The Virginia enterprise., 1908-11-13
Will DEVELOP VAST TERRITORY
81. 200, 600 Backisq for Project Ceo'
tefi0Q About loteroati0oal fails
Water Power.

ouCc tuc greatest pdpeI-luaklOR
center in the world, aud conduct
numbering operations over a terri
tory embracing $1,000 square miles.
The name of the new corporation
is the Minnesota and Ontario Pow
er Company, the articles of incor-
poration as filed in St. Paul giving
the capitalization of the concern at
100000!
The Minnesota and Ontario Pow
er Company is organized in Maine,
and its list of incorporators indi-
Gates that it is backed by some of
the leading financial men of Mime
apolis, Chicago and New York. 1t
has bought from +. W. Backus and
the Backus Brooks company the
immense water power at the Cana
dian boundary and will at once be
gin its development.
The contract has been let to the
engineering and contracting firm
of J. G. White 4 Company of New
York for the completion of the i'm
mense dam and hydro electric pow.
er stations at International Falls
and Fort Frances, and the construc.
ton of a ground wood sulphite and
news-Print paper plant. The COM
pany will also generate and make
available for general manufactur.
ing purposes electric energy and
power in sufficient quantities to
supply the needs of all commercial
users in the vicinity.
| The initial work of the new com.
pany, already commenced, will be
the completion of the dam and pow.
er stations, producing minimum
of more than 10000 continuous
horse power, and the construction
OF the first unit of installation of a
suiphite and paper mill plant. hav.
ing daily capacity of 200 tons OF
news-print paper and 80 tons OF sui
Phus sulphite. When the first unit
's in operation the company will
double the capacity of the sulphite
and paper mill.
This will mean that international
Falls and Fort Frances will become
one OF the largest, if not the larg-s,
paper producing point in the
world.
A certified copy OF the articles o,
incorporation of the Minnesota 6
Ontario Power company, which is
organized under the la Wa of Maine.
has been filed with the secretar,
of state. The capital stock is 5000,
900.
The first board of directors are
Edward ". Backus, William +
Brooks, Warren Curtis of New York
John A. Davis Of New York, A. S
Peabody of Chicago, Alexander
Smith Of Chicago, and Warren
Curtis, Jr., formerly Of Corinth, N
Y.
The officers of the new corpora
ton are: President, +. W. Backus
vice president, Alexander Smith
second vice president, John A
Davis; secretary and treasurer
William F. Brooks; manager, War
rem Curtis, Jr.
The financing Of the company has
been accomplished by the sale o1
it's stock to strong financial interests
in the states as we'll as in Canada
and by the sale of the company's
bonds to Peabody, HoughteIing &
Company of Chicago, thus provid
ing ample funds for all the co1npa
ny's needs.
Mr.. Backus, president, and Mr.
Brooks, treasurer, are well-know1
in the northwest through their con
neCtiOn with the Backus. Brooks
company. the Minneapolis lumbe,
concern and other enterprises in
which they are associated.
Warren Curtis, director, is one OF
the pioneers in the paper trade. He
bnilt and operated the "Hndson
river mill" at Corinth, N. Y. He was
the first man in the United States
to successfully make use of ground
woodpu'p in pa per making and his
company controlled the U. S. pat
ents on the process for more than
twenty y-tive years. He and his as
sociates finally sold the Hudson
River rmilito the International Paper
company, with which company Mr..
Curtis was thereafter actively con-
nected for many years.
Warren Curtis, Jr, manager, for
the last twelve years engineer in
charge of the maintenance and con.
struction of the plants of the Inter
national Paper company, resigned
in August TO associate himself with
the Minnesota & Ontario Power
company, and will take active
charge of the construction and
operation of it's plant.
Director John A. Davis is a part
ner in the firm of H. G. Craig & Co.,
wholesale paper merchants in New
York. Mr.. Davis is widely known
IN the paper trade, as his entire
business life has been devoted to
the industry. Directors A. S. Pea
body and Alexander Smith are part.
ners in the Chicago banking firm
OF Peabody, Houghteling & Co.. the
bankers for the new concern. The