The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-23
ACTIVE OPERATIONS
ON new BUILDINGS
South Dakota Penitentiary to
Be Equipped With Binding
Irvine Factoty.t
ALSO TO MAKE
These Industries Caused Much DtOl
in the Last General Assembly8
but Were Favored by Bills Ma
Passed During Close. n

Sioux Falls. S. D.. March 20.-Actir6E
work has commenced in getting out thei
! stone at the state Quariies for the con-
Struction at the Sioux Falls penlten-
tiary of the buildings required for the
| state binding Irvine manufacturing
plant and shirt factory, which are to
be established at the peniteniary in ac-
cordance with a measure passed by the
recent legislature.
The work of getting out the gram
lite is being lone by a force Of conVlcts
from the pcnitcntiaTy. h shirt fac
tory, it present plans materlail2e' VIII
be in operation by the middle of the
summer at the latest. 1t will employ
100 workmen. Of the three new build
ingS to be erected at the penitentiary
two will be for the binding tWine plant
and the other for the shirt factory.
Buildings Will Be Large.
Sioux Falls jasper will be used in
the construction Of all three buildings.
The largest of the structures will be
the machinery building for the Irvine
plant. 1t will be so by 100 feet in size,
and three stories high.
The storage buildings of the WING
plant will be only one story in height,
but will be so by 100 feet in size, with
a twenty foot ceiling. For. the shirt
factory tie present machinery building
at the penitentialy will be remodeled
n an addition three stories high and
forty feet square will be added to the
south end. The present structure is of
stone and three stories high. The ad-
dition will double the size of the pres
ent building.
h stitching rooms of the shirt fac
tory will be on the first W floors. In
these 100 sewing machines will be in
operation. The machines, as we'll as
the machinery for the twine plant, will
be operated by electricity. 1t is the
present intention to manufacture only
rough work shirts.
However, the members Of the state
board OF charities and corrections will
be unable to fully decide as to this
matter until they make the contracts
with firms to handle the shirts. There
are several firms now negotiating with
the board for the product of the fac
tory, and until a contract is entered
into with one or more of them it will
not be determined what sort OF shirts
are to be made.
The members OF the board estimate
that l20 men will manufacture about
200 dozen shirts each working day.
Five-year contracts will be mad with
firms desiring to use the product of the
~penitentiary. The firms which enter
into contracts Will be required to fur
nisll the bolts of material for making
the shirts and in return viii receive the
flushed product at a fixed price.
Make Binding Irvine.
The binding twine plant will be what
is known as the single system plant.
Wien running at its full capacity it
is estimated it will manufacture about
8, 900, 600 feet of binding Irvine annually.
This, however, is the maximum, and it
is not expected that the plant will be
able to max this amount until many
1nonths after it has been placed in OPP
Grafton. The maximum capacity of the
plant will just about supply the state
with one-third OF the binding Irvine
needed, as the farmers of South Da-
kota each season require over IL, 900, 600
feet of binding win
The recent legislature appropriated
the sum of $40, 600 for the Irvine plant.
OF this amount, $50. 600 will be expended
for machinery and the remaining $2O,-
600 for the erection of the necessary
buildings. AS the state owns it's own
granite quarries near the p~enitentiary,
ard has convicts employed cutting the
stone into building blocks, the neces-
sary structures can be erected for the
amount of the appropriation.
Have to Raise Big Fund.
While the shirt factory will be in OPP
Grafton by the middle of the summer,
the binding Irvine plant will not be
placed in operation for over two years
at least, for the question of raising a
fund of at least $250.000 for the pur-
chase of raw material and with which
to operate the plant. must first be sub
mitted to the voters of South Dakota
at the general election d year from
next fall.
Tn the meantime the shirt factory will
give the inmates of the penitentiary
the employment which they so badly
need and servo the purpose for which
the agitation in favor of the adding Of
a binding twine plant to the peniten-
tiary was first u
MANY mos