Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-10
ROCK ISLANDS GAIN.
The LubricatOr Company Settle d
Fact.
Last of the srGck subscrfb d This
M0rsin E-Who are Inter. sted-
The Geiser ManafacuuriHE
Company Warehouse
Also.

Tue last IF the stock was subscribed
this morning by virtue of which Rock
Island, through the untiring eff ,rts of the
G,iz9ns' Inproyemen association has
secured another valuable industry. II is
company which will be organized at
once to manufacture Col. George F. Rot
enson's patent car lubricator. mention of
which has been made from time to time
in The ARG is. The capital stock of the
company will beS30 900. which has been
taken by Messrs. John P Weyerhsuser,
W B Ferguson, John Oalweiler. G Istav
Stengel, G orge E. Lambert, John VolS.
A. A. Chapman. of Galesburg. Emil LANCE
of Davenport, AMI William B. Ullman
of Moline.
The stockholders will soon meet and
elec' tficers and directors. the Rock Is
and silver plating works building on
Eighteenth street having been secured
for the plant. By the terms of the COT
act by which Rock Island hiss secured
this valuable enterprise, Col. Robensor,
who holds the patent is to be general
manager, and he will at once move TO
Rock Island and enter upon his
duties. The invention. which has been
tested and given abundant satisfaction by
most of the great roads CT the w,si will
he known as the Rock Island Car l. lbri-
Gator and will be one OF the best sdver
tisements for Rock Island that could be
imagined. Col Ro5enson already no d.
the options to provide all the cars of the
Pullmsn comp my. the c., B. 81 Q. and
A, T. 6 S F. and other great roads, with
the lubricator.
the bringing OF this industry TO Rock
Island is an evidence OF Whist may be done
by cit'z-ns hav ng the city's interests at
heart and wiling to exert themselves il
behalf of the city. To Rock Isl.ud's
popular travelling salesman, II. w
Haislio, IS due the first credit o.
Col. Robensoa's coming here. H.
'oIud the colonel at G ,lesburg and
induced him 10 come up to Rock ISIS
and. The matter was at once tskca il
hand by the manufacturers committee ST
the Improvement association, which was
instrumental in interesting local capital
in the project. In this connection, toe,
it should be said that Secretary Searlc
has devoted himself zeaiously and uure-
mittingly to the formation of the company
aud no man in Rock Island has bette,
or prouder right TO rejoice over The .uc>
cessful consumu alton of the undertaking
than he-snd the same may be said with
EQUAL truth of another enterprise which
Rock Island has secured.
For it is also settled fact tina, the
Geiser Manufacturing company, of
Pa which has been looking
through the west for some months for a
suitable location Tor a western branch
house has decided to establish here. The
Geiser Manufacturing company msnu-
features threshlng m lchines sud farm
m &C hinery, and the establishment of lis
warehouse here means the building OF a
factory in Rock Island in the course o!
time, as its trade is mostly in the western
states. and the freigot rates on this class
o! goods from the east hsv: a tendency
to cut the m4rgn pretty close when in |
with western factories The
securing of this is also due to the efforts
Of the Improvement association. which |
had been in cores oondence through Sec
rotary Searle With that company for some
ime
IndusirtaI FATE