New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-05-25
ARE TO MAKE CHAMPAGNE
New UIm Men to Establish New
Industry.
Evergreen State Fruit Company
Branching Out.
Will Invest $50, 900 in Big Cider
and Wine Plant.

Copies of the Spokesman-Review, a
daily newspaper published at Spokane,
Wash, have been received in New
Ulm and contain an article which is of
great interest locally. It treats of the
plans of former residents of this city
and is as follows:
Work will begin this summer on a
large cider, champagne and apple
butter plant on Moran prairie by the
Evergreen State Fruit company, ac-
cording to Albert [. Setter of New Ulm,
Mimi, vice president of the company.
The company owns 900 acres of land
on the south edge of Moran prairie,
10 miles southeast of the city. Four
hundred acres are in orchard and 200
acres of that is bearing.
Mr.. Setter said: eve will put
$4,000 into the plant this summer and
will have it ready this season to turn
out between 100000 and 200, 600 gallons
of product. The buildings will be put
up L shaped and will be 15Ox25O feet
on the angles. 1t will be occupied by
fruit presses, preserving tanks, cook
ing watts, cooperage rooms, storing
rooms and bottling department. A
power house will be built separate.
''It will be built a quarter of a mile
from the proposed electric car line
across Moran prairie When that
road is constructed we will have a
spur run to our plant. There are
will produce 100000 boxes of apples,
and we ought to get nearly half of
them.
eve have secured Professor William
D. Carlisle as superintendent of our
| factory, and in him we have the best
expert preserver in the country. He
understands the making of cider, wines
and fruit buffers and has labored in
the industry both in America and
Europe. The Chicago, Cincinnati and
Kansas City Packer, the leading fruit
and produce paper in the country,
said of him: Professor Carlisle de-
serves the unlimited gratitude of fruit
growers. Not only has he taken many
varieties out of the experimental stage,
placing their products on a COM
mercial basis, but he has done more
| in his modest, unassuming way as a
STUDENT
Mr.. Carlisle has been inspecting
Moran prairie for week, and said
last night: "a plant of this kind
should be in every apple growing
community to consume to the best
advantage all fruits not able to com.
mand the best prices in the market
| Apples of good vintage will rur
about four gallons of juice to the
bushel. At that rate it does not take
a very large fruit district to support 6
big factory.
| GAS fine champagne can be made
from the apples of Washington as
ever was imported from France. A
great deal of the champagne imported
from Europe these days is made from
American apples shipped over there
in bulk. If we could put out 25O, ZOO
gallons this year we could marker
every pint of it in Chicago at gooc
prices.
''The work on the plant will begir
in the middle of summer and we viii
be ready to receive fruit October L
The pressing season usually runs
about three months. The plant will
be built at the foot of hill and the
cellars will be dug back into the hill
The plant will employ about Is people
1t is almost an unoccupied field Of
work in this country we are entering.
and I am certain we shall meet sue.
cess"