The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-02-08
ANOTHER LARGE MANUFAC
TURING PLANT TO BE
ERECTED IN MANI
TOWdDC
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and Moritz Nelson. Mr. PatZer and
Mr. Nielsen are brother-in-laws of Mr..
William Rahr The capital stock of the
Company is $l00, 600 and is all held by
members of the Rahr family, William
Rahr, O. Rahr, Max Rahr, Reinhardt
Rahr, c. Z. Patzer and Moritz Nielsen.
At meeting of the stockholders Mr..
William Rahr was elected president.
The erection of the new plant will be
begun at once and will be in operation
by the time the new crops harvested
Sept. 1, 1900. The plant will be erected
at the foot of 10Th and Goth streets near
the river on block 40 and al, The Wis
consin Central Railway having surveyed
and staked out track facilities, will run
their tracks into this property at once.
The property has river frontage and
eventually as more industries go up in
this section of the city the river Will
have to be dredged. thus giving this
property shipping opportunities by.water
as we'll The location seems to be an
ideal one III our estimation rs 1t can be
reached by two GU railroads and also by
water The plant Will have an annual
output Of 800, coo bushels, The founda-
tion will however be built with a view
of increasing this capacity to 1000, 600
bushels in the course Of a few years.
The system adopted is the Saladin Pneu-
matte system of mailing. The machin
cry for the new plant has all been con
tracted for with She Saladin Pneumatic
Mailing Construction Co, Of Chicago
who are the American representatives
Of the French Patents The malt house
proper with the terminating compart
ments, dry kiln, engine room, attem
perating rooms and Boiler room will be
POI feet long and 116 feet wide. There
will be eight terminating compartments
each having capacity Of 400 bu The
duration of the mailing process will be
eight days. This has never been at
tempted III this country before by any
maltster and is new feature in mailing
which Mr. Rahr is introducing. TIL,
malt made in this country 50 far has
generally been given 4 to ) days at the
most to terminate in In extending
the terminating duration from > to s
days Mr. Rahr claims to be able to pro
duce superior quality Of malt. Mr.
Rahr saws that his experience of p
years ! practical maltster will insure
TO the new company perfect construction
of the plant, which will be a model one
and the first eight day house in the Unit
ed States. The elevator will be erected
on the side facing the river, will be 100
feet long, by 30 wide and will have Il
storage capacity Of 400 600 bushels of
grain. The cleaning machinery will be
placed on the ground floor annexed to
the west side Of the elevator in separ-
ate cleaning house 50x60 The weighing
will be done by automatic weighing ma
chimes. The engine will be Corliss of
200 horse power fed by two 400 horse
power boilers. The plant will supply its
loNH tltCtIlC llSlll anu luS OWN water
from the river. The boilers will he CON
structed by Mr.. Hess. Mr.. John Keith
will do the driving Of the piles for the
elevator foundation The building stone
will be shipped in over the Wisconsin
Central from Hamilton, Wis, as soon as
the side tracks are completed Mr.. Gus
tn,r, I 4 h.,
work. The mason worl has not yet been
arranged for. In the construction of this
large plant there will be used 800 cubic
yards of stone, one million brick and one
million feet of lumber. Mr. William
Rahr who is president of the William
Rahr Sons Co says that that company
has been badly handicapped for several
years by having no switching arrange
ment by which barley purchased on the
Wisconsin Central lines could be deliver
ed to them at their present malt house
in cars. Although a track connecting
the Northwestern with the Wisconsin
Central track exists. the Northwestern
. ltl tSto w w OILY tdT utllNtT-
ing to or from the Wisconsin Central to
the VIM. Rahr Sons Cos malt house.
This is one of the main factors why the
new malt house will be erected on track
reached by the Wisconsin Central Ry. !;
the other reason and it seems a very i'm
portant one is that the Company will
have shipping facilities by water. The
office of the Manitowoc Mailing Co. will
be in the Office of the William Rahr
Sons Co., which has lately been enlarg-
ed, where Mr.. VIM. Rahr who is presid-
ent of both companies can be found at
all times. We are proud to note the
progress that is being made in our city
in the lines of increased manufactures
We predict for the new company the
success which has always crowned all
Of Mr.. Rahr's undertakings both private
and public Mr. Rahr has energy and
Dnsh ns the RIGHT uualitv ppupln1 vi tI