Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-06-19
THE PROPOSITION.
A CEREAL FOOD COMPANY PRO-
POSE TO LOCATE HERE.

And Repeat the Experience OF Battle Ireek,
Michigan, Where Such an Enterprise Has
Grown to Gigantic Proportions. and Postum
Cereal Has Invaded Civzation--The Prop
osition Seems to Be So Plain That Nobody
Needs Much Coaxins to Give Il His Sup.
port.
Here is the proposition submitted
to a well-attended meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce last Friday
evening, by Mrs. Hammett and Ball,
representatives of Eastern capital:
l. We propose and agree to erect
a plant for the manufacture OF cereal
products, and such other business as
we may include, that will cost and
have of value in the plant and busi-
ness, substantially one million dollars.
2. This plant will be equipped in
all its departments, so that all sup
plies will come to it in the raw ma
terial, and leave the plant ready for
he merchants shelf.
3. Our principal product will he a
prepared, ready to serve food, called
Nerv-u-lus," and cereal coffee
"Coffee no."
4. To do as above stated and to
make these products we will install
our plant in separate departments, em-
bracing an up-to-date roller milling
plant, a complete carton box factory
for our own use and for outside work,
and probably including the publica.
ton therein of a magazine of general
circulation, if published to be called
The Olympia. A wood box factor
for our use. Baking department,
roasting department, packing and
shipping departments, and warehouses
for storing raw material, grain, and
the manufactured product.
| 5. We will build by department
and commence operating each as soon
as completed and equipped.
6. When completed in all its de-
partments the plant will when run
ming at its full capacity, give and have
the capacity to give. employment to
not less than five hundred employees,
substantially so per cent OF whom will
be males. The payroll for these en-
ployes would in round numbers ag-
gregate from $4,000 to $25,OOO per
month.
Z. At less than its capacity this
plant would use of grain and its pro-
ducts from two hundred and fifty to
three hundred thousand bushels, con.
sisting of wheat, rye and barley, the
outlay for which you can figure as we'll
as We can from ten to fifteen thousand
per month.
s. We will agree for five years and
probably thereafter, to buy at five
cents above the local market price, all
wheat, rye and barley that is at any
time delivered to our plant, and
grown in your county, or near the
county line.
9. From the first we shall set apart
for that purpose and spend for news.
paper and periodical publication ad-
vertising four thousand dollars per
month, which sum will be steadily
increased until it reaches several times
that sum.
10. We shall place in each of our
food boxes (pound boxes) pamphlets
or leaflets, advertising our products,
your city, its resources, advantages,
and institutions, including business
houees.
ii. Each pound box by the print
ing thereon, will be an advertiser until
it is destroyed, and will advertise your
city, for on each will be our name,
which, if we locate with you, will in.
clude your name, "Olympia," and our
address, Olympia, Washington. Our
product will require from fourteen to
fifteen million OF these boxes per year,
and our workmen will make them.
IL. In our negotiations for respec-
tive cities we have insisted upon and
can arrange for large area, made
necessary by the parties interested in
this plant owning q practically con.
trolling interest in fourteen. hundred
acre marble quarry needing yards for
its products to distribute it to the
trade, and other enterprises owned
largely by them that may be brought
here to your city and grouped TO-
gether, yet all of this large site, and
all demands made by way of bonus
will not aggregate ten per cent. of the
amount of our investment in this
plant.
Surely by this plant an increase of
ten per cent. in all property values is
not too much to expect, considering
which, the amount we ask will be less
than one per cent, in fact, the small.
est fraction OF a per cent. of the
amount in values that our investment
will contribute to your citizens.
We predict the locating of such
plant in your city, would at this time,
mark an epoch in its growth, and
start it to the place it should occupy
as to population and commercial i'm
portance. The direct result increas.
ing your population two thousand,
figuring five to the family of our EN-.
ployes. If we locate with you will do