The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-19
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The Fasrmont bottle faetofy is nou
running nicely and Il turning out q
high grade ware that finds / seaiy
market in the large eastern claea.
The company has al order fof Thirty
Ave car loads Of bottles trom Bot
den's Condensed Milk company al
New York. the largest niIE concern
in the world.
Some idea OF the colossal business
done by Borden's Condenaed siik
Company can be obtained when II is
learned that this concern BOTTLES soo..
900 quarts Of milk per day thas It
buys $4,000 gross Of a1art bottles
yearly. The manufacture ot thls MIN
ber of bottles would keep two bottle
factories the size Of the local Hiant
running steadily at their fuli capaci.
ty. This big company loses $4,000
worth Of milk bottles eyers month
Twelve hundred horses arc used a
New York to distribute the hrodnct.
The company owns d ssyscfape Biid.
ing at 10s Hudson street, New Ycf,:
which is occupied entirely BY the aim.
Each branch OF the business comes
under the control Of "a separate depart
ment which Is under the direction and
management OF Ssuperintende lent WHO
is peculiarly fitted and thoroughly a.
miliar with Borden's progressive meth
DDS that has built up one 81 tae larg-
est business concerns IN the united
States. Two years ago the compsuy
was offered es2, 100000 for tile biisihess
but this sum was not accepted
Borden's have fifteen milk depots
stationed within one hundred miieh
of New York. These depota drain the
entire milk supply from the fertile
valleys Of the Empire State aud from
Pennsylvania and from other neigh
boring States. All the adjacent tern.
tory to these depots send In milk me
milk is bottled at these fifteen piaecs
and Is then shipped to the metropolis
Tor distribution.
This company has a bottle r1anufae.
tured especially for its own use. Ths
bottle differs from the bottle used tg
other milk firms. This company hts
adopted what is known as fItea
bottle. That is. there are ridges Oh
the exterior of the bottle while tba
bottles used by other Arms are smooth
The auted bottle has been adopted sp
that Borden's drivers may BE abIa p
distinguish the firms bottles Il Ne
dark by the sense Of touch me y,
cal factory is successfully turning ous
these auted bottles and II hopes y 81.
cure much larger order from Boz;
den's the next time
Other large milk firms that eel rait
of their bottles from the local plant
are: The Diamond Dairy ompanS
Brooklyn; Stafford Farms, siawscn
Decker Company. N. y; Enras arn
Dairy, N. "; Empire State Dairy Com:
pany; Cloyerdale Farms Dalrs Bin
hampton, N. Y; Ahhottis Alderney
Dairies. Philadelphia Goldman Farms
Dairy, DorchesteE Pa. III Hood
and Son, Boston, Mass. All the5e
firms have special bottles and tue p.
cal factory has nice orders from each
one. Besides a large number 81 plain
bottles are manufac actured that are soA
to any one who may want them
Besides the manufactures oi milk
bottles the Fairmont bottle Iactcry
makes q large number Of beer Bottles
pop bottles. mineral Eprtn Rcttles
which are OF superior grade.
The company has plenty of good or
ders and the prospects are tigt this
will be the best season n the hissoly
of the works.