Arizona republican., 1904-06-03
A PHOENIX HOSE FACTORY
That Is Among the Early Indus strial
 Possibilities.

| MT. J. G. McKibban left yesterday
 morning for Midland, a suburb of St. | Louis, and his former home. It may be | said that he is the builder of Midland, | as he has been of many of the principal | structures of St. Louis, among them the Union depot He was one of the | most successful building engineers of the Mississippi valley He was tco | successful, for though young man, he was compelled to give up his pro- fession on account of nervous prostra- tion, induced by his growing volume of business.
 He was compelled to come west and
 engage in some occupation in which
 there was the least possible confine-
 ment. Soon after coming to Phoenix,
 he became the agent for Arizona and
 the southwest of the Winona Mil's by
 which are manufactured certain special
 lines of hosiery, especially women's
 stockings. These articles are sold di-
 rectly to the consumer and MT. McKib-
 ban has established agencies through
 out the territory.
 After short visit at his former home
 he will go to New York, where the
 mills are located. Now a description
 Of the object of MT. McKibban's visit to New York is mighty delicate matter. But the story must be told and it must
 be told with bated breath, if not in d whisper.
 MT. McKibban's trip may result in the establishment of a factory in Phoe- nix for the manufacture of two lines of ladies hose. It may be asked why. if two lines should be made here, all lines should not be manufactured as well. The explanation is approached with diffidence but since it must be given. one might as well plunge in and have it over with.
 MT. McKibban and his agents in this territory and southern California have made an anatomical discovery when could not we'll have been made excep5 by persons engaged in the sale of la dies hose: perhaps drygoods clerks in the towns of the southwest had pre- viously made the same discovery. and that was that hose made for the careful fitting of ladies in the north and east would not do at all for large number, l perhaps half. of the ladies of Arizona and southern California
 It is painful to proceed, but having gone so far there can be no turning | the lower limb, and especially the ankle, precludes the use by the ladies i of this southwestern jurisdiction of the ! products of the Winona Mills, con | after the lines of the more nig- i gardly limbs of the women of New | England.
 Mir. McKibban wrote to the Winona l people about this and suggested great | IT. in 70 cially below the knee. The Winona peo- of Mir McKibban would . an overhauling of their ma They didn't believe it would . be raid for by the profits on the in- creased sales. They would, m fact. Il nave to put in new machinery for the of those special lines de- 4 handed by the Arizona and southern California trade.
 The machinery used at the Winona Mills is different from that of any other. There is really nothing else like L. Et is especially constructed, whi'e machinery for ordinary stocking CT un- ierwear knitting may be purcha-ed eady made in almost any manCfactur ng center.
 In the course of the correspondence between MT. McKibban and the Winona people the former was informed that making the peculiar Winona titch might be made and adjusted to he ampler Arizona lower limb, but it would involve considerable expense, if Ar. McKibbau wanted to undertake it. That is what he is going to New York or and if the machinery does not cost co much he will have it made and will probably have it set up in Phoenix in ime to turn out stockings for the win CT trade.