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Show !f E1E DRUG iSINESS CROWS pany Continues Its Ex-insion Ex-insion of Large Business founded 16 Years Ago. th of the ngden Wholesale comr-'inv. established s'xteen 'a0. ha been continued during st 'jwr v.iih tr.nl' expand'n?: Ihout i :ih id adjoining stati tarjo business done through ih'-OgJen ih'-OgJen hob - 1 1' house has been tmfnifd by the business from 'xa'.ello branch, whi'Ti was built &tst more ,nan a 1 fag the sixteen years that the iny tin- l-n in business them ttn yn '"i 1 : Tn . . m Ik - large establishment bf which r. n DvJ Last is president anil Charles Bmpey Is general manager and treasurer. Bo constant has been the growth of th. company that to some people it is, hardly realised that i; was only a few I its ago that the company had only' i -ni.iM : '.rii,i in- ii th-' eorni-i' of Twenty-tpUTth street and Oram .iv-nue. .iv-nue. Today the business la jn the i rrrparty's own ' splendid buildings veil equipped and amply Vrovided" with mercantile and drug stock, ov-f ov-f npylng i large aca of ground fronting front-ing on Twi nty-f.mrth street, between Lincoln altd Wall avenues. One ri tfce buildings is 40 l.y 132! feet, of concrete and steel construe-' Lien, completely fireproof, but also protected by an automatic sprinkler item with Its "flro heads' throughout through-out the structure. The company not only occupies thf.s but also two' othteri brJ i buildings, with additions, that housed the bus'nesjt in 191s. Tin-rare two large garages where the mo- toe trucks of the company ar.- kept. In Pocatollo a large- building has been" constructed. i Automatic equipment that has been! Installed throughout these buildings is of th? most advanced type and so ar-, ranged that ihe work of those em-ployed em-ployed at the wholesale drug house,' OS to heavy lifting and carrying. Is lirniied. whib- .uickei s-r k-i is . ssttrcd. Compressed air carriers, ele-. ele-. itors, lowjerators, chutes, gravity con-veyors con-veyors ami oilier equipment of similar type Is used throughout the building This cohiparly carries one of the most compl"te lines of supplies essen-J tial Cor drug stores In the endre western west-ern country, representing many east-i erp manufacturers as the distributing house for the entire fntermountatn country. a tenyear overage of 91 per c nt. Tb--' neri-api- harvested in 19 20 w is oOO whil- in 1919 it was 104.000 The yield I" l2o was fifteen busheld pr arte, compared Hh 10 5 in 1919 and the total production was 2.34O.0OO bushela m 1920, while in 1919 it was1 1, 122.000 bushels. The price Herem- i. 1920. was 11.53 pi r bushel, com- pard with J2.10 in 1919. The total farm value in 1920 Is given at $3.680,-J ( The valpe per ai re cm t)n- price I December 1 was $22.95. while In 1919 lit was $22.05. The total crop of spring and winter wheat was harvested from 280.000 acres in 1920 and In 1919 the harvest , was from 294.000 acre. The average yield In 19jn was 1 9. OS bushel -compared with twelve bushels In i '! '. Ih e total production aggregating 6,-1 bushels, compared with 3.- ; 042.000 In 1919. The prtee was tho ,fame ns winter wheat, ji 5R perljuih- el In 1920 and $2.10 In 1919. The total to-tal farm value December 1, i92. was ss. 210. ooo. as compared with $7,438.- 000 iii 1919 The value per aere on the December 1 las!s in 1920 was $29.38. compared with $25.20 in 1919. Potatoes' were grown on 17,000 acres in 2 920, with a yield of 194 hush-els hush-els per aere, a total production of 3,-298,000 3,-298,000 bushels and a value December 1 of 12,698,000, or S0cents per bushel, bush-el, as compared with $1.37 per bushel In 1919 I OO |