Show OGPEN CITY Industrial Growth As Ogden Factories Continue Building Products of Utah Built as one of Ogdenj s pioneer industrial plants the great Amalgamated Sugar company factory in the Wilson farming district is ope of Utah's greater establish fnents Each year since it was constructed this plant has been in operation and utilized vast crops of sugaj- beets produced in Ogden district Airplane picture shows its setting in vast agricultural area west of Ogcfen — Photo copyrighted by Oakland Aerograph company for Ogden Chamber of Commerce - 1 1 I ' 'c - V2 l "CS' ss& rj'j- - t — fm during 1927 according to preliminary estimates made by4 John S Early secretary of the Utah Manufacturers association Chief of the manufacturing centers of the state are Salt' Lake and Ogden with Provo and Logan rapidly advancing along such lines REACHES DISTANT RATES From these manufacturing centers are sent products to Flour millfeed sugar nearly every state in the union canned foods lingerie honey salt gasoline and oil meats creamery products iron and steel as well as copper' gold and silver are among those reaching into the far away territory — h conPrincipal interest in this progress has surrounded the busitinued extension of the grain handling and flour milling ness! the progress of the livestock feeding and meat packing industries and the great growth of the food canning operations Linked with these has been the development of railroad facilities so essential for any industrial community's progress r ' the Among: greater 3 i new-packi- ng FACTORY MEN the great flour milling and can CROPS BETTER SELECT SLOGAN i SAYS ANDREWS Encourage Business With "What Utah Makes Makes Utah" Farm Products Worth Forty Million Dollars Raised In Utah i ning industries of Utah much at tention has been directed to growth of manufacturing' business in this center Both ot these Industries as well as the sugar busi ness bring In vast wealth to the intermountain country " jfor the shipments from Ogden mills canneries and factories reach to the Atlantic coast and even to the foreign lands Ogden-mad- e flour can be purchased in Honolulu or New York City It is sold in Florida and sold in Oregon and Washington Cannery products from Utah are in much demand In New Jersey and Pennsylvania Boston people know of them because of purchases In the stores there and they are equally known In the mining: camps of the west or on the ranges of the southwest California likes d products do do Nebraska Iowa and Kansas Sugar from Ogden is sold in Texas MichOhio and other eastern igan states Lingerie made In an Ogden plant 1 marketed In 11 western states — every one west of the Missouri river Even Ogden-mad- o bread is eaten In four western states — Utah Wyoming Nevada : and Idaho " Expansion Is taking place lri practically all lines but of greatest interest is the fact that further increases in production are to meet the demand chiefly in markets outside the ' state thus drawing an Increasing flow of wealth to Utah in the form of bigger payrolls larger earnings and more certain and stabilized prosperity SUPPLY WESTERN AREA' Utah factories function as a' source of supply to every western! state while considerable merchan-- 1 dise is distributed throughout thet Utah' products are also! nation finding theirway to foreign coun- tries in ever increasing Quantities Practically all Utah manufacturers produce a heavy beyon&l the local demand surplus Increased pro-- 1 duction will go largely toi make upl a shortage elsewhere and with' the nation prospering with indi-- i vidual purchasing power reaching to new high levels Utah manu-- 1 facturers are optimistic of a con tinued expansion Some Idea of the of? Utah industry is gainedgrowth isi when pointed out that in 1905 the manufactured products of the state wera valued at only $50000000 Substantial increases were noted during the past year in the value! itsugar canned goods creamery 'pi5duct8 iron and steel goods ra-dio products flour mill products! clay products salt gasoline and oils paper products tan products and work clothing VALUE OF PRODUCTS The values of some pf the prln! cipal manufactured Items during1 the past year have been estimated by Mr Earley as follows Refined sugar '$21000000: canned vegetables fruits etc $12000000' sheet metal products $6500000' candy $6000000' creamery and condensery products $12500000 cement $3000000 flour mill products $15000000 packing house! products $12000000 bakery pro-- ! ducts $4500000 leather goods $750000 clay products $102 mattresses beds etc $1000-00- 0 soft drinks and cereal beverages $2100000 salt $l250000r gasoline and oils $10000000! electrical supplies $2500000 oN " fee tea extracts spices honeyj etc $6750000 paper products $3500000 iron and steel products $17500000 macaroni spaghetti etc $600000 ice and ice cram radio products J2i $1000000 500900 printed goods $8000000 palnts and varnishes $1500000 trunks and bags $100000 cleanser and polish $150000 tents and awnings $150000: rubber and metal stamps $150000 filter Presses $1000000: lime flnrl nlan ter products $3000000 tar roofing materials paving products etc $1250000 work clothing $2i j "What Makes Utah Makes Utah" is a slogan that has been chosen by the Utah Manufacturers association which Is holding its annual banquet in Ogden Ogden manufacturers together with many manufacturers of other cities in Utahj are memTwenty-tw- o bers of that organization The purpose of the association is to encourage development of present manufacturing plants through promotion of business for these establishments and to attract other industries to Utah through the ever increasing business done here This the association considers can be done by securing realization among Utah people of the high quality of Utah-mad- e goods and the economic value of trading at home The association does not say to the men or women "You should buy certain products simply because they are manufactured in Utah or the west" but it does say "If the quality of the local product is equal to the quality of imported goods and if the price is not higher then it is your duty as citizens of the state it is your duty as a matter of loyalty to yourself it is your obligation towards your children and the children of your neighbors who are now being educated largely through the taxes derived from the local' industries and who will be dependent upon the local industries for their future employment and ' prosperity to give in ' every instance the products tf Utah's factories the i preference" s SUGAR LEA DS -- ) Because of location in Ocrden of aeveiop--- menta of the year in the Industrial field have been forward steps for these industries MILLING EXPANSION Globe Grain & Milling company building of additional grain elevators Increasing wheat storage capacity from 700000 bushels of 1350000 bushels construction of large two story flour storage90 warefeet house 1Q0 feetllong by wide capacity being 50000 barrels of flour purchase and operation of large grain elevators throughout Utah and Idaho adding to inflow Of grain for Ogden Royal Milling: company reconstruction of former Albers mill and Installation of latest flour millinsr and grain handling equipment providing one of Ogden's most important Industries for manufacture of nationally known flour Sperry Flour (company addition of new equipment in both mills and elevators during past year with plans announced for immediate building of additional grain elevators to Increase wheat storage capacity to 1200000 bushels flour storage waretogether90 with 216 feet two stories house by In height ery and additional capacity pro vided during past year BAKKRY ENLARGES Continental Baking company building of large garage to facilitate delivery work together with Installation of new equipment to 'Increase output: Western Gateway Storage company opening of large storage plant: on Wilson road at Weber river crossing American Packing & Provision company reconstruction work In plant to increase out"i put Ogden-Uta- h Knitting company expansion of industry through development of rayon lingerie and extension of markets in 11 western states Ws F Grossenbach company wholesale millinery occupancy of second floor of new Thorstenson building with millinery manufacturing plant which has trade extending as far east as Missouri river Nelson-Rick- s comCreamery pany installation of creamery plant for manufacture of butter in new Thorstenson building on ' Grant ftvenue DAIRY GROWS TOO Weber Central Dairy association-! building ofvaddition instal lation of equipment and enlargement of output from plant on Ogden avenue between Twenty-fift- h and Twenty-sixt- h streets Reliance Refining - company building of large new oil refinery on Hooper road in West Ogden 'which1 will be in operation early in spring of 1928 establishing a large new industry for Ogden Brown Ice "Cream company installation of new equipment enlarging refrigeration facilities together with output of butter ice cream and other products Pacific Fruit Express company extension of trackage and icing facilities so that more than four miles of refrigerator car trains can be iced at one time at Ogden handled greatest