The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-16
Government Seeks Site for the
Building Of Testing Labora-
tories Near Chicago
MUST GIVE GOVERNMENT SITE
Laboratories Will Be Erected in the
Coming Year, and Will Bring
Many Experts to the City
Where Site is Chosen

i 4 ne 1uUuSlT1dl agent Oh the Ou1CdS o
and Northwestern Railway Company
has notified the agent of the company
in Kenosha that the United States
Government is considering the matter
of establishing testing laboratories in
some city in the West where ample
| transportation facilities are offered,
| and the company urges that the peo-
pie of Kenosha make an effort to Sc.
cure the location of these laboratories
in kenosha. Several large cities are
now vieing for the honor of getting
these government buildings, but it is
said that the government agents are
not satisfied with any place that has
been offered. The plans for the test
ing laboratories are little vague, but
it is announced that the government
will require large tract of ground
and that the institution will comprise
a number of large and substantial
buildings. The labratory will be used
for testing everything that would
come under the pure food laws of the
nation. The plan for the erection of
| these laboratories has been under con-
sideration for some time, but as yet no
specific plan has been made public.
Several cities in this portion of the
country have already made an effort
to have the government consider
sites, among the number being Elgin,
Libertyville and Zion City. It has
been announced that the labratory
will be erected somewhere near the
large distributing center, and this is
thought to refer to Chicago.
Kenosha is better site than any of
the others offered to the government,
and it might be good plan for some
of the real estate men in the city who
have land suitable for the location of
such an institution to make a PROPOSE.
ton to the government. The 1abra-
tories will be decidedly large insti-
tuition and there is little doubt but
that the government will expend
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars on the plant. The laboratories
will undoubtedly furnish employment
for several hundred employees and
they will be of the decidedly desirable
class. Most of the men will be scien-
tiic men who have become experts
after years of work in the government
laboratories.
Kenosha has not had any great
success in landing government insti-
tutions IN the past but it is possible
that with the pulling qualities of the
Northwestern Railway company the
city might have little better chance
of landing this institution. There is
no business mems associatio in the
city to take up the matter and lay the
advantages of Kenosha before the
committee in charge of the location
of the institution. It is planned to
build the Laboratories during the next
three years and it is supposed that the
work will be started the first of next
June.
The plant proposed is not new
one by any means. The government
now has testing stations at Columbus,
Watertown, St. Louis and Denver.
It is, however, Chicago's idea to have
the four combined and located in one
large plant at or very near Chicago.
For this reason the movement has
been undertaken and Chicago has Of
fered to get site and finance the
deal just to get the industry near it.
The United States government has
appropriated $4O5,0OO to maintain the
testing stations and Chicago has of
fered toSbuild the plant in addition to
getting the site.