The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-05-12
WOODENWARE PLANT
IN FULL SWING
With Capacity of 1000 Tubs
per Day-Scene of Activity.
Palatlsa's New Industry viii Employ
Sixty Hands.


The new manufacturing plant of the
Florida Woodenware Company in this
city began turning its machinery for the
manufacture of buckets and tubs on
Thursday of last week and is now in
full swing, and working perfectly in
every part.
This is due to the determination OF
the company, and as stated at its forma-
tion, to have everything in readiness be-
fore the machinery was set in motion.
That readiness was declared last Thurs
day, the 4th inst and-the wheels began
to turn.
The Florida Woodenware company's
plant occupies extensive grounds beyond
the mills of the Wilson Cypress Com
pany and has a river front of 400 feet.
A branch track of the A. c. l.. R'y runs
to the plant proper and its product can
be easily loaded on cars at their own
door,
The plant consists at present of one
mill AZ 100 feet, warehouse AZ 100
feet, dry kiln 40 96 feet and capable
of holding 14O trucks of material, an
engine room 20 40 and a boiler room
rs x 46 and in which are two boilers of
so and 100 pounds pressure respectively.
AT present the plant furnishes en-
ployment to 80 hands and within a
month will employ double that number.
The raw material which enters into
the product of the plant comes from the
Wilson mill and as far as that company's
use for il is concerned, would be con-
sidered as waste. This material, OF
4, .,l, SO oh 10 dnti
ed by the Wilson Company at the door
of the woodenware plant where it is
sawed into slaves for the various sized
bukets or tubs, thence to the big dry
kiln, from whence it is taken thoroughly
dryed and made into the finished prod
uCt
The present capacity OF the plant is
1000 buckets per day, but before the
end of the year this will be increased to
800.
These tubs are used by the various
companies that make food products
from cottonseed, also by the great lard
dealers. Candy pals and water buckets
are also made.
Some of these manufacturing compa-
nies use as high as 200, 900 tubs per year.
The Florida Woodenware Company
is ideally located for the economic
manufacture and shipping of its product.
1t is near the source of supply for its
raw material, and close to its market
the factories which will use lis product
The other big wooednware compa-
nieS of the country are at Davenport,
Iowa, and at Bay City, Mich. The viii.
son Cypress Company formerly shipped
cypress material all the way 10 Daven-
port, Iowa, for manufacture into tubs.
The Palatka plant will now take all this.
There never has been any question OF
the ability of the new company to sell
its product. 1t will readily sell all ii can
make.
The company is determined that every
package leaving its plant shall be perfect
in every particular, and il has expert
workmen competent TO detect the slight
est flaw
The Florida Woodenware Company
is close corporation. 1t is owned by
four men who own its stock in equal
amounts. These men are F. H. Wilson,
president; c. H. Preston, vice-preSident
and general manager; w. 2. Merriam,
secretary, and c. G. Grimm, treasurer.
Its big plant, so situated that it can
grow with the demands of its increasing
business is a success from the start, for
il already has contracts sufficient to keep
its machinery going for some time. In
the meantime ii will make other con-
tracts.
1t is a new and important addition 10
Palatka's rapidly increasing manufactur'
ing interests.