Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-28
.Dolds Will
Run Plant
OfSkin!nal,' /. !
$22,5OO,OOO Concern
ate South Side lacking
House For Limited Per.
iod, Paul Skinner Says.
$,000,000 to Be Spent

i pany, corporation with 2,50O, ,00C
assets, will open and operate the new
Skinner Packing company plant on
the South Side. under working
agreement signed Tuesday night by
/ officers of both companies.
"The plant will be operating in
full blast by November rs at the
latest" said Paul Skinner, presiden.
of the Skinner Packing company,
yesterday. "This meanus there will
be work for from 1000 to 1,500 peo-
pie, with weekly payroll of $4,000.
"The deal that we have put
through will be of great advantage
to our stockholders. ! spent two
weeks in Buffalo, going over the
Dold company's affairs.
For Limited Period.
"Under this arrangement. the
Skinner Packing company will dis
tribute all the canned output of the
plant and all the fresh meats in the
local territory.
"The Dold company will put a
sum up to s6,OOO,0OO into starting
and operating the plant. The agree
ment is made for a limited period
only.
"One of the happiest features Of
the arrangement is that it will not
be necessary for us to sell the
100000 of 8 per cent bonds which
we were all ready to sell. And if.
in future years, it should be neces-
sary to sell bonds, we will be able
to float then, at much lower rate
of interest"
Officers Come to Omaha.
Six officers of the Dold company
came to Omaha to sign the agree
ment. They are J. c. Dold, presi-
dent; Ralph S. Dold, vice president;
James Cuff, general manager; P. 0.
Rial, secretary; John l.. Carson,
treasurer, and H. D. Hunt, superin-
tendent.
Mr. Hunt will be superintendent
of the plant. He was with the Skin
ners when the plant was first opened
late last year. He was offered a
larger salary by the Dold company
and went there.
Ralph S. Dold will come here as
resident manager of the plant. The
Office force of the SINNERS will be
retained.
General Offices Here.
The general offices of the Skinner
Packing company will be located in
the company's new modern branch
house and cold storage building,
just being completed at Twelfth and
Douglas streets. From this Office
Skinner products will be distributed
throughout the United States.
The Dold company will, itself, dis
tribute the fresh meats in the east
and foreign countries.
The Dold company has packing
plants now in Buffalo, N. Y; Wic,l-
ia. Kan. and South Washington,
Va. 1t has offices in several for
eign countries. 1t has been estab-
lished more than 50 years. The
sales last year amounted
to $85,000,000. 1t is the largest in
dependent n,cking company in the
world.
Suspended Operations.
! Directors of the Skinner Packing
are Paul F. Skinner, Robert |
Gilmore, w. H. Ferguson, c. H.
Wiltse, D. c. Robertson, Arab L.
Hungerford, HtW. Churchill and ].
n. Campbell.s
The Skinner packing plant sus-
pended operations early last spring
following the ousting of R. c. Howe
is president and bringing by him of |
egal proceedings in the district
court which caused a fight among
and finally resulted in
losing the plant. !
Says Was Lucky Break.
"It was the best thing that ever
to u.s." said Mr.. Skinner
oday. "If we had been operating
We would have our house full of
neat bought at a high price, which,
,nder the falling market, would have
o be sold at low price"
II have been in the packing busi-
less 40 years." said ]. c. Dold, "but
have never seeen such an up-to-
late packing plant, and one that can
'e operated so economically, as the
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