The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-03-01
MAY COME HERE.
Powder Works Formerly At PIattViIIe
To The Large Mills In
Pleasant Prairie.
OUTPUT is TO BE INCREASED.

Following the Original Plan it is Report
ed That he Business of the Defunct
Pant Will be Removed to Pleasant Prat-
RE - Sporting and Blasting Powder Both
to be Manufactured at the Kenosha
County Mills Many Employees Coming
It is reported today that the business
of the Latin & and Powder works in
Pleasant Prairie will be greatly en-
1arged during the next few days in
order to permit the transfer of all the
business formerly transacted at the
plant at P1attevi11e to this county.
Last Saturday afternoon the mill at
Plattevil1e was completely wrecked by
an explosion and the managers have
announced that the mill will not be re-
built and it is said that the business
will be brought to the Kenosha county
plant.
At the time that plans were made to
build mill at Pleasant Prairie it was
the original intention of the big pow
der company to remove the P1attevi11e
plant to this county, but as the build
ings went up the location became all
the more pleasant to the company and
it was decided to make the Kenosha
county mill one of the largest in the
country and, to still retain the one at
P1attevi11e. However, as the buildings
went up ample room was provided for
a change and now that the Platteville
mill has been destroyed, the business
will be brought to.the Pleasant Prairie
mill.
While the P1attevi11e did not have
anywhere near the output of the one in
this county it has long been the busiest
one in the long list of factories under
the control of 3the Latin & Rand COM
pany. At Plattevi11e the company
made a speciality of the manufacture
of Sporting" powder and large guam
titles were shipped daily. If the bust
ness of this'p1anti is brought to Pleasant
Prairie it will largely increase the out
put of the plant. Up to the present
nothing but blasting powder has been
made at the mill west of the city and
the addition of this new line of work
will require the employment of large
number of extra hands.
At the time when it was proposed to
transfer the Plattevi11e mill from that
city to Pleasant Prairie, the News re-
ceived letter from the employees of
the mill stating that in case the change
should besmade seventy families would
desire to follow the mills to this city.
This will make quite nice little addi-
ton to the little colony now settled
about the big plant in Pleasant Prai-
RE, and it will add, not little to the
population of the city, as many of the
people employed in the mill will desire
to have a home for their families in
Kenosha.
An effort was made this morning to
get positive statements from the Off
Gals of the company at Pleasant
Prairie, but they could not be found.
However, one of the men closely con-
nected with the work at the mills,
states that there is no doubt but that
the P1attevil1e business will be re-
moved to this city in the early spring.
The addition. of this new business to
the Pleasant Prairie plant will require
the addition of a large amount of ma
chinery to make Sporting" powder,
and it will require several months to
place this machinery in position.