The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
THE GILBERT HUNT COMPANY
Manufacturers
WaIIa WalIa, Wash.

WalIa WdIid, w oS''
The present great MANUFACTURING
nlant of the Gilbert Hunt Co. was
established in 1887. From a small be-
ginning it has grown to be one OF the
largest plants in eastern Washington
and the greatest in the Pacific North
west for the manufacture of farm ma
chinery.
The shop and storage rooms cover
nearly two full blocks, and 100 men,
more or less, are in almost constant
emplovment. The shop equipment OF
machinery and machine tools is mod
ern and fully up to date, thereby en-
abling the company to manufacture
machinery at the lowest possible cost
to farmers and also to guarantee every
machine and implement turned out to
be strictly first class, both as to ma
terial and construction.
The Gilbert Hunt company has been
widely and favorably known through
out the Pacific Northwest for nearly
20 years. It's greatest honors nave,
however. been won in perfecting the
"Tride of Washington thresher to
degree that it won the award of the
gold medal at the Lewis & Clark expo
sition at Portland. 1905. That this
award of honor was we'll and justly
earned was attested by the sale of
nearly 100 new Pride of Washington"
threshers during 1905, and of a like
number already ordered for the pre-
ent season. Not all of the honor of
this great thresher is claimed by the
Gilbert Hunt company, for it is real
lied that it's design has been largely
the product of suggestions made by
the thresher men of eastern Washing
ton and Oregon. The company claims
only its share of the great honor won,
and will go right on asking sugges-
tions from thresher men and will give
them careful thought and attention,
to the end that the pride of Wash
ington' thresher may maintain its
proud pre-eminence as the best fast,
clean thresher on the continent.
The company also manufactures
Gilbert Hunt feed mills, Gilbert Hunt
barley rolls, Gilbert Hunt improved
barley crusher, Gilbert Hunt pully
blocks, Derrick forks, Threshermens
tanks, Gilbert Hunt woodsaw frames
and saws, etc.
A we'll equipped foundry forms an
important part of this plant, where,
aside from the regular machine cast
ings made, the company casts iron
columns. lintelS, store fronts and mis-
cellaneOus architectural work to order,
and can furnish work complete for
building fronts and other purposes
necessary in the construction of up
to-date, modern buildings.
Besides having the products of their
own factory in stock, the company car
ries one of the largest stocks of i'm
plement and machinery extra parts to
be found in the Pacific Northwest. A
list of the extra parts carried covers
fifty pages of an octave catalogue and
includes betting, rubber hose and al
most everything thinkable necessary
to rt
of every implement and machine COM
monty used by the farmers of eastern
Washington and oregon.
1t might go without saying that the
Gilbert Hunt company has the largest
known, too, that no man is more close
ly identified with the growth and pros
perity of the city than the founder Of
this great manufacturing plant.
Mr.. Hunt is now serving his fourth
term as mayor of Walla Walla. Much
as might be said for his administration
of the citys affairs, it is sufficient to
note that the public improvements be-
gun and completed within the four
years of his incumbency as chief exc
cutive of the city are greater than all
the improvements made in Walla
Walla during the sixteen years pre-
ceeding his election as mayor