Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-06-05
A new DEAL IN MILK
Company Being Projected to
Control Supply in the
Three Cities.
DESIRE TO BUILD A PLANT HERE
Proposition Endorsed by Club
Manufactures Committee
The Plan.

The manufactures committee of
the Rock Island Club. at a conference
last night with the promoters of the
enterprise, Endorsed a pro position of
w. B. Page, of Chicago. and E. w.
Woodcock. of Elgin. to establish in
Rock Island a model bottled milk and
butter company, to be incorporated
under the laws of Illinois, with a
capital stock of 500 900, to supply
the three cities.
The location of the plant here is
conditional on the subscription of
$50, 600 stock. 1t is said that $50 600
eff the amount has already been taken
by Moline parties. Fifty Thousand is
to be common stock and $50, 900 pre-
ferred stock. The plan is 20 erect a
factory with the necessary buildings,
consisting of barn. wagon shed. ice
house, ETC. The plant will be equipped
in the most modern manner, with all
known sanitary improvements coudu-
Give to absolute perfection in the man
u'acture of butter and the bottling of
milk.
The promoters say in their per
spectus: Few people realize the
large profits to be derived from milk
and its products. among which are
the most staple articles of food neces-
sary 10 mankind. Millions of dollars
have been made from condensed milk,
but very little attention has been
given to bottled milk for family use
except in the larger cities, which are
nearly AL controlled by the condensed
milk companies. They have not yet,
however. extended their operations.
20 the smaller cities of the
United States. owing to the
fact that the bottled milk industry is
comparatively il its infancy. The
mass of people are awakening to the
fact that epidemics of diseases are. to
use of impure milk. Many scientific
treatises have been written. demon
strating the danger 10 health fr1m the
use of milk handled in a crude and
uncleanly manner, with the result
that in the large and progressive CEN
tiers the demand is for the most sci
entific and modern methods of
handling ali milk products.
Men of Experience.
Nv. b. Page, who has been con-
nected with the AugloSwiss Con-
densed MIX company for the past 20
years Q6 years in Europe and - in
the United States), has formed a con-
uection with E W. " oodcOck for the
purpose of developing and managing
the butter and milk industry on n
model, scientific, as well as practical
basis Rock Island. Ill, has been
selected by these gentlemen as a de-
sirable location for a plart of this
kind, the intention being to include
Moline ard Davenport in the system
of distribution.
A similar plant to the one pro-
jected was established over year ago
by Rock Island dairymen, who pooled
their milk supply and bottled it for
use, but the scheme was abandoned
after it had been in operation a short
time. The idea of the promoters of
the new company il understood to
buy the milk of all dairies in the
locality and prepare it AZ their plant.
May Get Box Factory.
This city is in a fair way to secure
an important industry in the shape of
a box factory, the promoter of which
has been in the city several days
looking for location. 1t now ap-
pears that the site of former factory
will be utilized.