The Greeley tribune., 1907-07-04
EMPSON COMPANY WltL HAVE Sl00 600
CANNERY HERE NEXT YEAR
Mass Meeting Saturday Evening Was Enthusias.
tic on Subject and Acreage and Money
Subscribed on the SSpot. Plant
Will Pack Peas, tomatoes
and sausr kraut

With little lift all together now
we have the Empsou packing plant
for Greeley. The lifting has already
been commenced and one third Of the
necessary acreage of peas. cabbage
and tomatoes subscribed. Over
s5, 900 toward suitable building for
the factory has also been promised.
All this happened at mass meet
ing of farmers and business men in
the court house last Saturday even
ing. j. H. Empson and d. A.
Halliday of the Empson company
we're at the meeting to explain their
proposition to the people.
As stated in last week's issue the
Empson Packing company will put
In a plant here to cost between
$50, 900 and sl0O, 900. They ask that
tile business men of Greeley put up
the building, to cost In the neigh-
borhood of $40, 600, and ses to It that
$50 acres Of psss, SO aCfss of totsts
toes and 200 acres of cabbage are
n ised for the plant for the next ten
years. -
The Empson company agrees to
put the machinery into the building,
$40, 900 worth of this the first year
and an additional els, 900 worth OF
machinery the second year. They
will lease the building from the
Greeley owners for ten years, paying
u rental sufficient to make per cent
net on the investment to the owners
of the building, with the provision
that there be no city taxes, or ! per
cent gross II the Greeley men take
care of the taxes and other expenses
on the building. IT at the end of
the ten years the full acreage has
been kept up the Empson company,
under the contract, must buy the
at its original cost. This
company will also have an option to
buy the building at any time and
hopes to do so inside Of the first five
years.
The plant will have capacity OF
II, 900 cans an hour the first year and
20, 900 cans per hour the second year.
Every one of these cans will have
the Greeley label on which will have
Immense value as an advertising
medium for the city and country.
Mr.. Empson stated to the meeting
that the only reason he made any
conditions for bringing the plant
here was to get local people inter
ested enough to help get the thing
we'll started. He does not want
bonus of any kind but simply inter-
est enough here to grow the crops
Last Friday committee composed
of w. L. Clayton, G. M. Houston
c. f. Mason, S. FL. Swan, +. T.
plasters, f. c. Knight and others
went to Longmont to investigate the
matter thoroughly in order to report
to the meeting. The general report
was to the effect that farmers in the
vicinity of Longmont, where .he
Empson people have had packing
plant in operation the past seventeen,
wears, were very prosperous and wen
satisfied with the pea crop, WHICH,
perhaps ranks as the very peso IL,
that vicinity. 1t makes spleho'o
rotation crop with beets or gram, as
n is more enriching to the soil tl'al'
alfalfa. Over 5000 acres OF peas
alone are grown for the Lonsmon'
nlant, 1t Is hoped to grow 1u,'s
thot many acres here, although o"o
with the company TO efeo'
rhe building here will be only lof
500 acres of peas. .-,,,
The booster spirit was thorousnis
,oose at the mass meeting and tne
few farmers present subscribed fo0
acres of the products right there.
When the finance question came m up
in less than i've minutes over so'o00
had been promised for the building.
An acreage committee was 'p