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Show GOVffiNlitfWlS BUYBMG IN OGDEN Orders for Thousands of Dollars of Goods Being Filled by Big Wholesale Houses Reclamation Project Near A,hton, Idaho, Proves to be of Great Benefit to This City. Ogden's wholesale bouses. In competition com-petition with Salt Lake and ether Jobbing Job-bing centers, hfive been awarded contracts con-tracts by the reclamation service of the government, represented by O. E. Moore, who was here yesterday, aggregating ag-gregating $30,000, with other orders to follow, which promise to total more than M0O.00O. , 1 Fred J.Klesel & Co. obtained the grocery gro-cery orders, which scall fur Slfi.fmu worth of 'goods, throe carloads of which were on route from Ashton, from which point the supplies are to he hauled 05 miles s teams, within twelve hours after the contracts wero signed. In order to meet the demand for canued goods, three Oglen factories worked an extra force yesterday, aud the Logan condensed m.lk factory was called on to displace other orders In an effort to furnlBh a cnrload of its product within a few hours after get-ting get-ting the telephone request from Og den. One big item In the list of nocesKl- ties Is macaroni, which is to le turned out by the Ogden plant. Scowcroft & Sons company were given tho contract for dry goods and they had their goods ready for shipment ship-ment this morning. George A. Ijwe is furnishing hardware hard-ware and the force at that house Is today filling tho orders with dlepatch. The candy is being manufactured by Sbope-ililams, the flrist bill for which calls for a big fraction of a ton of sweets. Eleven cars of Red Devil cement have been delivered at Afehion for the now work. The government 1 building a large storage reservoir 05 miles east of Ashton, Idaho, where a camp of many hundred laborers Is being established by the engineering corps now ,n the field. The construction work will continue con-tinue for nearly a year and the camp Is expected to draw on Ogden for supplies sup-plies during the entire period of activity. ac-tivity. Mr. Moore Kay he has employment for several hundred men. |