Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
HUDSON PLANS
100000 PLANT
FAlRVIEW CHOSEN AS SITE OF
IMPROVEMENT
TRACT OF fo6 ACRES SECURED
NEAR WATER FRONT
Work of Building Immense Factory to
Begin Next Summer-cheap
Homes viii Be Sold to
Employees

The Hudson Motor Car company
plans by the middle of next summer TO
be manufacturing automobiles in new
factory which it proposes TO erect at a
cost of 100000 in the district known as
old Fairyiew, says the Detroit News.
This announcement was maue by Fres-
ident Roy D. Chaptn.
The move il is pointed out, win make
of the adjacent territory an auto city,
as factories to manufacture auto parts
are expected to follow the erection of
anv one large plant. The Michigan
Central railroad has promised to build
a freight and passenger station in the
vicinity.
The plans to build the factory were
completed following the purchase of
sixty-eight acres of the d. j. Campau
farm, between Jefferson and KerchaVel
avenues, by the controlling interests OF
the Hudson company and members OF
the firm of Chalmers Detroit Motor
company, who also own interests in the
Hudson firm The Campau farm fronts
on Jefferson avenue, on the north side
of the street, directly east of the Chal-
mers company's plant The deal also
involved eighteen acres from the Hend-
rie farm, and this, added to adjacent
property already owned by the pur-
chasers, makes the site for the new
factory los acres. The price paid is
said to be $4,000.
'Tt is the purpose of the Hudson
Motor company to erect on the Jeffer-
son avenue frontage one of the finest
automobile plants in the country" said
Chaplin. '"The factory will be of the
most modern reinforced concrete con-
struction, and will enable the Hudson
company to turn out this coming sea-
son cars in sufficient quantity to more
nearly satisfy our dealers than in the
past.
Good for Workingmen
Our growing business has necessi-
tated considerable enlargement in the
scope of the company Among the au-
tomobile trade this was naturally ex-
pected, when the announcement was
made last month of the control of this
company passing into the hands Of H.
E. Coffin and F. o. Bezner and myself
We have been prominently identified
with the automobile industry for eight
or ten years.
'The only detail that remains to be
settled is that of running the side
track into the property over our land
from the new terminal belt line. The
council will be asked to grant a permit
for this track to cross two streets. No
difficulty, however, is anticipated in
this respect. as the attitude of the
council and the city at large is to open
up its factory districts as rapidly as
possible, particularly for such highly
paid and high class type of labor IS
the automobile industry brings to De-
troit The property is in the center of
Detroit's newest manufacturing dis
trict. and some of the handsomest
plants in the city have been located
there within the last two years.
Hundreds of new homes have been
built near these factories recently,
and conditions are ideal for the
workingman, as he can rent a modern
Il l..
this new district on the most reason
able of terms.
"This property will be largely ac-
quired by Messrs. Hudson, Coffin, Bez-
ner. jackson and myself, we being the
controlling interest in the Hudson
company. Associated with us is Hugh
Chalmers of the Detroit
Motor company, who is interested in
a portion of the property, and also the
Gay estate which has done much to
develop Detroit's new districts. This
association also means the probability
of the construction on this property
of large factory for the Gray Motor
company in the near future.
"This city will grow along the east
ern water front at rapid rate. The
men who make Detroit automobiles
are practically all skilled mechanics
and employed at high wages. They
own their homes, and those who do not
are, for the most part planning to buy
them. This fact took much weight in
our decision to build a new factory in
the eastern district of the city, where
there is much available land for such
homes.
'There is no doubt in my mind, and
1T is also expected by the men asso-
ciated in this project that there will
be an unusual number of factories
erected in the district mentioned. It
is an ideal manufacturing location and
all needed railroad facilities are prom
ised by the railway men"
Mr.. Chaplin declared that the Hud-
son company will 90 no road testing.
While in Europe the official investi-
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