OCR Text |
Show - if' Ogden's Development of Factories i ' vs v I By W. E. Zuppann Constant expansion of the industries indus-tries located in Ogden, the foundation founda-tion of new factories, the attention of its capitalists not only to the welfare of their own city but to the growth of industries in otljer section of both Utah and Idaho has focused attention atten-tion of the western people and tnaii eastern residents as well on Oifdcn as the manufacturing center of the entire iuteriuouutain country. These developments haw been' combined with the centralization of railroad termini and the general advantages of an agricultural district mail today to-day Ogden takes front rank among the western cities and it is making more rapid progress as an industrial indus-trial center than other communities of the west. Ogden has been located, it seems, in a place that Nature intended should be a commercial center for from this point radiate in each direction di-rection of the compass the most leasable, the most direct routes for railroads, electric lines, and road which arc the prime necessity in such growth. Hut what Nature has done for Ogden has been reinforced by the efforts of her progress! w citizens, citi-zens, who realized this condition and have decided to sponsor its greatest ' upbuilding, 'through their imest- incut of capital, industry, energy and i brought the progress to its present ? extent and has heralded its future. Hi 1 Standing in the wry forefront of EI f Ogdcn's development arc the sugar- B " making, meat lacking, food-canning B . and allied industries. There arc other ERj establishments, many of them, but ; they are directly or indirectly allied EBjf with these great businesses develop- H ed within the past 20 or 30 years and HE,' around the three greater food pro- H ihiciug efforts are centered the tip- IMF building efloits of Ogdeti, with its W f corresponding development of the i F remainder of Utah, Idaho and cou- " ' tiguous territories of Wyoming and i Nevada, t The Amalgamated Sugar Company 1 with its plants ready for operation i t this season in Ogden, Logan, Lcw- ' i Iston, Hurley and Twin l-'alls with the assurance of another plant near gBA Smithficld and perhaps even more factories in the near future is the greatest of the industries centering in Ogden. Through the dcwlopmcut uork of this company, the farmers of northern Utah and southern Idaho haw found a great and profitable outlet for their crops, one which brings them a steady and a consistent consis-tent income and to its growth can not oul) be ascribed much of Ogdcn's prosperity but also that of every community, including the entire Cache Valley, in which its plants are located. Ueet culture has not only proven profitable in itself, employment employ-ment is not only given to hundreds of people at the sugar factories, increased in-creased work for the railroad men is not only brought by the output of these factories but the value of farm lands has increased and the soil itself it-self has been benefitted and its richness rich-ness enhanced by this culture of sugar beets. Ranking second only to the sugar industry, is the canning business which is largely located in Weber and Daws counties and is centralized in Ogden. Through the growth of this industry which was founded in 1888 by I. N, Pierce and his associates, asso-ciates, who forsaw the possibilities of the great development that has been made, the farming activities of northern Utah have been giwn another outlet for products of the soil and thousands upon thousands of dollars have been' expended yearly for the tomatoes, peas, corn, beans, peaches, apples, pumpkins, cabbage, cucumbers and other vegetables and fruits that have been packed in caiis. I. X. Pierce the founder of this industry in-dustry is the actiw head of the Utah Canning Company, the plant of which has become famed for its output of Pierce's Pork and lieans and many other products and which stands today to-day as the year-round cannery of Utah. To be the oldest cannery in the state is in itself a unique distinction dis-tinction but to this must be added for the Utah Canning Company such other records as that of operating for the longest season, with the maximum max-imum amount of labor-saving ami automatic machinery, the wide distribution dis-tribution of goods throughout the entire nation and cwn to foreign lauds and high standard of sanitary conditions. The Ogden Packing & Provision Company holds the record of being the largest meat packing plant west of the Missouri river cities and with its addition, now being completed, will have a capacity to handle about 60 times as many hogs as it did when founded in 1506 with a corresponding increase in the handling of cattle and sheep as well. This gigantic plant, housed in buildings that vary from one to fic stories in height, has been upbuilt entirely by Ogden capital and industry, although today its market extends entirely across the United States while England's markets have already been opened for it and the demand comes now from other European and from South American countries. In this industry, too, the entire interests in-terests of Utah and southern Idaho arc combined for through this one plant there is an outlet for all of the hogs now being produced in this in-tcrmountaiu in-tcrmountaiu territory and for many more for- the' gttat bulk of cattle and sheep, as well. Cache County, through its hay fields and its feeding feed-ing grounds, through its development of the hog industry and the cattle business, profits every year from the growth of this immense plant. There arc other notable plants in Ogden, such as the John Scowcroft and Sons Company with its large overall and work clothes factory and its wholesale houses. This has been another achievement of Ogdcn's capitalists, cap-italists, a development by its own citizens until today the Scowcroft establishment holds the first place for a factory of its kind in the entire en-tire west. The Ogden Union Iron Works, recently incorporated, will succeed to the business of the Western Foundry & Machine Company and will dcvclopc that industry, needed as an ally to the other great manufactories. man-ufactories. The Iiccles Sugar Company Com-pany entering the field by incorporation incorpor-ation this year is also to extend Ogdcn's growth as a factory community, com-munity, a bechiw of industrial growth. Located in Ogden arc the general offices of two great cement factories the Ogden Portland Cement Co, witji its plant near Hrigham; the Union Portland C' cut Co. its plant being at Devil's F To these also must be ascribeii much of Utah's growth. The list is a long one, there are dozens of manufactories in Ogden (Continued on Pago Eight) Ogden's Development 1 Of Factories fl S (Continued from pago six) H W ' and icinity, and .all are growing. ffl They herald the great future for the S city and with its future the wel- H fare of the entire surrounding conn- pH try for a circle with more than 150 LH miles radius. IS And one of the real reasons for BH this growth has been the central- KB ization of railroads in Ogden. Today rfl Ogden has the termini of the grcat- gjH est railroad systems of the western Rn country, both steam and electric. (I Here are centered the lines of the E9 Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Ore gon Short Line, Denver & Rio Grand, the Salt Lake & Ogflen and the Og-den, Og-den, Logan & Idaho railway lines. The latter line, through opening a direct route from Ogden through Cache Vallty has brought the factory city into closer touch with those centers of agricultural development develop-ment and prosperity, has linked northern Utah with a bond that is more than steel. The Ogden.Logan & Idaho Railway lines comprise not only the greatest electric railway system of the intcrmountaiu country but also the most modern system of its kind in the west. They hac been buildcd largely through the efforts of Ogden and Logan men, men who have at heart the growth and prosperity pros-perity of northern Utah. Binding Preston, I.ewiston, Richmond, Logan, Hrtgham, Ogden and many other cities and towns through the very trackage that has been placed, this company lias built also that service which 'brings the communities into closer touch with each other?' which makes of northern Utah one greater community with aspirations joined, united for common and general progress. pro-gress. And that is the effort of Ogden's factory builders and its railroad builders and all of its citizens the development of the intermo'untain country. And the growth of this country seems only limited by the amount of such combined energy and enthusiasm as is utilized in pushing push-ing its future progress. |