The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-31
VOTE TO REMOVE
CANNING FACTORY
Subscribers to Fund Which
Erected it Meet and
Take Action
GRANITE SHEDS TO
BE ERECTED THERE
Only Remaining Step Necessary to Meet
Requirements of Presbrey- Leland Co.
Is to Vote 1O-Year Tax Exemption To-
morrow Night


Through a vote of the subscribers to
the fund which was raised to erect the
Snowflake canning factory on Vernon
street for Baxter Brothers of Brunswick,
Me, to yacate the land and sell the
buildings all but one of the conditions
necessary to secure the location here of
big granite cutting sheds by the Pres
brey ey-Leland Co. of New York and Barre
have been met. The remaining condition
is to vote 10-year tax exemption, and
that question will come up at special
town meeting to be held for the purpose
in Festival hall tomorrow evening at S
| o'clock.
The meeting of the subscribers to the
canning factory fund was held in the
| Peoples National bank Monday afternoon.
| Previous to the erection of the canning
factory on Vernon street, on land then
owned by Mr. and Mrs Henry Allen and
now owned by the Twin State Gas &
Electric Co. funds for the buildings
were raised through the efforts of a
Board of Trade committee, local people
subscribing about So 200. The Board
of Trade appointed a committee to repre-
sent the interests of the subscribers. The
| Snowflake Canning Co. has paid a yearly
/
( The committee took a lease of the land
| from the Aliens, and the land was sold
| to the Twin State Co. subject TO the lease
/ After the lease expired Baxter Brothers
| tried to secure lease from the Twin
| State Co, but the latter declined to give
/ one as it might desire TO occupy the
premises and would not lease them for
any particular time. 1t gave the Canning
| Co. the use of the land until such time
as the Twin State Go. might need it OF
until it could be used for an alI-year-
round business more beneficial to the
| town.
A few days ago the Twin State Co
notified the Board of Trade committee
/ to yacate the premises and remove the
| buildings, and at a meeting of the sub
| scribers Monday ii was voted to yacate
/ the land at once and to sell the buildings
on the condition that they should be re
moved without delay. The Snowflake
| Canning Co. has been notified of the ac
| tion and requested to make provision for
| caring for its machinery elsewhere. Ii
is understood that the Canning Co. will
move to South Vernon.
Local citizens have raised S3S00 tC
| buy the land of the Twin State Co and
| present it to the Presbrey- Leland Co
and have leased of the Central Vermont
Railway Co. for term of over 20 years
| land next north to provide for possible
| future needs of the Twin State Co.
| There ought TO be no objection tomor.
row night TO voting the 10-year tax
exemption, as has been done in the cases
of other desirable industries that have
| located here. The land stands in the
list at $500, so the town would lose prac-
tically nothing by exempting the land
while it would gain within a very short
| time the poll taxes of $50 to 200 or more
men who will be brought here. also taxes
! on homes which will be erected. and
eventually a large tax on the company
| property.