Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-06-14
I'M W|LLMAR'S
WHOLESALE DISTRICT
West Pacific Avenue Plants Are
Visited By ye Editor.

The editor took stroll down Pa
cific avenue west the other day. Sew
eral important enterprises of the city
are located there. Kerr & Chard have
erected an immense lumber shed, we'll
designed and built, including a suite
of office rooms. This firm will prove
fine addition to the city's business
interests and they will have a fine
plant to do business at when their
quarters are completed.
The Bartles-Scott Oil Company's
plant is growing rapidly. 1t is we'll
worth visit. Oil is pumped from the
tank cars into the huge storage tanks.
One car of 10000 gallons of oil from
Oklahoma stood on the track and an
other of 10000 gallons from Califor-
mia, was being unlOaded. The freight
on the latter cost $500. There is a
battery of large tanks Of lubricating
oil, which are surrounded by heating
pipes to keep the oil from getting too
cold in winter. The tanks in the ship
ping and sales department have
guages so that the exact amount
drawn into the wagons or barrels may
be noted The demand for gasoline
is unprecedented. Mr.. Scott stated
that the sales this year to May ex-
ceeded the sales of last year with June
included.
Another busy beehive on the street
is the wholesale grocery house of
Nichols Hicks McNairy Co. It is a
growing business and it's success
proves the availability of Willmar as
a distributing center. A visit to the
different floors is interesting. An i'm
mense stock is carried. Here is a
carload of Chaska beet sugar, here
one of cane sugar. Big bins of var.
floor deliver their contents thru
Mr.. McNairy is no user Of the weed
but his customers are, and therefore
he supplies them all they want. Gig
arettes are sold by the million. One
dealer has standing order for 10000
per week. From the crowded appear
ance Of all floors it is apparent that
more room will be needed here in
the near future. Mr.. McNairy stated
that the demand for Minnesota canned
corn exceeds the supply, and suggest
ed that Willmar should have a can
merry. He is right. Here is an indus
try the success Of which is assured
Minnesota canning of corn is no ex
pertinent. There is plenty of farm
land close around Willmar on which
to raise the product, which is a Ger
tain crop that does not require ar
excessive amount of labor to raise
Why not encourage canning fac
tory?
Next we dropped in to visit the new
management Of tho Central Minnesota
Produce Company. Mr.. D. T. Carlson
is the manager. The entire business
is now the property of Mr.. N. F. John
son, of Cokato, who owns several such
institutions along the Great Northern
Mr.. Carlson showed us about the
plant. The policy of the company i!
to lay broad foundation for future
growth and success by treating theil
patrons fairly and literally. Theil
creamery is of good capacity anC
equipment. The ice cream room
where the Home Brand is manufac
tured, has lately been equipped witt
a new ice cream machine into which
the pure and rich cream from Kandt
yohi county dairies is strained ant
from which the big iced shipping can!
are filed with the delicious produce
that is in such great demand during
the summer season. In the egg de
partment hens fruit is candled ant
handled by the carload. Large guam
titles of poultry are handled in sea
son. Some further improvements ant
added capacity may be looked for a.
this institution grows and develops.