The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-21
THEY GET A FACTORY.
Dreams of the North Shore Real
Estate Dealers are Finally to
be Realized.
PROSPECTS ARE VERY BRIGHT

The western Telephone Construction
Company will Locate Their Immense
Plant Between this City and Waukegan
and Will be Ready for Operation Next
May-other Great Industries Coming to
the New Harbor.
For many years the destiny of Win
throp Harbor, the little land site be-
tween this city and Waukegan, has
been the laughing stock of the news
papers in all the cities of the northwest
but the dream of the owners of real
estate in that vicinity are to be realized
and this morning papers were signed
for the location of the first industrial
plant at the proposed town, which, it
is stated, in few years will be rival
of Kenosha and Waukegan.
This morning it was announced by
the managers of the company that the
Western Telephone Construction Co.,
of South Clinton street, Chicago, have
decided to remove their manufacturing
plant to Winthrop Harbor, the new
manufacturing town on the north
shore. This company began its career
on a moderate scale in 1898, and has
rapidly grown until now it is the 1arg-
est manufacturer independent of the
Bell Co.-of telephones in the United
States. J. E. Kee1yn Is the president
and manager. Their main works are
located at Chicago and a branch is
located in West Virginia, where their
cabinet work is done. When installed
at Winthrop Harbor, their entire bust
ness will be conducted there. Several
hundred people are employed in the
different departments of the business.
Their buildings are to be of the saw
tooth roof design, plans for which are
now completed. They expect to move
into their new quarters not later than
May LIST, 1900.
The town site of Winthrop Harbor,
comprising 2725 acres of land, midway
between Waukegan and Kenosha, is
owned by the Winthrop Harbor &
Dock Company, of Chicago, of which
James H. Van V1issingen, 95 Dearborn
street, is president. This company are
now putting in a number of railroad
switches in the factory district and are
laying out and grading streets of a
subdivision. They are also erecting a
number of dwellings, to take care of
the population that the removal of this
factory will bring.
The magnet that draws the attention
of the manufacturer to this particular
| location is the fact that modern, deep
water harbor is to be constructed here.
The cost of harbor construction at this
point will be very low, owing to the
fact that deep water lies near the shore
line, and only sand and gravel are en-
countered for depth of % feet below
water level. Much attention has been
drawn to this point within the past
two or three weeks, owing to the fact
that about 1000 acres OF land adjoining
the dock company's property on the
south and west have been either pur-
chased outright Or taken under option,
supposedly for the Wisconsin Central
railroad and the Union Steel company.
The dock company people say they
expect to locate a number of large
industries here during the coming
season, and that great activity may be
expected from now on.
However the dock company people
are not the only people that will be
benefited by this addition to the manu-
featuring interest of the proposed
village as several people in Kenosha
own Jorge tracts of land in the near
vicinity, the value of which will be
greatly enhanced by the success of the
heretofore rival company.