The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-10-07
EXPECT TO BEGIN SOON
Northwest Produce Co. Getting Their
Affairs Strengthened Ont.


The Northwest Produce Company
of this city, who purchased last winter
the real estate and buildings OF the
Hoff Produce company, on Fifth and
| First streets, has been at a Standstil
| for some months. AS will be remem.
bered by great many the building;
| upon the property were destroyed by
| fire shortly after the purchase, and
| before the property was turned over tC
| its new owners. At the time very little
or nothing could be learned as to the
cause of the fire, and Mr.. ?. D. Platz
| representing the company who purchas-
| ed it tried every way possible to ascer-
| tain the cause, but so far has failed To
obtain anything like a satisfactory So
luton, if indeed he found any at all a;
| the time.
Mr.. GrimShaw, one of the chief direc-
| tors or the company, recently made this
| city visit to try and untangle, If pos
sible, the compltca ton into which
| things had gotten themselves. Mr..
Grtmshaw being one of the directors of
the company, with headquarters in Lon
don (w'here he also resfdes) could not
perhaps, with more assurance and sat
israction to himself by being here upon
the ground and seeing and hearing for
he came Upon arriving he found
things precisely as Mr.. Platz had stat
ed them. and steps were Immediately
taken to go forward with the project.
Mr.. GrimShay possessed the same
opinion that Mr.. Platz had had for
some time, but had been very reticient
about expressing it; that was that the
building had been set on fire by some
unknown Person or persons; and MI
Grimshaw authorized the immediate
publication of notice which appears
in this issue Offering a reward Of $500
for the arrest and conviction Of the
person or persons who did il.
Mr.. PlatZ was seen yesterday af-
ternoon by a representative of the Ea-
gle and found things as above stated.
Mr.. PlatZ stated that ne had tried as
siduously to get the local authorities
20 look into the matter but had failed.
Had II not been for the fire the COM
pany would have been doing business
for some months past in this city.
But this stopped everything for the
time, as no definite arrangements could
he made with the former owners as to
the situation of things. The former
owners had sold the property, but as
yet had not turned 1t over 10 the new
owners at the time of the fire, and when
this time came they could not, and
Things began to coInplicste themselves
Immediately between the former own
ers and the purchasers.
Mr.. Platz has worked assiduously TO
bring il to 4 satisfactory elimination,
but without the perfect appreciation
OF the company when he represents, he
OF course could not act Mr.. GrTnshaw
heartily endorsed his action in the mat
ter, and took steps TO soon fix things
in a far different situation.
The business of this company, Il will
be remembered. - 10 purchase all the
available poultry OF the farmers Of this
vicinity. dress them for market and
ship Immediately in car load lots. a
car load OF chickens is no small num-
Der wien one thinks OF one poor lone
chicken perambulating about upon the
interior OF one OF the large refrigerator
cars, and after an idea % the prob
able number which a car Will hold some
idea OF what this company means 20
do may be better understood. when Il
is stated that they propose handling
from TWO 70 four cars Of poultry per
week
The produce VIII be shipped TO foreign