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Show ilRON WORKS FOR THIS CITY For two months past the Standard has kept in touch with the men who have been laying the foundation of a big iron industry in Ogden, and yesterday was able to announce the details of plans which are to givo to this city another manufacturing plant where a large force of men will find steady employment. These factories are to make Ogden Og-den the great manufacturing center of th'e intermountain country. They differ from skyscrapers in that when III completed they go on giving cmploy-I cmploy-I ment and they help maintain the K dinner bucket brigade, which is es- sential to a city's permanent growth. These iron works are planned to be something more than a foundry or repair shop. They are being equipped to construct machinery for sugar plants and the mining industry and will contain the most modern cupolas, boring mills and lathes, with electric cranes and other laboring appliances to be fouud in, any similar establishment establish-ment in the United States. The industry has vast possibilities , and may be expanded so as to give employment to several hundred men. Starting with 75 employes, the plant immediately will take rank with the other city builders which have caused Governor Wm. Spry, on more than one occasion, to refer to Ogden as the factory town of Utah. Looking back a few years, one realizes real-izes to what extent Ogden has grown in manufactories. There has been expansion In every direction and jMT-any new industries have been es-ff es-ff - tablished. |