The daily sentinel., 1900-06-01
COLD STORAGE---lCE PLANT.
Anheuser-Busch Co, Would Erect
One In this City--.A Golden
Opportunity.

Eld, WulCu W ILLS ClIy u
most important business enterprise. with
the proviso that a certain proportion OF
stock is taken in the business was re-
ceived last night,
Denver, May 30, 1900.
To the Mayor, Grand Junction, Colo.
Deer Sir:-The firm l represent
"Anheuser- Bush Brewing association"
OF ST. L uis, Mo, has in the past few
years, built great many ice and cold
storage plants in cities of Missouri,
Arkansas, and throughout the south,
all OF which have proven successful and
netting profits of from 10 to 25 per cent
per annum on the Investments.
In talking this matter over with our
president, Mr. Adolphus Busch, short
time ago, your city was named among
others as good field for such an enter
prise the making of artificial ice and
cold storage for fruit, vegetables, meat,
fish, etc -, and l was instructed to look
into the feasibility of starting such
factory in your city. Mr.. Busch would
subscribe one half of the necessary capi-
tai il your citizens would take the other
half, and he has had his architect make
a suitable plan, which arrived here today
and which | CAD submit to interested
parties at any time. expect to be in
your city before long, and would res
pectfully request that you take this
matter up with your Chamber OF Com
Il
portunity whether such an enterprise
would meet the cooperation Of your
citizens which we need to make the
venture success.
You have everything in your favor
a hot climate, plenty of cool water,
cheap fuel, and growing town with an
undoubted good future, and should be
glad in being able to bring this matter to
as successful conclusion as l did while
in the legislature in 85-86 in getting
your bill for the Grand river bridge
through I merlv mention the latter as
many Of your older citizens will proba-
bly, remember me. Respectfully yours,
Henry Suess
ter is well known to many of the older
citizens of Grand Junction. He vas
mainly instrumental, as he says, in Sc
curing the appropriation for the Grand
river bridge. He represents firm who
would not and does not undertake
schemes which have no promise OF not
paying a profit. The Anheuser- Busch
people are in every way responsible for
any and all contracts to which they are
party,
AS the letter states no city needs an
ice plant and cold storage wareroom
more than this city. The fruit products
OF the valley could be placed in this
cold storage building and better prices
could then be obtained than forcing a
market which might at the times be at
the very lowest ebb.
Other advantages with which the pub
lie is familiar would come from the erec-
tion OF such building and the promo
tion OF such an enterprise.
The ques ion may be asked why does
such a rich corporation ask that one
half OF the stock be subscribed by home
people? This can be READILY answered
from the fact that this is a proviso ex-
acted by almost every corporation, so
that the people will be ambitious to se-
cure the success OF the enterprise. Only
good results would arise from such
course, where if the corporation stock
was held solely on the outside, it would
be in the nature of foreign corpora
ton.
AS far as any one knows cold storage
and ice manufacturing plants have been
a decided sue cess wherever built. The
dividends have been high and the pro-
fits good.
The climate OF this valley and OF this
city in the summer time and the fact
that often it has been a matter OF con-
siderable doubt whether the regular
supply of ice from the rivers would be
secured, makes the building OF such an
enterprise matter Of personal interest
to every citizen. Here comes large
corporation knocking at the very doors
OF the city and an opportunity which
many citizens would only be too glad to
secure and it is to be hoped that some