The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-25
FIBRE FACTORY MACH|N.
cry ARRIVING AND IS
BEING INSTALLED
Good Roads Will Have Little Effect
On this Factory. Inexhanstible
Supply Along T.. T.. x ). W.
Railroad

The fibre factory is here and a num-
ber Of mechanics and helpers are put
ting the parts together. The large
building has been moved to its loca-
tion and will soon be full of machin-
cry ready to turn bear grass into the
finished fibre.
In looking over the machines we
know about as much as if we had
never seen them. They are made diff
ferent from any machinery ever used
in this part of the country and not
until we see them running will we be
able to understand what il all means.
There are To be twenty individual
machines which are used TO finish the
product ready to ship. These are
dangerous looking contraptions and
the people that run them will have
70 be careful or get hand torn off.
Eight larger machines, all of the
same kind, will arrive this week and
be installed The shafting is ball
bearing and will run easily, thus cut
down the use of electricity Motors
are being installed. Two other ma
chimes are enroute from England and
will perhaps arrive this week
Another building, which will be
larger than the one now up will be
built at once and IL is thought two
more weeks will be consumed in get
ting ready to start the machinery.
In this connection we wish to state
that some people in Tucumcari and
vicinity have doubted the truth of
| statements made by the papers and
local merchants in regard to this fac
tory locating here. They thought it
was clever ruse to get the people
OF vote for the road bonds. This is a
mistake. The fibre factory will not
be dependent on the condition of the
roads in any way whatever. In talk
ing with Mr.. Raymond we find out
that the factory will have only linn
tied capacity for n few months and
will not use more than car load Of
bear grass each day or about three
hundred and fifty cars year. This
supply can easily be obtained from
districts outside of Quay county, but
he would rather patroniZe home and
the commercial club will do all in its
power to see that the local people
have sale for their product.
This factory is only the beginning
Of great industry and if the citizens
of Quay county do their part the To-
cal factory will be enlarged from time
to time and will be the greatest thing
financially we have ever experienced.
The creamery would be running full
time today if we had good roads to
the railroad stations on the Rock Is
land. There are not enough milch
cows in this part of the state to keep
a good creamery busy. We under
stand that large company who have
agencies in this part of New Mexico,
are watching this bond election and if
the bonds carry and roads are built
to the plains and other agricultural
districts in the county, churning sta
ton will be put in which will have "A
capacity for churning 5000 pounds Of
butter each day, and instead of ship
ping butter from Kansas to points
west of here Tucumcari will he made
the shipping center. This is one rea-
son why the property owners of Tu-
cumcari should vote for the bonds.
The fibre factory will live and grow
without roads in Quay county be-
cause Of the fact that there is not
another factory of this kind in the
whole west-the place where bear
grass grows in abundance. The rail-
road officials were responsible for the
factory being located here and have
made rates from all points west of
here. A track is to be built at once
which will run directly into the fac
tory and nothing is being left undone
to make things handy. We misun-
derstood the proposition about the
sale of the waste. About fifty per
cent of the rough as il is received
in the factory is total loss and
is burned up. Thirty per cent is sold
to the manufacturers of paper, while
only twenty per cent is contained in
the finished product. Mr.. Raymond
says he lost several thousand dollars
experimenting and many others have
done the same, but by accident he
found the present method now used,
and knows IL is success. The rea-
son, the main reason, he decided to
locate in Tucumcari, was because of
climatic conditions. The fibre is too
brittle when dried out by artificial
processes and IL is hoped TO overcome
this ana hafsianau