The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-05-19
81 Per Year.
G. N. DAVIS & SON
INCORPORATE
Palatka's Big Tank Factory
Prepares for Increased
Output
BY Incorporating and Increasing Its
Capital

Capital.
Palatka people will always have a
special pride in any report that savors of
growth to the big cypress tank manu-
featuring plant of G. M. Davis & Son.
They remember the small beginnings
of the business 'as originally founded
some 20 odd years ago by Mr.. q. M:
Davis, the father of the present head oil
the concern, Mayor Howell A. Davis.
They also remember the additional
impetus given to the business some ~
years ago, when Howell A. Davis came
into the firm and organized for an ad'
vance.
And they have kept up with his con-
tinuous successes; his occupancy OF lour
different factory sites, each change be-
ing larger and more complete than IFS
predecessor. They have watched Mr..
Davis under the handicap OF a big lire
loss and saw him emerge from the ruins
bigger and more aggressive than ever
They know that the product OF his fac
tory goes into almost every civilized
country on the globe.
These facts have been repeatedly
told not only in the local papers. but
have been recognized and told and re-
told by the Manufacturers Record and
other trade journals.
These notices and the growth Of this
Palatka manufacturing enterprise nave
been source of pride TO Palatka pc ople.
They will also have an interest in
knowing that this concern has Just made
another move which places it in line ior
an even greater advance than any here
tofore made.
G. M. Davis & Son are this week
serving notice that on the 10th day OF
next month they will apply TO the Gov
ernor of Florida for letters patent TO in
corporate under the laws of Florida with
capital stock fixed at $4,000
In the incorporate company Will be
Mr.. f. S. Milne, who comes TO Palatka
from Batavia, ILL.,, in which city he has
long been engaged in the manufacture
of wind mills, tanks and tank lowers.
Mr.. Milne is practical man and Will be
in charge of the factory as manager. he
has already purchased 70 shares oil the
stock of the new incorporation, and Will
therefore have the incentive OF working
for its growth.
The officers of the company and their
various holdings are: H. A. Davis,
president, 22O shares; F. S. Milne, vice
president, IS shares; r. II. Cooper, sec
retary and treasurer, Is shares. These
three gentlemen also compose the direc-
torate.
The G. M. Davis & Son Co. has. ex-
cellent track facilities for receiving lum-
Der and for shipping the products OF the
factory. 1t always carries full stock,
and sometimes as much as 1000, 900 ieet
of seasoned cypress with which TO I'LL
orders. ,-,
The main factory building is ok l54
feet, with a wing 42 So feet, and an
working building, where bands and
hoops are made for the tanks, is 4UXIo
feet. The firm has fine office build
ing also, which is we'll lighted and ven
tilated. 1t is equipped with the latest
saving devices. System is exaclingly
maintained throughout the works, in the
office force as we'll as in the factory
Shipments of the Davis cypress tanks
are being made all over the
United States and TO many foreign
points, including Canada, Mexico, Ecua-
dor, Central America, Brazil and other
South American States.
The Davis Company is one OF Inc
leading tank manufacturing concerns IN
the United States, and has facilities for
an output of over 100, 600 gallons capaci-
ty per day. The Davis motto is a "A
Davis. made Tank Can't Leak and Won
Warn ~