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Show UTAH TO MAKE AUTO TRUCKS Salt Lake iS soon to be tho home of a $l,u00 000 concern whose efforts will be directed toward the manufacture manu-facture of automobile trucks in com-petltion com-petltion with truck builders in the i east. It is said the enterprise will revolutionize revo-lutionize western motor trucks Some ot them are to be constructed along lines entirely neu to the motor world, I adapted to the hauling of ore from mines. B. F Parker of 107 North Main i street, mining and milling expert, for. ; nierlj of Denver. Colo, Is one of the : chief promoters of the truck manu- facturing project. George E. Hemp hill. 888 Fast Fifth South, also Is pushing the project. I: lr, declare J ', some of the wealthiest men of Salt Lako and the inf ermountaiu west are behind the movement. For the present their names arc withheld However, ihe mnnufaetur-I mnnufaetur-I !i:g committee pi the- Commercial club and the Manufacturers' association have been appronched with regard to the enterprise and are reported enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the prospect of an important im-portant addition to Salt Lake's uianu-tncturing uianu-tncturing enterprises. "There was a meeting this after- I noon of financiers interested In the auto truck plant." said Mr. Parki r las' light "1 am not at liberty to say .vho attended tho meeting or what transpired However, in a few days ?ve will be in a position to let the people know all about it "Looking tip and down the Btreets .no sees ?4(i0tl auto trucks which eastern manufacturers build for $1,-100 $1,-100 This means that we are sending an awful lot of money back east. Salt Lake will be an admirable dace for! a motor truck plant to supply the cn-' tire west. The cost o, making trucks I better adapted to ur,os In the west has been figured out. as has every detail of the enterprise." Mr. Parker explained that the new concern, which will incorporate soon I and commence activities is in pos- i session of many now inventions cov-e'-ed by patents expected lo mate-rlally mate-rlally change the present manufacture of trucks. One of these devices Is in .'pgard lo engines using a fuel much .heaper than gasoline. Crude oil i ried In the truck tanks is volatilized by the engine itself w hich gains greal-Lr greal-Lr driving power. One of the things In w hich the new-concern new-concern chiefly Is Interested, added Mr Parker, will be the manufacturing manufactur-ing of huge auto trucks suitable lor mining districts carrying ore to railroads rail-roads at small expense. Such trucks in the west would permit the development devel-opment of certain mining districts now untouched because of distance' from railroads." Ultimately it is expected the factory fac-tory will employ fully 300U skilled mechanics, explained Mr Parker, lie said that the proposed automobile ' plant will prove one of the most pow- crlul Influences in Salt Lake as regards re-gards the Introduction of jobbing' plants Others predicted last nigni that In two years the west side be converted into a busy manufacturing manufactur-ing center, bound to grow to great proportions |