Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-04
THE Ell CENTRIC HARDWARE AND
IMPLEMENT COMPANY -.
c. n. Hersee, President and Manager

C. n. Hersee, President and MANAGER
One reason for the preeminence of
Ell 0entro among the commercial com
muntes of the southwestern section
of the West is found in the records
of such business houses as the El
Centro Hardware and Implement Com
pany. Organizations which, instead of
being satisfied with their restricted
| local field, have extended their bust
ness throughout all of the Imperial
valley. The FL Centro Hardware and
Implement Company carries the larg-
est stock of hardware in the Imperial
valley. This business was established
| some four and a half years ago, when
Ell Centro was not the city it is to,
| day by any means, but the firm has
since that time kept pace with the
growth of the city and county, adding
to it's plant and equipment as the eX-
panding trade required, until today it
| is one of the largest business insti-
tutions in all of the Imperial valley,
covering a floor space of more than
twelve thousand square feet.
! No doubt the greater part of the
success of this institution has been
due to the fact that the residents of
the Imperial valley were quick to
grasp the opportunity offered them by
| this house. to get the same goods at
less prices than they could obtain
them from the mail order and east
ern houses, especially when they re-
allied they would not have to wait
two or three weeks to get goods need
Cd fa, ,;., n
any railway station in Imperial valley,
and should you receive the goods and
anything be wrong. you do not have
to wait a week or two to have it ad-
iusted, but you can phone this firm,
and have it adjusted at once.
The FL Centro Hardware and lmple-
ment Company is incorporated with Il
capital stock of $4,000. The mann
moth floor space has as complete a
stock as any concern in the country,
North East, South or West, and here
you can obtain wagons, harness. car
penter tools, builders hardware, paints,
oils, glass, fencing, kitchen utensils,
stoves. ranges. shelf hardware, guns
and ammunition, cutlery barbed and
smooth wire, chicken fencing, hog and
stock fencing, and a thousand and one
Otnef lHlHSS too HulllelouS W Hieh-
ton.
And, by the way. this is one of
the departments that has grown very
rapidly. The firm has had the agency
for the Page woven wire fence. Last
year the firm received six carloads,
and the indications are by the great
demand made for this wire fence that
this year the output will be greatly
increased
The company gives employment to
six men. and briefly summed up. there
is not more attractive and up-to-
date business house in all Southern
California, and the reason for the TO-
markable success of the Ell Centre
Hardware and Implement Company is
not far to seek. In the first place,
its management is energetic and eX-
perienced in the second place, its
stocks are thoroughly up to date and
of the best quality, and in the third
place, no effort is spared to make eT-
customer q satisfied and permanent
customer. These are business policies
which never fail TO win recosn'tlon,
and they have proved themselves pc
culiarly effective in the case of the Ei
Centre Hardware and Implement Com
pany, and the credit for the company's
success and present character natur-
ally falls to the energetic management
of Mr.. C. II. Hersee, who is president,
treasurer and manager of this cor
poration. and Mr.. J. V. Wachtel Jr.,
secretary.
Mr.. Hersee also conducts a large
hardware store at Redlands, Cal.
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Stove Company.