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Show LAYTON GETS II SUGAR FACTORY The big thing Tor Davis county has come at last the now year has started start-ed right. Layton has secured the Knight Sugar company factory and engineers are surveying three' sights offered the company to determine which is the best adapted to their needs. This is the best piece of news ever broke in Davis county and it comes just at the time it is needed mo just at the time when it is hard tor the farmer to make ends meet with the high taxation and high land values. val-ues. It means it will be possible u produce crops on the land that will pay, that land will be better farmed and that other land will be drains, and brought under cultivation. It means that more men will be required re-quired to raise increased crops and run the factory. It moans more homes, more school children, more business, more money, more prosperity. pros-perity. Vigorous protests are coming in from Raymond, Canada against moving mov-ing the plant and it will be well for our farmers to hasten and sign up the contracts being prepared. The sooner this work is accomplished the sooner dirt will fly on cons rucviuu. It is probable the job of moving and erecting the plant will bo awarded Dyre & Co., of Cleveland, Ohio. The plant will be up-to-date in building and machinery and have a capacity of 500 tons of beets daily, (50,000 tons for the season). The officers of the company in Salt Lake when it was decided to move to Davis County, were Joseph F. Smith, Jesse Knight, Anthon II. Lund, J. William Knight, Lester W. Mangum and E. P. Ellison. fiNow watch Davis county grow! The Weekly Reflex. M BTi fl" |