Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-15
Five Factories Have Gained as Many
as Were Employed in Glucose =
Eight Offset Buggy Factory Failure
Seven More Show Gains-lowa
Central Bigger Than Ever Before.


fact that among those that have re-
MANNED and the many new ones which
have started up, five of them show in
creased employment to more than off
set the 200 men lost with the glucose,
eight of them have gained more than
were lost when the buggy factory
closed and seven of the smallest more
than compensated us for the loss Of
the Iowa Central offices. Even the
Iowa Central itself has given us in
creased employment for 81 additional
shop men or twice as many as she
took away from us with her general
offices. Fully 100 new families have
come here just to live and the other
gains offset the loss of carpenters and
artisans who should be at work here
had we building boom on. A study
of these conditions should suggest as
to the future. 1t may he that now Is
the time to buy Marshalltown proper
ty.
The Marshalltown Pottery Company
has been organized since 1900 and en-
ployes sixty men.
The A. E. Shorthil Go. has increased
it's employment from So to IS mem, or
a gain of fifty.
The Lennox Machine Co., notwith-
standing the fact that it's furnace de-
partment has been sold to an lnde-
pendent company, now employees ~
more men than it did five years ago.
The Lenllox Furnace Company,
new organization, now employees 90
men directly, and about 10 of the Len
nox Machine Co.'S moulders are en-
gagged on the furnace company's cast
ings making the new company's en-
ployrnent at least IS men more than
were employed in the department nVe
years ago.
The Marshall Oil Co. has grown
like a Green Bay tree and now en-
,oloyes 35 people, being a gain OF 70
five years.
These five companies have grown TO
such an extent as to furnish adultlon-
al employment for all the men
ever employed in the glucose plant
Had this factory, kept going the nat
ural growth of these five local instltu-
tions. would have meant as much to
the town as the addition OF announcer
glucose plant employing 200 people.
How our hats would have gone IN
the air had such a new factory come
to us!
The Marshaltown Trowel Works
now employs Is men when hve years
ago one was at work
The Spencer-Letts Coffee Company
Sc new concern within the past nve
wears and employees fifteen people.
The packing house force remains
about the same at 125 people. :
The Marshalltown aluminium q
Brass Foundry Co. is another new
factory enterprise employing seven
people.
The Iowa Artificial Ice and Refriger-
ating Co. is a new enterprise employ
ing fourteen men and expects to build
additions this fall and employ more
people.
C. r. Harper Manufacturing Co. en-
Moves twelve people making forges
and this is a new enterprise.
The Marshalltown Cornice Works,
another. new concern, employs ABOUT
nine people on an average.
The Flexible, Flat Steel Mat Com
pany is also new within the past five
years, and employs eight people.
The C. A. Durham Company is an
other new factory making the Durham
steam trap, and employing ten people
Here are eight small factories which
have gained in five years eighty-n1ne
men or about the number averaged by
the Rhodes Carmean buggy plant
Again had the buggy plant continued,
or If it should start up again in the
fall this gain would have been the
same as new factory as large as
the buggy plant which would have
made optimists of us all had the Com
mercial Club secured it.
Swift & Co. are new since the last
census employing an average of twelve
men.
The Marshalltown Light, Power and
Railway Company are employing an
increase Of four men.
The Fisher Governor Co, Marshall
Printing Co. and Meeker Laundry Co
are all thriving but employ about the
same number of people.
The Marshall Vinegar Co. has gain
ed five more on it's pay roll since 1900
The Times-Republican employs five
more than it did in 1900.
Snyder & Larkin are new and en-
ploy three in their bottling works.
The Union Cheese Company, also
new, employs five men.
The Shaffer Laundry Co. is new and
employs four.
Here are seven comparatively
small concerns showing new employ
ment or additional employment during
the past five years for thirty eight
families or more than We're taken
away when the Iowa Central general
offices were removed.
The Iowa Central shops have sur
prised everyone, showing a gain of six
ty-one men or. twice as many as went
away with the general offices. There
are 39S men in the shops now as COM
pared with 337 five years ago. and fif-
teen in the freight office as compared
with twelve.
Besides this there are innumerabla
new business concerns among office
professional and retail lines which can