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Show IIMPORTANCE AS GRAIN CENTER I SHOWN BY CONSTRUCTION OF 1 GREAT FLOU R MILLS IN OGDEN Eight Large Establishments Located Here, With Speary Plant' in Operation and Globe Ncaring Completion; Grain Storage Stor-age Capacity of Over Two Million Bushels, While Prospective Pros-pective Flour Milling Capacity Is 7350 Barrels Daily; Companies Will Handle Wheat From Many Western States and Ship Products Even to Foreign Lands. I Completion of tin groat Sport fiourj mill, building or (ho huge tilobe mill, tad operation of tho large eleators owned hv these I wo eonipanies have marked the grain and flour business o( i he year lor (his industry. Lin ked J jprllh the progress of these two com ! panles hns been (he constant opera tiOI) of the large mills of the KolltJ Milling corupnm ar.l the Alber Bros IfllUng company, the smaller 0I1U of hi Inland Grain Co., Qtan Grain & BISTator compiiny, the Associated Parmtrs' Milling company and th-West th-West Ogden Millina company. Thes-have Thes-have linked together to mak ( igden tbo greatest milling renter of the in tennountaln etatcs. When the Sperry. Globe. Ilolley. Al-hi' Al-hi' ''plts anf n,npr nillta sra all operating their intended capacity, ogden will have an output of approximately 73f" barrels of cereal products per da The elevators have a capacity of near I 2. 000.000 bushels and during lh present season have stored as much m 1000,000 bushels of grain at on iUne. handling many mm In loads of qrain either to be mllld hero or ship ; red to other points I WHY PLANTS BUILT Ogden's location in the very center f I be interniountalu grain-growing bell, with shipping facilities that are unexcelled In the west, baa brought about this change. The largtt compl nles of the Pacific coast, for Ogden has plants established t three 01 ifaese, have sought entrance to Ogdec because of the Splendid shipping facll Hies. It is the result of this thai the Globe, Sperry and Albers mills hae l' en founded here and equally that the Ilolley Milling compaii; With its four large mills of the intermouutaiu coun try, ha selected thi? ;s Its center For here the Holley company not only has two mills, the Phoenix and th River-side, River-side, but also its general offices. The Sperry flour mill is the largest operating In the intennountaln coun try. Early in Januarv It tartSd its active business, construction work having been finished and the first unit of its mill installed, l'r r ti , . . time its elevator with 7.'." tn'm re y--storage capacity, had been placed In operation. The first unit of this mi.l provkles milling lor 1260 barrels oi flour a day but every arrangement has been made for installing an additional unit, in fhe same building, of th sarc capacity. The plant is managed bj Joseph Parker, with George B Klael: as bead of the grain buyinc depart menL The elevators and head house of ' this plant cover ground area of 75 by 102 feet and tie anil I r blm ne 32 feet high. Towering . r BOSS Lfe the head bouse,, 166 Feel in length. Car sheds, 92 by 50 feet, have' also been built. In these ar' two unload Ing hoppers. The mill has a ground (area. 58 by 15K feet. Is eight stories in In igbt. connected by a viaduct with the elevators. Tbo office building Is two stories in height, with the won dsrfol iabratory on Its BSOOtta floor. Pr sides these there is the large garage. gar-age. The grounds of the Sperry plan? are now being parked. LARGE HOLLEY MILLS Mills of the Holley Milling company are located in OgdStt, al Riverside, Salt T.ake and I.aramle, Wyo. They aro all directed from Ogden. l G. Holley bt Ing president of the company. Associated As-sociated with him in management of the company are H. J,. Holley, vice presldenL and Warren Arthur, secretary secre-tary of the corporation. This com pony secured the Phoenix and Rivor-tide Rivor-tide mills In Ogdnn several years ng-. road? lnrgn additions to the former aud then added the Salt Lake and Jor dan mill to Its list. hu lug previously owned the Holley mill at Laramie, Wyo. Additions were built to the Salt Lake mill this ear It was H. L, Holley that first direct ed attention to 'gden nfl a natural grain center. He Urged his father, U. G. Holley, to loe-ii. nulls and, In co-operation with the Eccles Interests, the change was made to thi- city. The Albers Bros, stilling company controls and operates the luge plant that was built by the Utah Cereal company. This plant, directed by J. H. Mollis-ter, Mollis-ter, does :i largo business In the making mak-ing of flaked Wheat and rolled oats. It Is connected with large plants located in California. Oregon and Washing ton. GLOBE MILLING PLANT The Globe Grain Milling company plant at the west side of Ogden, under construction for nearly three years. Is row nearlng completion The itrac turnl work of the flour mill,which Is to have. .1500 barrels capacity, has been finished and machinery Is now arriving for Installation. This does not complete tho work on the plant, however, as units for the warehouses and alfalfa meg mill are contcniplat-ed contcniplat-ed The units so far completed are the elevator and head house, the ele Htor halng a capacity of 000,000 bUShell of grain; the mill, the feed mill, feed warehouse and ofllces. Tho elevator and head house cover a ' ground area of 90 by 135 fee t, the tanks being 100 feet in height, the hoadho'jso Is 188 feel high and above is a flag polo extending 75 feet higher. The eight-stroy mil, cv.th an area of GO by 150 feet. The feed mill, three !storlca high, has a giound area of 30 by 50 fort with warehouse adjoining 01 50 by 150 feet. Power plant, g&raga 'and office structure aro additional units. The plant of the Inh.nd Grain com 'pany on Wall avenue Is not a large one i but from Its oifloes are directed buy lug aud selling operations which SX-j tend throughout tho int'rmountaln Country, Elevators of this company are scattered throughout Utah and Idaho, The Utah Grain & Elevator com ! pany similarly has a large business lo-. cally and In other parts of the int. r-1 mountain mate6 with tins as Us center. cen-ter. Operation of the Wesl Ogden Mill ing company with It splendid though' comparatively small plant nar Wilson Lane is one of the Important phases oi the Ogden milling and grain Indus ; try. The Associated Farmers' Milling company, similarly has a large local business. Its plant Is on Uio River-j dale road near The Union Pacific main line 'tracks. Organizations of the Ogden Grain Exchange ha been a factor In the continued larg oi (he ogden grain and flour companies. This ex-l Change, with Its large chemical labra tory and Us facilities for testing all rain parsing through the Ogden rail' road terminal, la officered and direct ed by Ogden men and has Its general ( ofllces here. Grain men of the United States look upon Ogden as only starting In lh grain business. Thoy point to Its splendid location as a center for gith erlng of ;iii kinds of grain The rail I roads provide easy access to Ogden from either Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Colo-rado, Montana, Wyoming. Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Ne vada from all parts where grain Is grown and flour in demand Besides, .Ogden has an almost direct outlet for export to tho gulf coast, one that Is used constantly. Flour of the present I day Is largely made by blending ol i wheat, so that the various kinds grown in scattered stales must be brought tugether to assure th. linesi product, This Is possible in Ogden by drawing from both hard and soft wheat areas. Flour thus blended can be shipped throughout the western states, even tii the east :md to foreign lands. Fx port far lilt lea are not mil; provided by the Galveston outlet but also by way of San Francisco and Lob An geles Ml i f these are factors showing show-ing why Ogden has lis present storage Capacity of over 2,000,000 bushels of grain, Its Immediately prospective milling capacity of 7350 barrels and its greater prospects of even wider devel. .pineni through coming of othei companies to this city. |