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Show S BAGS MOVING IN k A AND OUT OF iF OGDEN N People about town have doubtless gj tiotlred the almost r-ndiess stream of Vto bags and other produce packages go ing in and out of Blackmail & Griffin , company's place of business. A ps- K If t porter was curious enough to ask " ! about where they went the other day and was given quite a history of the bag business It seems most burlap is made in Jf India where labor and jute are cheap, M but there are many large factories In this country. Grain bags are all of uniform size 22x36 In with hem med or selvage edge fop Cargoes of these bag6 are sent to America ever; year, as well as to other chief porta of the world. Thoae coming to Seattle Se-attle and San Francisco are sold to the wheat producers, who fill them, and exporters ship the wheat to Lfcr-s, Lfcr-s, crpool now around the Horn, but shortly they will pass through ih.- Pr.nama canal. Arriving In Liverpool I the bags are emptied, and 6old tq hag dealers, who carefull assort them, putting all the first class bags by themselves, when they are baled In a powerful baler one thousand to JPf ihf bale, and they again take an ocean p voyage this time to New York, New; Orleans, and other eastern sea ports! from whence they are shipped throughout the north and west The trade has named these bagB "Liver pool Returns.' presumably on account of their having been to Liverpool and Cji returned from there. In addition to Hip carloads of these IC bags sold In this market, bags ore pur- ,f chased from the cast, south and west that arp hr.nlh as good as these, )4w which, of course, cost less, and are used for vegetables and for other purposes. pur-poses. By observing the large number o bacs shipped, one can get an idea of j the Importance Of the industry and become impressed more lorclbly than, ever with the fact that Ogden Is ceu- ifVi frally located and is an important Miv Fbipplng point nn |