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Show Spotlighting 1 UTAH I Utah Factory Makes World Cheese Record The Cache Valley Dairy Association As-sociation at Its Amalga Swiss Cheese factory has established a new world's record in Swiss cheese production for a single day. Manager Ed Gossncr reported report-ed recently that the plant produced pro-duced 100 wheels of cheese In a single day. One hundred wheels comprise a full car load as each wheel weighs 220 pounds. Into the 100 wheels of cheese went 250,000 pounds of whole milk. Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds represents a total of 3125 ten gallon cans of milk. Average daily production of cheese at the plant Is 70 wheels. Eighty-five wheels per day Is reached occasionally but the 100 wheels is a new high record. Seventy-five employees work at the plant and 30 men are used driving trucks. Bank Assets Hit New High Mark The banks of Utah (41 state-chartered state-chartered banks and 11 national banks) have total assets of $599,590,628 as of December 31, 1948, the highest in the history of the state. This is an increase of $6,600,000.00 over a year ago. Deposits reached an all-time high of $564,167,193 which shows an Increase of $4,700,000 over a year ago. Loans and discounts reached a new high of $187,330,776 which is an increase of $8,600,000 over the previous year. |