Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-07
CAPACITY WILL BE 10000 BAR
RELs PER YEAR OF THE
FINEST PRODUCT.
$3.50, 900 CAPITAL
Plant to Be Erected on Site Occupied
by Hysienic Ice Company Whose
Plant and Business Is Purchased BY
New Company.

A brewing plant with capacity Of
10000 barrels per year will he estab-
lished in this city within the
next few months by COM
pany which was incorporated for $780,
1000 Saturday afternoon under the IL.
tie, "The Ottumwa Brewing & Ice
Company" The contract for the con.
struction of the plant Is to be let in
a few weeks and work on the building
Is to begin as soon as the weather will
permit.
1 The plant is to be located at the
present site of the Hygienic Ice COM
pany, whose business and plant has
been purchased by the new company.
The present ice manufacturing and
cold storage plant of the Hygienic COM
pany Is to remain practically un.
changed. The buildings are to be en-.
larged, new stories are to be added
and new structures are to be built be.
Il side the old ones.
J The beer manufacturing equipment,
is to be established in the new struc.
lures and the additional stories, The
main part of the old structure which
Is now three stories Is to be Increased
to five. The area way of thirty feet
which Is between the two present
buildings Is to be built up three stories
In height to conform to the cold stor.
age building beyond.
A Handsome Structure.
!, Beyond the old structures and facing
, the Burlington right of way new adj
ditions Will be erected. The whole
when completed with a large towering
smoke stack. will make a handsome
appearing plant.
> Site Is Ideal.
r The site Is an ideal one 1t Is slo-
), Gated on the west side of Cass street,
running through from Samantha street
: on the north to Mill street on the
south 1t is not only in the heart OF
the city but has BOG feet fronting on
| the Burlington right Of way, has side
tracks to the Milwaukee and is within.
J $50 feet of the Rock Island. making
the site an almost ideal shipping point.
The company Is incorporated for
the use of $250,000 capital and is to
begin business when s175,000 Is paid
j. In. 1t is understood that this amount
is at present guaranteed and all but
between $1,000 and $4,000 will be
held by Ottumwa and Wapello county
people. The only stock to be held by
outside parties is to be block taken
!. by the contractor who is to build and
. establish the beer making plant
n To Continue Present Business.
8 The new company will continue the
Y, manufacture and sale Of Ice and will
n also continue the cold storage busi-
l. ness till such time that the entire
D room In the cold storage plant is
e needed for the beer business. This
1t will be when the plant reaches a total
e capacity Of about 10000 barrels per
s. year.
r Officers Of the Company.
L. T. Crisman is named as president
of the company, and the directors are
N as follows: L. T. Crisman, c. A. Walsh,
II Thomas Stodghill, DR.. A. c. Lee, and
e.. G. F. Silvers The other officers have
not yet been selected.
e. lncorporators.
IT, The incorporators Of the company
lg as they appear on the papers filed in
to the office of Recorder L. L. Swenson
w are DR.. A. G. Lee, G. F. Silvers, L. T.
in Crisman and Thomas Stodghill.
or viii Make Good Beer.
The new company will make the
y best product. The machinery Is to be
.. -. the latest and most up to date and the
:. equipment Is to be perfect In every
- - way. Correspondence is now beine
~ carried on with number Of the besi
beer makers in the country to take
charge Of the plant and the one with
whom 1t is expected that contract
.f will be closed has been in the employ
Of practically every one of the great
beer making concerns of the country
y. Keep Money at Home. 81
+ 1t is estimated by the promoters that
-. 81 900 rer day goes out Of Ottumwa 10,
II. beer, It is anticipated that by the END
a a. of the first year $500 Of this can sbs
- kept in the city hy the new establish
no ment and from that time on an in
ae y, crea sing per cent he 'sent at home I'm
Ae TIL practically the 81 900 that now goe'
out can he kept In the business chan
nels of Otttumwa.
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