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Show uu- SALT LAKE CONCERNS-- ARE' BRANCHING OUT v Salt Lake. Fob.1 28. The' Salt Lake Glass &. -Paint- company and Morrison, Morri-son, Merrill & Co., have -entered tho wholesale field at Pocutello by establishing estab-lishing large branch houses. It Is the Intention of both companies to , reach out after Idaho business. It also Is hinted that both firms will es tablish other branches as business WKirants. Pocatello's commanding position as the geographic heart and distributing center of a Tast region is Kald to have Impelled the companies (o enter business bus-iness on a wlde ecalo there. The Salt Lake Gloss & PaJnt company has. purchased from the Gem State Lm-: ber company Its paint and glass departments, de-partments, while the Morrison-Morrill firm has , secured the department of sash and door stock and wholesale sundries. The Gem State company will continue to handle the line or retail yards. While both Salt Lako firms will operate Independently, they will occupy thc big Gem State warehouse ware-house on the cast side of the railway traclo. George L. Merrill, head of the Morrison-Merrill firm, established ' a working force In Pocatello last Sunday. Sun-day. Manajer Harry Shepard of the Glass & Paint company has done likewise. like-wise. The deals with the Gem State company were consummated last week. The Gem State Lumber com-panv'wns com-panv'wns formerly the Wecter com-pany, com-pany, which carried the same business busi-ness for years. I Freight rates from the east to Poc-alello Poc-alello are now little higher than to Salt lake and Ogdon and It Is hinted that the rates will be lowered soon to make of the Gem city a common point. |