The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-03-17
WILL BUY STURGES LAND NOW
Association Decides not to Enter Into
Contract With Promoter Price for
Chicago Plant but viii Seek Other
Concerns.


nosha along many lines is to be the
result of the movement OF the new
Kenosha Industrial Association as the
plans of the association were outlined
to the people of the city at mass
meeting attended by more than fifty
business men and held at the Eagles
hall on Thursday night. A. E. Kuolt,
president of the association, presided
at the meeting and addresses were
made by many business men who have
been active in the advancement of the
city during the last twenty years. The
meeting brought about good feeling
and it was decided to make the asso-
citation an agency for the widest pos
sible good for Kenosha. Suggestions
were made that the association not
only be used as an organization to Sc
cure the location Of industrial plants
in the city, but that it be made an
association which would promote and
secure a better feeling among the bust
ness men and bring them into harmony
for the general good of the muniei-
pality. 1t was suggested that din
ners be held at which the members of
the association would be able to meet
in a social way and talk over the in
ternal growth of the city and provide
for the proper advertisement Of Ke-
nosha in this and other states. The
plan for better advertising of the
city was left to the board of directors
of the association and with this end in
view committee will be named to
get out some catchy advertising mat
ter for the city and this will be cir
culated through the business men.
Already two hundred people of the
city have signed the membership roll
of the association and it is expected
that the. number will be increased to
a thousand before the charter member
ship lists are closed up.
The question of accepting the offer
of Promoter Price of Chicago to To-
cate the plant Of the Perrin Company
in Kenosha with the understanding
that the company be given site and
$4,000 for the erection Of buildings
will not be acted on by the associa-
tion at this time and at the meeting
last night it was voted to notify the
promoter that the association was not
ready to enter into this contract with
the Chicago company. However, the
members of the board of directors of
the association held meeting this
afternoon at which time steps were
taken for the purchase Of the eighty
acres of land to the north of the city
limits known as the Sturges farm and
now owned by N. J. Werner and John
Zens. 1t is the plan of the directors
to purchase this land at once and in
order to provide funds to pay for the
land bonds will probably be issued.
Several of the leading members Of the
association have already pledged them
selves to subscribe for these bonds.
President Peter Jacobs of the old
Kenosha Land and Improvement Com,
pany, appeared before the meeting on
Thursday night and notified the direc-
tors of the new association that this
company would turn over to the asso,
citation four acres of land which had
been set aside years ago as sites for
factories and this land will prove a
nucleus for other land holdings to be
acquired by the industrial association
With the purchase Of the Sturges
property the association will be in a
position to make an offer to plants
seeking location in this section of
the country. Letters were received
from Land Agent Bonnell of the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railway Com
pany pledging the aid Of the company
to the association. It was stated in
these letters that the company would
be willing to install all the trackage
needed to equip the Sturges property
for use as factory sites and that the
company would do all it could to bring
new plants to Kenosha.
The meeting adjourned for week
and at that time the report of the
board of directors will be made.