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Show Ford Company , j May Build Plant . In Salt Lake B VLT LAKE, Dee 3 Erection of a building by the Ford Motor rompanv at ih.' co.si di several hundred thou .-and (loilars will be made in the near future at Third West and Third vouth Btreets, Unoffiei; 1 staiements prove o strengthen reports that Salt Lal:e is lo be tin assembling nnd distributing polnl !oi this tegion. Properly for the s iie was purchased yesterday by the motor company. The considi ation is said to have been ?4 5,000 Although definite plans for the building hav not yet arrived from the office in Detroit, ii is believed that ihe : r. 1 1 "paeo in 4he building will bo veil ovci 100,000 feet. The addition "i n uc vji.uii in c-iau LiiweB irniu.fi , tries will mean employment for sev- eral hundred men and make Salt Lake one of ihe most important automobile centers west of St- Loots Although local officials : the Fordl Motor company claim they do nor) know definite plans for the future, a .'Ford representative from Denver, who i ;is in the city, declared he is positive! thai Sal: Lake is to be added :o the (list of distributing and assembling j points. The Denver man admitted that the Colorado capital was seeking the ; plant, but was unable to do so on ac-j ac-j count oi being near Kansas City which i ,isnn assembling point for th.ii region The property which has been ac-l .quired by the company has a 16S foot 'street frontage and is located closo to the Oregon Short Line and Salt Lake1 i light of ways. I Local Ford officials say it is planned to brinp; the "FoTdsrr.n" tractor to the front in this section of the country. This may mean thai Salt Lake 111 be the first cltj west of the Rock mountains moun-tains to be made a distributing point tor the light machine. |