The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-30
Paducah Box and Basket Fac
tory Producing Millions For
Fruit and Berry Crops.
Columbia Manufacturing Com
pany is Making Good.
WISDOM HOSIERY MILLS GROW

Prosperity in abundant measure is
assured for Paducah in the imme-
diate future by the success of many
lof its manufacturing industries, in
spite of the panic and subsequent de-
preston. The fact that they went
right ahead through the financial
TROUBLES, is proof that they will have
far greater success when normal con-
EDITIONS are generally restored. while,
on the other hand, their operation in
the midst of the depression has been
the largest factor in averting worse
conditions in Paducah's labor market.
The Paducah Box and Basket fac
tory is one of the industries, whose
continuous operation has been ia
vorably felt all winter. More persons
probably are employed here than in
any other industry in the city, and
the weekly pay roll has been a con-
siderable item to Paducah merchants.
So far this season this industry has
manufactured approximately 10000
200 fruit and berry boxes and baskets
and to keep up with their orders
night work has been necessary.
Though the boxes are needed only at
certain periods in the year this plant
has operated the year round, and it
had its birth and has grown up right
in Paducah without any stock-job-
bling schemes to put it on a running
basis.
Messrs. Wells and Morris, mana
gers of the plant, say that Georgia
will have the biggest peach crop this
year in her history, and to handle it
100000 boxes have been made at
this factory. From three to five car
loads are shipped, principally to the
east and north, while in baskets and
other products of the factory, corre-
spondingly large orders have been
filed. A new boiler has Just been
installed that makes the capacity of
the boiler room 300-horse power.
\ Gradually tbs plant is spreading
over large tract of land at Four
teenth and Caldwell streets. where
both railroads give it excellent s'aip-
lping facilities. Each month sees an
addition to its capacity and a greater
number of hands employed. More
families are now supported through
this industry than by any other sim
lyle manufacturing concern.
Columbia Plant.
Another industry that is coming to
1.-THE front with a rush is the Column
bia Manufacturing company, makers
Iof curtain poles, mouldings and
novelties in wood Several hundred
hands are employed and the business
increase each month justifies the
prediction that it will soon be press
ling hard for the first place in size.
Orders are shipped from this plant to
Europe and Asia and a feature of the
business is the ingenious use of
eevery particle of wood. Novelties
are turned out here that are being
sold by the principal stores in the
country, a leading line being the
shirtwaist and skirt boxes for women.
This industry, too, though young. has
kept going through the panic and de-
lpression.
Wisdom Hosiery Mills.
| Managers of the Wisdom Hosiery
nils assert that Paducah will one day
lcount It as one of the leading indus
tries in the city. They have the
space to grow and say they will In a
lshort time cover much larger acre.
lage than at present. Capital and
energy are behind 1t to assure sue
,cess
These three plants are mentioned
because, being young, compared with
Iother industries here, their success Is
more significant for an early return
Ito prosperity. Older concerns here
are prospecting and what depression
exists in the city is largely brought
about by conditions in other parts of
the country, as the slack demand
from the railroads for ties, which
has laid up a number of towboats.
Paducah can look forward more hope
fully to the future than any city of
its size in the United States.
A Shoe Factory.
The proposition of Mr.. William
IOsner to locate a shoe factory here
that would work only negro hands,
will be given careful consideration
but as 1t is strictly an experiment,
: and as Mr.. Osner has asked larger
stock subscription from the city THAI
, he proposes to invest In the expert
ment, no definite answer could he
made him now. He Is going to the
Pacific coast in a short time and the
location for the new factory will not
be settled until his return in July or
August.