business in history during 1927 at Ogden ' Utah Macaroni company reconstruction work completed and company operating regularly in making macaroni and similar pro — ducts CANNERY DEVELOPMENT American Can company continued growth In operation due to increasing canning business in Utah (' Utah Canning company installation of new string bean canning equipment lengthening period of canning operations ' John Scowcroft & Sons company expansion of cannery and other facilities of various depart- -' ments Completion and operation of new Smith Canning company plant at Clearfield Increased output of all Ogden canneries was reported during the year the Amalgamated Sugar company plant at Wilson operated for a longer sugarfmaking run than the previous year heavier shipments of farm produce were made livestock feeding throughout Weber county was on more extended basis dairying increased mater- ially All of "this progress was made without semblance of a "boom" to many persons its full extent was not realized However industrial growth has been responsible for adding steady payrolls many plants operating throughout the entire year providing that financial stability which resulted in Oe- den's banking deposits Increasing more tnan $2000000 during 1927 with great additions already to the financial totals of Ogden bank deposits in 1928 -- products including approximately UTAH'S manufactured worth of smelted ores totaled about $325000000 V w "I Secretary Elarly of State Manufacturers Organization Estimates Value at $325000000 Ogden Shipments Sent From ECoast to' Coast Border to Border and Even to Foreign Lands Substantial Increases Noted in Production of Sugar Canned Foods Creamery Products Iron and Steel Flour and Mill Feed K - ! i J - ' ' Reaching Markets Throughout Nation - Market Expansion Followed By Construction Progress Indicating Excellent Conditions For Community Flour Milling Companies Arrange Increased Grain and Flour Storage Facilities While Plants Continue Livestock Capacity Operation Enlarged Activity Yards and Feeding Dairying Shows Increase of Ogden continued in every INDUSTRIAL) expansion 1927 its progress during J928' seems equally assured Railroad facilities factories shops storage plants mills' canneries — all these have shown growth marking the continuous development of Ogden as the great industrial center of the intermountain area UTAH FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 13 1928 GROCERY LIST Butter and Cured Meats Next Important In Total Sales Sugar is the biggest item carried by the retail grocer and constitutes 136 per cent of the gross sales in his store That is according to a nationwide survey of the sales of different commodities on the shelves and in the bins of the modern grocery The survey statistics are being broadcast by the! National Association of Retail Grocers which assembled the figures following many requests from the retailers In a bulletin to members II G Balsiger secretary-managof the organization is presenting the figures and incidentally is asking that stores verify them with their own findings He reported that: 136 per cent of gross sales are sugar 126 per cent of gross sales are butter 115 per cent of gross sales are cured meats i 76 per cent of gross sales are canned milk 56 per cent of gross sales are fresh fruits and vegetables 55 per cent of gross sales are eggs 42 per cent of gross sales are butter substitutes 26 per cent of gross! sales are i flour 19 per cent of gross: sales are i: coffee 18 per cent of gross: sales are canned salmon 1 5 per cent of gross sales are panned corn peas tomatoes 10 per cent of gross sales are er 3 A cheese1' per cent of gross sales are raisins 2 per cent of gross sales are canned fruit i 7 REFINERIES IMPORT OIL WASHINGTON— (By The Associated Press) — The big petroleum refineries of the Atlantic coast states depend upon other regions and foreign sources for 983 per cent of the crude oil refined the department of commercei finds Oil production in western Pennsylvania and New:: York supplies only 17 per cent J — —J ! : NATURAL GAS I SUPPLY NEAR Possibility that natural gas will In the oil field about 80 miles northeast of Rock Springs Wyo has 'been deWilson-Hiawath- a veloped an almost unlimited supply of natural gas that is declared by authorities to be the highest grade natural gas for fuel ever developed This has all been accomplished within the last two years In the Baxter Basin field nearer Rock Springs there also exists a developed field of natural' gas of almost inexhaustible supply TWO GREAT FIELDS These two great fields of natural