The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-05-08
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
Pittsburs and Philadelphia stockhold
ers In owosso Sugar Company Visit
ed the City Wednesday.


/, ed the City Wednesday.
The chief stockholders in the Owossc
Sugar Company visited the city Wed
nesday and looked over the work of the
Kilby Manufacturing Company which
is building their plant for them. The
gentlemen of the party, which number.
ed about dozen, Travelled in two pri-
vate cars which they made their head
quarters while stopping for the inspec.
tion of their property The stop AT
Owosso was made long enoughiefor a
very complete inspection of the work on
thefsctory grounds and for an ;informal
meeting with the members of the citi.
zens' committee who negotiated with
the stockholders for the locating of the
plant in this city. Among theogentle.
men present were: Chas. w. Brown,
President; Edward Pitcairn, vice presi
dent; A. Pitcairn, Comptroller, all. OF
Pittsburg; as well as the Messrs. John
Pitcairn, Clarence Brown, Little,
Hartupee, Klaus, Graves, and Belleville.
Capt. Benz. Boutell, of Bay City, Mr..
E. T. Bowen, manager of Prairie Farm
(the property of the company Mr.. Car.
men N Smith, Secretary and Treasurer
of the company, and Mr.. Jos E. Kohn.
the general manager were also members
of the party while at Owosso, as was also
Mr.. j. f. Kilby, the vice president of
the Kilby Manufacturing Company.
After the arrival in Owosso the party
proceeded first to make very thorough
inspection of the work on the plant
which they found to be progressing in a
very satisfactory way. Later in the
afternoon at the invitation of Secre-
tary Smith the committee of JOwosse
citizens who had represented the city in
the negotiations preceding the locating
of the factory, were the guests of the
stockholders in their car which was
sidetracked near the junction. Here a
very. pleasant hour was spent in CONVEX
sation and, few informal speeches.
President Brown proposed a toast to
Owosso and to the Owosso Sugar Com
pany, which was met with hearty sup
port from both visitors and Owosso citi-
zens Mr.. Brown expressed the hope
that the relations between the city and
the company would always be as pleas
ant as they had been so far and hoped
that they would always be mutually
profitable. He said that it was the be-
lief before the location of the factory
was decided on that this was the best
location for a factory in the state, and
they still believed so. A response made
by Stanley E Parkill set the position of
the city and the citizens committee
squarely before the gentlemen present
and was felt by all present to be the,
best possible statement of the purposes
of the city and a good augury for the
most cordial relations between the city
and the company in the future. The,
Messrs. Carmen n. Smith, S. S. Miner,
E. o. Dewey, Jos. E. Kohn, and John
Pitcairn were also called on for remarks
and all assisted in making the meeting
a pleasant one in every respect.
From Owosso the party went in their
special cars to Bay City, where they are
the principal stockholders in chemical
plant which manufactures alcohol from
the refuse molasses from the beet sugar
factories, an institution which has
proved a great success in the last
two years. Some of the gentle
men of the party made a visit
to Prairie Farm this side of Saginaw
ON Thursday. This farm which the
company purchased this spring COM
prises at present about ten thousand
acres and is believed to be the largest
single farm this side of the Mississippi
1t lies along the Shiawassee river and
is made up of some of the best beet land
in the United States. When it is all
dyked and brought up to the state of
cultivation which it will reach under
the companys management it will be
one of the large sources of the COM
pany's profits.
An interesting news item about the
company's intentions was made public
on the day of the visit. 1t is in connec-
ton with the Lansing sugar factory and
is set forth in an article reproduced in
another column from the Lansing Re-
publican. Briefly it is that the Owosso
company is considering very seriously
the absorption of the Lansing factory
and the management of it in connection
with the factory at Owosso. Such an
arrangement it is estimated would make
very material reduction in the COM
parative expense of management and
would enable the Owosso company to
pay considerably better dividends than
it could with the Owosso plant alone.
1t is regarded as more than possible that
the purchase will be made.
At the opening Of the mite boxes by
the w. II. M. S;rof the First M. E.
church Tuesday afternoon, refreshments
were served and program was given.