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Show New Poultry Dressing Plant To Be Located In Am. Fork A new $35,000 chicken and turkey dressing plant is to be erected on the Denver and Rio Grande Western tracks just west of the American Fork depot, work to commence within with-in a few days, according to C. T. Rudd, poultry plant operator for the Utah Poultry Producers Association and Hugh Wilson, superintendent of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad with headquarters in Salt Lake City, who with other poultry and railroad officials were on the ground yesterday afternoon locating the spot for the building. The selection of a site in Utah county has been under fire for some sixty days now and cnly Saturday was American Pork definitely decided de-cided on as the place to erect this .new dressing and feeding plant. Thru the efforts cf the American Fork Lions club and the American Fork Poultry Producers organization organiza-tion and city officials was the plant located in this city. According to information given the plant is to be 80x90 feet, two and one-half story cement and lumber lum-ber building and includes refrigeration refrigera-tion plant and rooms, the latest type poultry dressing machinery and a feeding battery with a 25,000 capacity. capa-city. The plant will handle the feeding and killing of chickens the year around and the turkey dressing dress-ing during the holiday season. It is expected that excavation and oonstrudtion work will commence the first of the week since it will crowd the builders to get toe building build-ing up and the machinery installed in time to handle the turkey dressing dress-ing which must commence the last part of October. Construction of the plant will be under the direction of Tom Lloyd who completed the new addition to the Utah Poultry plant here this spring and who has just completed the erection of a dressing plant at Ephriam. Tire first materials for the new plant in the form of lumber lum-ber will arrive over the D & R. G. on Monday or Tuesday. |