gas are controlled by the Standard Oil companies and other major oil companies The proposed plan it is understood Is to pipe the natural gas from these two fields into Utah via the Rangely field another section just over the eastern border of Utah through 'Vernal and into Provo' From this central point the gas could be distributed to any section of the state and would be a boon to industrial growth as well as supplying a fuel that would end the smoke problems for the larger cities The Hop© Engineering company one of the- largest 'construction concerns for the laying of natural gas lines will construct the pipe line into Utah it is understood for the Prairie Oil and Gas company and the Ohio Oil company two Standard Oil This same company incompanies a constructing natural gas pipe line from the Panhandle oil fields of Texas into Denver and other Colorado cities NEGOTIATION'S BEGUN It Is known that representatives of backers of the project have been negotiating for some' time with the leading industrial concerns of the state for the amount of natural gas they will be able to use and the price they will pay These negotiations it is reported have reached a point where the pipe line may be assured and the matter of distributing the natural gas for domestic use will be left with the local gas companies and the state public utilities commission This cheap and efficient fuel it is pointed out will be a great boon to the industrial development of Utah It will supply cheap-otuto the middle and southern sections of the state where great undeveloped iron fields are located as well as the northern section where is located great smelting and mining enterprises as well as many smaller industries and many sugar beet factories - President Heber J Grant Says ment reduces costs sand insures prosperity If all the people of Utah would adopt the principle of trading at home most of our industrial problems would vanish "From the earliest' days in Utah the people have been taught to support home industries and to keep! money at home Where this advice has been followed prosperity has resulted Now more than ever the people of Utah should stand together and support the state's institutions" ?tcji - y be brought into Utah from Wyoming fields particularly for commercial use in connection with large industrial establishments at Ogden and Salt Lake has been considered one of the important prospects for 1928 because of announced particularly activity of the Hope Engineering company in that direction The proposals call for a pipe line extending from the fields near Rock Springs Wyo through Weber canyon with lines into both Ogden and Salt Lake from the canyon entrance CEREAL FOODS NEW PEAK FOR Payrolls for Ogden Gaining WHEATACREAGE 1 MADE IN OGDEN Industrial affairs of Riverdalc Plant Manufactures Under National Association :Rights Cereal food manufacture by an jOgdeii mill is one of the Interesting Industries for these products iare products of the Associated iFarmers Milling compan:jr in its iRIverdale plant under thes general trade name of the Federated Mills of America Part of this Riverdale mill was ibuilt Iby Utah Since pioneers that day It has been operated continuously though tchanges jin machinery and other : equip-jmeshave made It one of the small mills of tiorthern iUtahi The owners have constructed warehouse additidns addling greatly to the facilities The company has secured the irights to make and distribute the Vitacreme cereal products the jbranoj controlled by the Federat-ie- d Cereal Mills of America Sev-ierbreakfast foods and! similar iproducts are milled and packedn under this brand William Stimp-Isois president of the company F JtVIcks is vice president and Stimson is secretary-treasure- r sj T and manager ji al-Im- ost s nt up-to-d- ate " Ogden as shown by a careful survey made by The Ogden Standard-- 1 Examiner during the "past month show that Ogden enters 1928 with more activity and more business than is customary for the initial month This' applies not to one industry alone but to practically all of Ogden's Industrial affairs As a result Ogden today has more and larger industrial payrolls than during any previous January At the ' same time farmers face the year optimistically because of excellent moisture and soil conditions bankers reflect their confidence brought with heavily increased bank deposits and railroad companies are preparing for one of the heaviest freight movements recorded when the 1928 crops move All of which spells for 'Ogden UTAH PRODUCTS SOLD 0HC0AST $ STOCK GROWER IS PROSPERING Rational Leader Tells of