The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-27
NEW OWNER OF
 LOCAL PLANT. Buyers of Germofert Co. N Known.
 MAY BE IN NEW COMBINE Buffalo Fertilizer Man Head of
 New Company.
 -s The Montgomery Plant, Which Is Just W Nearing Completion, Changed Hand. Before 1t Turned Wheel.


 fertilizer. the recently constructed
 plant of the Germofert Fertilizer Com
 pany, built at Montgomery, has been
 sold. T. C. Meadows, fertilizer manu-
 facturer of Buffalo, N. r.. has purchased
 the plants of the Germofert Company In Montgomery and Atlanta. Ga. the At
 lanta plant being but few months
 older than the one constructed here William B. Chisholm. of Charleston, S. C., former president and general
 manager of the Virginia Carolina Chem ical Company, organized the Germofert
 Company, when he resigned his posi- tions with, and his control Of, the ls"v-C."
 Capital from three Southern States , was in the new business South Caro- lima, Alabama and Georgia, with some
 stock held elsewhere. The company
 built a large plant near Atlanta last
 summer, and while it was in course or
 construction, started one at Montgom-
 cry. The local plant is practically com-
 plete now, the operatives only await 3 ing the arrival of a few pieces of cleo
 trical machinery, that have been delay
 ed in the transmission. to have the mill running It is expected that within two 7 weeks 1t will begin to mix and ship it's : product. The recent extensive advertisement , of the resources of the South. through
 Secretary G. Grosvenor Dave, of the
 Montgomery Commercial Club, forming
 and carrying through, the Southern
 Commercial Congress, has drawn the
 attention of capitalists all over the country to Southern productive and
 manufacturing businesses. "A
 The congress drew the attention of
 Mir. Meadows who owns several large fertilizer plants at Buffalo. N. r.. to the
 new Southern industry, and he irnme- diately got in communication with the management of the Germofert concern,
 and bought the two new plants.
 { Unlike the fertilizer manYfactories | which came into existence as an Amer { ican industry many years ago near :. Charleston, s. C., where phosphate rock ! was found in abundance. the local plant win not handle the mass of phosphate
 rock, but will crush and mix the ingred- { ients of a high grade line of fertilizer : of which sulphur Is one of the princt-
 pal ingredients. The new company got
 its name from this fact, the germ :, idea coming from the sulphur as ger micide. and "fert'' taking care of the fertilizer properties. The two new plants were constructed to act in the fertilizer world on the order of the job her in commercial affairs. The mills will handle semi-prepared materials and turn out the finished product for farm use. ..a
 In the machinery line they ar' equipped with the latests mixing appar afus.. each department of the mixing urocess being driven by individual mo tors and the whole plant being under one enormous roof, divided in the mid . de by the mixing. machinery. the wings being used for the piles of the different . grades of fertilizer ready for baggtng fa was necessary to- build spur railroao tracks out from the main lines. dist ance of half a mile. the spur dividlhe near the factory and running along double tracked. each side Of the grea' hpilding This was necessary because of the enormous output Of the pian 100. GOO tons of fertilizer season. lust as soon as the last piece or ma chinery is installed here and the nii started running, it's new owners WI assume charge, possibly conducting th' h,isiness under the former name
 It was reported yesterday that th' Buffalo financier Is not the only stock , holder in the recent purchase, but ina capital is still retained in this stat and Georgia the ruTnor was also 10 th effect that the mills were to become al soon as the exchange of ownership wa : made. part of the recently organized combine of formerly independent mills That is said to be organized to fight tn ! Virginia Carolina Chemical Company for a substantial share Of the terrltot! ! the "V-C" now controls. The new com : bine embraces formerly lndepenueh [ mills from Virginia, as far South < ETIorJda and if it's strength, its advo , cates say. is as great as it Is expecte' to he. there will be lively time in fer tIlizer quotations. between the ol 2 eye" and the baby Trust"