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Show i FLOUR MILL OF LARGE CAPACITY IS NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION BY THE SPERRY FLOUR COMPANY Celebration, in Connection With the Opening of New Elevators, Ele-vators, Is to Be Held in October, and Visitors Will Be Drawn Here From All Over the Intermountain State Ogden as the Grain and Flour Center Development of a Great Industry- Ground has been broken by the Sper ry Flour company for an eight stor mill and it is expected that the build ing will be ready for use during the 1920 season Contracts for the machin ery for the first unit of the mill hac been let. The new mill will have a capacity of 2000 barrels and will be divided .nto two units of 1000 barrels each. When completed, it will be one of th' larc -t and finest mills in the Pacific coast section. The building will be 50 feet by 150 feet, eight stories and basement, of concrete and brick construction. The floors in the two lower stories will be of concrete while the upper six stories will be constructed of wood. The new grain elevator which is under un-der construction by the Sperry company com-pany will, in all probability, be read.' for use during the early part of October, Octo-ber, according to information given out today. The new elevator will be one of the largest and finest in the west and will rank with tip h i-ator.; east of the Missouri river. The rlr-vator rlr-vator will have a capacity of 750,000 bushels. Flour Center. With the completion of lhe !arge grain elevator, Ogden will b- om on of the leading grain and flour centers of the wet This city has already been fortunate in having other large mills here and with the Sperry elevator nearing completion the city will rank with the top notchers of the west in grain and flour industry'. The Globe Grain and Milling com 1 pany. Albers Brothers company, and the Hollej Milling company, together with the Sperry Flour company, plae. Ogden on the map in this line of In dustry. It is expected that the first unit of the Sperry mill will be completed by Aug. 1, 1920, and the second unit will I" larted immediately after the firs unit is m operation. The second Lint l i- hoped, will be finished during the 192u season. A duplicate of th-re th-re m mill has just been built at Spo kane and it is considered one of the most up to date m the United Stab -The Ogden mill will be fully equ.il to the Spokane and every modern convenience conven-ience will be installed to make the mill , one of the leaders of the United States ! Grain Elevator. With the cornice completed during the coming week, the grain elevator will be read) for inspection The open-Ing open-Ing program, which will be attended I b thousands of Utahns from various' parts of the state, as well as visitors! from Idaho, Montana and other states, will be held in October. Plans for the formal opening of the elevator will be outlined during the early part of September. Sep-tember. The Sperry company, on opening day, expects to explain the mill in detail de-tail to thousands of visitors. |