The record-union., 1895-07-22
The OOlRAEDBR GUN COMPANY.
It is Likely to Bring Its Factory
to This City.
Industrial Improvement Directors
VIII Probably Accede to
Its Proposition.

The Directors of the Industrial I'M
provement Association held meeting
Saturday night to confer with w. j..
Swift, the representative of the Ostrander
Gun Company, in relation TO the propo-
sition made by the latter to move its plant
from Boston to this city, ifthe association
will pay the expense of the removal.
All Of the directors but two, who were
unavodably absent. were present at the
meeting, and a long discussion was had
on the proposition made by the company
The removal of it's plant to California is
not contingent on the acceptance by the
association of the offer made it, as If it
docs not come here it will 60 either to
San Francisco or Stockton, but Mr.. Swift
is very frank in declaring that he favors
this city, both on account OF its climatic
conditions. which are more favorable to
the business he represents than are those
OF the other two places mentioned, but
far more on account Of the new power
recently transmitted here, which will
make manufacturing economical.
About 50 per cent. OF the stockholders
of the company are Californians, and the
inventor OF the gun, from which the COM
pany takes its name-WilliS ii. Ostrander
is a Californian also. They ask no
subsidy to bring their factory here, but
having concluded that it is too tar East TO
do a large business on this coast, simply
ask that any city that wants the factory
brought to is Will pay the cost OF It's re-
movaI, preferrlng this city to the others.
There are about sixty tons of machinery
to be moved
II the association accepts the cOmpany's
offer it will help to locate it on a suitable
site, of which several are under consld-
Grafton.
AS soon as the matter is decided Mr..
Swift will GO East, and as soon as the con-
tracts already under way are completed
will make preparations for the Immediate
removal of the plant. AT the start the
company will employ only about fifty
or sixty men, but inside of twelve
months they expect to employ 100. AS
only skilled workmen can be employed
it will bring that number OF artisans with
their families, and thus augment the pop
ulation of the city. The machinery IS
valued at 500, 900, and in time will doubt
less be called on to manufacture not only
guns, but many articles OF shelf hard
ware, tools, sporting and hOuse-furnish-
ing goods.
1t will not come in competition with
anything here. or on the coast, but Will
afford an opportunity tor the manufact-
ure of many things heretofore made in
the East.
There is another point that has hitherto
been overlooked. We have many Cali
tornia inventors and IN many instances
they have had to seek capital in the Last
to manufacture their patented Inventions.
There are many things that factory like
this could manufacture here and build
up large business that would employ
many men, besides keeping the money
on the coast.
MIR. Swift met number of prominent
sportsmen at the shooting ground yester-
day, by appointment, to show them the
merits Of the invention. In order to
give those interested an idea OF the
magnitude OF the business that is likely
to be built up by the company, a descrip-
ton of the gun may not be aniss. In ap-
pearance it would hardly be noticed as
different from an ordinary hammerless
shotgun.
Instead of the breach breaking open
in the ordinary way, the barrels slide for
ward. Two cartridges can be placed
in ordinary guns, while in chamber on
each side, which opens outward, inst
under the cartridge cham Der, two more
can be put, thus giving the sportsman
the advantage OF four shots. which can be
fired in one and half seconds, without
taking the gun from the shoulder. The
if only one shot is fired, only that cart
ridge may be elected. Thus. hunter in
the mountains can put two buckshot
cartridges on one side, while he has fine
shot in the other. He can also put two
cartridges in the extra chamber and have
his gun always loaded, without any
danger of it's being discharged till he
moves the barrels i'll order to raise the
cartridges into place for firing. The gem
tlemen at the shooting grounds were very
much pleased with the gun and the man
ner in which it works. The company
also anutactures rifle, single barreled
shotgun and revolver.
Although no positive decision was
reached by the directors, it is probable
that within week the company will be
notified of the acceptance of its propo-
stion, and that within ninety days, or
therea bouts, the factory will be in opera
ton here, and that others will follow in
ito aa H.