Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-05
DEAL.IN WHISKY.
The Trust Gobb!es the Chicago
Shufeldt Distillery.
ALSO THE CALUMET DIsTILLING co.,


And Vow Comes Pretty Near Possessing
the Earth in the Tangled foot Line-Every
Demon Factory in Chicago Now in
the Combine-The Purchase Price
Dead secret-SIuch Surprise Caused by
the Transaction-A Sale That Ends "A
Long Fight.
CHScAGo, June "a deal, negotiations
toward which have been carried on for the
past week, was consummated yesterday at
the Auditorium, Papers were signed by
which the Distillers Cattle Feeding COM
pany. known generally as The Whisky
Trust" purchased the Chicago distilleries
owned by H. Shufeldt & Co, and the Cal
umet Ostilling company The sale of
both plants included real estate, machin-
ero, stocks of goods, patents, trademarks,
brands and the right to continue the use
of the names.
Sold Out ia Their Enemies.
The directors of the trust state that it is
not their intention to advance prices nor
do anything that will be Instantaneous
to the trade. They absolutely refuse to
give the purchase price, merely stating
that the transfer was for cash, and at a
figure alike satisfactory to sellers and buy
ers. To the stockholders and the public
the fact that the Shufeldts, long the hitter
competitors of the trust and the prose
cutors of the latters secretary, George J.
Gibson, have actually sold out TO their enc
niles causes intense anlaZe11ient.
The Gibson Sensation.
That the Shufeldt distillery was
thorn in rhe trusts side was never Dis
puted, and the public had beea educated
into believing that the trust would under
take any measures to down che obstinate
owners of the concern that it could not
control TIE last and greatest sensation
NJ connection with the fight between the
two concerns was the arrest and slbse-
quent Indictment of George J. Gibson, the
secretary of the trust, who is NOW await
ing trial for instigating a diabolica! plot
that contemplated the destruction of the
dlStllllery and its obstinate owners.
The Trust Owns En- All, Now
Yesterdays purchases make the whisky
trust the absolute over of every distillery
in Chicago. The Shufeldt has a ca
pacity of 1900 bushels, producing p
00O gallons OF whisky per day The Cal
umet's capacEy'is $500 bushels, or 1900
gallons per day. Before these last pur-
chases the trust produced about 100000
gallons per day. The other Chicago dis
tilleries owned by the trust are the Phoe-
nix, with capacity of 5000 bushels; the
United States 1900; the Chicago. 300:
the Empire, 1000 the Riverdale, 1900, and
rhe National, 1000. These do not repre-
sent half the product of the trust, al
though, if necessary, tho Chicago plants
could produce about One-third the t0tal
1t Was a Great Surprise.
The capitulation of the Eynches to the
trust waS great surprise. They were the
active managers OF the Shufeldt concern,
and they vowed, as people understood,
never to surrender. Their concern, with
its great capacity, was equal 70 the task of
coping with the trust, and the surrender
made in the deal now announced was I'M
expected. Rumors of denial of the sale
were circulated last night. but Thomas
Lynch. JT.. and II. II. ShUfeldt both re
fused tOsee reporters who called on them
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