Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-08-24
Newest Machinery, Latest
Adaptations to Make
Perfect Flour.
NOW USING LOTS OF INK
Men of Business and Money
Behind The New Cor
poration.

The Climax Mills are now in full
operation and are daily making two
grades of -four that rank with the
very best made in the United States.
The public is being supplied with
little sacks, free of charge, that will
demonstrate that our assertion is
true.
For the past three years many
promoters have been in our midst
asking the assistance of our citizens
in establishing different industries
here, and not one has ever been
turned down by the city authorities
or the progressive business men of
Hopkinsville. Some of them held
out golden promises Of the invest
ment of foreign capital for the con-
struction of a street railway, shoe
factories, and so on through an al
most innumerable list of enterprises
that would have made Hopkinsville
city of the second class in a few
years. But when the time came
for something to turn up" the
Micawbcr-like promoters vanished
like dream. The Eastern capital
was not available, and when the
wrappers were torn off the PROPOSE
lions, when read between the lines,
were found to be not worth the pa
per on which they were written,
merely showing that gain and
emolument for the promoters were
water-iined on every page.
Thus it was. Men of good bust
ness capacity saw through well-con-
ceived but poorly disguised inten-
lions of the outsiders and the alert
''soon got on" to the fact that the
future rebuilding and development
of Hopkinsville rested in our people,
and that home capital and home
men only must make our city what it
is TO be.
For thirty years efforts have, at
various times, been made to devel-
op Hopkinsville along manufacture
ing lines but every effort has been
futile, and somehow, lust natur-
&lly"-our city has become milling
center. Today the products of our
Touring mills are better known in
the South than are the @'Pillsbury"
in other sections of the country.
HISTORY.
The history of the Climax Mills is
brief but highly interesting from the
fact that from the conception of the
scheme to the completion Of the
building and installation of the
plant consumed so short a time
was consumed 1t is almost incredi- |
BILE.
Ground was broken on Sept. Goth,
1906, brick laying began October
10th and on the Sth day of the pres
ent month, after repeated tests of
the machinery, a stream of wheat
was turned in and grinding began.
Only ten months! Had the winter
of 1906-O7 not been unusually favor
able, building the new mill would
have been pushed with all the vigor
possible, it is true, but unavoidable
delays in the delivery of some of
the machinery might have prevented
the starting day" being as early as
August 9Th. But the officers of
the company announced at the out
set that the 1907 crop of wheat
would be taken care of and most
faithfully have they made good
their promise.
The officers and stockholders of
the new enterprise are representa-
tive men of our city and Christian
county. When the leading spirits
got to work to raise the necessary
capital to build and equip the Gil
max Mills they met with no dis
enlargement whatever, for men
who had money to invest freely sub
scribed and in a short time all the