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Show OGDEI CAN FACTORY IS AN ASSURED . ENTERPRISE , - i Saturday arternoon Joseph Geogho-gan Geogho-gan of Salt Lake closed a deal for a little moro than three acres of land on Lincoln avonue, between Twentieth Twenti-eth and Twenty-first streets, upon which a can factory will bo erected in the immediate future. The purchase price has not been disclosed, but final payments on all the land, except one parcel, the deed for which has been sent to California, for a signaturo, have been made and the transfers duly executed. ThiB means that the can factory is an assured enterprise for Ogden and that before the year is over another payroll for over 100 persons will be in existence. Engineers already are making plans for the structure and contracts for building will be let within with-in a Bhort time. It is estimated that the cost of tho site and the erection of the factory will approximate a quarter of a million dollars. The exact plans for the building have not been drawn, but it is said that the factory will be similar to other factories of its kind in the country. coun-try. The part of tho structure to be erected first will be three stories high and 435 long by SO feet wide, In this part of the structure will be placed the machinery for making all kinds of cans and the machinery will be on hand as soon as tho building is ready. The other part of the building build-ing will be 80 feet wide and, besides a basement, which will extend under the entire structure will have three stories and will be 435 feet long. The latter building will be used as the warehouse part of the factory and it will bo completed in time for early use In the fall of the year. It is said by those most closely connected with the enterprise that the factory will be making cans for various makes by the latter part of September or the first of October. Immediate Im-mediate work will begin and the factory fac-tory will be erected as rapidly as it is possible to do so. Mr. Gcoghegan hopes to be prepared to supply a largo quantity of cans needed in the canning factories of this vicinity after af-ter October 1 and he stateB that many varieties of cans will be made at the factory and placed on the market at that time. While Mr. Geoghogan Ib acting Individually In-dividually in the enterprise at this time, it Is expected that a company will be organized and capitalized in tho near future to handle the busl ness. His representatives here say that there will be no delays in the construction of the building and that as soon as the deed sent to California to be signed returns the entire cost price of the site will be paid over and the transfer of the property perfected. per-fected. The J. M. and M. S. Browning Brown-ing company, T. B. Wheelwright, and John Farr are the parties from -whom the site was purchased. |