Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-22

| Work will begin before the end of
this week upon the repairing of the
kilns at the local pottery plant, prepar-
atory to the operation of this plant by
company of Fort Dodge capitalists
who expect to be employing fifty men
before the end of the summer in the
manufacture of complete line of
stoneware. The contract was closed
for the property. by which the Fort
Dodge men purchase the plant and
grounds outright, thirty members of
the Retail Merchants association hav-
ing assured Mr.. Denmead that they
would vote to have the Retail Mer-
chants association assist him partially
in the inducements which he has
held out to the Fort Dodge men.
Mr. l.. f. Armstrong. president of
the Plymouth Clay Products company
and of the Plymouth Gypsum company
of Fort Dodge, was in the city today in
company Will VII. 1toI Sc W u uoihP0
son, formerly superintendent of the
Western Stoneware company OF Fort
Dodge and more recently in the en-
ploy of the Plymouth Clay Product
company. j. r. Cheney. cashier of the
Fort Dodge National bank and B. D.
Price. an attorney of Fort Dodge. spent
the day in the city negotiating the
details of the transaction.
Practical Men in Charge.
Mr.. Armstrong will be president OF
new corporation to be known as the
Plymouth Stoneware Company of
Marshalltown, and Mr. George NJ.
Thompson will remain in the city as
active superintendent in charge of the
new property. An executive manager
is to be determined upon later. The
new company will invest at least $780,
900 of Fort Dodge capital in the en-
terprise, the Fort Dodge men intending
to swing the entire undertaking
themselves. The main factory and
warehouse will be used practically as
they stand, but the six kilns will have
to be torn down and rebuilt as they
have never been built upon concrete
stoneware lines.
Mr.. Armstrong has been identified
with the Plymouth Gypsum Company |
for five years which concern is now
125 men in Fort Dodge. Last
December he completed the erection of I,
the plant of the Plymouth Clay Prod
ucts Company which now employees 100
men and which cost sl50000 to build. |
This plant manufactures vitritied salt |
glazed sewer pipe
Denmead Interests Them Locally.
Since the destruction of the factory
owned by the Western Stoneware |
Company in Fort Dodge, trust fac
tory these men have had it in mind |
to embark as an independent COM
pany in the manufacture of stoneware |
in Fort Dodge. and they had had plans
drawn and were about to let their con-
tract for the erection of such d plant |
there. Mir. Denineads invitation to
them to Investigate the abandoned
plant here resulted in their negotiate
ing for the purchase of this plant up
On terms so favorable that they were
induced to give up their plans for
building in Fort Dodge.
Will Ship Clay; Coal Cheaper.
Mr. Armstrong said today that fuel
could be had in Marshalltown at As
cents per ton less than in Fort Dodge,
which would overcome the handicap of
having to ship their stoneware clay
rom Fort Dodge to Marshalltown. He
also claimed that since there were no
stoneware factories on the c. & N. w.
system of railroad, Marshalltown Of
erred an advantage to them in this re-
;pect.
A meeting of the Retail Merchants
Association will be called to ratify the
promises which thirty of its members
lave agreed to support.