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Show I Tremendous Growth of Flour Milling in Utah During 1921 0 l FLOUR MILLS ARE MAKING SPLENDID RECORD WITH HEAVY SHIPMENTS Location of Sperry, Globe, Holley, Albers and Other Mills and Activity of Grain Exchange Bring Industry to Forefront I Ogden has become the flour milling iccntr of the Intermountain statea the greatest grain handling center between be-tween the Rockv mountains and toe Pai ific coast Only Portland rivals It among the coast cities as to number tf official grain Inspections mad? j l;u-loftd lots. Flour from Its mills is brine fnt to Dearly half the states of the union. un-ion. In Atlanta, Georgia. Ogdon flour la .old In large quantities. Tho Ha-jwallana Ha-jwallana purchase It on the markets rf Honolulu. Callfornlans buy these Og-, Og-, , products by the carload. England Eng-land has had large shipments Th.eC kre but a part of the vast territory into Which the products of Ogden mills are sent. Besides the grains handled through ngden, go to seaboard points, at th direction of Opdcn men, for shipment to foreign lands. Vast trains of these grains could be formed from the total uf each year's shipments. Such Is the rapid stride that has been taken by the Rrain and flour milling industry of Utah during the past two years that today it ranks nmong the leaders of the nation, though Its actual production of wheat j tar below the average among the states, location of Utah s industries at entral or focal points where, the pralns from western states can be assembled as-sembled and milled Ig one reason for this condition. It Is in this state that the grains of southern Idaho's vast fields, of Utah, or western Wyoming .Montana and oven Washington and Uregon, Kansas and Nebraska, ar i.-i-: -nibled In carload lots, cleaned, ( graded, blended and either made into Hour w shipped on to other milling rnsis3 for use. Utah and Idaho supply sup-ply the major portion of this grain, oth hard wheat and soft wheat, but It has not been unusual to find In Og-len's Og-len's grain terminals cars from all the central states. OGDFA IS HUB. Ogdn has become known as the very center of this grain and flour Industry In-dustry primarily because of the location lo-cation there of the great sparry, Globe. Albert and Holley mill, as well as smaller plants, including several sev-eral elevators The Ogden Grain Ex-rhange Ex-rhange with its inspection system under un-der federal direction has been orKan-j ized to handle the proolems of tho mil-, lers In the intermountain country. i and these problems are also questions) uf moat tremendous interest to the Kraln buyers and most of the (armors I In the states bordered bv the Rocky I mountain and Sierra Nevada ranges. I Work has continued for the pas', year on tho plant of the Globe Grain j & Milling company, which when e 1-tlrely 1-tlrely completed will bo the largest of It kind in the Intermountain states and will rival in 9lze he largest mills nf the nation. For two years the 'Globe company has been storing wheat in Ogden, its huge elevators having been completed long In ad-j Mnct of the mill. For more than a far, the company has been manufac- firing feed and now announcement Is made that the great mill Itself with a capacity of 3.500 barrels cf flour each day is ready for operation Equipment of this mill has been the task of the Globe company during the past vear MANY MILLS OPERATING The Sperry' Flour company's miil when finished, with all units Installed, will be 2,500 barrels One unit, pro-J pro-J idlng about half that capacity, has been operating during the entire year with a continuity of run at 24 hours B lay that has set a pace never before nown for a similar Utah indu i The Holley Milling company has ben operating its plants at brden. IRlverdale. LuramJe, Wyo , and Salt Lake. The latter Is designated asj Cthe Salt Lake & Jordan unit or this; stem and has a capo city of 600 bar-p-els of flour a day. tho Phoenix ml.l j in Oguon of 500 barrels, the Laramie mill of -'50 barrels and the Rlverdals near Ogden, of 200 barrels a total jf 1,550 barrels of flour a da Cereal foods are produced n A bcrs Brothers .Milling company plant In Ogden. this being tho only factory of that kind In the Inlcrmoun-i.un Inlcrmoun-i.un states. Rolled oats and rolled I w heat art tho products to a larKe ex-I '.tent. J Besides thee larger plants there' are also the mills of the WeHt Opdon I -Milling & Elevator company and thel "Associated Farmers Milling Company! at Ogden and the elevators of the' X tah Grain & Elevn BBBBBBj 'the Inland Grain & Milling company I BBBBBBf ins Its offices in Ogden iBBBBBj OTHER UTAH CITIES BUSY' I BBBBBBj Whllo Ogden has taken the prl- BBBBBBJ; mary position as a grain and flour BBBBBBn -market, ranking next to Portland, H ZtJrc ln 118 Kraln shipments of tho past BBBBBBJ ".vear as far as west coast cities aro BBBBBBj '.ncerned there Is a tremendous pro- BBBBBBj ductlon of flour and a great handling BBBBBBj wheat and other grains from many BBBBBBj,. 