The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-28
TWO THOUSAND NEEDED.
Deliberations of the Business Men
Notwithstanding Down
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Deliberations of the Business Mems
notwithstanding Down
to Business.
The Business Mems Association threw all
parley aside on Wednesday evening and
appointed committees with powers to obtain
final understanding in the Love Bros.
foundry matter, and also in the matter of
arranging company to develop Sneeton's
tin single. In opening the meeting Mr..
Catlin said:
"Mr. Porter, who is absent, has had q
communication from Love Bros. which may
lead to something definite one way or anoth-
err. 1t may be seen from the Aurora papers
that the Aurora people are aroused and are
attempting to keep the factory there. We
must place ourselves in position to move.
They say that If they come to Ottawa we are
to give them the necessary land and erect
buildings for them according to plans sub
mitted. The estimated cost of buildings,
consisting Of foundry, machine shops pat
tern house and Office is about $4,000. The
point is that we would be obliged to raise
$4,000, besides the land. A good many
suggestions have been made. One plan is
to get piece of land along the railroad and
get our money back from the sale of lots,
and another would be to have the bonus
subscribed as purely q donation"
Mr.. Mayo" What number Of men do
they employ
Mr.. Catlin-" From eighty to one humid
red men are employed now. Their object in
leaving is to enable them to increase their
capital They will probably increase to two
or three hundred men in one or two years.
Messrs. Porter and Riale and myself visited
the works. would say that this firm start
ed few years ago with small plant and
no capital whatever. They ran the blower
to melt their iron by hand, at first, and then
got horse and run it by horse power. They
now have shop not so large as Stormonts
but it is full of workmen and they have
some Of their machinery out in the yard,
with rude shed over it. About $25, 900 is
invested in the business. They have no
shipping facilities, having to haul every
thing to and from the foundry in wagons.
They want larger grounds and more accom-
modations. They make very fine quality
Of castings, supplying Porter, H. C. King,
King & Hamilton, the Organ Factory and
the Bottle Mould Factory with their materi.
al. They showed US an order from Gould
Austin, of Chicago. for over one hundred
ton of castings for corn shelter. They
make ornamental store fronts and columns.
They also make machine that is used in
glucose and sorghum factories, the only one
Of its kind manufactured in the United
States, but are unable to supply the demand
on account of lack of facilities. Ottawa must
move in this matter at once"
Mr.. H. c. King said that he was &C.
quainted with one Of the members of the
firm, who told him that if they came here
they would bring about eighty men. Their
business was not confined to any one state.
The castings made for him we're very fine
there were no finer in the country.
Mr.. williamson offered q resolution to
raise money on the installment plan, shares
payable at one dollar per month.
A motion by Mr.. Mayo that the resolu-
ton and the entire matter Of raising the
money be left to committee of FIVE, to de-
wise means Of procedure and report at a
meeting to be called as soon as the matter
be determined, was adopted, and the Chair
appointed Nessrs. Porter, Riale, Mackinlay,
Fullerton and Cock
COAL BoRINGs.
The matter of coal borings was then called
up, Mr.. Nicholson reporting no progress
made, as the men who were to begin work
had not yet arrived. Mr.. McManus and
others had commenced drilling on the Davis
farm. three and one-half miles south of Otts.
wa, and half mile south of the toll gate, and
would sink number Of holes.
MIR. Thomas said that he had made ar.
rangemsnts to sink test holes on the Lewis
farm, as no satisfactory arrangement could
DO made with Moore. The men would be
here next week and commence boring at
once.
sMRSToNs TIN SINGLE.
Mr.. Nicholson, called upon to speak Of
Mr.. Smeeton's industry, said that the Since
ton tin single was unquestionably the best
in the market. Smeeton did not dare to ad-
vertise because he could not fill orders now
on hand. The committee found that firms
in Philadelphia and Chicago were making
him propositions to manufacture his shing
les and pay him royalty, but he wished t.
see them manufactured here in Ottawa.
Mr.. Smeeton, who now entered the room
said that he was DESTROYS Of forming stocl
company for the manufacture of his single:
and would put his royalty in at very reas-
enable figure. It would take about $40, OO(
to place the enterprise on its feet. He would
require building SOxlOO feet, and two sto
ries in height, and ten-hOrse power engin
and boiler. There were thirteen machine