Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-04-29
FACTS ABOUT CITY
IN BIG EDITION
DIES MONIES CAPITAL CONTAINS
STORY ABOUT ADVANTAGES
OF THIS CITY.

Under the caption, why My City
Excels," the New Des MOines edition or
the Des Moines Capital, issued Tues
day, contained an article written by
] n. Weidenfeller of the Ottumwa
Commercial association. The Capitals
issue contained sixty-four pages devot-
ed largely to stories dealing with the
MANUFACTURERS of Des Moines and the ad-
vantages of other cities in the state.
The article with reference to OttumWa
is complete as follows:
The John Morrell meat packing plant
capitalized at three million dollars, en-
ploying 1900 men, is the largest ex-
elusive hog packing plant west of the
Mississippi river.
The Dain Manufacturing company,
manufacturers of farm implements,
such as hay rakes, mowers, corn plant
ers, feed grinders, hay stackers, Dain
shoveling boards; in fact, a full line OF
hay tools and farm implements, is the
largest exclusive farm implement fac
tory west of the Mississippi river. This
factory employs 500 men.
OttumWa is also noted for the fact
that we are the largest manufacturers
of mining tools west of the Mississippi
river. Three Notwithstanding Man
ufacturing company. American Mining
Tool. company and the Hardsocg Won
der drill company, employing 200 men,
are the manufacturers and distributors
of the mining tools.
Ottumwa also has the only ball bear
ing sash pulley factory west of the
Mississippi river, employing 100 people
as, we'll as the Nichols Square Manufac-
turing company, manufacturers of car
penter squares that are sold through
out the entire country. The factory en-
ploys fifty people.
Ottumwa is known as one of the
greatest cigar producing cities in the
west, having fourteen cigar factories.
employing about 500 cigarmakers. This
product is distributed throughout the
states of Iowa, Minnesota, North and
South Dakota Montana, Idaho, Nebras.
ka, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Utah.
Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Texas.
Ottumwa has three large candy fac
tories, employing about 250 people,
whose product is distributed in the
states noted above.
Ottumwa has in the aggregate about
Vic 6ANAh6 SAAploy
ment to 5000 people.
have given you the names Of the
factories and the product of those that
excel in their kind and are pre-eminent
in this section.
The one thing that believe should
be dwelt on at length is the fact that
Iowa and especially the Des Moines
valley, one of the garden spots of the
country, is an importer from other
states of canned vegetables, such as
corn, beans, peas, beets, apples, eel
cry, caulifower, pickles, onions, and,
in fact all kinds of vegetables that can
and should be raised and canned in
Iowa. Iowa should have dozens Of can
ming factories where she now has one,
and keep the wealth at home that is
sent out of the state year after year
for products that ought and can be
raised in Iowa.
Another, or rather several other ar
ticles that are in common use on our
farms and in cities, such as automo-
biles, farm implements, buggies, refrig-
orators, radiators and numerous items
that can be manufactured in Iowa at a
profit, whereas now only a very small
per cent of these are produced by Iowa
labor and Iowa capital.
j. N. Weidenfeller.
The Commercial Association Of OF.
tumwa, Iowa.