The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-05-15
NTERNATIONAL HARVESTER
co. PURCHASE p. 4 o. LINE

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER
co. PURCHASE p. 4 o. LINE
The announcement that the Inter-
national Harvester Company has pur-
chased the manufacturing plant and
business Of the Parlin 4 Orendorff
Company, Of Canton, Illinois, has ar
oused great interest in the aRricul-
tural implement trade. News Of the
transaction was received by Mr.. T. p.
Mulick, the harvester companyR
branch manager here, in a telegram
from the Chicago office.
The r Il 0. Company, as it is popu-
larry known, is one Of the pioneer pillow
manufacturers of America. The pres
ent extensive plant at Canton, I'LL
nois, is the outgrowth of blacksmith
shop which William Parlin started in
1912 The P. & o. line of plows and
tilage implements is well known and
! largely used thruout the agricultural
world. It has branch houses at Kan
sas City, Minneapolis. Omaha, St.
Louis, Dallas, Portland, Ore, Denver,
Sioux Falls, Oklahoma City and Spo-
kane.
In announcing the purchase of the
P. & O. line. President Harold F. Nc
WI IllASn VI VIC IxdINCSC.
er Company, says:
vester organization that the Company
has purchased the manufacturing
plant and business of the Parlin &
Orendorff Company Of Canton, ILL
nois. This adds to the list of Har-
vester manufacturers the one import
ant farm implement which it has not
heretofore produced.
when the Harvester Company was
formed in 1902 it manufactured chiefly
harvesting machines. 1t has since
gradually added other implements and,
with the addition of the pillow, it is now
in position to manufacture and sup
plv to the farmers, complete line OF
all the important implements used
in agriculture.
4 believe that this addition to the
Harvester Companys products will be
warmly welcomed by our sales organ
ization and by the implement dealers
who handle International goods.
"Under the terms of the purchase,
the Harvester Company takes possess
sion of the p. & O. manufacturing
plant and of the various branch houses
and inventories on July 1, 1919 It
will take over the business as a going
concern and the P. & O. organization
will on that date become part of the
Harvester organization and the bust
ness will thereafter be conducted by
it and in its name. The Harvester
Company has not purchased the bills
and accounts receivable of the Parlin
4 Orendorff Company. but these will
be collected and liquidated by that
company"
Branch Manager T. P. Mulick, of
the Harvester Company, when asked
about its plans for handling the addi-
tional pillow business at Minot, stated
that it would be carried as part of the
companys present business and that
no consideration had as yet been Civ
en- to the question of what additional
facilities. in the way of warehouses
and storage space, would be required.
With reference to the effect of this
purchase upon local business, Mr.. Mu-
lick said:
Implement dealers handling In
ternationap goods have long desired
that the Harvester Company should
is growing tendency in the retail
plCIIiCHC 1OT CIlc uCdicI W pun
chase, as far as possible, from a sin
gle manufacturer, all the implements
which he carries and to build up for
himself good will in that line of i'm
plenents. The Harvester Company's
line was already practically complete
with the exception Of plows; we will
now be able to offer to the dealer
full line of all the important farm i'm
Elements needed in order to supply his
trade.
81 believe the users of the P. e. O.
line turnout the country will be we'll
satisfied with this change. The p. &
0. line is popular with the trade and is
extensively sold, but that company
has only 10 branch houses in the
United Staes, whereas the Harvester
Company has 80. We hope that thru
our facilities we will be able to give
even more efficient and satisfactory
service to the trade in P. & o. imple-
ments than it has received in the
mast "