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Show GLASS MANUFACTORY PROPOSED IN UTAH Incorporated Company Acquires Extensive Ex-tensive Body of Silica in South-em South-em Part of State. A glass manufactory where fruit j irs, bottles,' window glass and other article.-, of glassware will be made, is planned by Mrs. Caroline B. Seymour Sey-mour and associates, for l he southern south-ern part of the state. The factory is to be located one mile north of Moroni, Mo-roni, Utah. Mrs. Seymour is president presi-dent of the company; C. D. Seymour, her husband, is vice-president and W. D. Livingston is secretary and .treasurer. Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday. The incorporators declare thatthey have purchased a large area of land near Moroni, cun.aining what is supposed sup-posed to be one or' the largest bodies of silica in the world. In one place t lis is 400 feet deep. It will be util-iz.-d by the glass factory. It is the expressed intension of the promoters of the proposition to erect a small factory this year, and enlarge it as the business justifies. Adjoining Adjoin-ing the property on which the factory fac-tory is to be constructed the company compa-ny has secured another tract for residence sites for employees, 200 of whom the promoters declare will be engaged at the opening of the factory. fac-tory. C. D. Seymour stated last night that in the past year Utah spent $172,480 in Indiana, Illinois and New Jersey for fruit jars, bottles and such glass articles. "It is our intention," he said, "to keep this money within the state. We will break ground for the factory at once. 1 Lewis D. Farnsworth is our constructing engineer. There i no reason why Utah should not become one of the great glass manufacturing manufactur-ing states of the Union. "Desert News, Feb. 7th. |