The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-27
CHURCH MFG. co.
PLANS LARGE
JUICE PLANT
Local Company Intends to In
crease Present Capacity
ThreefOld Next Year
1918 OUTPUT IS ALL SOLD
capital Stock is to be Increased to
Quarter Million and Preferred
Stock Offered for Sale

With orders booked for every bot
tie of it's 1918 output and with a de-
mand for grape juice and apple cider
ter times as great as its supply. the
Church Mfg. company will immeuii-
ately start campaign tor, enlarglng
its plant in this city to three times its
present capacity. The company has
reached stage where lis business
has greatly outgrown its facilities for
manufacture.
To meet this demand the company
must have additional capital. This
it hopes to obtain by increasing its
capital stock from 100000 to $780,
900, of which one-half will be pre-
ferred and one-half common stock. The
present stockholders will retain the
common stock and the preferred is
sue of $125, 900 will be offered for sale.
The stock is to be sold on a three
payment plan. In its stock subscrip-
tion contract the company agrees to
invest the entire proceeds of the pre-
ferred stock sale in betterments, ex-
tensions and working capital and to
guarantee z per cent dividends out
of the earnings, and to permit the pre-
ferred stock to share in additional
dividends after per cent has been
paid ON common stock. 1t further
agrees to begin actual work on the
plant enlargement as soon as $4,000
worth of the preferred stock has been
sold.
As special inducement the COM
pany will contract with the fruit
growers to purchase their culls for a
period of three years and to accept
these culls as payment on stock sub
scriptions. In other words they offer
to purchase the fruit growers culls
and guarantee him 2 per cent interest
on the purchase price.
In speaking Of the company's plans
Manager M. H. Church said: "Our am
bition is to build in Kennewick a by
products plant that will utilize every
pound of fruit that cannot be sold on
the fresh fruit market. This year for
the first time we attempted the man
ufacture of apple cider on CONNER
cial scale. We used about 800 tons of
Gull apples and could have used ev-
cry Gull in the county and more had
we had the equipment. If our present
campaign: succeeds, next year we will
be able to handle every box of culls
Just as fast as they are turned out
at the packing sheds. More than this
we propose to install vinegar plant
and to use not only our pulp but the
very lowest grade of culls which are
now left under the trees in the or
cnard. In addition to the vinegar plant
we will install machinery for the
manufacture of jellies, fruit buffers,
crushed fruits and other by-products.
Up until the present time much of
our earnings have been spent in es-
taDllshing our goods on the markets.
we have been compelled to meet the
competition of some of the largest
manufacturers in the United States
VINO have years of experience and un-
united capital back of them. In this
Dattle for a place in the markets we
nave won out. A few years ago the
oig ]obbers would not touch our goods.
,ouay they are scrambling to get
enem. Orders and inquiries are COM
ing to US daily from all sections of
'ne country. From the Northwestern
states, from California, from the Mid
ae west, and some from the East and
'ne South. If we had the goods we
e0uld today be shipping in car lots to
'e" orleans and Jacksonville, Flori-
va and Richmond, Virginia One job
eer Who handled our goods last year
Ut the flrst time came back this year
y, m,en an initial order for ten car loads.
we couldn't fill it. I have on my desk
loW an order from a firm in Shang-
onlna, which cannot be filled.
We manufactured this year be-
;"een 40 and $4,000 gallons of grape
'1ice and 10000 gallons of apple