Improvement In Gattle Situation i i ! By JOHN FIELDS ' American Farm (President t f Congress) WJCHITA Kas Jan 13— (By jThe Associated Press) — The out- - slook jthan lor agriculture is I brighter at any time since thfc depres ar el s f As-jsocia- California Making Heavy Purchases of Intermountain Butter does not produce enough dairy products to feed its population and must call upon neighboring states to meet this This situation is emshortage phasized by the 1926 tabulation of the United States Department of Agriculture showing the receipts of butter and cheese In San Francisco and Los Angeles The receipts of butter at San Francisco duringjthe year were 27604168 pounds and at Ixs Angeles 44032721-pound- s making a total of 71636889 pounds Of this' amount California contributed 42712322 pounds to the two markets Of 'the 28924577 pounds received from outside of the state Idaho Montana Oregon Utah and Washington furnished the ma- Crop For 1926 Largest In History Reported By Experts j World wheat acreage reached a new peak in 1926 and the crop outside of China was over 4200 000000 bushels — a figure never ex ceeded except in 1915 These high figures however largely reflect the normal upward trend of wlfeat production rather than exceptional iconditions during the year Yields per acre In general were not exceptionally good or poor though the winter wheat yield in the United States was Unusually No major wheat producer high harvested a bumper crop and none suffered severe crop failure On the whole crops in exporting countries more than fulfilled their early promise while those In Imcountries fell somewhat beporting low theirs but there was no strlking reversals of favorable prospects such as occurred in Argentina in 1925-2- 6 and the notable improvement in North American crops took place early fn the year Supplies of wheat were more nor-mally distributed between exporting and Importing) countries than In: either of the two preceding years — From "Wheat Studies" of the Food Research institute 4 PREDICTS GOOD (California jority The receipts of cheese at San Francisco during 1926 were pounds and at Los Angeles 15060325 pounds making a total of 27589844 pounds Of this amount California produced 4693345 pounds and Oregon Idaho and Wisconsin contributed the majority of the 22896499 pounds received from outside the state to feed the people of California "Although California dairymen produced more dairy products In 1926 than they did In 1925 we were still forced to Import more butter and cheese in 1926 than In 1925" said Sam II Greene secretary-manager of California Dairy Council in analyzing the tabulation "This was made necessary owing to the increase In population and the greater per capita consumption of all dairy products" 12-529- 1928 BUSINESS Louis Swift Famed Meat Packer Sees Prosperity Ahead By IiOUIS F SWIFT (President Swift & Company) CHICAGO Jan 13 — (By The Associated Press) — Fundamental conditions are sound I see no reason to doubt that 1928 will be another year of good business Uncertainty in the political situation may cause some slight hesitation but I believe that the fact that credit conditions are good and likely to remain so for some time to come is a guarantee ' against any serious decline in general business conditions The improvement In agricultural purchasing power stabilization of prices and continued Improvement in efficienecy of labor and management In Industry should make for full employment and continued prosperity during 1928 F : 00 - - al l sion of 1920 The farmer's dollar Is well above 90 per cent of Its pre-wvalue further jand indications point to am iurlng 1928 f Improvement of the cattle sit- luation was one of the outstand events for agriculture during ing 11927 The cattleman now is in a Ibetter position than he has been since the slump In cattle prices started in August 1919 After the big depression-o1920 ranch land was one of th$ poorest possessions anyone could have and OGDEN LIVESTOCK anyone who touched thei cattle was likely to losfe everyBUSINESS GROWS business thing she had But now cattle are scarce while ranch lands are inOgden's union stockyards have creasing In value Cattlemen shown a tremendous Increase in made money during 192 business during the past year growth which is Indicated by the ITATjY PAYS BY CHECK following figures as to receipts ROME Jan 13 — (By The for 1927:' Cattle and calves 8 Press)— Various indushead hogs 233183 head trial plants In Turin have- adopted sheep 1177505 head horses and jthe system of paying workers by mules 2992 This total of 1517-91- 8 jcheck This