The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-19

only eight months afterwards, a fine
new building on the association
grounds. This building is fully equip
ped with the most modern machinery
for the manufacture of the finest Of
tires. The company Is In the best
financial condition, as every share Of
stock has been sold and prospects for
the sale of their output is most as
tonishing. and I doubt if any new
concern ever started under more fiat
tering conditions.
Following closely on the heels of
the tire company, came the River.
Smelling and Refining company which
is backed by the National Lead com
pany. a New Jersey corporation Of
$50, 100000 capitalization. This was a
most difficult proposition to handle
because none Of the land owned by
the association was suitable or In
large enough tracts. However, we
succeeded in buying suitable piece
OF ground containing 1876 acres, OF
which the smelter was given out
right one hundred. acres. This plant
Is about to begin the operation of
what their manager calls one-half
unit and to which it. IS the intention
to build from time to time. until four
Va AVG WAAOAS~suhAto Oh HI COllS lt1hL
use. The great comm ercial good that
this big industry will do Keokuk in
the way of employment Of many men
when the whole plant is completed
and in the Shipping of thousands of
cars of freieht in and out Of KeokulS
each year, andcin drawing to Keokuk
subsidiary Industries which can use
their raw metals, the great good of
all these is hard to estimate, but Soy
eral years hence ought to find the
neighborhood- of their plant fairly
alive with new Industries.
Help House Cement Machine Co.
During the first six months the as
ISOLATION spent much time with the
American Cement Machine company,
in an effort to get them comfortably
housed in a new home large enough
to accommodate their rapidly growing
business. The association factory
district and several other locations
were considered, but finally tho COM
pany was able to secure the entire
half black bounded by Third, Bank
and Fourth streets. BY reconstruct
ing some of the buildings already on
this ground and by building num-
Der of new ones, together with rail-
road side tracking, this company now
has an ideal home with much en-
larged payroll.
Next, we were asked to find a site
for the Keokuk Electro Metals COM
pany, a new corporation whose off,
GERS and directors are capitalists of
the iron and steel industries-mostly
located in Buffalo and Cleveland
While it took several months to
satisfy every desire of the engineers
of the company, still we sue
ceeded early in the fall and the struc-
ture which will house this company
ia now about half completed at the
corner of N and Railroad streets.
carter-PheIps Idea Big.
In completing the plans whereby
the Carter Phelps Manufacturing COM
pany will occupy the plant now being
used by 8. c. & S. Carter company,
I feel tnat this association has added
to Keokuk a factory which has all the
indications of being one of the lar
gest. IL not the largest, Of its kind
in the United States. Manufacturing,
as they do, an article which every
butcher or retailer of fresh eatables
il compelled by government regula-
tons to use and having ideas and de-
signs which are years ahead of other
similar manufacturers, cannot see
but the greatest prosperity
for this company AS a labor en-
ploying enterprise 1t ought to be one
Of Keokuk's largest.
This association has secured for
Keokuk a distributing plant of Coco
Cola to be known as the Keokuk
Coco-Co Distributing company which
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