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The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30

would make one strip $50 miles
long.
There were nearly 101, 100000
nails and tacks used in these bas-
kets, averaging one inch long, which
if placed end to end would make a
row about 1000 miles in length.
An expert mailer can drive $4,000
nails in ten hours and it would take
him over $500 working days, or
nearly eighteen years, to drive the
nails used.
The manufactured stock parts
used and counted for cost purposea
amounted to 41,273,636 pieces, nine
ty per cent of which were from ro-
tary veneer and the balance from
saw material.
A Quick Inventory
The annual inventory was taken
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30

in one day-Nov. 80, by four per-
sons and consisted of 1920 finished
baskets, 4.021,752 pieces of finished
stock parasitic weighing of $4,000
pounds of nails, tacks, rivets, wash
ers, staples and iron bands, and the
log measure of 50S,941 feet of logs,
together with 1880 items in
factory supplies used in the manu-
featured product.
Some Comparisons
A comparison of the year 1910
and the year 1892 will show the
splendid growth Of The Edgerton
plant. The year 1892 was the first
year baskets were put out in Plym-
outh and the sales amounted to $685.
600. with an output of IL, 1000 dozen
baskets. There were employed in
the manufacturing and selling de-
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30

There were fifteen cars of elm
hoops shipped from the elm dis
trict of upper Michigan, averaging
100000 pieces to the ear or 2,550,OOO
pieces cut five feet long, which
would make strip of wood over
240O miles long.
In some baskets manufactured
there were used $4,000 pounds of
rattan imported from Germany at
cost of five cents per pound, which,
if the strips were laid end to end,
would reach $500 miles.
Many Pieces Used
In one of the grades of baskets
made there were used about 10000
pounds of galvanized iron bands No.
% gauge, which cut in strips of
about four and half feet long and
three quarters of an inch wide,
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30

out the handle manufacturing fac
tory of Lamson and Cleveland. A
year later they commenced the man.
ufacture of the Briggs Oak Stave
basket, which is now known in every
state of this country as the STAN
dard grain basket.
Of the stockholders at that time.
but one is connected with the COM
pany at this time-C. S. Cleveland.
then superintendent of factory and
now president.
In 1891 the company moved to
Plymouth and commenced operation
In the spring of 1892 with J. r.
Smalley as manager. Mr. Smalley
sold his interest in 1894 and entered
the glass business.
That year c. S. Cleveland was
made president and manager and A.
M. Cleveland entered the company as
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30
The Edgerton Manufacturing Co.
p NJ Q Y 7 II, ND A M, v. S. A.

Double Lap Stave and the Common
Stave-all used for grain and pro-
duce purposes, as well as for ship
ping the larger fruits. There are
shipping baskets for fruits, vege-
tables, crackers, candy and coffee;
carrying baskets for coal. lime and
cement; bamboo and splint round
baskets for feeding and cotton pick
ing; reed, splint and diamond bas-
kets for clothes; bamboo, splint and
diamond baskets for delivery, mar
ket. display, crockery, satchels, or
lunch, fancy, waste, hampers, and
all kinds Of laundries.
1,632,892 Baskets Sold In 1910.
The amounts of all these varied
kinds of baskets sold In the year
1910 are shown by the following fig
ures. Remember that the figures
are in "dozens."
1926 dozen Oak slaves, consist
ing of 3,209,232 stock parts.
37,713 dozen Common slaves con-
sisting Of 1851, 568 stock parts.
1866 dozen Bamboo slaves, con-
sisting of 1,574,440 stock parts.
COS dozen Reed slaves, consisting
of 232,32O stock parts.
1878 dozen Splint slaves, con-
sisting of 4,SS9,472 stock parts.
53.117 dozen Diamond, consisting
Of 16.572,5O4 stock parts.
21,231 dozen all others, consisting
of 2,123, 100 stock parts.
This makes a total of 140.241 doz-
en-, with total Of 41,273,6 $3.50 pieces
in 1,632, 1892 baskets.
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30
The Largest Basket
Manufacturing Plant
in the United States

