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Show Part Three Pages II to 18 ONE of OGDEN'S IMMENSE INDUSTRIES The BECKER BREWING & MALTING COMPANYS PLANT Located in the northern part of Ogden, it huge buildings nprearing against the sky, stands the plant of the Keeker Brewing & Malting comiinny. This plant was first startid in 1SD0 with the incorporation of the Becker Brewing and Malting coni-jianO. L. Becker, president; A. E. Becker, vice president, and K. J. Becker, secretary. y, Since the opening of the comparatively small plant of the company, only eightee nyears ago, its progress and improvement has lxen far in excess of the developments of a great many sections of the state. Buildings have lieen added, additions and improvements made until it stands as one of the most modern and plants in America. This assertion is made in view of the fact that even the largest brewery in the world has no lietter nor more modern machinery and appliances than this great company, only eighteen years ago, its prognss and improvement liness, economy and hygiene have lsen incorporated in the Becker up-to-da- te plant. From the coolers the lieer flows to the settling tanks, when it is allowed to remain. The lieer has now worked its way gradually from the top story to the settling tanks on the lower floor by gravity alone. This gravity system nutans everything to the (stablishmrnt liecause of the rapidity of transferring the Isit. Ilvgienirally, the Imxt receives every can and attention. Every tub, kettle, keg and appliance through which the lstr puss, is Incited by lieing waslud, scrublied and cleaned in every conceivable manner to remove the least impurity. Every drop of Ikht,, before leaving the brewery, is carefully inspictd for any sign of impurity. From the settling tanks the Ikht is drawn off to the glass storage tanks in the rollers, where it is stond for several months before lieing put into kegs or 1 Kittles. Before being koggod or buttled the lser is filtered, and none but the most modern machines are used in order to secure alisolute purity. . Now we come to the bottling department. This is a separate fret building from the brewery proper, lieing alsiut forty-fivsouth of the main building. Connecting these two buildings is a pipe lalielod IT. 8. Oovernjiient Tipc Line. .Through this pipe the lieer is conveyed into the immense glass storage tanks, when the lirer is meaxund by the government inxjiretor and revenue paid thereon. In this department are several huge machines. The first is called the lsittle soaker, which has a capacity of many thousand bottles per day, and sterilizes the lsittles in the latest improved manner. Here the lsittles are laced on a rack holding sixteen lsittles, and this rack is then placid in a washing machine and each and every lsittle is thoroughly washed and sprayed by a stream of water nnd a revolving bristle brush. After pasing through this washing machine the rack is placed usm the rinsing table where the lsittles are thoroughly rinsed. Each bottle is then held up to the light and and if satisfactory they are passed to the filling machine filled with Becker's pure product, then corked and placid anil on large trucks which are pushid into a machine called the pastuerizer, where the beer goes through the process of pastucriz-ing- . The lsittles are then taken from this machine and once more examined and are then labeled by machinery. e The consequence is that today it stands as a monument to the push and energy of the men whose brains conceived it and carried its execution to successful culmination. The most interesting part of the industry outside of the speculative features called forth by the foregoing, remains in the interest attached to the development of the lser. From the time it is plantid by the farmer in the spring in the shape of barley, until it emerges a finishid product, a pale amlier brew that (Tanihrinus might have lost sleep over in contemplating its virtus tfnd essences. Starting then, on a short trip of inspiration, we will begin with the fields. With one and a half million pounds of barley, bushels to the acre, over fifty islands to the bushel, sixty-fiv- e eleven hundreds acres of land are devoted to the growing of liar-le- y for this industry. This means that the farmer receives over $50,000 a year from this firm. They Micro in encouraging Utah, its citizens and industries, and purchase here at home everything necessary to operate their plant. The Oderbruchor liarley is used exclusively. This barley is brought in seed from Wisconsin and distributed among the farmers, who are devoting their land to supplying the Becker company with its main cereal. This barley is known as a pedigreed liarley. It is a species of itself, raiwd by itself, and receives the samecare in planting and nourishment as does the finest standard bred racer or roadster.. A large jsirtion of this barley is shipped to the brewery via the Oregon Short Line, a spur of which encircles the buildings of the plant. Much of it is hauled in the farmers wagons. The barley is then taken up into the immense grain elevator, where it is stored until used. Carried beautomatically by chutes from the grain elevator to the floor low, the grain is cleaned and sifted and then conveyed to the malt floor, where it is allowed to sprout and grow for eight days. It is then conveyed to the kiln, where it is dried. From the kiln it is carried to the cleaning machine, and then to the mill where it is ground and from there diverted to the mash machine, where the malt is mashed. From the mash machine the liquid is drawn off automatically through a seivedike floor and thrown into the immense copper kettle with a capacity of 375 barrels per day, where the brew is boiled with hops for several hours.. After having lieen boiled a required length of time, the fluid is drawn to the lower floor to the hop then pumped 1 6 the fifth floor of the over flow the to allowed is coolers, it which copper jack, after to the beer which reduce the proper temperature. brew-hous- e two-inc- h id out-pn- t per annum of this plant when it was first was about started 5,000 barrels. Today its annual capacity is 100,000 liarrelx, and the brewery distributes its product in the states of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. In addition to The total the $50,000 distributed annually to the surrounding farmers, the Becker company pays its employes, which number alsiut sixty, $40,000. For these reasons one can readily see that it is to the interest of everybody to patronize home concerns. The aim of the Becker Brewing & Malting company is to put the best possible product upon the market, and the public are invited to call and inspect the plant and to see why so many signs in Ogden and surrounding territory, read : |