'other cities and towns of the state. BBBBBBj Salt Lako ranks second in Its milling BBBBBBj Rapacity with tho larco mjlls of the BBBBBBj1 ! I nsler Flour Mills company and tho BBBBBBj Holley Milling company. In Salt BBBBBBj :,ake are offices of tho Intarmoun- H tain Milling company. State Milling &. H lllevator company, Downey MilllTig H j ompany, Trenton-Clarkston lillllng BBBBBBj xompany and other concerns lnter- BBBBBBj ested ln tho grain and allied lndus- BBBBBBj irles, BBBBBj Cache valley Is not only famed as a wheat producing section. It Is known BBBBBJ Slso for Its flour production. In tint H galley ar the plants of tho State BBBBBBj1 Milling & Elevator company at Cache H Junction, of the Trefiton company at BBBBBBJ Trenton, the Thatcher mills of Logan. I Preston Milling company plant at BBBBBBj, i'reston, and others. BBBBBBJ GRIC IJLTURE STIMULATED, BBBBBBJ Similarly there are larg flour mills BBBBBJ in practically everv part of Utah H from St. Georgo ind Kan&b on the BBBBBBa south until the border line of Idaho BBBBBBJ in passed and the Preston anil Mal.nl H MTiills are reached on the north. In H reality excepting for state boundary' lines, these latter mills arc part of the Utah industries, their production and that of dozens of others in eastern and southern Idaho flowing into tho same channels of trade as those mlllt of Utah itself The Pocatello Milling A Elevator contpany has become associated as-sociated with the Offden Qrain Exchange, Ex-change, indicating how far its Influence In-fluence reaches and the Utah and Idaho millers have joined ln one trade association Based upon this large grain hanl-llng hanl-llng and flour milling industry is 0 largo portion of Utah's agricultural development, both as affecting the "dry farms and the Irrigated areas BS well FINANCING THE CROP. Total wheat yields for the two intermountain in-termountain states were thus estimated estimat-ed at 12,691,000 bushels, representing the greatest harvest ol Its kind in thl territory and one of the heaviest finance fin-ance producers of the two states Importance of the wheat crop to the two states has brought its recognition In financial steps of the war finance corporation. Bankers have been making loans backed by the federal organization, to the wheat farmers and have taken as security the warehouse ware-house receipts Issued for these holdings. hold-ings. Once again the largo grain evators built at Ogden have formed an Important link ln this financial chain, for the storage facilities are provided there for many hundreds of thousands thous-ands of bushels of groin and warehouse ware-house receipts Issued thereon, making this banking plnn more practicable. VJLl HAN GL, 1 Tn E. The Ogden Grain Ex-hango Is headed by J n Hollister, manager of the Albers Rrothers Milling company in Ogden. as president, with Walter Barrett of the Interocean Elevitor company. Salt Lako, and B. L. Slack Ogden, as secretary Tho latter has direct charge of the Ogden off i- si He Is one of tho best known grain men of the Intermountain states, having hav-ing been berid of the grain department for several of the larger mills. This exchange maintains its offices In the Fred J. EClesel building at Ogdn, Utah, with the federal Inspection of flees adjoining. J F Welsh Is ;n charge of the federal district offices, with William Mar-ar inspertor. The history of this grain exchange Is one of constant growth since Us Inception about July 1. 