The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-08-31
Rockdale

| Monday.
| Miss Larson has a friend of hers visit
| ing here this week.
Tobacco harvesting is the order of the
day. Fine crop around here.
Miss Jessie Severson of Stoughton at
tended the funeral of her uncle.
Miss Erickson of Madison was a
caller at Herried's last Sunday.
Miss Dora Hetland of Stoughton was
caller in town last Saturday.
| Mrs Casper Holm of Stoughton ar
rived here last Sunday to spend a few
weeks with relatives.
| Christine M Holverson entertained a
few of her friends last Sunday at the
home of her uncle Ed Holverson.
| Soverhill & Porter to Build Warehouse.
A warehouse that will hold seven
thousand cases of tobacco that is light
ed by electricity, heated by steam and
fitted with all modern appliances for
handling leaf tobacco will be built at
once on West Milwaukee street by
Messrs. Soverhill & Porter. The lot on
which this new warehouse will be built
/ lies just west and adjoining the one re-
Gently purchased by the Wisconsin Car
riage Co, and extends from Milwaukee
street back to the Northwestern tracks.
The new warehouse will be different
from any warehouse ever built in this
city, There will be no basement to the
building, everything being above ground,
the sorting, handling and packing de-
partments all being on the main floor
The architecture of the building will be
something after the style of the old rink
building, being but one story high.
The plans call for a building with a
frontage of eighty feet on Milwaukee
street and extending back one hundred
and thirty two feet, twenty feet high at
the caves and thirty five feet at the peak.
The front will be of solid brick, with
wooden sides and rear, covered with iron
in imitation of stone. The interior of
the building will be divided up into
main storage room sixty by one hundred
and thirty-two feet. A sorting room one
hundred feet long by twenty i'll width,
bundle room sixteen by twenty, and
packing room thirty by forty feet The
main room will be fitted with two NOV
able carriers running on tracks extend
ing the entire length of the building,
with which cases of tobacco can be
handled with ease and piled in any part
of the building. The roof over this part
of the building being high enough to
admit cases being piled ten tiers high.
The sorting room will be fitted with all
the latest appliances for handling tobac-
co; it will be lighted from above by six
large skylights and on the sides by fif-
teen large double windows making it the
best lighted and best ventilated sorting
room in the city. The entire main floor
will be used for curing tobacco, many
advantages being claimed for the system
over the warehouses that are three and
four stories high. There will be large
sliding doors at each end of the building
and when a crop is brought in the farm
er can drive in on to the floor and after
weighing on large set of scales that
will be located near the front door, drive
to the place where the crop is to be placed
and unload thus doing away with the
bother of handling the bundles two or
three times. The building will be heat
ed by steam by a pipe from the Wiscon-
sin Carriage Co.'S boiler and will also be
lighted by electricity. There will be no
fires allowed in the building.
1t is the intention of Messrs. Soverhill
& Porter to make this a model ware
house in all respects and the building is
to be in keeping with the lot on which it
is located. The Northwestern railroad
company will put in a side track for the
joint use of the Wisconsin Carriage Co.
and the warehouse.-Gazette.