The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-11-28
ANOTHER FACTORY.
oskaloosa Manufacturing Co.
VIII Build New Plant.

oskaloosa is to have anocner big
factory 1t is to be erected Immediate
~ and work upon the preparatory
plans begins this week. The new place
will be for the manufacture of high
grade vehicles and the redpholstering
Of Jobs. The factory viii be three
story AFFAIR forty by one hundred and
twenty feet, fronting on high avenue.
The Oskaloosa Manufacturing Com
pany by its president, Nathan Schse
has purchased the corner owned by
the Oskaloosa Street Railway Corr
pany at the intersection OF High az
enue and B street and the company
will Immediately begin the erection o.
the new factory building. II will De
Of brick with modern plate glass
front on the High avenue side and cI-
tending distance south n the B 81.
side. The basement will constitute The
first floor of the building. II will Ee
ten feet in depth, six feet in excava-
ton and four feet above Wa ter table
line. The first floor will be devoted
to parts of the work. The Second floor
will be a show room and repository
for finished work and the third story
will be devoted to painting and finish
ing. Contracts will be let Immediately
and the work will be hurried along to
completion as it is desired ny the com
pany to begin work by the First of
February. The company n ust haze
eight hundred completed Jobs ready
for the trade by May and 70 do this
there is not a moment to re lost.
The building will represent a valTs
80 oh GFNnay, fhn11ConH n Hare and
in addition to this there is al increase
in the capital of the company for tn;
enterprise to the extent Of ten thou
sand dollars, making an addition to
Oskaloosa business enterprise of $685.
10000.
The enlarging of the scope of the
work of the company is to sccOmtno-
date the remarkable increase in their
trade and by which they ara enabled
to occupy a new field. Last season thu
company disposed of twenty three car
loads of buggies that were not of their
own manufacture. Two hundred AMI
fifty jobs were disposed of in Mahaska
county alone. These goods were no.
finished by the 'OskaIoosa factory. il
is now the intention of the company
to occupy this field with their own
goods and to make those goods of a
strictly high grade class that will coI1
mand a first class price. The goods
manufactured will be known as tae
''Hawkeye" line of high grade vehicles.
Nothing of the cheaper class of vehi
cles will be turned out.
The buggies and vehicles will be re
ceived at the factory Gin the Whit,
that is implanted and untrimmed. TIL
iron and steel parts will he unassem-
bled. The wheels will be purchased OF
one factory and the boxes Of another
dashes of another and so or through
the list of parts. The vehicles will be
assembled and finished in the factory
and turned out complete, Upholstered
and painted. In addition to the new
work much attention will b. paid TO
special orders, old vehicles will be re-
painted and newly upholstered and re-
finished. Old goods will be made new
to meet the demands Of the home
trade.
Nathan Schee, president and Oren
Schee the secretary and treasurer o.
the company have just returned to the
city from an extended trip to New
York, Cincinnati and other places IL
the east where they contracted for thu |
material to be used by the factory IN |
the manufacture of their new line Of |
goods. They completed all arrange |
ments for the equipping and running Of
the plant and have returned 10 the city |
to get the new building ready to re-
ceiye the goods that will orrjve soon. |
1t viii be a continual rush to get the |
building ready for the occupancy of |
the workmen by the appointed time.