The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-03
My HAHE AUTOMOBILES
KNITTED THAT MAY BE FUTURE
WORK OF. HAZEL PARA
..-. -PLANT
HARVESTER WORKS ARE SOLD
Auction Sale Held Yesterday Under
an Order Of the District
Court Realized
S:s:II;;s ,G4s.

The plant of the Walter A. Wood H8r-
vester company was bid in under the ham
rner yesterday by R. II. Bronson, Of still
water for $40, 900. The sale was made
under the order Of the court and occurred
at the Fourth street entrance of the
court house at 10 o'clock in the morning
Competing bids We're made on the Hazel
Park plant and the company's iard I'D
joining. and various parcels Of the assets
remaining in the hands Of the receivers
were knocked down in smaller lots. Tie
aggregate amount realized was s235,Cl5.
OF this, 10 per cent of the Bronson bid
on the plant has been paid in cash, tIe
remainder to be paid when the plant is
turned over 90 it's new owner. The bids
which took the plant and the various ad-
ditional parcels were.
Patents, patent rights etc-Sey-
moUr Van SantVOord. 81 go
Patents not included in above-Sey-
mour Van Santvoord ............... 500
Patents for malleabe Work-Sey-
mour Van Santyoord ............... 1900
Van santvoord -. -, 100000
r. Brunson ..'., 'st'- 1900
Il Brunson 1'es s@s. % p'an' 1900
Five, acres north of pIant-F. B.
Kellogg ......., Observation-Disclosures. 200
Seymour Van santToord 80. .. 10000
age company ....,........ o1 1000
Kenneth Clark .... e'. II 300
Extra parts listed at $S55, 375. %, val
santvoord ,.... .................... 1900
Bills and accounts receivable, val
santvoord ...... ,.........,........., 1O,5oO
Lesh -. ........................ 2l5
Fifty miscellaneous Iots-No bids
Tools valued at $8,O0o-R. II. Brun-
son .-...... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. z,UjO
Total ...... .........................S 233. 645
Seymour Van Santvoord, representing
the Eastern stockholders of the company,
opened the bidding On the plant at $780,
600. Mr.. Bronson, of Saltwater raised
the bid, and the TWO contested for the
property until the figures went too high
for the Eastern syndicate and the prop
erty was knocked down to the Saltwater
man The property has an estimated
value of 81, 900 000 divided: buildings,
$500, 600; machinery, $4,000; land, 80 900
The Gillette-Herzog company, of Mime
apolis, which operates the malIeable iron
plant at the Harvester works under lease,
came in on the bidding, but their repre-
sentatives dropped out when the amounts
ranged above the hundred thousand mark
Kenneth Clark bid in the Minneapolis
plant and property for 81, 300 Bills re-
ceivable with a face value, amounting to
several hundred thousands of dollars,
were bid in by Seymour Van Santvoord
at sl0,5t0. The Fort Worth property OF
the harvester works went to the Arnold
Storage company of that city at $1,000.
a miscellaneous lot of extra parts, with
a listed value of s855375, brought $1,000.
Other bids brought lots at a proportion
ately small fraction of their listed values.
r. H. Bronson, to whom goes the plant,
site, land, machinery, tools and outstand-
ing accounts Of the company, is president
Of the First National Bank Of Saltwater,
and interested in several manufacturing
interests. His attorney F. q. Kellogg
stated yesterday that in bidding on the
plant he represented a number Of differ
emf interests, which will combine and es-
tablish a manufacturing institution at
the old Hazel Park plant. 1t is expected
that before another season the plant will
be again in operation with more men in
it's employ than ever before and unlim-
tied capital behind it. Statements have