The Yale expositor., 1908-03-20

STATES BINDER TWINE PLANT
is ONE OF THE VERY
FINEST.
MAKING BEGINS AT ONCE
With Capacity of Twelve Thousand
Pounds DaiIy-Price Fixed-The
Trust Will Find Competition Real.

The state of Michigan will become
a manufactures of binder Irvine this
week. Everything was in readiness
last week in the big new plant in jack
son prison. The machinery installed,
the raw material in the storeroom
nothing remained but TO turn on the
power. There were no opening cere-
monies. IL was the wish of the prison
board that some special notice should
be taken of the occasion, but Warden
Armstrong would have none of it. The
plant is one of the finest and most
complete OF it's kind in the country.
The legislature appropriated $4,000
for the buildings, and this has been
put to excellent use The factory prop.
er is made of paving brick, is three
stories high and its floor dimensions
are 60 feet by 225 feet II is absolutely
fireproof, in addition to which every
preeaution has been taken against the
flames. A system of automatic doors
between the departments has been in
stalled, as there is complete sprink-
Ter system.
Only two floors of this building are
to be put i'm use; the third will wait
In the big new storage house a few
rods away is piled the raw material
100000 worth of il. The state appro-
priated $4,000 as a working fund, so
that the enterprise now has on hand
$4,000.
The state was fortunate- in finding
an adequate means of marketing its
Irvine. The Cleaners, one of the two
dertaken to handle the entire output.
In the state this society has 1.116 ar
bors, or lodges and each one of these
becomes an agency for the prison
twine plant. Order blanks are sent to
the heads of the arbors and these Off
GERS see the farmers in their neigh
Dorhoods, get their orders and send
them 10 Warden Armstrong.
That the state will be paid for every
ounce of the twine is certain. for the
cleaners are held responsible for all
orders taken by them. This society is
not permitted to monopolize the Irvine.
1t cannot sell to it's members to the
exclusion of other farmers, but must
permit all TO share in the purchase.
An effort was made to divide the
business between the Cleaners and the
state Grange, but, it is said, the latter
organization made arrangements for
It's next years needs in the binder
twine line In Canada.
The price set by the state on it's
Irvine is 1895 per hundred pounds,
cash with the order, or $500 with cash
October l.
i am going to make Irvine Monday
SAID Supt. Brewer to the governor last
thursday. The trust has been send
ing letters TO the farmers stating that
we would not start the manufacture
DeIore June. They have even said our
buildings were not completed, and
that we couldn't make Irvine anyway.
wen. Wen show them. l guarantee to
make 10000 pounds of Irvine in this
plant in an eight-hour day."
Il am delighted with the way i'm
Which orders have been coming in. II
IL continues like this we will have to
put on two shifts of men. | am glad
this plant is going 10 be a success. 1t
means great deal
AS the governor was conducted
through the plant he examined every
PoItloh OF IL, every machine, every
pelt WIN mlnutest care. Mr. Brewer
explained the system of manufacture
from the moment the bales of raw ma
ter1al are received until it is Skinned
out in balls.
Warden Armstrong is also enthusi-
astic. We will soon be at work filing
these orders" he said as he held up a
big package of envelopes. The way
they have been coming in has been n
surprise to me-"
A force of 60 to rs men will he re-
CURED in the plant ard Mr. Brewer
says it will not take long to train
them into skilled an effective work.
men.