The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-06-22
H0lSTE|N SHOP
IN NEW HANDS
Moffett Manufacturing Company,
Highly Capitalized, Comes 10
North Yakima to Work
HOLDS ELEVEN PATENTS
ON MUCH USED ARTICLES
Machinery of Especial Value in an
Irrigated County is to be Given
Particular Attention in Plant of
New Company

Capitalized for 100000, holding
large number of patents on valu-
able machinery, especially that re-
quired for irrigation farming,
equipped for carrying out of consid-
cradle of it's work and holding con-
tracts of value the Moffett Patent
Holding and Manufacturing COMPANY
has come to North Yakima, purchased
n home and taken hold with the in
tention of becoming a citizen AMI
probably second or third in the list
Of wage payers in this valley. The
company has bought the Holstein
Machine shop on South Front street,
and it took possession Monday. 1t To-
Gates in North Yakima because the
results of an examination proved this
To be desirable manufacturing CEN
ter and because there was available
here the Holstein plant for immediate
uso
No Make Submerged Wheel
Recently the Herald gave to its
readers description of a submerged
wheel and pump which had been in
stalled in the waste ditch at the power
house and which were operated there
as an illustration. The patent on
this wheel and pump are the prop
erty Of the Moffet company and manv
orders have already been taken. 1t is
primarily. to get down at once to the
manufacture of the wheels that the
plant here is taken over and is to be
enlarged. This makes the company
local as many of those interested are
residents of this city. of Toppenisn
and of Zillah.
Thomas S. Moffett, the largest
shareholder in the company, is the
inventor of cotton thinner and cul-
tivator now in use and which does
the work which formerly took "a
men. He has some II inventions
patented, which are controlled by
the company and he proposes that
other patents of his shall also be.
come part of the property of the COM
pany. He has patented an irrigatinc
pump, an equalZing hitch for horses
which can be used for from two tt
eight horses; an extension single tree
dustproof hub and oiler, a ratchet
wrench. hunting and skinnine
knife, meat cutter and pulverZer
and improved sloping felley for wag-
ons. a patent clevis which pulls on
the full strength of the wood All
these patents are of things which will
be generally used. A cash offer OF
$4,000 for the rench patent is Sc id
to have been made.
Will Build Foundry.
Some of the articles are already be-
ing manufactured by eastern concerns
under contract, but as soon as pos
sible the plant here is to be enlarged
to take over that work. In this con-
nection there will be established n
foundry Of considerable capacity but
it's first work will be in connection
with the pump and the submerge ed
wheel The Moffett submerged purAp
working in connection with the sub
merged wheel is believed to he n
proposition which alone Is worth
any risk
Charles L. Xix, is president of the
MOffett Patent Holding and Manu-
featuring company and is now in
North Yakima in connection with the
plans of the company here. Thomas
Hye is secretary and treasurer and
w. B. Campbell is to be superinten-
dent of the machine shops. The pros
pectus of the company shows it to be
Spokane company with offices at
rooms 1 to 8 Exchange bank build
ing.