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Show FOUNDRY TO BE LARGE ONE MANY ACRES WILL BE OCCUPIED 1 . BY IRONWORKS. Railroad Officials Who Say Ogden Should Awaken to the Importance of These Big Improvements. Tn connection with the exclusive story recently published in tho Stand- ! ard regarding the early erection of a mammoth foundry plant at Ogden by the Harriman management, it is now positively known that plans, specifications specifi-cations and estimates are being prepared pre-pared for the different buildings which are lo fonn the largest plant of this character between Omaha and Sacramento. Sacra-mento. Tho new foundry will occupy a larger larg-er area of ground than both the Sacramento Sac-ramento and Omaha plants combined, and will require about thirty acres of land. A greater part of this ground is already In possession of different corporations comprising the Harriman 3j'8tcm, and the remaining two parcels of land are believed to be held in the shape of indirect options that may be diverted to the Harriman management manage-ment at the pleasure of the latter. There is a well defined suspicion that all of thii large tiact of ground will not be required exclusively for the foundry plant, side tracks and accessories, ac-cessories, and that ten or fifteen acres of the land may be utilized In the near future in the construction of a second large plant for manufacturing purposes. Harriman officials are reticent and non-committal on the subject, but it is known that title cecords of vacant ground on the west side of the Ogden yards have been examined closely during dur-ing the last few months, and a suspicion sus-picion is abroad that the Harriman management is not especially solicitous solic-itous of acquiring more valuable Ogden Og-den realty than is required to carry out plans for Improvements and enlargements en-largements necessary to handle successfully suc-cessfully the enormously increasing business to and through Ogden. "I have nothing to say on the subject sub-ject at this time," said a prominent Harriman official to a Standard reporter re-porter this morning, as the railroad man casually and quietly covered up a batch of official correspondence on his desk, "but if the people of Ogden don't appreciate the tact that the management man-agement generally is favorable to this city In every way compatible with good business judgment, they are simply asleep that is all." |