The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-31
Sugar Factory Buildings Free.

VIII you accept lne OIu INoIlOlh
sugar factory buildings, including
twelve 100-horse power boilers in per
feet condition, and twenty acres of the
best land Nebraska affords, as gift?
WIN you accept this property, worth
thousand of dollars, as a free dona'
tion to yourself?
It's yours for the asking.
Any person or persons who will in
stall a factory in the old sugar fac
tory buildings at Norfolk, employing
fifty people the year around and 100
people six months of the year, and
operate the plant for twenty-five years.
will be given a clear deed to the
buildings and twenty acres of ground
You can have the property free of
rent right now. Start your factory
your packing house, or whatever other
industry you have In mind that Will
employ an average Of fifty people the
year around, and those buildings are
yours, rent free, while you operate
the plant. You, of course, to keep up
the taxes.
For the first time since the Ameri-
can Beet Sugar company removed It's
factory from Norfolk to Lamar, Colo,
five years ago the Norfolk Industrial
company, composed OF the Norfolk
people who contributed the $4,000
to get the factory to come here TWEEN
ty years ago. are in position to re-
ceive propositions looking toward re-
utilizing the old factory buildings. The
title to the property has just been
turned over to the Industrial COM
pany and the officers Of the company
authorize the offer as made above.
The property altogether includes
$40 acres of land. That land is worth
probably from $3.50 to 5000 an acre.
After giving away twenty acres of this
land to the man who will start some
thing in those abandoned factory build
ings, the Industrial company would re-
tain 220 acres of the land and they are
anxious to give away the building
and twenty acres of land, In order to
increase the value Of the balance OF
the land and thus, by selling 1t off,
recover what portion they can of the
$15O,O00 which they gave, back in
lOJU, W tUt ohhdlub w othiI % ouSeA
factory here.
The main building Is mammoth
structure about two city blocks in
length and proportionately wide and
high. It's walls are of brick and &C.
ment mortar and are two feet thick.
The twelve 1OO-horse power boilers
are in perfect condition, as are all
the buildings. The Industrial COM
pany has employed men to keep up
the property in order that it might not
go to pieces and deteriorate.
The plant stands on the bank Of the
Northfork river, which could be uti-
lized for water power. A dam Is al
ready built at the factory.
The factory stands on Northwest
ern railroad spur, with an extensive
switching yard at the plant. The
property is just a mile north of the
city on the Norfolk-Dallas line of the
Northwestern railroad.
Among the types of industries that
have been suggested as possibilities
are: Packing plant, tapping north
Nebraska and southern South Dakota
live stock territory; brewery, distil-
cry. canning factory, glucose factory,
starch works, ETC., etc.
Norfolk being the metropolis Of the
entire northern half of Nebraska, and
of very rich agricultural and live
stock region the location is an ideal
one for manufacturing purposes.
The sugar factory was abandoned
because the sugar company got into
trouble with the farmers during the
early years of their operation here
over weights of beets, and created a
soreness that never wore off. Later
the farmers, who were getting rich at
raising corn, refused to do the eX
traordinary hard work involved in the
raising of sugar beets, just as farmers
have done in all other territories where
corn can be raised, and the factory
had to shut down for want Of beets
The American Beet Sugar company
gave clear title to the Norfolk peo
pie who originally donated $4,000
to get the plant here, to the buildings
and 240 acres of land. The deed was
held for four years in order that the
statute of limitations might run
against any damage suits against the
company for moving away. That time
has now elapsed and the Industrial
company, a corporation organized as
holding company for the title, is
ready to give the property rent free
for twenty-five years and donate il
absolutely after that time, to the mar
or men who will make good"
1t is probably one of the most re
markable offers ever made in Ameri
ca.