Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-28
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The Silver Loaf Baking Powder by the
Ton-Barrels Of Blulng-Tanks
Of Vinegar Caady
ny the Wagon Loai--A Trip Through
the Manufacturing stabiish.
ment OF j. II. Brown,
The Grocery King of Fort Worth

The Grocery King of Fort Worth
About two years ago when For
f, Worth began To grow with thai
marvellous rapidly which has devel
I oped II into the powerful young city
II is, J. II Brown, the grocery kirg o
Northern Texas, began TO make prepa
rations for his largely increasing bust
ness. A small house was built op.
poSite his store ON Throckmortou
street, corner of First, in which ht
: commenced to Manufacture certain ar
ticles to supply his customers without
having to pay the high freight Charge
entai!ted by purchasing them from
Eastern manufactures. BY the pur-
chase of carloads of the raw material
he saved theexorbitant freight charges
and was able after manufacturing the
articles himself TO put them on the
market at prices which deiied cOmpe-
tition from firms which purchased the
same articles in Eastern cities. Wha'
was the result of his labOrs? At the
end Of q year he found it necessary to
enlarge his manufacturing facilities
which he did by erectinga large build
ing on the corner of Third and Lamar
streets, over year ago.
! This building Is 100 10y 80 feet. and -
tour through i;s different apartments
| Is interesting even TO casual observer.
| Yesterday afternoon GAZETTE rep
| Tesentative was shown through 10 by
Mr.. III. &. McDill, who bias charge OF
the establishment. Entering from
| Weatherford street, the reporter fuund
| himself in the DOttling room, where
all kinds of favUring extrsCts are
bottled and labeled innun.Table
bottles of different Colored fluid
were in this room. over
TO- 900 bottles were mduu-
featured and bottled in the building
during the year 1883. Turning to the
right the room where the famous
Silver Loaf baking powder IL made,
WAS entered; barrels of creaus of tartar,
starch nj q soda lay around tho sites |
of the room and a huge revolving !
metal mixer stood in one corner. This |
mixer IA cylindrical in shape and |
will hold 800 pounds of component
parts of the baking powder. Three
tons of the Silver Loaf baking powder
can be mixed with this machine in II
month. After mixing, the powder is
weig hed and placed ia cans contain
~
pounds. The cans aye of beautiful
model made expressly for the powder
with the name of the powder and the
manufacturer on them Last year the
enormous quantity OF So 900 pounds of
the silver loaf WAS mixed aud canned
in this room, being an increase OF over
100 per cent. over that OF the preceding
year
The Silver loaf baking powder has
found its way into nearly every city
nnd town in the Southwest and the
reason is obvious. Mr.. Brown buys
the ingredients by the carloads, when
Ih, re i IA decline in the staples. ana
eau defy competition in putting
baking powder on the south western ,
market None but the purest staples ,
are purtha- ed and the possession OF
large capital enables the manufacturer
to axe advantage OF those periodical
de, resi- rs which occur in the stable
market and lay In u supply which will
serve his own trade for months 10
come. For this reason and the eX-
treme care In purchasing pure in
gradients the Silver Loaf baking pow
der is placed on the markets at price
which deties cOmpetiti II.
The store-roum WAS next visited
where great quantities of the powder
in cans WAS stored as well as empty
cans of all si2es. The wooden boxes
used.in transportation OF the powder
are pure ,ssed by the car load and put
together In the work shop in the rear
ufthe building.
The candy room VIVA next entered |
where $50 pounds of stick candy can |
be manufactured in day. La this
room al ,775 pounds of stick candy has
been manufactured since last June,
and this has scarcely been adequate 10
the great demand. i2O,996 bottles of |
bluing WAS manu- factured in this room l
last year.
Adjoining the candy room is the
vinegar department in which there
were 500 gallons Of vinegar
stored yesterday. / he huge vat aud
tanks We're objects of interest, and pro-
cess of making the vinegar, Described
by Mr. McDlll, WAS very minute
There are five generators erected on
the sides Of the room through which
tho vinegar was perColatiug. This is
one OF the most interesting sights in
the huge establishment Coming
back into the Office the reporter was
tod that numerous other articles such
sewing machine oil, etc..
were iltH uldclllTtu III iut DullUlDk To
supply Mr.. Browns trade. Going to
II desk. MIR McDhl gave synopsis Of
the work of the establishment In the
lines OF manufacture for the
year 1888. There had been made lin
that year as follows.
b titles of extracts, 10 l6S
Bottles of bluibg. ..,.......,....0,9 9B
bottlts OF NIX ....,.,,..--..,,... S,SDb
.iaiiona OF vinegar. ...'......... 5000
u Xts chewing gum. l, loo
Pounds haki, < powder. ,,... 5000
using 23.Sl5 caus
Pounds Oh candy, since June. ..Tl,T75
All these articles were used Ia tue
immense trade OF Mr.. b own, and
which but poorly demonstrated the
extent Of his business, but they can he
placed on the market at prices which
laugh at competition. Thanking Mr.
McDill for his courtesy, the reporter
bowed himself out after accepting
quarter ola pound can Of Silver Loaf
naking powder With the name Of "a
III. Brown, wholesale grocer, Fort
Worth. Texas" on II, in largo black
letters