Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-29
ANOTHER BIG THING.
Every Day Adds Important
Interests.
One Of the Greatest Manufacturing
Firms of the Northwest Com
ing to Wichita.

Yesterday morning the EAGLE gave out
the intiInation that a very important enter
prise was about TO be added to the many
other great interests which are multiplying
upon us: an enterprise which Will stand ahead
Of any like interest in the state if indeed it is
equalled in any jobbing city west of st.
Louis. Yesterday evening the contract was
closed by two members of the firm Of Rad
ford Bros. G. Co., sash, door, blind and
moulding manufacturers Of Oshkosh, Wis
Econsin
| This firm is known as one of the stiffest in
the great northwest and whose trade reaches
very commercial center west Of the ALE
gheny mountains Mr.. Charles Radford of
Oshkosh, and Mr.. A. S. Parks, OF Green Bay,
for the company, bought yesterday the
southwest corner of the Jones tract, at the
corner OF Division and Rock Island avenues,
or the projected line of the Rock Island rail-
way
| Mr. Parks and his family and one of the
| Radford brothers with his family will at
once become residents of our city.
| On the plot of ground purchased yesterday
| building 50xl09 feet and two or three
stories high will be erected Immediately and
the business of the Oshkosh factory for Kan
saS and Colorado at once transferred to this
point. The firm also handles glass, and all
work will be shipped here in a knocked
down. condition and put up at this point
fitted and glazed, ready for the wholesale
trade The Wichita house will do no retail
ing whatever The sales of this firm for sew
eral years past in Kansas City and in the
larger cities of Kansas have reached enor
nous figures, which trade will hereafter be
supplied from the Wichita house and factory.
Work will commence within a very few
DAYS, or Just as soon as Messrs Radford and
Parks can return from the north, whence
they departed this morning. Mr. Farnum,
of the Wichita Royal Coffee and Spice mills,
who has known the Oshkosh firm for years
says that the acquisition of the Radford
wholesale interests at this point-kansas City
and Wichita being the only two points under
considerations an advantage which would
be hard to estimate of the soundness of
which conclusion there cannot be question
THE WICHITA CANNING FACTORY.
A Prosperous Establishment With Progressive
PrOprietors.
The Wichita Arrow comes out with Dict-
ure of the Wichita Canning Factory this
week, and the following merited notice, which
We quote in full:
The Wichita Canning Factory is now in
full operation. and the Wichitan who visits
the place cannot fail to be gratied with ac-
tivity and enterprise observable on every
hand, for every one interested in the future
development of the city will readily agree
that 1--WE must have manufacture as well as
railroads. The canning factory like manybe-
cinners i'll Wichita, has had its hard rubs: but
like every new beginner with true grit it is
coming to the front. Bishop Garrison and
Col hiking began operations with the fac
tory last year with everything in crude shape
and depending largely upon unskilled labor
As corn was the most available product at
that time they employed ''boss corn can
ner" and expended larger sum in corn can
ming than in any other vegetable. The boss
Gamer" proved fraud and the corn was a
total loss to the proprietors. The tomatoes
and fruits put up at the factory last year,
however, brought excellent prices in the
Kansas City anu st. Louis markets. But the I
loss on the corn was great encouragement |
1t would have discouraged man
with less nerve than r. S. CARR !
son, who never lost faith in the |
ultimate success of the factory. He met the /
losses manfully, and while some people shook |
their heads obviously, he went forward with |
for canning on larger scale. /
Mr.. Wibking sold his interest to Mr.. Deering, !
of Leadville, and under the firm name OF |
Garrison a. Deering the concern is fairly |
humming The proprietors have eighty |
acres of tomatoes of their own cultivation, |
and farmers and gardeners have planted ex |
ter sively for the factory. The number of
cans o. tomatoes that VIII be put up this year !
will reach about 100000. and the apple and |
pumpkin output will be large.
The Arrow takes pleasure in encouraging |
home manufacture, hence we gladly give the
canning factory a conspicuous place in this |
issue, and feel safe in congratulating the pro-
prietors iD advance upon handsome profits