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Show WOOLEN MILLS MAY COME HERE Superintendent Sumner Eavor-ahly Eavor-ahly Impressed With Conditions Con-ditions Here. Mr. Thomas Sumner has spent the past few days in Cedar City promot Ing the Heaver Woollen Mills company, com-pany, which is to take over the old mills at Beaver and by the installation installa-tion of needed new machinery and equipment, make the plant efficient for service again. Mr. Sumner reports that good progress is being made in the interesting of new capital, and that there are some subscribers to the company's stock here in Cedar City. The articles of Incorporation of the new company are ready for filing, and it is expected that within a short time physical work will commence upon the undertaking. Some of the machinery ma-chinery from the old mill at Washington, Washing-ton, Washington county, will be pin dialed and transferred to the new plant. At the present time there is a great necOSSit) for all idle machinery being put into operation Mills are running night and day ami cannot supply the demand for weaves of various kind.-. It has been suggested to Mr. Sumner Sum-ner by local capitalists that Cellar Cit) would be a better location for the plant, on account of the choapOl fuel and the more central location for the obtaining of wool, etc Since a very considerable amount of the stock of the company has been s i j I cubed by people "I' this COUnty, Mr. Sumner ll considering the matter very seriously and if sufficient inducements are of fered it is probable that the factor) ma) be ..ecured A meeting with some of the local business men and invest "is is being held today, and upon lie results ui' tins meeting may hinge the ful ore location of the woolen mills. These industries are things that WO .-hould supopri ami encourage, both as a patriotic duty and as an investment Also because they are along the line of keeping money at home ami fur- 1 k employment to local people, More pay rolls are the thing we are most in need of, ami we should he ijuiek to see and grasp these opportunities opportu-nities when offered. Further, this is an enterprise which should appeal with special force to the wool growers, lines it will insure a I eit, r and safer market for their wool and pelts, a tannery to lie a part of the enterprise. At the present time this machinery, or that portion of it already in southern south-ern Utah, is not producing anything. In a short time, with the encouragement encourage-ment of local people, it can be turning turn-ing thirty cent wool Into cloth that will sell for $1.00 or more per pound, and will be capable of making 100 yards per day, which will be 100 yds. towards the patriotic duty to Amen ca from the people of southern Utah. The following are the provisional board of directors and officers of the company: President, Mr. Jas. Yard-ley, Yard-ley, Beaver; vice president, . I P.Jones of Beaver; directors, Wilford Day and Lucius Marsden, Parowan; Andrew Ucherman, J. Tanner, J. F. Toiton, Heaver; and U. T. Jones, Cedar City. R. Parsons is secretary, R. Barton treasurer, Thomas Sumner, superin tendent and general manager. |
