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Show Iron Works for Ogden I Are to Cost $100,000 I and Employ Many Men Within sixty days Ogden will have one of the largest iron works in the west. Plans for the plant were completed com-pleted yesterday and the breaking of ground will be started some time next week. The company back of the new Industry In-dustry is to be known as the Ogden Iron Works, with a capital of 100,-000, 100,-000, and the buildings to be erected will cover ground 100x100 feet, be virtually two stories high, and house some of the largest pieces of machinery ma-chinery ever brought to this state. Promoters of Industry. The incorporators and officers of the company are: Joseph Scowcroft, president. Marriner Browning, vice president. R. B. Porter, vice president. L. T. Dee, secretary and treasurer. The foregoing with L. R. Eccles, R. E. Bristol, O. B. Gilson and C. S. Osgood form the board of directors. James W. Silver, one of the best known foundry and machine men In the state, Is general manager. Among the stockholders are M. S. Browning, Adam Patterson, Eccles company, Thos. D. Dee company, J. W. Levedahl, R. H. Hodge, Chapin A. Day and P. D. Kline. The company will absorb the Western West-ern Foundry and Machine company and its works. The site of the plant is the ground now occupied by the Western Foundry Found-ry and Machine company, with additional addi-tional pieces of real estate acquired within the last month, totalling two acres, most favorably situated as regards re-gards railroad trackage. The main building will be of steel frame with reinforced concrete and will have two bags, with one devoted to the foundry business and the other oth-er to the machine shops, and both equipped with electric traveling cranes. Tho largest pieces of machinery ma-chinery will be a Whiting cupola with a capacity of five tons an hour, and a 16-foot boring well. All the machinery ma-chinery has been contracted for and should bo on the ground as soon as the foundations are In place. Work Starts Immediately. ; R. B. Porter, who is one of the prin- cipal organizers of the company, says work will start within ten days and (H the plant will be ready for operation 'H sixty days thereafter. iH The company will specialize in the manufacture of sugar machinery and be prepared to build a sugar factory complete in every detail. All standard lines of mining ma-chlncry ma-chlncry will he constructed and structural steel will be handled. Pig iron for the foundry will be Imported from the east. Leslie Hodgson is the architect and he has prepared an elaborate set of Exceptionally fine sand has been found near Ogden for foundry pur- Bids on the construction work are to be called for during the week. Ie is estimated that seventy-five men will be employed in the plant to begin with and the Industry will be capable of expanding into one of the -M biggest enterprises ever established in 'M this state. |
