The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-06-13
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FACTORY HERE
MANAGER OF THE vlETHs PAPER
MILLS CAME TO FARGO WITH
VIEW or LOOKING FOR PLACE
TO LOCATE FAcToRY--sTRAw
CROP APPEALED TO HIM.

Unbeknown to the commercial club
and acting entirely independent Of
anyone, M. b. McFeeley, the manager
and one of the stockholders of the
Vieths paper mills at Marion, Ind,
visited the city last week with view
Of selecting some place in the north
west that would be desirable for the
location OF strawboard works.
Mr.. McFeeley left the city Thursday
after looking over the local conditions
and prospects, but did not express
himself to any great extent. He had
visited at Grand Forks and few other
cities in the northern part Of the state,
before coming to Fargo and left here
for Duluth, where he will look over
the field, before returning to Minnea-
polls from which place he will return
to his home in the Indiana city.
The condition of the supply Of raw
material in Indiana has been most sad
during recent years. The Vieths paper
mills have at times been compelled
to shut down because of the lack of
straw. Mr.. McFeeley stated while in
the city, that at Marion he had to ship
straw in a greater part of the time
and that shipping the dried wheat
stalks was too expensive thing to
keep up the plant and be able to make
any money on the proposition.
The fact that the farmers in North
Dakota burn their straw while he paid
high prices for the same thing in In
diana, caused this section of the coun-
try to appeal to him very strongly
as a most suitable location for a straw
board works. With this on his mind
he finally decided to visit the great
northwest and look over the field to
discover what the opportunities were
for strawboard works in this section
of the country
Suffice to say he was most favorably
impressed with Fargo as center and
North Dakota as a desirable place for
the securing of raw material What
will be his action regarding his visit
to the state is not known, as he made
no formal announcements to parties
to whom he talked while in the city
The Vieths paper mills are indie
pendent concerns and make a quality
of board that the paper trust has no
desire to buy out. They make a rough
cardboard which is used solely for shoe
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houses. The owner of the mills also
owns stock in many of the st. Louis
shoe house and operates the mills to
supply the shoe box demand at his
shoe factories.
The paper mills at Marion, Ind,
which is one of the two factories oper-
ated by the same firm for the making
of the shoe box pasteboard, is plant
covering several acres of ground itself
beside the large yards which are used
for the purpose of piling straw. The
plant is one of the many large paper
mills in the city, which is known for
it's manufacture of paper and pulp
mills Of Marion not belonging to the
trust, the Vieth mill being one of these.
Mr.. McFeeley, the manager of the
plant, is one of the foremost citizens
of Marion, which is a town of about
rs, 900 people He was formerly in
business with the father of r. r. Wolf,
secretary of the local Y. M. c. A., and
w. ID. Wolf of The Forum staff. AS a
manufacturer, both Of paper and other
lines, he has been most successful and
should he decide to bring his plant to
this section of the country, Fargo
would do well to get such an industry.
The men at the paper mills receive
excellent wages and such factories are
adjuncts to a city that mean great
deal of advertising for the town. It is
known, that should Mr.. McFeeley at
tempt to move his plant from Marion,
the citizens of his own city win do
their utmost to persuade him to re-
main here as it is one If the most sub
stantiaI industries OF the hoosier city.
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