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Show ber Company, ha? been identified with the wholesale and retail business in Utah and Idaho for many years past, and is a pronounced pro-nounced advocate of the idea that business institutions of today to-day are primarily public service corporations, whose policies and methods must be genuinely helpful help-ful to their customers and open to the closest scrutiny. Mr. Jas. S. Taylor, who has been Managing Director and now becomes Vice President, likewise has investments in the lumber merchandising business as a partner in Geo. E. Merrill Company and previous to locating locat-ing in the Inter-Mountain Country Count-ry was actively interested in lines of retail yards in the Middle Mid-dle West. The company in which Messrs. Merrill and Taylor are associates is primarily an investment company, com-pany, and is not active in the affairs of retail lumber yard concerns con-cerns in which it is a stockhold-der, stockhold-der, except as an investor and in determinating matters mat-ters of general policy. Through the arrangement by which the Geo. E. Merrill Company Com-pany is a stockholder in the Bonneville Lumber Company however, Messrs Baker and Dorn-berg Dorn-berg expect to have their company com-pany to have the benefit of a service bureau in which associates assoc-iates of the Merrill Company and other enterprises are co-operating in advertising and trade development dev-elopment work. The local manager has been informed that the company has decided "on icies which have been adopted by reason of the be lief that the lumber and buildiifg supply business is about to undergo und-ergo considerable changes to keep step with the modern business bus-iness idea. An advertising program has been adopted which is intended to make the public acquainted with all the essentials essen-tials facts about the lumber business and its ramifications, and to bring into use service facilities which can only be attempted succesfully by operating oper-ating on a large scale. The Bonneville Lumber Company Com-pany will have no other connection connect-ion with any other similiar enterprises, enter-prises, and be independent in methods and policy. The interests inter-ests of the company at the pres-tnt pres-tnt are chiefly in Southern Utah, operating lumber yards at American Amer-ican Fork, Brigham City, Delta, Lynndyl, Lund, Manti, Marys-vale, Marys-vale, Milford, Modena, Nephi, Oasis, Provo, Richfield, and Spanish Fork- The company is constituted almost entirely of Utah people. Baker Lumber Re-organizes It is now the Bonneville An annoucement of interest to our readers, and especialy to the building fraternity, has just been made by J. E. Works, Manager Man-ager of the Delta yard ot the Baker Lumber 'Company. Mr. Works informs us that the Baker Bak-er institution will in the future be known as the Bonneville Lumber Company, and in connection with the change of name, the Baker -Dornberg interests, while retaining re-taining their investment in full in the enterprise under the new name, have materially increased the capital and the scope of the operations of their company by admitting into their organization as co-owners with them the Geo. E. Merrill Company of Salt Lake City, the Merrill Co. being a , group of investors who are large- ; ly interetsed in other similiar ; lumber yard investments in the ; Inter-Mountain Country. The company under the new name preserves the same active organization and the general managment will remain as heretofore, here-tofore, but coincident with the adoption of the new style of firm name, the organization proposes pro-poses to introduce some important import-ant features of policy and operation opera-tion along the most progressive lines. Mr. Geo. A Merrill, who becomes be-comes Pres. of the Boneville Lum- |