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Show Propose a Wool Scouring; and Worsted Plant ! More Than a 1,000,000 I Fleeces Near A scouring and worsted plant for caring for approximately si Hundred thousand wool fleeces was 1 d.rrcu.ssc-u uy the Mount Pleasant. . c.gr-.vcrs, a bussiness committee commit-tee ci the Lions Club ana other c.izcns of Mount Pleasant on a opesition for the erection of such a plant by Messrs. A. Whetstone 01 Pii-ladclphia, W. A. Snyder of Salt Luke v'ity and C. A. Rodgers ol Ogden. it is estimated there are from 600,000 to 1,000,000 sheep tributary to the Marysvale Branch of the Djnver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and if the sum of out dollar per fleece can or will be yibscnbed for six hundred thousand thous-and fleeces, a million dollar factory vriil b erected at Mount Pleasant, 'lir.s will insure employment to -pprcximately six hundred people p-r year, including seventy-five textile experts. It is estimated ap-p.o;iimately ap-p.o;iimately six cents per pound, made up in freight charges to tht P .tantic Seaboard and commission Uirough buying agencies, plus stor-i-ss charges are now and again .aarged the sheep growers will be .iR-.-ed, netting the grower about fen per cent cn a present average c! 55.00 per head. Chairman Joseph Matson appointed appoint-ed s ; ommittee of S. M. Nielson s.nd Obtd Nelson of the growers, R. W. Candtand and Joseph Matson for the Lions Club and Paul Monsen for the local Municipal Coucil to an ke an investigation of the project, proj-ect, to report at an early date. . , Building would take up approximately approxi-mately thirty acres of ground, us-ji.g. us-ji.g. two bonded warehouses and scouring and milling plants. Mr. Whetstone states that on a lecent market survey -of the Pacific "":ast it appears they are eager for p.iid will consume the entire out-nut. out-nut. Attention was called by Mr. Whetstqjf to a recent article in the National Woolgrower's, and reprinted re-printed in Tk Tribune of last week calling attention to the methods in building and various classes of woolen wool-en mills, in the manufacture ol worsted and other manufactured , cloth, etc., and made the state- -1 ment there were no present avail- K fil;le mills of the description quoted p therein, built during wartime or since, hat would manufacture the ' giade of material contemplated by ilie local lytant, the majority of I such machinery being available on- , ly on the French market. |