ing company; the stock Of which is
owned largely by them and other
local business men. This plant was
started on January %, 1911 by stalk
ing out the property lines and the
first baskets were made on April "a,
1911.
The Edgerton Manufacturing COM
pany came to Plymouth through a
contract made with committee rep
resenting the business men with the
understanding that for a considera-
ton of $1,000 to cover the cost of
the north half Of the present prop
erty, they would agree to stay and
operate basket plant three years
and employ on an average so work
men nine months each year.
The books of the company show
that they have employed during the
20 years in Plymouth an average Of
80 workmen for every working day
in the year.
The officers of this company are:
c. S. Cleveland, President
A. c. Mortland, Vice-President
A. M. Cleveland, Secretary
ID. E. Snyder, Treasurer.
The Working Organization is com
posed of the following:
A. M. Cleveland, General Manager.
A. c. Mortland, Salesmanager
Carl Strombeck, Superintendent
Will Hahn, Asst Superintendent
Chas Carver and Chas Fruits, Me-
chanical Department
Paul Hintz, Veneer Department
George Seeger and W. J. Nier,
Shipping Department
John Strombeck, Stock Keeper
M. j. Miller, Timber Buyer
jeff Florian, Stave and Mill De-
partment
Will Shoner, Stave and Mill De-
partment.
The Selling Department is CON-
posed Of
G. E. Meek, Kokomo, Ind.
w. J. Spruce, Kokomo, Ind.
E. E. Tyner, st Louis, Mo.
S. C. Tyner, Indianapolis, Ind.
ID. B. Tyner, Omaha, Nebr.
j. j. Flynn, Whitehall, Ill.
E. W. Schrock, Plymouth, Ind.
E. L. Tanner, Plymouth, Ind.
o. W. Moeller, Chicago
w. R. Wood, Wilson, N. C.
j. Bany, Cincinnati
w. A. Pyle, Chicago
A. B. Enoch, Buffalo
L. M. Kenny, Saginaw, Michigan
S. M. Wells, Grand Rapids, Mich.
George Clayton, Milwaukee
10y Zangmaster, Columbus
E. T. Steel, Pittsburg
c. L. Taylor, Canton, Ohio
G. ID. Taylor, st. Paul, Minnesota.
Territory was covered and sales
made In every state, except Maine
and Vermont, showing the effort
made by the selling force to make
the $4,000 increase over last year.
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30
A Varied Output

The output of The Edgerton
Company is made up of thirty-nine
different grades of baskets, and of
lis different sizes. Some Of these
sell as low as thirty cents per dozen.
and others as high as siO6 per doz-
en-.
The grades are knows as the
BRIGGS OAK STAVE in three
styles-the Special Oak Wide Band.
Racine Pattern Wide Band, the
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30
The Largest Basket
Manufacturing Plant
in the United States

Basket making is older than civil
ization. Back in the age of the cave
jewellers people learned to weave
them. At first sticks were crossed
TO help carry an injured person, or
to bring stones to make defense for
the cave home. This suggested weav-
inc twigs and willows together into
fiat wickerwork to hold small
things such as berries, so that food
could be carried to the cave.
Then some smart savage thought
of turning up the edges, so the
wicker-work would hold more ber-
ries. Another thought Of binding
the edge of the wicker to make it
stronger, and later particularly
bright one put on handle.
Then they had the basket-one OF
the most useful and most universal
inventions ever made by man-aH
instrument never used to harm, to
DESTROY or to waste, but always to
save. to transport, and to store the
riches of earth for the health and
happiness of mankind.
Many Kinds of Baskets
All nations of the earth have
made and are making baskets OF
many kinds. The ancient Britons
seem to have excelled in the art OF
basket making, and their baskets
were highly priced in Rome. Today
the finest of all matchmaking will
lows are cultivated along the river
Thames. The Mound Builders of
America carried in baskets the earth
for their immense military defenses,
and the Indians made strong and
water-tight basket from species of
root.
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30
Tower 319 Miles High.

