Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-21
PEAT COMPANY ORGANIZES
WiIImar Company Incorporates for tho
Manufacture Of tho New Fuel with
Capitalization Of SO, 900.

WiIImar Company Incorporates for the
Manufacture Of tho New Fuel with
Capitalization Of $lo, 1000.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by the
Willmar Peat Company, which was
organized in this city yesterday morn
ing. The company Incorporates with
capital stock of 5000 The follow
ing gentlemen constitute the first board
of directors: Bernard c.. Sitz, presi-
dent; E. C. Wellin, vice president; O.
A. Ferring, secretary, and L. O.
Thorpe, treasurer.
The stock of the company will be
placed on the market at $40 per share
and we understand that large
amount has already been subscribed.
All the shares will be sold at par
value. Offices will be maintained in
the Kandiyohi County Bank Annex
and the company is now making ar
rangements for the building of the fac
tory, which they expect to erect two
miles south of Willmar and on which
work will be begun at an early date.
The building will be 200 feet long, 40
feet wide and 80 feet high and the
structure will be of frame. It will be
located near the peat bogs on Mr..
Ferring's property southeast of Will
mar, from which the company intends
to get the supply of the article for the
manufacture of peat fuel. There are
about % acres of bog in the quarter
section owned by Mr.. Ferring, on the
edge Of Grass Lake.
The machine which will be used by
the company for the manufacturing of
the new fuel is imported from Ger
many. 1t is a disintegrating conden-
ser and compressor and has guaran-
teed capacity of 25 tons per 10 hours
run of slow speed. Ordinarily it pro-
duces from IS to 40 tons per 10 hours.
1t will be run day and night and
enough peat will be dug during the
day to furnish the supply for the day
and night running. The digging is
accomplished by digging machine
built expressly for that purpose, and
this and the other machines are now
located so that they can be shipped
here in a short time. The peat comes
out of the compressors in an endless
string onto drying pellets, where they
are cut by automatic cutters in any
size desired. Then they are placed
onto drying trucks which are trans
ported to an elevator and taken to
their respective drying places, where
the peat remains until thoroly dried.
The peat is then conveyed into lower
bins by gravitation and is then ready
for market.
A successful demonstration of the
burning qualities of the new fuel was
held in the Rodlun building last Sat-
nrday and was witnessed by many OF
our citizens. The peat used was put
up in briquette form and was
manufactured at Chelsea, Mich, by
the National Peat Fuel Co., of which
concern Mr.. Sitz, the promoter of the
Willmar company, is still stock
holder. 1t is the intention of the local
company to manufacture the machine
peat, however, in preference to the
briquettes. This has been tried for
years in Germany and constant re-
ports by the government show it to be
great success.
Mr.. Sitz is satisfied from most
thoro investigation that the peat bogs
here contain material Of a very high
grade and that the new fuel can be put
on the mar ct at a very reasonable
price. Consumers of fuel are anxious.
ly awaiting developments and hope
that the present plans of the company
will be successfully carried out.