and alive woolens become how the richness and lustre of silk and satin returns: quantities of the finest fruits and vegetables grown anywhere in the country. The strawberries, peaches, tomatoes, to-matoes, cherries, peas and beans of Utah county have earned fame in many markets, not to mention apples, pears and minor fruits. An industry to preserve and can this superb food supply was a natural and necessary result. Prom a humble beginning many years ago, the canning industry has grown to tremendous importance. There are now large modern plants in Spanish Fork, Springville, Orem, Geneva, Pleasant Grove and Provo. Their combined payroll when the plants are operating, distributes thousands of dollars each month to twelve hundred employees. em-ployees. Steel Plant Comes The real industrial era in Provo began with the coming of the Columbia Co-lumbia Steel corporation in 1923. A site for the plant was selected midway between Provo and Springville Spring-ville on the state highway. The plant has a plentiful supply of water and is located within easy access of the coal, iron ore, limestone lime-stone and other raw materials required. re-quired. Three railroad lines run through the plant giving splendid shipping service in and out of Provo. The plant consists of one blast furnace of 600 tons daily capacity of pig iron, a complete power plant, two batteries totalling 56 coke ovens, a by-products plant that manufactures gas, coal tar, motor benzol and ammonium sulphate. sul-phate. The products of the Steel plant are first and foremost pig iron. About 2 per cent of the pig iron is sold in Utah; the remainder is shipped outside the state, principally princi-pally to the Pacific coast where it is made into sheets, wire, nails, tin plates, structural steel, etc. Many Products The coal for coking purposes is mined in the company's own property pro-perty at Columbia, Carbon county, and shipped by rail to Provo. The iron ore required for making the pig iron comes from mines near Cedar City. (So all the raw ma terials used by the Columbia Steel ; company are produced in Utah. ! Most of the coke and all of the j tar and gas which 'they manufacture manufac-ture are sold in Utah. At the pres- ' ent time the company employs 300 , men at the Provo plant, 50 men ; at the ore mines near Cedar City ' and 175 men at the coal mine at Columbia.) ! The Republic Creosoting com- j pany's plant is located immediate- 1 ly west of the steel plant. It takes j all of the coal tar produced by I the steel company and manufactures manufac-tures it into creosote flotation oil and high carbon coke. The creosote creo-sote produced is sold to the rail- i roads for treating ties and other ! timber; the flotation oil is used i by the copper mill companies. Pipe Plant Follows I Another important industry to follow the steel plant was the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company. com-pany. This plant was built and put into operation in 1926. During the depression when many mills and plants were idle this company has gone steadily on with a development de-velopment program. It is now equipped to manufacture all sizes of pressure pipe from 2 to 12 inch inclusive up to 18 foot lengths. Their pipe is purchased throughout through-out eleven western states, also Hawaii, Canada and Mexico, mainly main-ly by municipal and corporate owned water works and gas works, as well as by irirgation companies. compan-ies. More than 300 cities and towns in Utah have installed cast Thirsty Clouds Take Big Drink i i. V 9 ----, ' ' , ,x' 4 ss-lt-K" i-" Xv sy ' TV it. Una of the most fearsome sights tn nature, a waterspout the a mailing mail-ing phenomenon of the clouds 8uckingtons of water from lake or ocaan is very rarely photographed. T'his unusual picture was made off the eastern end of Puerto Rico when the sea-going tornadc roared close to the cameraman's sueedine ship. iron pipe made in Provo by this company. The plant now furnishes furnish-es cast iron fittings and specials for use with water and gas service. serv-ice. Cast iron valve and curb 'boxes, meter box covers, fire nydrants, etc. are now additions to their line of manufactured goods. Employs 400 Men The pipe plant is now operating, full time arid employs 400 taffign, All raw materials used in the plant are Utah and western products. The Startup Candy company is a pioneer concern that began operations op-erations forty years ago. While its products are sold mainly in Utah, Idaho and the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain states, some of the highly specialized items are shipped to all parts of the United States and Hawaii. They employ from 45 to 85 men and women in their plant. The Provo Foundry and Machine company is another pioneer enterprise. enter-prise. A booklet published in 1888 by the Provo chamber of commerce com-merce says: "The largest operating operat-ing company for the manufacture manufac-ture of machinery and the working work-ing of brass and iron in Provo city is the Provo Foundry and Machine company of which an organization or-ganization was effected in January Janu-ary 1886. The company has all the latest and most improved machinery ma-chinery planers, turning lathes, power drills and furnaces necessary neces-sary for brass and iron casting, the making of cores for hollow iron works, etc." Since those days, almost fifty years ago. the foundry has expanded ex-panded and grown until it now occupies oc-cupies an entire city block. Besides Be-sides foundry work which in cludes castings for railroads; the fabrication of structural steel, etc., the company specializes in mining machinery and sugar factory equipment, also steel pipe for wa ter works systems and automatic stokers. Nugar Factories After the woolen mills, the next manufacturing piant of major importance im-portance to be established was the Lehi Sugar factory. It first operated oper-ated in 1893 and was the first mill in the United States to manufacture manufac-ture sugar frcm bee-Ls produced by iriigation. From 1893 until 1924 the beet sugar industry monopolized manufacturing manu-facturing activities -n Utah county. coun-ty. Three other factories and two beet slicing plants were built and millions of dollars were paid out each year to the farmers for beets and to laborers in the mills. Due to over production the mill at Lehi has not operated since 1924 and in recent years one factory has been adequate to handle all the beets produced. The Utah