Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
WEDNESDAY, APRIL Is, 1906.
GREATER .WILLMAR.

under way. line en1arSeo SASH
and door factory is assured, the
N. H. Nelson Manufacturing
Company will soon be shipping
their newly patented stackers,
manure leaders and grain eleva:
tors to dealers all over the north
west who are waiting for them,
and the Willmar Peat Company
is pushing their work and are ex-
pecting to produce some of the
new fuel within a few weeks.
It is in these inexhaustible
beds Of the finest quality of peat
where the future of Willmar as a
manufacturing center depends.
Without cheap fuel it is useless
to hope for a great development
along this line. With these
great stores of fuel in the immed-
late vicinity the item of trans
portation of fuel is done away
with.
The projected strowboard COM
pany presents, in our humble
opinion, one of the greatest pos
sibilitieS in the manufacturing
line that was ever offered Will
mar. With this factory, employ
ing not less than forty men and
turning out product of a gross
value Of $4,000 a year with the
chance to double the capacity
without change of building or
power plant and using Willmar
peat only as fuel, the entire feas-
ability and economy of peat fuel
for steam will be established.
With the immense prairie mar,
kets, north, west and south, cas-
lily accessible from Willmar,
there is practically no limit to
the industries which could be
advantageously located here.
The strawboard mill would use
a raw material which is now
largely going to waste through
out this western country. The
project is bearing up well under
investigation. Like every new
thing this proposition is meeting
with the opposition of skeptical
conservatives, and if it will not
stand the closest investigation of
careful men it would not deserve
consideration. But at the same
time as prudence is exercised
there should not be any snap
Judgment taken and cold water
thrown simply because it is a
new project in this country.
While the work Of proper in.
vestigation is going on by a tenn.
porary organization, an attempt
lis being made to raise the re.
quired amount of capital by a
conditional popular subscription,
If the project goes ahead at all
it will prove a great thing fo1
the community and a good invest
ment to the stockholders. The
success attending the beginning
of the work indicates that the
required money can be raised by
a united pull of all those who. de
sire to lend their time and means
to the upbuilding of the commun
ity.
| If the village people and farm
ers of Holland can erect ant
make a success of cooperative
paper mills where the straw
costs ten dollars a ton, there ap
pears no good reason why a pro
gressive community like Kandiy
obi county and vicinity, where
the cooperative idea has bee,
proven successful in dozens O
enterprises on a smaller scale
should not be able to accomplish
as much with many advantages il
regard to raw material and mar
kets. Let the loyal people o
Willmar and Kandiyohi Count,
do their best to properly encou1
age this project and not PERM
| it to be lost for a lack of interes
on their part. The possibilitie
of the idea are so great for tn
: future of the city and surround
ing community that it ought t
be worth anyone's time to liste1