The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-16
Architect G. $. Appleton to Build.
the Cracker Factory on Boul-
der Avenue.
II Will Be In Operation In July and
Employ q Force OF 400
People.
h Total Cost Of tho Plant About FIFTY
Thousand Dollars-aketch or
the Enterprises.

cracker factory for the Am arican Biscuit and
Manufacturing Co., was yesterday awarded
TO George s.. Applston for GIG, 562.s 70, inst
$3.50 less than the bid Of FL. Hchaffer.
The other bidders were 3. w. Fiske and w.
IA. Orr. Some time In July the Helena
people may expect to be eating crackers
made within the limits Of the city. Com
tractor Appleton is also the designer Of the
building. He will break ground on Mon
day. The building will be three stories
and 1 basement in height. II will have a
front of sixty feet on Boulder avenue and
an oven depth Of 100 feet. On the four
floors there will be $4,000 fest Of area. The
basement story will b Of stone faced with
porphyry and neatly trimmed. The other
stories will be OF brick. The building will
DO covered with an asphalt gravel roof. On
the basement floor will BE- the boiler and
engine room. The space there IL designed
fer q forty-fvo horse owe engine.
Az additional power and room il
pseded, the building and the engine room
can be added TO. The oven, eighteen fest
wide and twenty-five fast deep, will be on
the first main floor and will have q capacity
for baking six barrels Of -four a hour.
Ths machinery will bs placed on the second
floor and tho upper story will be used for
boxing. The completion Of the cracker
factory will mark an important epoch in
tho history of Helena. II will mean the
employment of 200 or moro people. and its
SUCCESS, Of which there can 30 no doubt,
will encourage other manufacturing enter
priges to locate here.
The entire outlay, including the ground,
building and machinery will reach $50, 900.
It 10 nearly a year since Director Garnsau,
OF the American Manufacturing oon pany,
came to Helena, after visiting other cities
in the vicinity, to SEQ what could be done in
the way Of starting q branch factory here.
He was strongly impressed with the situa-
tion Of Helena as q distributing point for
this and adjoining states, and in q few days
arrangements wero completed for putting
in . plant. This agreement contem plated
the payment of q good bonus by Helena
people to the American company. It was
all subscribed, and q location was selected
near the Montana Central depot. When
the nane ase atto ws1s se aso; 70 o M a. she e., cont ~.
clear. and during the past winter the
agents Of the company and the Helena
people ave been trying to arrange this
matter. A few weeks ago r. l.. Sommer,
the general superintendent of the company,
came to Helena under instructions to 10
vertise for its construction, and not leave
until the contract was let. He has lone
this, and it may now be accepted as a set
tied fact that the cracker factory is a 'tgo.'
The delay in building the factory has not
only been annoying to the people OF Hell
But the delay has rather operated to the adj
vantage Of the enterprising men who sub
scribed to the bonus. Instead Of giving
the money subscribed outright, the execu-
tive committee OF the American company
has made the following proposition to the
Subscribers:
After carefully considering the entire
the committee has, arrived at the
that while subsidies are frequently
made for the establishment Of various man
featuring industries, and while the COM
pany appreciates very much indeed the LID
the citizens Of Helena have shown
to it, at the same time the committee feels
titude of asking aid for the purpose in
question, or being under obligation for
doing that which the business Judgment of
its officers has dictated. In other words,
the committee is averss to having our
company appear before the people of your
anything of this sort the committee has,
decided that it must respectfully
to accept YOUR generous donation
upon the conditions set forth in the origin
81 agreement, but in order to max you a
proper return for your Investment, it will,
in lieu thereof, issue to You stock in the
to tho amount of your subscrip-
ton, thus making you interested with IA
as stockholders. not only in the plant of
company at Helena. but in all Of our
located in various places through
put the west. In doing this, however, the
reserves the right to modify the
original contract in any manner which I
may consider in the best interests Of the
Dompany.
'"Ihefe will be no change in the dates
upon which you are to pay the amount Of
vou subscription. These will stand exactly
The Same ~ set forth in the original agree