The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-06
FOR A CANNING FACTORY.
Otto Kuehner Agrees to Take Ten
Shares in One
IF NINETEEN OTHER PEOPLE

Will DO as WelI-It will Take $4,000
10 Establish FactOry-A Few
Words by she "JOurnaI' on PreVi-
GUS Mistake s i'm Topeka Industrial
Projects.
TOPEKA, March 5, 1896.
To the Editor of the State journal:
In answer to the article in Wednesday
evenings JOURNAL. we would say that
the suggestion that we want, or need,
canning factory amounts to nothing, as
this suggestion has been made too often
The only thing for the writer to do ia to
go to work and get one started.
1t takes at least $4,000 to start fac
tory of that kind; that amount could be
made up by a stock company. There is
no Individual who wants to stick $4,000
into a canning factory, probably never
to see it again. There are as many
canning factories started and "busted,"
and sold to the insurance companies as
there are vinegar factories, but as we
have fertile valley, there is no doubt
that such a factory, under proper man
agement, could be made a success. To
start the ball rolling, we will be one of
twenty to take ten shares at 800 each
in a company organized for the purpose
of canning goods.
Hoping to hear from the other nine
teen before it is too late to utilize this
seasons products, we remain,
Yours very resp'y,
OTTO KUEHNE & Co.
There is much truth in what Mr..
Kuehne SAYS; the success of a canning
factory doesn't depend on ''the field for
it." or the supply of products, or the
market; its success depends almost alto
gether on the man who runs the factory.
Business ability is SO rare that more than
10 per cent of the business men fail.
So that when a man is found who can
conduct a business successfully, people
flock to him with their money to invest;
that is every body 1ocks to him except So
called boards of trade and people with
city additions to get off their hands.
They, somehow, seem to pick out a
man to start factory who has never
been heard of, and whose antecedents are
unknown, to waste their money on. We
have the cotton mill, the sugar mill, the
wheel factory, the frog factory and the
wooden factory to point to as the result of
their efforts.
Now why does it never occur to these
promoters" to take the money they
'blow in" on these fy-up-the-creek ven
lures and invest il with business men
who have made success of their BUSH
nessf Why not offer their thousands to
such men as r. L. Cofran to double the
size of his foundry and employ twice as
many men; or to Charles Wolff to make
his packing house bigger; or to Otto
| Kuehne to enlarge his business and
double his employees; or Joseph Bromich
| to enlarge his boiler making industry
| No doubt any of these gentlemen would
insure the investor good income. But
NO, these people prefer to run away of
| to Sebec, Maine, or some other place
after some unknown man to waste theiT
money upon.
The JOURNAL suggests that if a canning
| factory is to be built here, Otto Kuehne
| be put in charge of it. He, has made g
wonderful success with his vinegar and
pickle works. We believe in encourag
| ing home talent whether it is business
talent or any other kind of talent. And
| if we are to build any more wooden mills
| or cotton mills or wheel mills let US pick
| out as the man to run them somebody in
/ Topeka who is a success and not seek
| any more failures from abroad