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Show GONE GLIMMERING Hopes of Securing Condensed Milk Factory Vanish into Thin Air. After all the blow and bluster that has been made about Logan securing a condensed milk factory of enormous proportions, employing from thirty-live thirty-live to one hundred men, and using 100-000 100-000 poundsof milk dally, with a payroll of $50,000 a month, etc., the affair has gone up In smoke, so far as Logan Is concerned. Prospects that were (?) once so bright arc dead, "dead as any door nail In town." Just how dead a door nail could get at tho time Dickens Dick-ens wrote his "Christmas Carol" wo arc not prepared to say, but tho prospects pros-pects of securing the milk factory for Logan arc so dead that decomposition has set In and there Is little prospect of resurrection. Richmond will secure the factory. Just how the trick was turned may bo a matter of inside history, but for tho public, it is given out that the eastern capitalist, Mr. Ratclllfe, who has been here trying to work up the proposition, has placed his affections elsewhere, and Logan Is left In such a position that there can't even bo a trial for breach of promise. Although it is stated that the transferal of affect af-fect Ions Is natural In a way, It will bo generally believed that Logan has been flirted with and finally left in tho lurch. Or might the case not be reversed? Has not Logan lllrted with Mr. Rat-cliffc Rat-cliffc and the condensed milk factory? Is there anything to Indicate that this city really desired to laud tho prize? It Is a fact that but one Logan-Ite Logan-Ite other that Mayor Hansen showed the least disposition to have the factory fac-tory located here; there was no systematic sys-tematic and determined effort of tho business men who should have been Interested; there was practically nothing noth-ing dono to keep the promoter from changing his affections, and as a result re-sult a less fair damsel but ono with a wily nature and a well-defined deslro In her head, has captured the plum. Mayor Hansen states that all his investigations in-vestigations in the cast were- highly satisfactory, and that he with another person or two, did everything possible to secure tho plant for Logan, but that the eastern capitalist felt that Richmond had natural advantages that made It the best placo for tho location lo-cation of tho plant. The Mayor Is slightly chagrined over the failure of his efforts, and states that if the Richmond factory proves a success, (of which ho lias no doubt,) Logan will have a factory of tho same kind within two years. This would not bo in the nature of rctallatlon.but simply as a business investment. He claims that the demand, for condensed milk far tho exceeds tho supply, and that there is enough milk produced in Cache Valley to easily supply two factories. fac-tories. Tho Mayor believes that a local company can bo organized and Is certain that outside capital can be secured se-cured If necessary so It may bo possibly pos-sibly that Logan has In reality lost but little. |