Ice and Storage company com-pany is both a manufacturing and storage concern. The plant was built in 1926 in the railroad yards with trackage serving all three railroads. It serves the cold pack industry and is equipped to handle the apple crop of Utah county as to piovide modern cold storage facilities fa-cilities for the city f Provo and Utah county in general. It is open to the public for the storage of meat, poultry, dairy, fruits, vegetables vege-tables and food products requiring refrigeration. The manufacturing plant has a capacity of 350 tons of ice daily. The latter is sold at wholesale to ice dealers, for refrigerator car HIGH TAXES IN UTAH IS THREAT The January issue of the Utah Taxpayer presents tabulations on the comparative bonded debts and taxes of Utah and the rest of the nation, between 1922 and 1932, showing' that while the United States during that period increased increas-ed 76. in Utah there was a decrease de-crease of 16; and that the average aver-age increase in taxes throughout the country at that time was 25, and in Utah only 1. This is attributed to the organized efforts ef-forts of taxpayers in Utah, in conjunction with sympathetic officials, of-ficials, in exercising intelligent tax control. In the same issue newly installed in-stalled public officials are urged to institute time-budgeting , so that they may know from month to month how their expenditures are running and how much remains re-mains to be spent. This, the issue is-sue contends, will do away with the piling up of deficits or Me elimination of necessary activities activi-ties toward the end of the year. A direct thrust is made at the officials in Utah, a well as the entire citizenship, for resorting to the opium of squandering, putting put-ting Utah around the top of the iit nmonsr all the states, for driv ing siphons into the federal treas ury and participating m uie wuu orgy of free money grabbing. Warning is given against overestimating over-estimating revenues in the cities and counties, which, in too many cases encourages a sort of trick bookkeeping to justify inflated expenditures. The front page calls attention to the fact that taxpayers must now decide between "pruning" or "grafting" in public affairs. AK1 WtJtvlvo wuiiiAiAi KIEV, U.S.S.R., (U.B More than 50,000 children's works of art have been received by the exhibitions ex-hibitions of children's art works in the Ukraine. Of this number 5,000 works have been reserved for the AU-Ukrainian Exhibition of Children's Works of Art. YALE KEEPS SAND SHAKERS NEW HAVEN, qonn. OLP Yale University has a collection of 500 sand shakers, representing a custom cus-tom all but obsolete. Sand shakers, shak-ers, used for drying ink before 1850, were closely connected with the history of Connecticue industries. indus-tries. The earliest ones in America Amer-ica 'were made in Berlin, Conn., in 1740. Green roses were given in the United States as early as 1850. They are considered freaks, however, how-ever, and not a distinct variety. Imbiber . Arrested 203 Times NEW HAVEN,, Conn, (U.R) An all-time record has been established estab-lished in city court by Clarence Niver, 58, who appeared on a drunkenness charge for the 203rd time. Judgment was suspended as Niver's card was bereft of space in which to enter a jail sentence. "Thank you, judge," he exclaimed. With only about 8 per cent of the world's population within its boundaries, North America uses 50 per cent of the wood consumed in the world annually. irine and to railroad companies operating in Utah county. The Provo isnck ana me company com-pany manufactures all kinds of brick, fire clay, flue iming, arain tile and sewer pipe. They have a capacity of 50,000 brick daily and during the full working season, sea-son, employ 40 men. Other Plants Here-Other Here-Other manufacturing plants in Provo are the Utah Mattress Factory; Fac-tory; (mattresses and wool batts). Midwestern Dairy Products company; com-pany; (ice cream and dairy products). prod-ucts). Timpanogos Creamery, Cherry Hill Dairy, Dennies Own Beverages and Denhalter Beverage company. These industries furnish furn-ish much needed employment and add to the prosperity and wealth of our city, county and state. Including the major plants mentioned men-tioned in this article and several smaller ones, there are 37 in all. They employ 1329 men and wom en; pay wages oi i,w,ao an- j nually and manufacture products having a value of $5,480,571. Rapid growth and development of Provo industrially are certain. Here as in few other places in the country, are combined in a small, nearby area all of the factors fac-tors needed for a great industrial and manufacturing center. These are: coal, coke and iron ore an abundant supply of pure spring uvater high grade white labor gas and electric power adequate railroad and truck trans- i portation good climate ideal liv-I liv-I ing conditions and educational facilities. iiiiiiiiS . ' - TELEPHONE 475 Wattolh IFi?v (Sipow RIGID ADHERENCE to standards set high by professional interest marks every service by Hatch Mortuary. Yet this exacting- tradition serves but to emphasize the personal interest that makes for perfection in each phase of services serv-ices by this firm. That this tradition has continued, con-tinued, unfailing, for over fourteen years, is assurance as-surance of the perfection that is always sought by the discriminating in these services At a Price Controlled by Circumstances MORTICIANS We Go a Long Way To Make Friends We Join With the Citizens of Provo in Complimenting the UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY FOR THEIR NEW POWER PLANT! .1 1, ill .aiiiiiniiii B BBS ley Marble and Granite Co. MAKERS OF FINE MONUMENTAL WORK Just South of the Tabernacle Successful Business For Fifty Years We join in the general community com-munity rejoicing over the location near Provo of the UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY'S Steam Plant. To that Company we express ex-press appreciation, together with sincere wishes for its continued success. 5 TJJfiaDn NATIONAL ASSOCIATION A BIGGER AND BETTER PROVO We Congratulate Provo and Utah County in securing the BIG STEAM POWER PLANT for This Community! We Compliment the UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY For Their Foresight in Helping to Develop This Part of the State! Let Us All Get Behind Every Industry That Comes to Our Community! 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