The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-01-05
ANOTHER BIG FLOUR MILL.
The McGrew Milling Company Propose
Building New $4,000 Mill M
Kansas City.

From Kansas City Times.
1--WE had about given up canning to Kan
sas City, but when we saw The Sunday
Times, the big review addition, you know,
ages OF this point for flour milling as we
never did before. We had practically de-
cidsd To 20 to Coffeyville, KAN, but aow
Ws have changed our minds again and, II
We can secure suitable site shall build nj
once In Kansas City,"
The speaker was Mr.. A. v. Robinson,
manaser Of the McGrew Milling company
of Lexington, Mo. He was talking OF
new 600 to /, 900 barrel Touring mill, which
his company proposes to build at once TO
work In conjunction with its present 400
.About wear ago, " continued Mr.. Rob-
inson, I'VE made up our minds to build a
new mill and locate it in Kansas CITY.
You see down at Lexington we had only
the Missouri Pacific and We wanted to tap
other roads. 1t stood to reason that u
this idea was good one. why right here
ct Kansas City, where we could tap all
the roads OF this whole section, was the
| bSot place of all for Us. We intend to put
| In mill that will have capacity OF say
600 barrels, but suitable for enlargement
TO twice that capacity II business should
warrant 1t. Such q plant will cost US In
the ueighborhood Of $50 900.
1.-THE head OF our concern Is James T..
| Mc0rew of Lexington. Yes, the gentle
man who came so near being state rail-
road commissioner. Well, we looked Int
the matter and found land so high here,
way up. you know, that we about gave
the idea up as far as Kansas City was con-
cerned and began to look elsewhere. There
were plenty OF places anxious to pay us to
come TO them. We thought some OF Co..
feyville, Kan.-there's natural gas there
you know. MIR. McGrew bought an inter-
ct Ia 60O- barrel mill already built there
and negotiated to buy the other owners
out, but they didn't care to sell. Finally
In November, he sold out himself aud de-
cided to build new mill of his own. lie
owns his own coal, SO the natural gas
didn't count for so much, but IT was
good town, he thought. The Missouri "a
cifc, the Santa Fe and the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas reach it, and then the
lpeopie offered us u site and bonus
besides.
"As said we'd made up our minds t'
70 to Cofieyville and were just about tt
close our contracts when along came that
review Times. We concluded when w
fret glanced 1t over that possibly we wers
going Q trifie fast and when we'd read i
We were sure OF 1t. We've practically made
!. up our minds to change our minds. That''
partly what brings me up from Lexington
To-day. We're going TO try and get goot
site here in Kansas City and II we cal
get one at q figure anywhere in reason
we'll begin to build in thirty days. 81
soouf OF course; we want to be ready TO
the next crop. In other words we wan
to begin milling by June"
Al to the advantages OF Kansas City a
\ millisg point, Mr.. Robinson said.
''It's one of the very best points in tn
whole country. It's long May ahead Q
st Louis now. No, 1t hasn't the mills 81
Louis has, but the st. Louis mills are al
shut down. iii tell you. A Kansas Gil.
mill can get its flour out to the market
for Just about the same price as a 81
Louis mill, and at the same time the Kan
} sas City mill gets its wheat for from eig
to ten cents bushel cheaper-that
thirty to forty cents on barrel. Under
I stand me, just at present the diferenc
isn't quite as bad as that, but it usual
Is. Now you can appreciate what thirt
+ cents advantage means when tell 20
that any mill man would De delighted I
1 be assured fifteen cent profit on eae M
barrel of his output. We'd put in 5,Ou
barrel mill at once. II we could get such
guarantee ourselves. Well, now II kansa
City 10 Just thirty to forty cents barre
better OF than st. Louis, you can see thi
when st. LOUIS mill makes anything q
all Kansas City is just rolling IN pros
psrity. :.
"I haven't been able to accomplish quit
as much to day as had expected. WEI
over to the Exchange and-well," hittin
his knee slap that sent up a houry ciou
OF dust, II thought ! was used to fion
It but don't recOllect ever having seen
flying around quite SO promiscuous-li III
as IL was there day.
d "We're going right ahead with this ne
mill business. You'll probably see wor
started within month";"
WAHTED-hides, furs and country pr
duce. for which l will pay the highe
market price In cash. Groceries al
family supplies for sale. Joseph Wo
corner South and Twenty fourth stree
East Lexington. 1l-3-tf