Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-15
HAS An Old FLAVOR.
Glucose Company Threatening to
Remove Its Factory Elsewhere,
and Des Moines Claims 1t.
This Notwithstanding That the City
is Making Efforts to Remove
Grounds for Complaint.
The Des Moines Story, and What
President Matthiessen
Says of 1t.

The Des Moines Leader, after spend
ing the summer plastering the state
map With paper railroads. is now en-
gagedin the big task of moving million
dollar manufacturing plants. The
capital city's latest undertaking is the
removal of the Marshalltown glucose
factory to Des Moines The following
article, under big headlines. appeared.
in the Leader of this morning.:
Negotiations are pending for the re-
moval To This city of the big plant of
the Glucose Sugar Refining Company
OF Chicago. now located at Marshall
town. F. NJ Hubbell is In Chicago and
spent Yesterday with the officers Of the
company, going over a proposition
which. 1t is believed, will induce the
company To remove to this city He
viii probe bly, be in Chicago ali day to-
day
The plant at Marshalltown is the
largest of five the company is now OPP
Grating. The others are in Chicago.
Peoria, Rockford add Davenport The
Marshalltown plant represents an in
vestnaent of about 100000 in building 5
and land and of enough more in ma
chinery and portable steel elevators to
bring the total investment up to $1,000
900. 1t consumes $4,000 bushels Of corn
every day it is in operation and em-
ploys about 800 hands, nearly all of
whom are men and a large portion Of
whom are skilled workinen. II IS one
sof the largest labor employing iilstitu-
tions in Iowa and by far the largest
consumer of Iowa products in the state.
Trouble with the authorities at Mar
shalltown and with private citizens
over sewerage, taxes smoke, doors
arising from the plant. etc, are at
trbuted as causes for tho desire to re-
move. The company has been in trou-
BILE of one kind or another there for
years. Another reason for desiring to
|come to Dies Moines is that the cppor-
tunities for securing aborers ara bet
ter in the larger cities. there are better
railroad facilities to be had and there
will be a great saving in the item of
freights on fuel. A train load of coal a
day is used by the Marshalltown plant
and this is freighted from the MahaslSa
Icounty coal fields al a considera BILE eX-
pense. In Dies Moines this item of
freight would be practically wiped out.
The negotiations looking TO the res
moval of the plant to Des Moines were
first taken up through Mr. +. u. Ham
lin, of 2l0 Fifth street a grain dealer
Iof several years experience in Dies
Moines. and who has done most of the
buying for the company in Iowa
through his agency in this city. F'ol-
lowing recent difficulties in Marshall
town representatives of the company
came to Des AIoines and announced
that they We're seriously considering
removing their plant from that city TO
some other We'll situated Iowa town. MIR.
Hamlin suggested Dies Moines to them
land as a result of the suggestion officers
Eef the company have been in Des
Moines twice to look the field over.
Their last visit was paid this city sun
day last. On that day they drove over
| a portion of the city and examined sew
| eral prospective sites. They looked int to
the railroad situation. examined figures
with reference 10 the item of fuel that
| had been prepared for their considera-
ition and went away leaving the impress
lssion that they would locate here if
proper inducements were held out TO
them. Asked what the Inducements
Should consist of they said that proba-
bly, bonus sufficient TO defray a por-
lstion of the cost of removing the ma-
chinery from the Marshalltown plant,
some concessions in the way OF taxes
and the donation of a site of at least ten
acres of ground easily accessible to all
the railroads would be about all that
would be asked If 1t was decided to re-
move.
Before this visit the matter had been
| presented to f. NJ. Hubbell and he had
made an offer of several tracts. One
tract of ten acres is situated on the east
bottoms, close to the starch factory and
| immediately over the water drift from
which the starch works secures its sup
plies. 1t is within easy reach of the Des
Moines Union tracks and of the Rock
| Island and Burlington companies, who
own their own terminals, While it can
| be reached from the Northwestern over
! the Des Moines Union. This was the site
that impressed the visiting officials
most flvorably and the one that is like
lily to be accepted If it is decided to re-
move
| MIR. Hubbell has agreed to donate
| this ten acres to the company. as a
starter in the effort to induce 1t to re-
move to Des Mones, and further than
THAT has agreed for the Dies Moines
lstnion road to build whatever tracks
the company may desire TO the works
and to make an annual contract with 1t
for switching grain and coal TO the
plant and taking out empties and
| freight for shipment to the markets.
This is the proposition he will submit
to the officers of the company in Chi
icago today.
Mr.. Hamlin. when seen by a re-
porter yesterday, was not disposed to
go into the details of his negotiations
with the company All he would say
was that the information set out in the
above Is practically correct; that the
negotiations looking to the removal of
the company are in progress: that MIR.
| Hubbeil is in Chicago in this connec-
| ton and that he had spent some time
with the officers of the company while
! they We're in Des Moines looking over
cites, Investigating railroad facilities,
etc.
Continuing, Mr.. Eamlin said: i
consider the prospects very good for Sc
curing the removal of the plant to Des
Moines If the proper inducements are
held out and can say with some de-
gree of certainty that we are to have
/ an investment made here very shortly