The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-04-07
SISTER CITY TO
GET FACTORY
Burned Plant of Austin
Co. Will be Rebuilt at
Winthrop Harbor.
TO START TO WORK

Announcements has been, made blythe
Austin Machinery corporation of Chi
cage that it will rebuild it's plant at
Winthrop Harbor, ILL.,, recently de-
stroyed by fire. The loss at this plant
was extensive, but the corporation is
in position to take care of all business
through the duplication of its produc-
ton facilities at its Muskegon plant
or Toledo plant (formerly the Toledo
Bridge & Crane Coz Ample stocks
are on hand at these two plants to
take, care Of immediate. demands, Az
The extensive operations of this cor
poration, however, in the building of
construction, contractors and public
service machinery, make it advisable
to rebuild the Winthrop Harbor plant,
as the location of this plant particu-
larly facilitates production for the
west and northwest territory.
Have Many Factories.
In addition to the plants at Muske-
gon and Toledo, the Austin corporation
has recently consolidated into its
group the plant of the Fairmont Min
ing Machinery company at Fairmont,
w. Va, and extensive improvements
there are planned.
In addition to a complete line of
trenching machines, backfllers, drag
lines, cranes, steam, gas and electric
shoyels, building mixers, paving mix
ers, gasoline locomotives, batch boxes,
cars hampers and other road building
machinery under construction at Mus
kegon and Toledo the plant at Fair
mont has an extensive production on
all classes of coal mining machinery.
Shortage Demands Speed.
One of the fundamental factors back
of the decision of the Austin corpora
tion to rebuild the plant at Winthrop
Harbor is the tremendous increase in
the demand for road building, drain
age and excavation machinery which
has developed throughout the United
States within the past ten years.
Contractors and public service cor
porations. including the railroads, are
demanding that stocks be carried at
central distributing points throughout
the United States, in order to facili-
tate the beginning of operations on
new projects when they are finally
ready to go ahead. Contractors and
public service corporations feel that a
considerable loss occurs each season,
in the spring and the early part of
summer, on account of the delay in
getting final approval from authorities
and in handling the disposal of bonds.
This delay frequently retards actual
construction operations from one to
three months in building period al
ready too short in most portions of
the United States, and this in itself
has tendency to keep the cost of
building construction at an abnormally
high figure.
TO overcome this situation, the Aus
tin Machinery corporation has devel-
oped a group of subsidiary corpora
tions and large agencies with extern
sive warehouses, in which not only the
smaller building mixers are carried in
stock, but likewise some shovels.
trenching machines, cranes, paving
mixers and other classes Of heavy con-
struction machinery heretofore, sup
piled to the contractor and public serv-
ice corporation only after thirty ia
sixty days delay from date of placing
the order. This question of immediate
delivery of construction. machinery is
an important factor of interest to en-
gineers, architects, manufacturers, real
estate owners and builders, as well as