The Springfield herald., 1918-09-27
The Factory Situation
And the Crop of This year.
Continued

The other phase OF the factory
prnbl EN- is that of q temporary
ou tic for this years crop.
One OF the first things taken
into consideration at the time OF
the organization and incorpora.
tion of the association was that
both of the policy and expedien-
cy of putting in q temporary
outfit, either in rented bnild-
ing or a temporary pudding con-
structed by the association.
After deliberatively consider
ing and weighing the pros and
cons the board decided to build
the facaory complete. size 5Ox14O.
Afterwards, when faced with
the money problem spoken of
last week, the board again took
under advisement the problem of
smalle. factory building, BUT
decided that the kind of a fact'-
ry that should be built would de-
pend largely on the solution OF
the money problem the funds
that could be made available.
We will now consider the temper
ary, small outfit p oposition. Pre-
suming we could have rented a
building, to install An outfit even
though small. is expensive. the
shafting and everything else con-
sidered, and takes time to get it
in good running order.
The engine for such an outfit
would be a big problem, rs to
whether 1t should also be tenn
porary-simply large enough to
run o small outfit. or one large
enough to run an outfit for the
full brush capacity of Baca coun-
ty.
If snail one, when more
equipment were added may be we
could sell the small one, may be
not. Then should we install an
engine of medium capacity. or
this time one for the complete
factory?
The cost of running engines
now is big item. with the differ
ence in cost about corresponding
to the size of the engine-and
should we go to a big cost for a
small output of brooms?
There is only one way to mar
ket small quantity of brooms-
that's practically to retail them
over the country. Here's where
the trouble comes in with the
small outfits we already have in
the county-the profit i'll making
even their own brush into
brooms is absorbed by the cost
of the peddling system of selling.
Then how much good would a
small outfit do the brush-growiny
stock holders?
Stop to think for q moment.
We now have two or three small
outfits in the county. How much
are they helping you? and how
much do you think another small
outfit would help you:
Our idea is that a small outfit
would simply serve to incense
brush growers. A one-unit out
fit would be able to handle one
ton in ten of stock holders, so
one man would be made unhappy,
while nine men would be raving
mad.
Why the one MAJ unhappy?
Because it would take the whole
year to sell those brooms by the
process of peddling, and unless
he went out and peddled them
himself the cost of the peddling,
if it didn't eat up the brooms,
would at least eat up the profits.
That's so much for the econom-
ic part of it, and the first part
of the feature. The second part
is that there was and is no build
ing in Springfield suitable for any
kind of an outfit that could or can
be rented.
Then comes that second fea
ture of the small outfit PROPOSE
tion-to to put up small building
for small factory, or build a
factory for the brush capacity of
Baca county.
This feature of the proposition
wants to be considered In connec-
zion NTH khe acononir nolicv and