The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-16
THE DEERE COMPANY.
Items of Interest Concerning the
Largest PlOw Factory in
the World.

Mr.. Charles II. Deere, vice presi-
dent and manager of the great
Deere steel pillow works, of Moline,
Ills, has been in the city for
several days past, but left for home yes
terday morning. Believing that some
information relative to the immense
company he represents would be OF in
terest to the farming community OF
Utah, among whom the Deere wares
have so extensive q circulation, a
HERALD reporter yesterday called on
the gentleman at the Walker House
and was granted a brief interview.
The Deere Company" said Mr..
Deere, in answer to the reporters in
curry, was established by my father.
John Deere, who came TO Grand De
tour, Illinois, in 1887. Ten years later
be removed TO Moline, then a small WI
lage, being attracted thither by the fine
natural water power and the opportun-
tiles for navigation afforded BY the
Mississippi. He started in the pillow and
cultiyator business IN 1877, with three
FORCES, and two or three grindstOues.
The first pillow he made was Of the old
style, all wood. and the first steel pillow
he attempted the mould was Aade from
an old circular saw. To-day our bust
is the largest in the world Of its kind.
We run forty grindstones, work 500
men, keep our own IRE department
among them, turn out 100000
plows and cultivators every year.
nave branch houses in st. Louis, Kansas
City, Council Bluffs and Minneapolis.
and not only use the Mississippi for
but have the rails Of the L. B. &
@, the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul.
the Peoria & Rock Island and the Chi
cago & Rock Island, running into our
factory. Moline since our commence
ment has grown to a city of ii 900
"Does Mr.. Deere still remain in the
2"
HE takes no active part he has be n
resting for number OF years, and the
is in my hands"
How is your Utah trader"
when L tell you that Utah is one OF
the places where We never We. lost q
dollar, you will shrmise that our trade
here is very satisfactory. Until a short
time ago, our interests here languished
but Grant. 0dell & Co. have
taken hold Of our goods, and they are
again being actively handled"
is your trade confined to she
West?" rr.r.r nG~s q
"By no means. We ship in all direc- |
tons, and do q large business with Ore
gon and Texas, besides having agencies |
IN most Of the States and Territories
between. We have made good many |
shipments, too, 70 Russia, spain, Aus
iralia and New Zealand. though we
merely sell there to jobbing houses"
Have you been troubled with the
recent strikes2"
"0ur force OF polishers and grinders
we're ordered out by the Knights of
labor, but We hlled their places with
green hands and the old ones came
back after few days. The works were
lever stopped f--
Asked as to the method by which his
company retained their patents after
hey had run out, Mr.. Deere said they
we're all the time inventing and i'm
)royfng. so that they usually managed
o have a new idea patented when
covered the old one; the Gilpin sulky II
low, Of which this comp my are the
'atentees and manufacturers, has been
and modelled after in many
rays. but Mr.. Deere states, they have
preserved all the original patents
y new inventions, so that the
Machine they turn out has
Iot yet been approached Dy sny imita-
OF; the manner Of constructing. bracing
nd putting wood on 10 their plows, be
avs, has lot been successfully copied .
he hrst slab Of steel ever made in the !.
United States was manufactured In /
'ittsburgh, under the direction Of Mr.. :
ohm Deere, for the Deere works.
All the lumber used By the company.
; sawed at Helena, Arkansas. where {
hey a>o have an immense mill, NJ.
'eere. besides beng Yice-president and =
manager OF the Deere Company, i
resident of the Deere and Mansur
ompany,a distinct Organization, which ,
lakes a ) eciaity of corn planters. bay
axes and seed drills. Mr.. Deere was
cconpanied hy his wife and daugh-
rs al OF whom spoke in the warsns.st
srIns OF Sslr Lake and its people: they
ave been extensively shown about dur
* their stay by Mr.. ]. II Grant
Ia1asser OF Grant, Oien & CO. s