This output represents shipments
to the amount of SAT carloads or
twenty-seven trains of twenty cars
each reaching over four miles long.
This would require a warehouse
1900 feet long by fifty feet wide
and ten feet high and would take
enc man two years to stack them up
In one half and one dozen bundles.
If placed end to end 1867, 1872
baskets would make one row 4,206,-
$50 feet long or about 4l5 miles,
and if piled one upon another would
make a tower 319 miles high.
The logs from which these bas-
kets were manufactured amount to
2,150,000 feet or about $4,000 logs
cut twelve feet long, which if placed
end TO end would make row thirty
four miles long, and would require
600 cars to deliver them to the fac
tory.
The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30
Many Kinds of Baskets
Modern Basket Making

1t was left for the modern manu-
facturer, however, to develop basket
making to its highest state of per-
lection; to weave from woods of all
kinds baskets of the greatest
strength, lightness and durability as
well as convenience and beauty. To
see present day basket making at its
best, one should visit the plant of
The Edgerton Manufacturing Conn.,
pany at Plymouth, Indiana. This
plant is the largest institution of its
kind in the United States, and makes
more baskets, as well as more kinds
of baskets. than sly similar factory.
Headed by s lczdid Ability
The more one Knows about the
ability necessary for the proper or
ganization, direction and operation
of business of any magnitude, the
greater becomes his respect for the
man or men who have that high or
der of brain and skill which enables
them to successfully carry on a
large manufacturing plant. To sur
mount the difficulties occasioned by
the endless detail, and at the same
time form and carry out plans for
enlarging the business while holding
that already obtained, demands the
best ability known to our land.
1t is ability of this high character
which has dominated the business
of The Edgerton Manufacturing
Company at Plymouth, and that has
brought that company its pre-emi-
nenee In the field of basket max
ing.
With a plant covering nearly three
acres of ground, equipped with the
best possible machinery and organi-
zation of workmen, and an output
of approximately one and three
quarter million baskets annually,
sold into every state and territory
of the Union, this company is with
out peer in the field of basket
making.
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partment in 1910 an average of IT'S
people, as against sixty people in
1892.
The sales were increased $4,000
over 1908 and $4,000 over 1909.
There were 2,150,000 feet of logs
used in 1910 as against $4,000 feet
in 1892, with an average cost of $50
per thousand in 1910 and $40 per
thousand in 1892.
The relative expenses for the two
years were:
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13
In the Probate Court

Of the County of Yuma, Territory of
Arizona.
In the Matter of the Estate of Barney
A. Kaufold, Deceased.
Notice by Clerk of Day Fixed for Hear
ing Return of Sale of Personal Prop
crty:
Pursuant to an order of the Probate
Court, made on the Sd day of April,
1911, notice is hereby given that o. G..
Johnson, administrator of the estate of
Barney A. Kaufold, deceased, made to
the said Court, and filed in the Office
of the Clerk thereof, on said day, re-
turn of sale made by him on the 18th
day of March, 1911, under previous
order of said Court, of the following
personal property, and for the follow
ing-named sum, to-wit:k
Live stock, farming Implements and
household goods belonging to said es-
tate for $413.1O as will more fully ap-
pears from said return filed as aforesaid,
ana TO which reference Is hereby made
for further particulars.
And notice is hereby further given
that Tuesday, the 18th day of April.
1911, at 10 o'clock a. M, at the court
room of said Court, at the Courthouse
in Yuma County, has been fixed for
hearing the said return, when and
where any person interested in the said
estate may appear and file written
objections to the confirmation of the
said sale, and may be heard, and may
produce witnesses in support of such
objections.
Dated April 3, 1911.
[Seal. D. L. DE VANE, Clerk.
4-3-t2
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13
A Huge Machine
Arizona Is to Have the Largest
Locomotive in the World

According TO dispatch to the
the New York Sun, a distinction
is coming to Arizona in the form
of the worlds biggest loco
motive, which has just been
built in the Topeka shops of the
Santa Fe railway company, for
freight service over the heavy
grades in this Territory. This
locomotive is 121 feet long. 1t
will be operated tender foremost,
as the great length of the boiler
obstructs the view of the engin
Ger. Oil will be used for fuel,
as no man could shovel coal into
it fast enough to keep up the
225 pounds of steam pressure
required.
The boiler is of the sectional
non explosive type. The locomo-
tive has duplicate compound air
pumps, power reversing appar-
atus and two electric headlights,
one in front and one at the rear.
The locomotive weighs $50, 900
pounds and rests on ten pairs of
driving wheels, two leaders un-
der the pilot and two trailers
under the cab, making twenty
four wheels under the engine
itself and twelve under the ten
der.
The articulated type of loco
motive is in reality two separate
sets of engines with the wheels
connected by one long rigid boil
err of tremendous steam capacity.
The rear engine is rigidly at,
tached to this boiler, while the
forward engine supports it by a
massive slide, so as to let the
locomotive go around curves.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13

