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Show LARGE FLOUR MILL AND ELEVATOR TO BE ERECTED IN OGDEN A forco of 100 men will start work Monday on the construction of the elevator ele-vator of the Globe Milling & Grain company, the first unit of w.hich Is to ready for receiving grain by the beginning be-ginning of 1918. The construction of the plant and its subsequent operation it Is thought will stimulate industry in Ogden to a wonderful extent and mako this city one of the biggest grain centers of tho entire west. The plant to be built will bourne of five owned by tho Globe MHlmg & Grain company, the Ogden 'plant to be the largest of all. The others are at Portland, Port-land, Ore.; El Paso, Tex.; Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, Cal. Tho grain business of the entire In-termountaln In-termountaln country will be handled by the company through its Ogden branch and this will mean untold development de-velopment of tho city as a grain market mar-ket and will develop the surrounding country to a stage never yet reached, i Ogden will also be the shipping point of the company for all of its territory not handled by the other branches. A vague Idea only can be gained as to the development in storo for the western part of Ogden through the addition ad-dition of the elevator plant and the edded business activity which it will mean. From its qlevation on the hill, the immense plant will be seen' from all parts of the valley, "yest Ogden will be selected as the home in all probability of close to 100 workmen, who will be required to operate the elevators and mill and tho part of the city, judging from the development of scores of other cities, will rapidly become be-come the manufacturing section of th'c town. Ten-story Building. Tho first unif of thoplant will entail en-tail the expenditure of approximately $500,000 and will consist of the twenty elevator tanks and the work house. The work house will be 175 feet In height, embracing ten stories. The storage tanks will be 100 feet high and 20 feet In diameter. This unit of tho plant will have to be constructed by January 1, 1918, according to the specifications. When completed, work will be started on the second unit, embracing em-bracing tho mill and warehouse. The mill will bo six stories and tho warehouse ware-house will be two stories. A tralnshed will be built. The entire plant -will be'of concrete, thoroughly modorn in every respect, with special attention paid to weevil proof construction and safety from fire. Tho concrete contract alone, it is thought, will be the biggest ever placed in the intermountaln country. Big Flour Mill. The flour mill will have a capacity of 2,500 barrels of flour per day, which will be considerably more than six times the capacity of all of the mills of Ogden. When the second unit of twenty tanks Is constructed, making forty in all, the capacity of tho elevators ele-vators will bo raised from 600,000 to 1,000,000 bushels of grain. Machinery for the plant has been ordered. Part of it will be hero in time to bo installed in tbo work house, so that it may be used when the first unit -of the plant is constructed. Tho rest will not arrive until spring, it is thought, and that tho plant will not be entirely complete until that time. J. H. Waugh, construction engineer' of the Globe Milling & Grain company, will mako his headquarters in Ogden during tho building of the elevators, mill and workhouse. He said today that the company had selected Ogden as the logical grain center of tho in-termountain in-termountain country after considering ever' phase of tho business in relation to all available places. The incomparable incompar-able railroad facilities and central location lo-cation of Ogden were Ideal, ho said, and the officers of the company had considered this city to be far ahead of any others in bidding for a site for tho plant. Local men also exerted a great deal of influence in bringing the plant to Ogden. The efforts of W. H. Wattis were actively bent toward working out tho details preliminary to making conditions acceptable to the company and ho advanced the money necessary to purchasing the land on which the plant to to bo erected. The addition of the new Industry to West Ogden, It is thought, will be tho last thing required to insuro tho speedy construction of a street railway rail-way lino to the west part of tho city across the viaduct. A need has been felt for such a line evor since the larger business concerns of the city started moving in that direction. Tho OgdentfPacking plant and tho Ogden IIorHe Sales company daily havo crowds of people calling on thorn on business and the addition of the big milling plant will mean many more traveling in that direction and back eVery day, so it will probably be found absolutely necessary to extend the car system. Railroad Extensions. The trackage of tho Oregon Short Lino will bo Increased to handlo the business of the plant. The old track which borders the land purchased by the company has been used only as a canning factory spur and a track for storing cars for some time, but with tho demands for service mado by tho now plant It will again como into more active use. This plant will make the Oregon Short Line spur one of the busiest pieces of railroad on its system. sys-tem. It is not fully known at present what additions will be made to the trackage, but several spurs are considered con-sidered essential. Seventy-five Employees. When the milling plant Is finished approximately seventy-five employees will be necessary to keep it in operation. oper-ation. This will mean a considerable increase in the payroll of the city and, as most of the mill employees will bo recruited from tho city, it will also open up another avenue of employment. employ-ment. An oifice will be established in Ogden as soon as the plant is in working work-ing order. All of the business of tho local branch will be handled through this office, working, of course, under direction of the main offices in San Francisco. With the construction of this plant, Ogden will be placed in a position to become one of the nation's Important grain centers and in the flour business will occupy much the same position in the intermountaln country as Minneapolis Minne-apolis does in the nation. There will be three important grain companies in the city when the new branch is operating. The Holley Milling Mill-ing company has purchased extensive interests here and is making many improvements im-provements to the milling plant, so that It will have a capacity of approximately ap-proximately '100 barrels of flour per day in addition to large storage facilities. facil-ities. The Utah Cereal company is handling hand-ling an immense quantity of grain and will have storage facilities for 250,000 bushels. These elevators and the Globe Milling Mill-ing &. Gxain company's branch will make the city an immense grain hand- ling mart and give it rank with thei big milling cities of the United States. |