The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-12
Certainty of Their Remaining in
Drainage District Depends Up
on More Protection. Il
1913 LOSS NOT so GREAT
As Last Year and This Will No
Doubt Put Them in Proper
Mood to Stay. ~

| The certainty of the various man
ufacturing and Industrial concerns
in the Drainage District remaining
after the food water subsidies seems
/ to hinge entirely upon the question
will the levees. without further
delay, be strengthened and made
higher? This was the eoncensus of
lopinion among the local officials of
lseveral of the plants in interviews
Yesterday.
/ The high water of 1913 in the
Drainage District did not infies
anything like the loss OF last year
Most of the companies had moved
the majority of their stocks. consist
ing chiefly of lumber and wood pro
ducts. to higher ground before the
inundation occurred. The chief loss
sustained this year will be the dam
age to buildings and machinery.
| II is generally conceded that lum-
her and wood working ard other in
dustrial establishments seek as a
location some river points or plaza
| that affords ample railroad and
water facilities, Cairo has both and
there are very few other cities where
the local companies now having in
Iterests here could move their plants
to and not be menaced by the high
water, as is evident from the re-
ports OF food stricken communities
along both the Ohio and Mississippi.
lrivers. "These cities car not prom
ise greater degree of protection in
the future than Cairo. said prom
inent citizen yesterday. for this
lefty has already arranged for the
heightening and strengthening OF
Its entire levee system
| Most of the Drainage District In
dustries il is said, have large
enough interests to consider the pro-
, lection mapped out before they pull
: lup stakes and leave.
For example, the Pioneer Pole a
: Shaft company has approximately a
: 100000 investment, including
/ buildings and machinery. Last
summer the company expended $25,-
000 in building and equipping a dry
kiln system, on account Of the in
lcrease In business resulting to their
: Cairo PLAN because of it's location
e land splendid shipping facilities
The Pioneer people suffered heavy
I losses to their main plant at Piqua,
1 Ohio, during the recent food which
| visited that city. Similar losses
g were experienced in several other
E towns in that food district where
E 1.-THE company has plants The loss
: in afro, it is thought, Will not
parallel any Of these.
81 Manager e. r.. Holdson stated yes
terday that he had had no adyiees
lof an official nature which would In
4 ldicate an intention OF moving the
o local plant However, an inference
from Nj Holdson's talk would in
r dicate that all that was needed TO
T keep his company's interests here
: was to construct better leyees in the
: Drainage District
n A similar opinion vas voiced by
q Manager Adams of the Indian Re-
: fninc company. who nave their oil
tanks just north and west of the
q Pioneer plant. He was not speak
\ ling authofitively, he said. but his
companys loss last year was greater
than now, and they had remained
without any hesitancy year ago.
without an assurance of levee pro-
lection al the time it made the de-
, els on
Last year. Il will be remembered
the three large tanks of the COM
pany loated all through the Drain.
5 age District, losing something over
i00 900 gallons of oil that was CON
tained ia them. To guard against d
repetition of this loss this time
Manager Adams had the huge stee
affairs anchored, and the loss In oil
will amount to only about 25.00f
gallons, due to the removal hefor.
the hcursion of the water.
As TO the plans of the Chieags
Mill and Lumber company, Sups.
A. Wagner had nothing TO say in al
Official sense. In fact he was re
ticent when questioned as TO any o
the future objects OF his company
Without mincing language he states
Q that leyee protection was the thins
y needed in Cairo and that If such wa
d quickly forthcoming he saw M
Is reason why il would not be suf
l. teient indueement to retain al
i-Ithe Industrial establishments a
e. present here, in addition to other
id coming to Cairo on account of il