The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-02-19
10000 Bull Tractors.

ZV,VUV Dull lI6CIOTS.
The Bull Tractor company, capt.
talized at 81 ,oOo, 900, filed application
for articles of incorporation late yes
terday and rs u result of contracts
entered into by by President 2. j.
Lyons of the new corporation and
President j. L. Record of the Min
meapolis Steel Il and Machinery COM
pany, the latter company will be
putting out fifty tractors a day by
Feb. 20, and in the early part of 1914
one of the most important industries
obtained for Minneapolis in many
years will be operating.
The new company has had men in
the field and has business in hand
representing $3,000,000, President
Lyon said last night. The engine is
unlike anything at present made, Mr..
Lyons said. and is distinctive in
in every way from the ordinary
tractor. being smaller, adaptable to
ordinary farm work, and running
only to about one-eighth the selling
value of the big tractors. The Min
neapolis Steel and Machinery COM
pany has agreed to make 10000 en-
gines a year. President Record said
last night that his company will be
able in It's present capacity to handle
the big contract, but that the entry
of it will mean capacity business and
it suggests probable enlargement of
the plant next year.
The Allis Chalmers company. a
corporation notable in the machinery
making world. which has it's princi-
pal plant at West A]lis, Immediately
suburban to Milwaukee, had men in
Minneapolis for several weeks, ne
gotiating with the incorporators of
the Bull Tractor company for the
contract for producing the engines.
Negotiations with the West Allis
people were broken off Tuesday. The
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery COM
pany was given the contract late yes
day.
p.J. Lyons Of the Lyons Knoll In
vestment company, who formerly
was president of the Big Four Trac-
ton company, which position he held
from the organization OF that COM
pany in 1908 until it's sale to the
Emerson Birmingham company in
1912, is president of the Bull Tractor
company. j. f. Mccarthy of Duluth,
member of the Minneapolis-Duluth
grain firm, Mccarthy Brothers. and
president of the Capital Elevator
company of Duluth. is president.
P. Fl. Knoll is secretary and
treasurer.
The Bull tractor is the invention of
d. M. Hartsough and his son, Ralph
b. Hartsough, of Minneapolis, who
were identified with the first Big
Four tractor that was made. The
first Bull tractor was exhibited at
the Minnesota state fair inSeptember.
Thereafter statesmen We're put into
the field in advance, with the result,
Mr.. Lyons said, that the volume of
advance business that he named was
entered on the company's books.
During the period of negotiation in
which the Allis Chalmers company
figured most prominently, the incor-
porators of the new company were
solicited, Mr.. Lyon said, by Omaha,
Kansas City, Waterloo, Chicago,
Milwaukee, Detroit, Pontiac and
Grand Rapids, the commercial Or
CARNATIONS of these various cities
offering Inducements for the COM
pany to locate there.
"We withheld announcement of
our plans until the deal was made"
Mr.. Lyons said. "We now have the
contract with the Minneapolis Steel
& Machinery company signed. and
expect to be putting fifty tractors a
day on cars and shipping them out of
Minneapolis by Feb. 20. "-Minneapo-
Lis 1Onr,al Ian 81