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Show Danielson. Independence (Mo.) Star. With 25 Independence men pulling on the ropes and W J. Danielson holding the plow handles, the ground for the big Danielsen plow factory was broken Thursday aftornocm. The first furrow was made within a hundred hun-dred yards of the old Santa Fee Trail and within a few miles of the place where the first steel board plows in this section were manufactured. Previous to the formal breaking ground a crowd of men and women from Independence gathered and several sev-eral addresses appropriate to the occasion oc-casion were made. In the midst of the seventeen acres bought for the site of the factory near the Missouri Pacific station the company had cleared the sod for tho site for the building and upon this spot gathered the crowd. S. O. Bennion, vice-president -of tlie sompany, was master of ceremonies. B. F. Uummlngs offered a prayer after which Mr. Danielsen told of the company and Its purposes. He said he had founded the factory at Logan, Utah, too small and cast about over the west and central West for a site had decided on Independence. Mr. Bennion spoke more particularly of the work and called on Mayor Pre-wltt Pre-wltt who In a very appropriate talk welcomed tho company to Independence Indepen-dence and wished the enterprise great success. Citlzcnts present responded briefly to calls from Mr. Bennion and among them were M. G. Wood, W. C. Hickman, Wm. Southern, Jr., A. M. Ott, Bernard Zick, and Pres. Joseph Smith. The workmen at the site arc now engaged In building a road which will give betteroutlet from the site of the building than the one now In use along the railroad tracks. They have employed em-ployed all tho scrapers and teams which have applied and have work for a good many more. The work on tho plant will be pushed as rapidly as men and money can do It. |