Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-27
.PURDONA COMPANY
 IS NOW ORGANIZED
CDouglas international.

At meeting of stockholders held last night The organization of the
 Purdona Sanitary Laundry Bag com. pany was perfected by the election of officers and directors for the year. This is the company which has been formed for the manufacture and sale of the device of Charles Puraou. a paper sanitary laundry bag which will be at the service of all, and can be put out cheaply and with profit by all lanndries, as well as furnishing a splend d advertising medium of toilet articles. Purdon is now ready to proceed east and complete arrange ments for the manufacture of the bags as well as their sale The of. ficials elected last night are B. A. Packard, president and treasurer; Charles Purdon, vice-president; Al bert Stacy. secretary and H. E. Du gan, general manager, and the other directors, Frank w. Doan. R. L. Scott and F. J. Schrader.
 The personnel of the directorate should be sufficient to show the sta. bility of the company and is a suf- ficient guaranty of strength. B. A. Packard is an Arizona pioneer, than whom no one in the terr tory is bet ter known, a successful cattleman. business man and banker, president of the First National bank in this city. and formerly member of the Arizona Fair commission. He has held many positions of trust and i'm portance in Arizona, and in every in. stance he has won the confidence of every one with whom he has come
 n contact His business ability
 shows that he must have been fully convinced of the success of the Pur- dona laundry bag before he entered into it and became its president. Charles Purion, the vice president, the inventor of the bag, has been a resident of Douglas for six years past. Before coming to this city he
 held important and confidential po- itions with mining magnates in ' the East and in Duluth in the North
 In Douglas he was office man for the
 Ar zona Gypsum Plaster comptny un- itil he met with an accident. After | this he turned his abilities as ap expert accountant to use and was county auditor of Cochise county for
 nearly a year, resigning to take a | federal pos ton with the corporation tax department. The laundry bag is { not his first invention, for he de-
 vised a washing scheme for iron ore,
 now in general use, which however
 was not patentable.
 Albert Stacy has been a resident
 of the city almost from its laying tout He has been and is manager of
 the Bassett Lumber company and is
 president of the Douglas chamber of
 commerce. His business intergrity is
 absolutely unqIestionable.
 H. E. Dugan has grown up with
 Douglas. Soon after coming to the
 young Shelter City he embarked in
 the real estate business He was a
 hustler among hustlers and succeed i, ed. His success has been caused by
 his quickness Of perception and readi-
 ness to grasp at opportunity. None have succeeded better in the real es- tate business than he in Douglas. where h.s clientele Is now large. His business ability and shrewdness will the company.
 Frank w. Doan is we'll known all through Arizona. He is member of
 the law firm of Richardson & Doan,
 who have largely specialized in min ] ing an Incorporation law and have
 succeeded in their profession. He is
 son of Judge Fletcher NJ. Doan of the Arizona distr'ct court.
 R. l.. Scott is another Douglas pio- neer business man. He and his brother were early settlers in Doug
 las and embarked in the transfer business, branching out later as con tractors and doing much important
 railroad building. Today he ranks as
 one of Douglas most respected and
 successful business men.
 E. J. Schrader is consulting eng n
 ger for the San Miguel Gold Mining | company of Pittsburg. with proper it1es at La Palma, Sonara, where he makes his headquarters. He is a na- tive of sSt. Paul, Minn., and ranks high in his profession.
 Negotiations are all but completed for the engagement as sales agent of an exper enced and successful spec ialy salesman, who has had thirteen years on the road, and has repre- sented one company for the past five years.
 The capitalization of the company | is s250.000, bTt only a small number of shares will be marketed, and the
 Purdona company will always be a close corporation. Its headquarters are in Douglas. but 1t is planned to open general office in Chicago in 6 . 1-