The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-26
How WAGON
COMPANY GREW
Development of Consolidated Wagon
& Machine Company in
Idaho.
HAS MANY BRANCHES NOW
Growth of Business Coincident With
States Forward Movement.

Boise. May 25.-Among the prominent
Idaho men who Joined the Commercial
ciuo's Get Acquainted Excursion was
q. G. Wright Of Idaho Falls Mr.
wright boarded the train at Idaho
Fails and remained with it for several
days He is manager in Idaho of the
Consolidated Wagon & Machine COM
pany's business. This corporation has
branches at RexDurg St Anthony,
briggs. Blackfoot, Twin Falls and Bur
ley ME- Wright ranks as one of the
pioneers Of the Gem state. He came here
In lSSS and located at Idaho Falls. the
CITY being then known as Eagle Rock
The Comparative Wagon & Machine
company had BOUGHT out The Brinton-
wheeler company. and had installed
Mr.. Wright as manager. Later on other
stores in southeastern Idaho were pur-
chased, among them being nlaces at
Montpelier. Ashton. north Of ST. An
th0ny, and in other places. as also
branch ~ Alton. Wyo.
The growth of the eompanv's bust
ness in southern Idaho has been coin
eident with the great growth, as also
irrigation movement IN the state. The
farm implements. vehicles and ma
chineTy handled by the company have
been found by the Salt Lake travellers
throughout the territory they have vis-
ited.
The competition between The upper
valley branches and the i0wer valley
branches has been as keen IN the mat
ter of business volume as though they
belonged to different corporations. The
race up to date has been most inter
esting TO George T. Odell, general man
ager Of the company at Salt Lake. and
to Mr.. Wright, and they predict the
future viii be as productive of large
results as the past has been.
Both Mr.. Wright and MIR. 0dell are
deeply interested in the growth of Ida
no, both in point of population and in
the development of Idaho's agricultural
resources Mr.. Odell said that al
though he came often to Idaho to visit
the branch houses of his company, each
visit he was more and more struck
with the raDidity with which the COM
panv is forging ahead.
when 1 first began coming here"
he continued, ''the thousands and
thousands of acres of wonderfully fer
tile farming land through which this
train has been running was a sage
brush waste. Irrigation was conducted
in a small way. and a more or less hap
hazard way. Now conditions are all
changed. Land that could have been
bought for practically nothing has
risen in value until it is not unusual 10
hear of sales on basis of 5000 an acre
and more. This development has justi-I
fled my expressed belief that if water
could be turned upon the Idaho sage
brush lands they could be made to yield
as richly as any land in the old coun-
try"
Mr.. Odell was particularly interested
I'm the irTisa ton work going on in the
Twin Falls section. From its incep-
tiCn ne has been q most interested OBJ
server of the undertaking. and now
that it has come to fruition ne feels
much more than ordinary pride in its
accomplishment.
Mr.. Odeli viii remain with the party
until it returns to Salt Lake, which
will probably be early Monday morn
ing Mr.. Wright will return TO his
headquarters branch at Idaho Falls at
once.