The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-06
B|N)S N|IH GRASS TN|NE
HARVESTER TO BE MADE At RE-
ORGANIZED HARVESTER PLANT
AT HAZEL PARK
SALE OF WORKS COMPLETED
Hazel Park Property Passes Into
the Possession of the Amer
lean Grass TYvine
Company.

s. H Chisholm, Hon. Henry Z. How
land and ]. F. O'Shaughnessy, directors
of the American Grass Twine company,
which owns, controls and operates
plants for the manufacture Of grass
binding twine and grass twine products
at st. Paul, Mimi, Oshkosh and West
Superior, Wis, and Brooklyn, n. Y,
yesterday bought. and paid for in cash,
through Mr.. r. H. Bronson, of Still
water. Mimi, the Walter A. Wood Har-
vester company's plant at ST. Paul.
This company, three years ago, estab-
lished their first plant at Oshkosh, Wis,
and soon after purchased the property
of the Northwestern Cordage company,
St. Paul, which was afterward equipped
for the manufacture of grass binding
twine and grass twine products
The demand for the companys products
so greatly increased that it was found
necessary to increase the capacity of its
st. Paul plant eight fold and establish
other plants at West Superior, Wis, and
Brooklyn, n. Y.
The company manufactures, from the
hitherto waste swamp grass of the
marshes of Wisconsin and Minnesota
such staple products as the following:
Binding twine, rope and other cordage,
American grass carpet and rugs, carpeC
lining, cotton bagging and ether woven
fabrics, bottle covers and line of furni-
ture similar to that made from reed ana
rattan, but sold at about 80 per cent less.
The Importance and magnitude of this
industry may be judged from the fact
that the company already employees in
the gathering of its grass from its grass
lands about 1900 hands; at the st. Paul
mill at present, about 900, which will be
increased during the current year to
about 1,200 hands; Oshkosh about 400;
West Superior, which will soon be put in
operation, about 500, and Brooklyn, 200.
The company manufactured and sold,
for the last harvest, a limited quantity Of
grass binding twiae, which was success
fully used in the harvest of the last crop
of grain III the Northwest A larger
quantity was not marketed for the
reasons, that, the company, since COM
mencing operations, has been constantly
behind its orders for the woven fabrics.
A considerably larger quantity of bind
ing twine has been manufactured, sold
and is now being shipped to dealers in the
following states: Michigan, Ohio. Ken
tTeky and Tennessee and the Northwest
ern states.
The company is now prepared through
It's increased capacity, to manufacture ii
a large way its grass binding twine, to
meet the demand from the farmers Of all
sections of the United States for a cheap
and satisfactory twine to bind grain, and.
in order to protect and further the in
terest5 involved, the company has pur-
chased, today, the extensive Walter A.
Wood Harvester company's plant at ST.
Paul, one OF the largest of its kind in
the United States, with buildings cover
ing about eleven acres, together with
fifty acres Of land adjoining, giving ample
room for future extension. 1t is the in
tention of this company, in the opera
tion of ITS harvester plant, to furnish a
harvester and binder that win be adapted
to the perfect use of grass binding twne
and that will also work other standard
makes of twine equally as well Both the
harvester and binder and grass binding
twine put out by tbs Company will he
guaranteed to work perfectly.