1917 In the first crop year, ending June 3n. 191S. there were 1 74 7 Inspections, tho next ear the development had boon to 4762 Inspections. Bach of these rep resented a carload of wheat sampled and graded. During the crop year of 1 919-1920, the United States griin corporation took charge of many Inspections In-spections and grain was handled at terminal points. This was one reason for a drop to only 2485 cars for the year. Then came the great growth of 1920-1921 crop years, which ended last June 30, with u total of 7983 Inspections. In-spections. The two heaviest months for that year were December and January with 1 938 and 1010 inspections, inspec-tions, respectively, EAST WATCHES UTAH. Four months of the new crop year had passed when tho latest figures Were given out by tho exchange showing show-ing inspection ss follows! 1921, July, 220; August, 746; September. 1 k ' S and October. 1,803 These four months had nearly uh many Inspections Inspec-tions as the r-ntlre otisiness of 1918-1919 1918-1919 and were more than 100 per cenl srenter than iho business for corresponding cor-responding months ono year ago. Probably one of tho most Interesting Interest-ing raetors regarding tho flour milling mill-ing business of L'tah Is the trend of grain to Its gigantic industries and of tho finished product away from iL How Important thin is has been demonstrated dem-onstrated by the fuet that the Northwestern North-western Miller, published at Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, carrioH telegraphii summaries of lli l'tah market showing Its quotations quota-tions for arioiiR distric ts, both as to raw ntaterl il and finished product. LABORATORIES ARB OSED. Wheat Is brought to Utah from tho fields of Kansas, Nebraska and M-.r-tana for blending with tho wheat of Utah and Idaho, Washington and Oregon in order that the spec! ii kinds of Hour drnandi'd by different sections sec-tions may bo supplied from the mll!-. Some v heat from other states also arrives ar-rives at the grain elevators for th s purpose, so that 'when flour Is produced pro-duced It is balanced chemically to the point of perfection desired by the buyers. For the trade In tho southeastern states, snd that Includes nil of the vast territory between Texas and Oklahoma and the Atlantic states tru demand Is for a soft wheat flour This is supplied from Utah and Idaho grain, of the spring wheat variety Tho intormountaln territory demands, prln Ipally. a blended flour made from both soft and hard wheat. The Pacific Pa-cific coast seeks a h.ird wheat flour, such in nvide from Utah s own Turkey Tur-key Red and from some of th- ern and northern wheats as well Then there Is tho derrvind from Honolulu for another kind, from England 'or another, from eastern territory for another, So that all of these grades of flour may be mid Including those of even the self-rising variety so popular ln the south, tho mill owners have established es-tablished large chemical laboratories In which experts decide Just wrtal wheats nrc to be blended and ho'.v they are to be milled. This Is ono o( I the advance steps taken by mills and Jih:it Utah has adopted the system shows another 3tep In tho direction of mill perfection. Some of the grain mines to the elevators in damaged condition, perhaps per-haps bearing too much or too llttlo moisture. Blending In used to over-. over-. conve some of this, when the variation Is not serious. However, when ex-i ex-i ess moisture Is very heavy It must I be rediu ed quickly in order that therc I will not Ii.- mold or Other detriment;-! ! results. In the Olobo eleator at Og- den. a vast section Is put nsldo for thus handling wheat for washing It, I for drying It and for blending. The ! Globe company has used this eleva-I eleva-I tor: with Its large weli-equlpped head-1 head-1 house or grain handling soction for the preparation of grain used ln Pacific Pa-cific coast mills. STRONG l (ii M.TION LAID Thus with a market extending eion to foreign lands buying wheat from all of the west, employing Utah labor, j broadening the scope of Utah s agricultural agri-cultural possibilities, the grain industry indus-try has become a prime factor of thp I state, growing each year and with It has come that immediately esaen- H tlal Industry of flour milling as well SjB Its effect upon fcodlrtg and markel- inn of lhestock is becoming a largo Afl factor, loo, for the feeds thus locally j prorliK ed arc sold as a by -product at HBI lower pikes than In mosi lOCtlOBS of tho country. fl Utah's record ln grain milling for the p.ist vimt has been ono of progress I 9J despite severe handicaps and in the readjustment of conditions surround- i ing tho flour business Utah has been V placed firmly on a solid foundation M V for future development. n w |