The United States has an experiment farm on
the mesa just on the outskirts of Yuma Here
ults even more marvellous than in the valley
are produced Down on the lower levels there
are little nips of frosty mornings occasionally
during December and January, but on the mesa
the breath OF frost never touches the most del
icate vegetation Oranges grown at the FEEDER
al experiment station are unsurpassed in their
delicious quality.
Yuma is a busy, upto-date town. The more
modern improvements consist Of several blocks
of attractive brick buildings. a three-story post
office building, also OF brick, and many other
nice structures Among some of the greater
improvements which are being made are a
$35, 900 school building, a $4,000 ice plant,
fine clubhouse for the railroad employees,
larger passenger depot, and the probability of
a new court house to cost $3.50 There is con-
siderable business done there but the people
have not begun to awaken to the vast poSsibili
ties Of the place. They should at once erect an
up-to-date tourist hotel. 1t should have ample
grounds around it and be planted with all
kinds of tropical vegetation If atmosphere
were only tranSportable like mineral waters,
and one could send conSignments of this Yuma
winter air to the East the inspiration OF it's
health-giving qualities would bring 25.OOO
tourists every winter to the banks Of the Colo
RADIO River.
Yuma needs only to make known its climatic
attractions in the parts Of the East swept every
year by bliZZa rdS and Sn0wStorms to attract q
city full every winter. The fertility Of the val
ley below will almost make itself known with
out effort on the part OF the people. But with
valley full of intelligent and industrious rural
population, producing fruits and vegetables,
poultry, eggs, fresh milk and fragrant butter,
Yuma should be one OF the most delightful
winter resorts in all America There is every
thing there to furnish tourists with the most
healthfnl and delicious food. and il the air in
that region does not drive doctors to seek q
living elsewhere. it will be because the people
do not know how to live properly.
The Laguna Dam will be completed in 1909,
and in ten years from today the attractions OF
Yuma as a health resort and the fertility of
these bottom lands will be so well known that
it will require $1,000 in cash to buy single
acre of it.
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Postmaster General Hitchcock
is said to have a scheme, in the
interests Of economy, for the
sending of magazines and bulky
periodicals. through the mails by
fast freight. That need not
worry the magazine owners who
objected to a higher rate. There
is now little relation between the
printed date of a magazine and
the date of issue. The former
may be changed so as to meet
the difference in time between
fast mail and fast freight.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13

POSTOFFTCE HOURS:
Mail open on Sundays from to 9 u. m.
Week days, 6 a. m. TO p. M.
No Money Order business on Sundays.
Mail (East and Vest closes every day at p M
R. II. Chandler Z. NJ
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13
Notice of Stockholders
Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of stockholders of Ari-
IONA & Swansea Railroad Company will
be held at the office of the company in
Prescott, Arizona, the same being the
law Offices of Robt. E. Morrison, on the
18th day of April, 1911, at the hour of
two o'clock p. M, for the purpose of
electing directors of said company and
the transaction of all business which
may properly come before said meet
ing.
BY order of the Board of Directors.
Dated March II, 1911.
E. D. ELSON, Secretary.
Mar23-t4
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13
RICHES OF. SOIL WONDERFUL

But the object OF this story Is to call atten-
ton once more, and for perhaps the thou
sandth time, to the riches Of the soil along
the Colorado on both sides, incident to the
depositidg of this mass of debris during all
the past ages. Going through the country
on the Arizona side of the river, for several
miles below Yuma, one encounters the same
type Of country and soil that is found in the
Imperial Valley country around Brawley,
Calexico and other points west of the river
The fertility of the black prairie soils of Hi
nois has as.onished people engaged in agri-
culture for nearly one hundred years. The
fertility of the valleys OF the Nile has been a
matter of history for at least 60CO years. Those
who are familinr with Illinois prairie soil,
and those who know what the valley of the
Nile is for agriculture, know that this lower
Colorado River region surpasses both of them.
Ifyou ask farmer along this stretch OF
country if the soil is six feet, his eyes will
open with establishment al your ignorance.
| He will tell you no one knows whether 1t is
80 feet, 600 or 5000 feet deep. 1t is practically
without bottom. 1t is SO thoroughly well
mixed with sand, disintegrated granite and
other rocks that 1t never breaks. 1t is as
easily worked as a heap of ashes, and re-
spends to cultivation in way that is mar
| veuuS.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13

