The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-11
WANT NO BONUS
Bird Canning Company Asks
Only for Raw Material.
WILL ESTABLISH FACTORY
IF the Product of 200 Acres Is
Guaranteed.

Mr. N. Bird Of the Bird Canning COM
pany is in the city getting out contracts
with farmers to grow crops suitable for
use in the factory which the company
wishes 10 establish here. II is one Of the
requirements OF the company before they
viii begin constr>kion OF their plant
that they have at least 200 acres under
contract.
They have to have at least the amount
OF crops that would be grown on this
amount OF ground before there would be
any assurance that they could operate
, their plant all OF the time during the
season. This amount Of ground has ban
required whenever they establish q fac
tory. They do not ask a bonus OF any
kind. AL they want is that the farmers
OF this section should guarantee that the
factory should receive all OF the market
able product OF two hundred acres OF
land and the company agrees TO buy all
! Of this product and furnish employment
to a large number OF people during tho
canning season. The company now has
factory at ST. joe. Mo. Topeka and
Rocky Ford. Colorado. and they desire 70
open one here as they believe that goods
which they wish to handle can be grown
here cheaper, and OF better quality than
The Bird Canning company has been IN
business over thirty years and the man
ayers at present are the ones who start
ed in the business in a small way more
than quarter OF century ago and they
come here with every recommendation
that they are practical canning and bust
ness men.
They have been making contracts with
the farmers OF this vicinity for the past
acres under contract for the coming year
and the balance must be forthcoming in a
few days. This company will expend ten
thousand dollars among the farmers OF
Sedgwick county before August first Of
this year and there should be no trouble
in getting the number of acres asked for
especially as the company asks nothing
al the hands Of the people except that the
people furnish the raw material to work
on.
TO q reporter for the Eagle. Mr.. Bird
last night, said: ITS up to the farmers
Of Sedgwicl1 county whether you have a
canning factory running here every year
or not It don't cost cent to sign con-
tracts. and If the people viii show good
faith there will be a factory here within
three months. All we ask is that the
farmers will guarantee to sell US the
product from two hundred acres Of land
planted TO sugar corn and tomatoes. We
do not ask for any crop but OF course
VIII handle fruits of all kinds that are
usually used by a plant Of this kind We
are making contracts now with the farm
ers and there is apparently nothing to
stop US from building plant at the pres
ent time. We make contracts TO pay for
sugar corn at the rate OF four dollars per
ton, tomatoes at twenty cents per bushel
and pickles at eighty cents per hundred
pounds furnished at the factory and we
pay weekly for all stuff furnished US. All
we ask is that the farmers viii furnish
us with the goods and we viii furnish the
capital and market and guarantee to take
all of the product brought TO Us.
Now we do not expect to build a great
big plant here right at the start That
is not our way Of doing business. We
viii build q plant that viii be large
enough TO take care of a considerable
larger amount Of raw material than two
hundred acres viii give and IS the stuff
comes in in larger and larger quantities
demands If the people VIII but sell Us
their stun we will take all that is coming
Ny brother viii be here in few days and
if ! have the requisite number Of acres
under contract then We VIII begin 10
figure on the plant
"Sedgwick couny raises as good IL not
better tomatoes and sugar corn as any
place we have a plant and there is no
reason why we should not do business
here If we can only get the farmers in
terested. I can only say that as we ask
no bonus from your people, they should