is in line with the head is the largest aggregate jgovemment's efforts to reduce ever recorded by the Ocden yards icircuiauon oj currency 164-23- $40-0000- "The support of home institutions is the main foundation of any state's prosperity! The support of home industries keeps money at home furnishes employ- Promoters Propose Piping From Wyoming Fields To Utah By FRANK ANDREWS Utah Crops Statistician United States Department of Agriculture Preliminary estimates of the valuation of Utah crops for 1 9 2 7 indicate a total valuation of an increase of $3000000 over the 1926 valuation Alfalfa seed production for which Utah nationally ranks first is estimated for the year at 245000 bushels harvested from a sown acreage of 72000 acres While Utah does not rank unusually high In the production of other crops with the exception of sugar beets for the year general crop production has outdistanced that of 1926 Sugar beet production ranks fourth in national pro duction This year the crop is estimated at 649000 tons harvest ed from 63000 planted acres WHEAT CROP IjARGER Wheat production shows an In crease with production in 1927 of 5724000 bushels from 242000 acres sown compared to a 1 9 2 6 of 5505000 from 237- production uuo acres sown The 1927 production of other grains follows: Oats 2346000 from 61000 sown acres barley 1380000 bushels from 30000 acres rye 40000 bushels from 4000 acres and 456000 bushels from 19000 acres Each of the crops showed an increase grain over the 1926 production The 1927 harvest of potatoes revealed a production of 2970000 bushels from an acreage of 22000 compared to a 1926 production of z465000 bushels from 17000 acres sown: MORE HAY GROWN A total of 1559000 tons of tame hay was harvested from 567000 acres Production in 1926 was 1722000 tons from 562000 sown acres Production of wild hay will be incorporated in the annual report of the division of crop and livestock estimates to be Issued after January 1 no est! mates being available at present An Increase of two fruit crops for 1927 Is noted compared with 1926 production while other fruit crops have decreased A total of 561000 bushels of peaches were produced during the year compared to a 1926 production of 550000 bushels The grape crop increased from 1300 tons to 1320 com- The pared to 1926 production 1927 apple crop totaled 666000 bushels compared to production of 817000 bushels in 1926 and the 1927 pear crop totaled 60000 compared to a 1926 production of bushels Three thousand eight hundred tons' of cherries were produced In 1927 compared to 5300 tons in 1926 " MERCK IlOnLANTD BANKS THE HAGUE' Jan 13— (By The Associated Press) — Merger of three important Middenstand "middle class" banks in the ( Netherlands Is Relieved to mark the dawn of a" new era for this A sounder type of institution banking system Is expected to 80-0- WO 00 FOOD SHORTAGE WITHIN 75 YEARS xnere is smau iiKeunood of a food shortage in the United States for the next 75 years declared Dr O E Baker of the United States Department of Agriculture addressing the American Farm Economic association at Washington December 29 "Looking forward a century when our population appears likely to have become stationary at 200000000 persons" Dr Baker said "all the evidence available suggests that agricultural production can keep pace with the increase of people without any greater changes In the character of the food supply than 'those which have occurred during the past quarter century" Discussing the more Immediate outlook Dr Baker declared that "the substitution of mechanical for animal power on farms must continue for several years at least" and that this continued mechanization of agriculture will cause production to increase as rapidly as population during the next decade Utah-packe- 1 J 50-0- 00 - - " ' t LARGER ACREAGE PLANTED TO WHEAT Winter wheat sown next for year's harvet is estimated at acres an increase of 102 over the revised estimate of the area planted a year ago 47-897- VIRGINIA TOBACCO CENTER WASHINGTON— (By The Associated Press) — Sixty-fiv- e per cent of the tibacco exported from the United States passes out through New Orleans ships 10 Virginia per cent and New York nine per cent Virginia also ranks first in shipping tobacco products San Francisco being second and New York third per-cen- t the Department of Agriculture reThe acreage planted this ports fall while the largest since 192i Is well below that of 1018- just before the close of ths war Last planted area is now estimatyear's ed at 43465000 acres of which 129 per cent was abandoned and 37572000 acres harvested - |