The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-16
THINGS ARE MOVING.
Brief Notes Of the Progress lola is Max
ing in Various Directions.

ing IA OONAVhSs
Up at the Smelter work has begun
on new 600 retOrt block of furnaces,
just to the northwest of the two new
| blocks. In addition to this a new
| building, 50x250, has been staked of,
extending west from the north end of
the main building, in which will be
placed additional machinery for
handling ore, and probably one or
more calcining ovens. A considerable
amount of the new machinery is al
ready here, and the buildings would
be farther along than they are except
for the Mississippi floods which have
delayed shipment of lumber from the
South. When the canyons came
here they promised to give us all the
smelter we would want, and there is
certainly abundant evidence that they
will keep their word. At the rate
they are going it will not be long I'M
til their works will extend over the
entire II acres of their grounds.
Fred Vandegrift, in his Star notes,
once made q flippant allusion to our
projected brick plant as "a blind
horse and a wheel barrow" II he
could see the carloads of heavy ma
chinery that are now being put in
place by Mr.. Harmon and his force of
twenty men, he would apologize in
sack cloth and ashes. Two or three
of the big trade papers took occasion
to make fiattering comment upon the
splendid plant that was going to lola,
declaring that the order for machin-
cry was the biggest that has been
placed so far this year. MIR. Harmon
expects to be making brick within 80
days. And that will mean that lola
people can buy brick then for trifle
more than half what they pay now.
Mr.. Funk is down from NeoshO
Falls this week, and he and Mr..
Dudley have both been hard at work
getting things in shape at the Cream
cry. Their machinery has been de-
lsyed somewhat, but is expected with
out fail the last of this week, so that
active operations ought to begin with
in ten days or two weeks.
Work on the new factory gas we'll
has also been delayed by tsrdy ship
ments of material, but it is down $40
feet and a few days more will finish
it. The product of this well will be
devoted solely to factories, for which
purpose it will be furnished free.
One of the best openings in lola for
the investment of moderate amount
of capital, is in the stone business. A
quarry of the finest limestone in Kan
fine that the State GeOlogist
to it as lola marbIe"-has
been opened up and operated suffi-
GENTLY to show that with proper ma
chinery and experienced management
it would be fine investment. The
stone has been we'll advertised all
over this part of Kansas and the man
or company who would come here to
operate it on a large scale would find
the demand already created. Addi-
tional international regarding this
quarry may be had by addressing
c. II. DcClute, lola.
Another splendid opening here is
for broom factory. The power and
a large part of the buildings used by
Mr. r. r. Claiborne in his successful
Cider and Sorghum Works, are idle
from the nature of the business
nearly months in the year. They
could be utilized in the manufacture
Of brOoms, and an experienced broom
maker, with a reasonable amount of
capital, would find Mr.. Claiborne !
ready to meet him half way in es-
'ablishing the enterprise. 1t goes
without saying that broom factory,
n the heart of a broom corn country
md within easy reach of big whole
Ealing points, should be success.
But we just started out to say, that [
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