Show mw ill INLINE LIE foil FOH MRY SITE the mass meeting called for last friday evening was attended by the mayor city council and a representative company of 0 businessmen of the city mayor IV T davis called the meeting to order and was promptly in made ade chairman of the meeting with mr N C simonsen Sl secretary because of the lack of information as to what was required by the promoters of 0 the cereal factory only a meagre statement could be made to acquaint those present with the desires of 0 the company and guide the meeting in taking action on the matter ot of submitting a proposition from brigham city to locate here pres NN J lowe related the conversation with mr air D F collett over the phone on wednesday and taking that as a cue the meeting got down to bustness business A number of speeches were made favoring the submitting of some kind of a proposition and the advantages which brigham city has to offer were rehearsed at length the matter of 0 electrical power was thoroughly considered and in view of the fact that the contract between the city and the cement plant expires in a short time and there will be no renewal of the contract so that the city will ll 11 havo a ve ample power to offer A motion was finally offered that brigham city tender a site tree free of charge and offer electrical power and very reasonable rates approximately per horse horae power for 24 hours of service the motion carried unanimously asly A committee consisting of mayor NV T davis CW C W knudson and john D peters was appo appointed in ted to go down to salt lake and present the proposition of brigham city to the executive committee of the cereal company and another committee consisting lot of NV wa 0 knudson john 11 1 1 horsley and bitne Jame aJensen was named aames to look lookup ug sites and report to the first commit tle tep so that it would have so to report at salt lake on monday mayor davis recel fd a telephone comm n front row calr r lake asking him not to senj send the the cois 0 i Y r 1 cittee down on tuesday hut bue to cont come e on wednesday as the time had been extended one more day and s he and knudson and peters neut down yesterday morning the rhe meet ing was called tor for 2 but bul at that hour the committee was not pre ent and mr air D P F collett state stancl 1 to the committee from this city that the other gentlemen had gone to farmington the brigham COM waited until 4 but the cereal peo people pie had not returned and so shortly after that hour mayor davis and mr knudson stepped out to go over to the solidified alcohol plant with tile thought in nind mind that the next train from farmington would not be until 5 at which hour they expected to be back but only a few minutes after they left the cereal people pulled up at the headquarters in an automobile they were going to rush right off again to look over another property but mr air peters who remained to look out tor for them pressed them for a few minutes in which to present brigham cl ci tys proposal and he was granted ten tea minutes he drew a diagram of the railroad depot and the grounds and buildings lying eyink north and south of it showing streets canning factory mill stock yards and cement pipe factory site then thea pointed out the sites which have been promised ile he also outlined the natural advantage a of this location called attention to the cheap power and water and stated frankly that brigham city assumed that her only competitor compe tor for the factory was ogden because of its exceptional railroad facilities the gentlemen were so ao much taken up with the narrative that pat they forgot about their other appointment and listened to mr peters for or fully three quarters of an hour many of them were well acquainted with the topography of the country round about the depot and when mr air peters got thru one of the gentlemen spoke up and said that was the best proposition yet offered mr peters was also advised that Brig brighams hams offer was received in time to be considered with the rest and the final decision has not yet been made the meeting concluded a few minutes before five and the cereal people jumped in their automobile and started oft on a 70 mile run to inspect another site they had not been gone but a few minutes when on page pace tre BRIS BRIGHAM IN LINE FOR CERIAL mm ACTORI continued from rom first page mayor davis and mr air knudson returned the brigham committee returned home feeling that despite the met that all the members did not goan opportunity to appear before the factory committee this city will get a very aten attentive tive hearing in the slon that will finally decide the location of the site elte it may even be I 1 possible that some of the gentlemen will quietly slip up here and loot look over the ground for themselves in any event the city has made an effort and accepting the statement oi 01 he gentlemen on the exe executive culive committee of the company has made the best offer for the location of the factory the consensus of opinion of the mass meeting was that this city could offer more flattering inducements than any other community and it is to be hoped the factory people will finally concede that and decide to locate here |