The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-20
Denver Capitalist to Organize
Million Dollar Corporation
Here to Absorb the Flour
Mills of Utah and Idaho.
PURCHASES IDEAL SITE
FOR AN IMMENSE PLANT
New Company viii Practically
Control Entire Grain Output
of Two States Named, Civ
ing Them Corner on Market
TENTATIVE PLANS FORMED

The organization of a milliOn-dollaT
corporation for the purpose, it is
said, of taking over ali the big flour
ing mills CT the state and the erection
of a thousand-barrel capacity mill in
this city is well under way.
J. K. Mullins, multi-miliOnaire
grain operator and president Of the
Colorado Milling & Elevator COM
pany, Of Denver. is in the city and
has succeeded, it is stated, in en-
listing local capital to go IN with
him in the mammoth enterprise.
That large mill will Ue erected in this
CITY. at a cost of well over q hundred
thousand dollars. is an assured fact. TIL.
Capftal Real Estate x Investment com
pany Yesterday sold for $4,000 To- A.. H.
VOgeler, the Well-knOWD local cap-laIlsl.
who was buying fOU j. K Mullins OF
Denver. a l0x4o-rOd piece of property on
Fifth South street, between lnlrt anu
Fourth West streets.
on this property will be erected the big
mill by the Mullins interests u IS salu
that tentative plans only have been Ge-
cided on but this much is known, that ID
will be the largest Touring mill IN the
state having a capacity Of thousand
barrels OF flour daily. m
In addition TO the mill, there viii De
erected a large elevator in which viii be
stored q part of the grain yield OF TINS
section of the country and OF IdanO also
Both mill and elevator Will be OF LnoF-
oughly modern construction and Will nave
the latest models of machinery for the
making of flour and other mill products
and for the handling of grain
AT the present time there are eight
houses on the property acquired by Mr..
Mullins. II is admirably situated Tor
tTaCkage purposes, being close 70 the
tracks of the oregon Short Line railroad
The intention of the new company is TO
construct $50 feet Of track, taking OF the
main line of the Oregon Short Line. InIs
viii assure the best Of facilities for the
handling Of the thousands OF carloads Of
grain that viii be shipped into the great
elevator.
Mr. Mullins was seen at the Cullen last
night and while not denying that there
was such an organization being perfected
and that the company was planning the
erection of "a big mill here refused TO say
anything about the matter at this time.
when I come back from Denver later,
I may have something to say 10 you
then. said Mr.. Mullins
A. II. NOgeler, who purchased the prop
ertv for Mr. Mullins, declined To be inter
viewed and said that he had nothing
"
The effect of the absorption Of the lar
ger mills of the state by the new cOrpO-
ration, will be better realized when the
record of the Colorado Milling & Elevator
in the grain business is taken
into consideration 1t means that the new
will practically control the
handling of the grain output Of Utah and
southern Idaho.
If, as it is planned, the FIGURING mills
Of the state enter the big merger, two
mills at Ogden, three at Salt Lake and
other mills elsewhere viii be operated UNI
der one management instead of a number
as at present.
Mr.. Mullins IS the biggest grain oper-
3tor in the west. He practically controls |
the greater part of the grain yield at the !
present time and with the new Organiza-
ton. still firmeT hold viii be obtained |
in the marketing Of all kinds Of cereals /
The Colorado Milling & Elevator com
pany handles thousands of carloads of !
grain and in their big elevator at Den
yer is always stored hundreds Of thous-
3nds of bushels. This concern. it is said. /
already has q number Of small elevators |
located on the lines of the railroad in /
Idaho. From these elevators will un-
ioubtedly come much Of the grain that /
will be used by the new big Touring
mill. especially during the winter season,
when the amount stored here begins to /
diminish I'm quantity.