The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-26
HAMILTON FACTORY
LOOKS VERY GOOD
a Valuable and Large Addition to the
Industrial Assets of the City
Across River Actually
Started.
PEOPLE SAFEGUARDED
Hamilton Has Nothing to Lose and
Everything to Gain by Her
Careful and Enterprisirs
Project
PEOPLE sAFEGUARDED

Next week the dirt will be very &C
lively flying in the construction of the
new factory obtained by Hamilton peo-
pie by the use of much energy and
brains
Exactly what 1t is, reduced to its
lowest terms out of the wordy boost
ing vocabulary OF the promoters OF
the company, may be summarized
| thus:
The building Will be of brick and
building tile, Of modern factory con-
struction, sixty by $50 feet, three
stories, with railroad switch connec-
lions along its length IL will cost
about SIS, 900 by the most economical
methods. It is located just above the
slough bridge.
II win be built By Hamilton people,
by administration and not by contract.
tie construction being supervised by
4 B. Agnew and George Horsford,
two well known contractors OF Hamil-
ton.
Hamilton Men Are Trustees.
When completed, ii will be the prop
erty of Hamilton people, with the land
on which it is built, until its cost and
seven per cent interest thereon Is re-
reid the subscribers to the fund.
The title to the real estate, 1nclud-
| ing the building, is in Hamilton trus-
| tees. J. A Gordon, Z. L. Hanson ana
F1ed Twesten. ali among the most
prominent and successful business
men of that city. They will own the
whole thing, as trustees for their peo-
pie. until 1t is paid for by the com.
ipany, which will occupy 1t.
The operating company VIII install
in the new building $4,000 worth
Of machinery.
What They Make.
This company is the Armored Inner
Tire and Rubber company, which mas
been represented in the preliminary
negotiations by Albertson & Co.. two
men who promoted the proposluon
during several months.
The company will make an inner
lining for automobile tires, which is
lrlaced In any tire between the casing
and the tube. This inner lining Is
along somewhat new lines. and a Ham
|flton committee who talked to hard
users, chiefly in Peoria, where actual
tests were made, were much Impress
| o., nv its value and attractiveness as
a. sales proposition.
| IT has seven layers, two OF fabric,
three Of rubber, and two OF metal
discs, covering the entire periphery
of the liner. 1t is intended to avoid
punctures and blowouts and enable
castings to be worn out completely.
It is a new thing in the automobile
! trade.
VIII Operate by Fall.
| With work going on energetically IN
the hands of experienced Hamilton
builders, it is believed that the build
ing will be completed in record time.
The schedule now calls for the build.
ing to be done, the machinery Installed
and the factory making its product by
| October 1.
/ The legal papers and contracts made
we're approved or drawn by O'Hara'
/! o,Hara. Wood and Walker. 1t is be
ilieved that the thing is perfectly safe
guarded to give Hamilton factory at
work. or big and good factory build,
ling all ready for something else, and
+ that Hamilton has everything to gain
and nothing to lose in the methods
adopted.