The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03
a Great industry.

HOW THE LORD Il POLK CHEMICAL.
COMPANY GREW FROM A SMALL BE
GINNING TO IT'S PRESENT ENORMOUS
CONDITION.
Among the leading industries of our
town we should not fail to notice the
extensive Fertilizer and Chemical
works Of Messrs. Lord & Polk Co.,
situated on the Appointments river,
just below our town. Although young
in years Git having started about ten
years ago. it has steadily grown, and
to-day is the leading factory of this
kind on the Peninsula, and ranks
among the largest of the county.
Starting iii a very small way and
doing but q local trade for the first
few years, they have now quite large
patronage in Delaware, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York,
Virginia, North and South Carolina,
and even as far South as Florida. Its
goods were selected from among some
twenty other makers by a committee
appointed by the Japan Government
who visited this country two years ago
to look into the manufacturing indus
tries of our nation, and portion of a
cargo was loaded and shipped by them
to their native home. This we think
speaks well for an enterprise SO young.
The goods manufactured and sold by
this company enjoy the highest repu-
tation wherever used, and the steadily
increasing demand for them affords
sufficient evidence oftheir good quality.
Only the latest improved machinery
and appliances known to the trade are
used in the manufacturing and pre-
pairing of the goods made by this
company, and nothing but the best
and most carefully selected materials
are used in the manipulation selected
with especial reference to the p articular
crop for which they are intended, and
compounded in the proportions their
years of experience have proven to be
the best to produce the most satisfac-
tory results.
Several patents have been in the
past five years secured for improved
machinery, and which is used to-day
exclusively by this company, thus en-
aiding them to keep fully abreast with
amy Of their competitors. 4 n
From conversation had some days
ago with representative of the Com
pany we learned that their trade had
increased each year and that the
present year they had hauled over
10000 tons of fertilizers and materi-
ais, and 5000 to 5000 tons of acid was
manufactured during the past
season, all of which was used by them
in the manufacturing of their goods
The factories are kept running the
entire year with the exception of a
short time at the end of each season
which is devoted to repairs. During
tile season just closed they. were COM
peeled to run their factory both night
and day and their pay roll contained
over 100 names. One Of our leading
merchants informed us chat he could
tell exactly when the works were
closed for repairs as his sales fell off
over so per cent.
The Company should have the good
will of every one in our town and
the patronage of each and every one
Of our farmers, as wages paid out
weekly to their men runs up high in
the hundreds, and undoubtedly finds
its way into the pocket of the whole
community directly or indirectly
Every one should be more or less III
terestod in the welfare of not only
this but of every and all enterprises
that go to make up our town.