The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-12-13
FACTORY SITE CHOSEN
Depends However on
Price of Land.
FIR. BURT WILL REFUSE TO
BE HELD up,
Thirty Acres Between M. G.
and A. A. Roads, Northwest
Part of City, is the Lo-
cation Favored.

i ne ErluaV AFTERNOON NlSlI Ol w. IL,
Burt in company with a New York
engineer resulted in the definite
selection of the location for the pro-
posed sugar factory-that is if the price
is not placed too abnormally high. An
option has been secured on the land
but there seems to be disposition to
hold the land at higher price than
the owners ever before dreamed that it
was worth and this may yet be the
means of defeating their own ends.
The site was picked out only with the
proviso that it could be secured al
reasonable price.
AS forecast N last weeks issue of
TIE TIMES, when Mr.. Burt and the
engineer came to look over the various
sites proposed for the factory they at
once said that il would be impracticable
and even impossible to locate the
factory above the city or account OF
the refuse and sewage from the same
which would have to be dumped into
near the water works on the north side
of the river, which, sewage out of the
question, would have been favored by
the greater number of Owosso citizens
and would have been much more
acceptable to the residents of Corunna,
was not considered for more than
Ranracantotiuoo
Corunna business men were in the city
and explained their wishes in the
matter to Mr.. Burt and his engineer
The latter told them that he did know
of one factory so situated but that it
had not run more than small part of
the time since it had been built because
the residents of the city through which
its refuse had run in the river had
served injunctions on 1t for maintain
ing nuisance. Mr.. Burt also ex-
planned the matter TO the men and told
them that it would be entirely out of
the question to locate the factory above
the city. On their part the Corunna
business men with the same generous
spirit which they had shown before in
the matter, expressed themselves as
satisfied with the explanation. said that
they wanted the factory in the county
anyway and would do what they could
for it even with it located on the west
side of the city.
The land which was finally settled
upon by Mr.. Burt and his engineer sub
ject to the reasonableness of the prices
demanded by the present owners, as
noted above, lies between North Chip.
man street and the west city limits,
northwest of the BE ntley lumber yard,
between the Ann Arbor and Michigan
Central tracks. 1t embraces about
thirty acres and is owned by the How
ellis, Simon, John, and William, Mrs.
Alex Mcdonald, and E. Carr. 1t is some.
what rolling and lies from thirty to
about fifty feet above the river.
If the factory is to be built on this
site the only entrance to it at present,
Chestnut street, which runs north from
Main street On the west city limits will
have to be widened from two to ut least
four rods and will have to be thorough.
ly graveled. Two other streets will
also have to be opened into the grounds,
one of them an extension of that part
Of King street running west from Chip
man street aud the other an extension
Of Oliver street across Chapman in an
angling direction beyond the Michigan
Central track. All of these streets viii
have to be of proper width and put in a
thoroughly good condition for the heavy
traffic which would necessarily 60 over
them
During the present week considerable
time has been spent by the various mem
bers of the executive committee attend
ing to different details which have come
up, one of them being the matter of
disposing of the amount of acreage
which was guaranteed by the business
men Of the city. The business men to
the number of sixty contracted for one
thousand acres but did so with the IN.
tention Of securing farmers contracts
for as large an amount of this as posi-
BILE and only working the acreage them
selves If the farmers would not take
hold of the matter. A meeting of the
business men was held Monday even
ing and committee consisting of
Messrs. A. + Hartshorn, Albert Todd,
and w. +. Payne was appointed to
solicit and secure solicitors for the re-
naming amount of some less than eight
hundred acres. The committee at once
began their work and have been at it