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Show oo BUILD AN AUTOMOBILE FACTORY. Ten years ago, when the Ogden Packing & Provision company was In its Infancy, few ventured to predict Ogden would become a packing houso center. The beginning was small and the field was said to be occupied by the greater packing houses of Chicago and elsewhere. Today Ogden Is about to see constructed the largest packing house west of Omaha. One building to be erected will be five or six stories, 100 feet wide by 200 feet long, and will exceed in floor area the entire plant of the Nuckolls packing pack-ing house at Pueblo, tho largest institution in-stitution of tho kind in Colorado. This development of one Industry points to possibilities in other lines of manufacture. For four years past, the Stevens Implement company of Ogden has been manufacturing automobiles. The company has not constructed the engines, en-gines, the frame work, wheels or tires, but has assembled the parts and built up all the wood work. Tho local factory fac-tory has turned out grocery cars, hearses, trucks and laundry wagons Tho hearses have been more attractive attrac-tive pieces of work than anything shipped in here from the east and the cost has been $200 to $300 below eastern east-ern prices. The company's experience has demonstrated that Ogden can become be-come an automobile manufacturing center, producing everything that goes to make up an automobile, with the possible exception of wheels, tires and engines. The malleable Iron, channel bars, frame work and body could be made In Ogden at a figure not above the factory cast in Michigan, and with this added advantage that the woodwork, wood-work, because of proper seasoning, would be superior. A car could bo made in Ogden for $600, which would compare favorably with machines sold In eastern factories factor-ies at $800 In estimating the capital Tequlrod to manufacture automobiles in Ogden to tho best advantage, $200,000 is given as sufficient to establish a plant, buy material in large quantities and carry a stock ot finished machines. The great Ford factory In Detroit, employing over 20,000 persons, does not produce Its own frames and at first did not make an engine. At that plant tho pay Is $5 a day for nearly all workmen, which is a scale of wages above the prevailing compensation for similar mechanical labor In this part nf TTfoli Ogden !s building automobiles on a small scale; why not construct the machines on a large scale, employing 1,000 men in this city. We havo built sugar factories, candy can-dy factories, overall factories, knitting factories, Everfresh factories, packing plants, canning factories, can factories. factor-ies. Let us enlarge on our dreams of greatness, and erect an automobile factory? The finest foundry sand in the United States is found In unlimited quantities on the Sand Ridge; pure water. In endless Bupply, is available; a beautiful city of 32,000 inhabitants, with climate unexcelled, makes this a desirable place of residence of skilled workers. There is an almost unlimited unlimit-ed demand In the territory tributary for serviceable automobiles, at reasonable reas-onable prices. The automobile industry indus-try Is expandod and of recognized permanency. Freight rates on tho completed car are greatly In our favor. What more is essential to the successful promos Ing of automobile manufacturing in Ogden? Nothing except the capital and the money is here In abundance', if hard-thinking, close-fisted men can 4 be mado to see the inviting field, with big returns on their investments. We must not wait for others to take us by the hand and lead us, as a child Is led, but wo must act Tor ourselves, and open tho door to Opportunity when it knocks |