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Show billing Plant I I Being Promoted I Local Citizens (o Form Co-operathc Company Enslern Company To Erect llullillng nud Install Jlnchlu-cr. Jlnchlu-cr. Representatives of an eastern machinery ma-chinery house have been In American Fork several dnyB "feeling out" the. canning plant situation here. A number- of the leading citizens have ex-expressed ex-expressed n willingness to go into the enterprise which it Is proposed to organize on the co-operatlte plan, tho stockholders taking one to flye shares each, tho shares having a par value, of $100 each. Tho plant, It erected, will cost approximately $10,000, nnd will bo orectcd In tlmo for next year's tomato crop. Pleasant Orovo erected a canning plant this summor, but completed it too Into to operate on this year's crop. Salt Lako City capitalists will co-operate with tho pooplo of Pleasant Plea-sant Grove and make It' one of tho biggest plants In tho stato. Lehl has Just commenced the erection of h $14,000 plant and will have It ready for operation next year. Provo, Springvlllo and Spanish Fork have had plants In successful operation for sovornl years, canning fruit, beans nnd tomatoes. I American Fork Is equally favorably located with any Qf these other towns In Utuli county and undoubtedly d canning plant, economically built nut competently handled, would brlnf good returns on tho Investment, nnt bo a great boom to the "farmers ant business men. Whnt American Fork needs for Its progress and develop-! nients Is u lnrgor pay roll, whether) It be u cunning plant, ntl evaporated', cream factory or the opening up of our mines. |