The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-10-31
THE CONTRACT LET.
The OYosSO Sugar Company 70 Have Big
geSt and Best Factory This
Side Of California.

Work to be Begun at Once-Best Times
Ever Known for Shiawassee County
Now at Hand-Factory Only Secured
on the Most Positive Guarantees on
the Part of Owosso Business Men
that the Required Acreage Would be
Given the Factory-Owosso Business
Men Had Confidence Enough in the
Rest OF the County to Guarantee
This, and Now are at the Mercy of
or Dependent on the Sense of JUST
ice of the Rest of the County
The contract for the building of the
beet sugar factory has been signed On
Wednesday at Pittsburg, Pa, the
officers of the Owosso Sugar company
contracted with the Kilby Manufacture
ing Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, for
the erection and full equipment of a
plant which is said to be the largest in
operation this side of California. Its
normal working capacity is to be
guaranteed at one thousand tons of
beets per day while its possible capacity
under crowding will be twelve hundred
TONS
To briefly recount the steps taken
since the last issue of THE TINES went
to press it may be said that the articles
of association were signed in Pittsburg,
Pa, a week ago today. On Saturday
Mr.. Carman n. Smith, the secretary and
treasurer of the company, met repre-
sentative of the citizens committee COM
pleted the arrangements of details, and
received the deed of the land for the
factory Site On Monday the articles Of
association We're filed with the secretary
of state at Lansing, the state receiving
a modest little fee of FIVE hundred dol
lars for its part in this interesting trans
action. Quickly following this transac-
ton came the election of the following
officers at meeting held in Pittsburg,
Wednesday: Charles W. Brown, pres. :;
Edward Pitcairn, vice president; Car
man N. Smith, secretary and treasurer
A. Pitcairn, comptroller; Jos. Z. Kohn,
general superintendent. The stockhold-
ers of the company are the same men who
are interested in the Michigan Chemi-
cal Works of Bay City and the Pittsburg
Plate Glass Works of Pittsburg, Pa.
The letting of the contract for the build
ing sand equipment of the factory
was closed the same day. The site has
been looked over by the engineer for the
Kilby company and the work of getting
itready for the erection of the buildings
will be begun at once, the first move
being the construction of the side tracks
from the Michigan Central and Ann Ar
Dor roads into the grounds.
The factory will comprise number
of buildings of0o mean size The main
factory building will be 70x240 feet,
four stories in height. A warehouse
with twenty foot walls, 70x200 feet in
dimensions will also be required. Six
beet sheds each 20x400 feet will be
built for the unloading and storing OF
the beets before they are washed into
the factory In addition to these build
ings will be the boiler house, lime
house, and two story Office building.
The construction will in every respect
be of the best. The name and the
makers being sufficient guarantee OF
that fact The Kilby Manufacturing
Company, which has the contract for the
Owosso factory, is the same one which
built the factories at Alma and Lansing,
the Bay City Sugar Co.'S plant at Bay
City, and the Saginaw Sugar Co. S fac
tory at Saginaw, one or more of which
have been seen by many people of this
city and county.
The railroads have been generous in
the matter of rates, giving not only the
Z rates usual throughout the state but the
Ann Arbor in addition agrees to handle
cars from the Grand Trunk which will
not have track into the grounds at the
exceptionally low rate of fifty cents per
car.
The factory is assured and it is as.
sured that it will be second to none in
point of size or efficiency, but there is
still a large amount of work-to be done
The site has been decided to thercom
pany and for this and all that it implies
the citizens of Owosso have guaranteed
that Owosso will be alone responsible
The cost of this will approximate ter
thousand dollars. In addition to this
was necessary to assure the compan,
that It could have at least eight thou
sand acres planted to beets for its use
Trusting in the willingness of the res
of the county to bear at least small
share in the expense of raising tn
necessary acreage the business men o
the'city after consulting with supervis
ors from the different townships decid
ed rather than lose the factory for tn
whole county, to guarantee that tn
: county would provide for the securing
of the contracts for the eight Thousand
acres. The result is that while tn