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Show Manti to Have Modern Egg-Grading Egg-Grading Plant A moaem egg-grading plane, which will cost approximately $5000 will be built at Manti within the next two months by the Sanpete members of the Utah Poultry Producers Pro-ducers Association. The new plant is needed to take care of the increased in-creased volume of business, which has increased 1000 per cent in four years. The association has bought the Old Box Factory at a cost of $2,000 Uus amount being secured by Maiui people. The new building will pe a ware house .with basement and ground floor, all of which will provide pro-vide about 6000 square feet of room The money for this structure will be furnished by the Denver and Rio Grande, and will be paid back hv Iho nrn.in... , j mi H scale on plan--a cents cn each bag of feed and 10 cents on each ca;e of eggs This plan will pay for the building build-ing in a little less than two years. The new plant which will be of cement and brick will be up-to-date in every respect. It will be equipped with electric elevator and ( gg shoot. It will be constructed so that two railroad cars or ten tiucks can be loaded or unloaded at a time and will have a capacitv of 3000 cases per week. Mr. K. Jensen met the Rio rande officials at Salt Lake Tuesday Tues-day where the final arrangements for financial backing were made Mr. Jensen states that the railroad rail-road officials were anxious to see Sanpete glow and felt that the poultry business is one of this country's coun-try's greatest possibilities. He also al-so stales that lots of baby chick.; are being ordered for next year and he looks for a great inciease in the business phenominal as it has already al-ready been. Four years ago, when the egr-prading egr-prading plant was established a Manti mo cases of CRgs were handed han-ded per week. The next year tlv plant handled 200 cases pr week La-,t year there was an increase of ne hundred cases per week and this year the volume has been between be-tween lf00 and 1.100 cases pe: week. Manti Messenger. |