The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-28
BACKED BY Big CONCERNS
Company Agrees to Pay $500 for Ma
chinery and Patents If It Is Found
Possible to Make Business Co
Old Co. to Retire from Field.

AHo 0GiCht1Go Colupdny dIAu Gue Nd
tional Fly Paper company, its successor,
is probably going to be dropped from
the list of the incorporated companies
in Kenosha as it is announced that the
plant of the company on the Burlington
road now owned by Peter Jacobs and the
equipment of the company for the manu-
facture of fly paper is under option TO.
a big Milwaukee company which will
make an effort to operate the plant and
go into the sticky fly paper company
as competitor with great co npanies
now in that field. The Milwaukee con-
Germ is the Corona Chemical Company,
a subsidiary corporation allied with the
Patton Paint company and the Pittsburg
Glass company. The company has finan-d
cial backing almost as great as any in
dustrial concern now in operation in
Kenosha and if the experiments which
the company is to make in Kenosha are
successful the plant on the Burlington
road may form the beginning of one of
the largest plants of the kind to be
found in the world. For some time the
Milwaukee company has been consider
ing the manufacture of the sticky fly
paper. Several days ago the officials
of the company opened negotiations to-
secure the Kenosha plant as an expert
mental station. The directors of the Ma
tional Fly Paper company at meeting
held the latter part of last week accept
ed the proposition of the company to
pay the local concern five thousand dol
lars for it's equipment and patents. The
option is taken for a period of six
months and in that time the new COM
pany is to test out the operation of the
local plant. Men Representing the Mil
waukee concern are already in Kenosah
getting the plant in condition for opera
ton and it is expected that operations
will be started on small scale within
the next few days.
One of the directors of the National
Fly Paper Company in discussing the
deal said: GIVE take it as certainty
that the plant will be sold to the Corona
company. The one thing that is need
ed to make this business a success is
money and these men have firms behind
them who will furnish the money. il
would guess that fifty thousand dollars
has been expended by Kenosha men
and others in an effort to develope this
business There was never any doubt
as to the success of the business if it
could once get started and started right
but the men did not have the capital to
start it right. I have been advised
by the directors of the company who are
entirely agreed to the plan of the option
of the Milwaukee company and they are
to take possession and Start the expert
ments at once. The great trouble with
the fly paper business is the fact that
the left over stock for experiments de-
teriorates so rapidly that it has no
value. That is the reason that the
money has gone into it and nothing
came out
The effort to pull the Sticktite and
the National Fly Paper company out
of financial troubles into successful oper-
alton has been a matter for the minds
of some of the best business men of
Kenosha They put their money behind
the concern and it was only after many
trials to get into the market that they
found that their capital was inadequate
to swing the business.
The Sticktite paepr made a hit on the
market. There was a considerable de-
mand for it but there was not capital to
make it in quantities to provide for the
export trade.
The Corona company has been in bust
ness in Milwaukee for many years and
it is said to have been successful. The
possibilities of the plant on the Burling-
ton road being made a real manufactur-
ing industry has raised high hopes
among property owners in that section
of the city.