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Show 23 7 Pravos Manifest Destiny k 4W. JV"' TTi' . ' ; 1 expenao of $$00, 08 where too men ' will be employed by the first of the year. Furl her work will be continued on thla plant in 134 to enlarge the output with the probability that 260 men will be added to Prov payroll by this new indua- try within the nex$ twelve month. Another igtt of t)ie time. in trove, and the disect result of the doming .of iron, 10 the announcement qf the HrptibHr t'reoeottng company of Minni,ia that It ha acquired 40 acre, Peer Jronton and Wort construction on a IJ60 000 refining and treating plant to handle of the by- products tn m ih coke at lronlon Tlits cfpnnv Isovens of. , the largest of Its kind In the one rtatts u it It plants in variott United stntek. It will tit he the i0.it tttis from coke oven, Iona ,st.ne sivcral product, iln.lr. .tthem tmo aro that the conipant will ilw, take df j lut vantage hu-of imhor on the Ihetlutgb htUdw.tti r,-,.. lio- vovf river andto Irttuitmr to the thtt H'Provo, establish a creo-- t sot tog" plant for tlcji polos a ml mtne t , tn bars This imltisttv ell, add an - 7 big Ini rt in. lit to Provo s nay-- I I,4thft roll t HUH a thfrrt Ae pruit ft a wiek men. uf the I , i Poke company thi(l a contract bos final), been! condiidsd with the Columbia Steel Corporation i.y which the former Will take all the surplus t gas from the operation of the cok ovens for distribution In Provo and Ahe towns of Lake; Utah This is an extremely valley. imrartant announcement to ithe people of I tan county as it drives them access to the cheapest gas supply in the t outside of natural gas and should have a profound effect In bringing industries to Povo and vicinity. j Throe are but the beginning of thing that wilt happen o Provo J? th next few years The Provo Machine works which foundry years has been rain cars, structuralmanufacturing Iron, sugar machinery, iron and brass castings, is confronted witht tbs immediate necessity of enlarging its, capacity and the variety of ha output, mode .rt , rarely don it haj pen of the Wewt to cx- the thrill of birth after being brought to er the excitement of the VERT vlty life in jpio-ne- jttst an ixkuxg J . life and development. By geo-- , Already: fiore than one ihousnnl townslte graphicalsheand topographical coinaddition lots have been cidents finds herself at th foold in ihe vicinity of fronton, cal point where a new and great in price from $150 to Industry of the Wt begins. The ranging In Irovp, the earning of the$50u. iron name of Provo will henceforth go plant first became manifest inf -down i in the record of epochal boom ' that atarted last building events aa the place where the raw prinir and ia alill under way, with iron ore of Utah was first sucthe result that Prbvo has added cessfully poured into the channels within her city limits 260 residence, of western commerce, She takes up an at of expenditure new a era in her which of a million dollars far can beet be describeddestiny, $nd away aa the industhe largest building year experienctrial age. By right of location in all the city bistory. It iai Provo becomes the starting place ed 10 per dent increase over last for new activities In all the coun yeir. Which up to that time had try west of the Rockies. ' 1 held the record. Aa all the West is beginning to j In addition there has been know, a great blast furnace plant la now in course of construction siderajle new at I ronton, midway between. Provo and Sprtngville and in the very outskirts of each. Five million dollars fiSJSSffT.SLSJ.'SSr.--: Is being expended here by the Comercantile houses This building lumbia Steel Corporation, aet forth program added at least $1,000 la more at length in other portions of day to Provos nines last this issue of The Deseret News ByMareh, resulting. payroll, a in , .. . . speeding up . it the finst of next March this will be pouring- 00 tone ofplant pif Iron a day to be used in the fabT rication of iron and steel products These ar more or leas collateral in the intermountain country and phenomena com.accompanying the on the Pacific coast. ing iron industry to Utah, The significance of the coming a but more positive re very of 'this great plant can hardly be ault baa beenmuch. the coming of the big in its bearing on the plant of tho National comPump build-infuture of Provo. Even Provo rUi Dehver.-an- d g the sens have been slow to respond to pany-offrom a new In an Prova at plant this stimulus which has given Provo and Bpritigville a payroH of $3,000 a day for the past eight months, about squally divided be tween the two towns. 4i Within a very short time ss the homes of iron workers begin to grow about the fronton plant,! I is stead Pfpvu, ily but very few find themeelves sitin the path of uated directly where fame or fortune progress, cannot go over or under or arohnd. Some places were temporary ctjnp and are forgotten; They were on the first trails, now obliterated. Other places were at mouths of canyons which became the sites of cities or milestones on railroads that came through mountain pern m. Some grew up near great mineral or coal deposits; still others found themselves near vast reservoirs that stored water for power and irrigation to bring new llff to vast stretches of arid lands. By a strange play of fate and the beautiful city! of destiny, rovo, Utah, shares in k number of these fortuitous circumstances. Provos past has been cnef of peaceful, steady growth dulling which she has become the center of great agricultural wealth and a center of learning and culture tihat Is yearly bringing greater numbers of students frqm far states. ) Provo, at one time, was an outpost on the line of civilization advancing from the eastern United States. Among her first wda a fort, stork-adeand provisioned from (the fields immediately adjoining. The great fishing grounds of Lake tiah drew the Indians from far but they were peaceful, and wide, end -heir runners frequently brought easy to visualise one complete f.rst of visiting town JProm Provo to HpringviHe. vhitc from theVwest and south. lining the state highway tha(, cuts Todav. Provo starts to take on the of both towns and another gphase in the manner of passes centers along the edge of fhe plant, day. Most towns grow as the West grows, as did three-quarte- rs , a Of-t- -- over-estimat- far-flun- g s d. of ii -- IWfcSS-- S the CsUpgi of tiump for the National fPUnip nompany to finished and uwntlM' at the latter plant. Thi ctm tract calls for an initial production of 60 pump casting per day to be increased a aa the factory can handle fst them w greater pay- mM" Toll at the Provo foundry. Rumors of other industries seekan opening ate Provo come thick ing land fast, and without doubt the coming year will be made notable announcement. by important --"- "s-W it (Continued I fr on page twenty-fou- r) s Ljet Us Suggest I j 4 A (Few GiftsiFor Her Christmas srif!r4 ' Vou 11 r find our stocks com ' , plete with the seasons finest and I most stylish merchan- I FROfl O, UTAH H Evening Capital $300,000. Surplus $46,000. J. WILLIAM KNIGHT, President, R. E. ALLEN, ice Prest. and Cashier. S EE s SS ll b S Dresses, Assistant Cashiers Members Federal Reserre ' J. Wm. Knight , RE. Allen W. W. Armstrong lister Mangum NV: O. Creer F. G. Warnick.' Party Hose, Waists, F t b b b b W, O. Raymond Knight Fred W. Taj tor. Grow ' , Sweaters, Lingerie and other useful articles atmany special reduction for the holi-- b ' day- - ' P. G. WARN1CK W. W. ALLEN. Dresses, Gowns Street and House Our $tock of Silk Yard Goods Dry Goods -- E Corsets, Gloves,- Toweling and lnfants il the Most Complete in the city, : find our prices right, youll i . j g . M0SE LEWIS j Pro vp, Ut, Montpelier, Idaho and Logan, Withja Growing Rank. !f.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiinniiniiii;inniinn inHiuuHt j T i ' n G S m Si v |