AGENTS WANTED = Nearly every
woman buys American Beauty. They
can't resist the temptation to try it,
and are so delighted with the trial they
become permanent customers of yours.
1t is new and what they need. Write
for prices. Good profits; no free SAM
pies. A good side line.-The c. LAMM
CO.; 1O47 So. 23rd Street, Omaha, Neb.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13
HOSPITALS
THE RODGERS HOSPITAL

and Training School for Nurses
For Surgical, Maternity and General
Medical Cases. A limited number
of pupil nurses taken for training.
tuberculosis not received.
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O3114
Notice for Publication
Department Of the Interior,
U. S. Land ONCE at Phoenix, Arizona,
q

U. S. Land ONCE at Phoenix Arizona,
March 10. 1911.
Notice is hereby'given that Leo Frankenberg,
Of Cibola, Arizona, who, on November 2, 1904,
made Homestead Entry No. 031l4-5082 for Sw14
NwA, VIZ SWI4, Sec. pa, NWH VIVA Section
%, Township South, Range "a West G. and s.
R. Meridian, has filed notice of intention to
make final fve-year proof to establish claim to
the land above described, before Charles H,
lifting, Clerk of the District Court, at Yuma,
Arizona, on the 18th day of April, 1911.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Louis w. Bishop of Cibola, Arizona
Gus Livingston, Of Yuma, Arizona
Adolph w Frankenberg of Cibola Arizona.
jefferson D. Downs, of Cibola, Arizona.
FRANK H. PARKER, Register,
Mar Is, 1911
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1911-04-13
CUT SEVEN CROPS YEARLY.

Arizona has established an experiment
station in the heart of this big valley, which
is some twenty-four miles long, and in spots
ten to twelve miles wide, down on the lower
level The results are wonderful. Last week
they were cutting a crop of alfalfa on this ex-
detrimental farm, and for seven consecutive
months they will cut succeeding crops The
only months when the crop is not cut here are
December and January.
Cotton and tobacco grow wi the greatest
luxuriance, and this rich alluvial soil will be
noted in very few years as the ideal spot in
the whole country for dairying, hog raising,
the production of poultry and veget ables, which
one hesitates to call early or late as they will
be perennial. New potatoes will be produced
In The middle OF January, tomatoes will be
ripe by the first of March, ripe grapes will be
ga thered in the early days of May, and april
cots by the middle of the same month. Chic
kens and turkeys flourish there IN the winter
time beyond all experience anywhere else.
The rainfall is exceedingly light and comes
only three or four times in a whole winter.
With an abundance of green alfalfa and veget-
shle the dry and not overheated climate
prevailing in the winter months, chickens are
| free from the disease that make their raising
difficult elsewhere. There is no spot in South
ern Illinois or Missouri so adapted to the pro-
ductiOn of corn as this valley along the Colora
do River. With alfalfa and corn, the butter,
cheese, eggs, poultry and pork to be raised on a
/ twenty acre farm will amaze those who have
| the experience in American agricultural affairs
! The winter climate around Yuma is thing
! so intoxcatingly salubrious That no words can
describe it, Those deserts of America, as we
h. We regarded them heretofore, seem to defy
the Ills that human nature elsewhere is sc
prone 20 contract and suffer from. The atmos
pierre is as dry as punk, the skies cloudlessly
clear the air mild as possible, and every
breath seems 10 be an inspiration of new life
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MARK A. RODGERS, n. ID.
I2S s. Stone Avenue, Tucson, Ariz.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-03-30
Don't Kill the Birds.

The following from the Perry
Enterprise holds good in this COM
munity:
1t has been suggested to the En-
terprise that the people be careful
about killing pretty and strange
birds, as Judge Gill and S. S. Scobee
recently received some hungarian
quails from the Game Warden. Inc
object of which is to propagate these
birds in order that all may in after
years be benefited II any of them
are killed now it means a big loss
as there are only a few of them. We
think the suggestion is a good one
and trust all will be careful in Kill
ing birds, The fact Of the business
birds should not be killed. The
killing of quails in season Is Of
course all right. if they are not kill
ed off to close.