Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1922-08-25
COMMITTEE ENDORSES
VAUGHN COMPA ANY.
It's Present Success Demonstrates
Great Possibilities With Larger
capitalization.

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The Commercial Club committee
appointed to investigate the feasibil-
ity of inducing the Vaughn Machin-
cry Company to locate a factory here
will make a most satisfactory report
on the Vaughn Machinery Company
and recommend its stock for invest
ment. The company is being reor-
ganized to secure additional capital
for its expanding business and when
once that business is established will
take up the matter of securing .
factory of its own.
The report will be ready for sub
mission today or tomorrow.
The Vaughn Wild Oats Separator
was the invention of r. G. Vaughn.
The first of these machines was built
by Mr.. Vaughn in 1907 on his farm
near Alberta for cleaning his own
seed. The success of even the first
crude model surprized everyone who
saw it, and it was perfected and
patented in 1909, and used on the
Vaughn farm and loaned out to their
neighbors yearly up to and including
1915. This old original model can be
seen at the present Vaughn Manu-
featuring Company's warehouse in
Morris.
p. II. Vaughn was then in the
drug manufacturing business at Sac
ramento, Cal, and Tim wrote to him.
asking him to come to Morris and
consider with him the business Of go-
ing into the manufacturing of the
new machine. p H. Vaughn arrived
from the West in August 1915, and
the two decided to go into the busi-
ness at once, as wild oats were year
ly becoming more Of a menace and as
theirs was then, as it is today, the
only machine that will really do the
business of taking wild eats out OF
tame oats,
After some experimenting in the
plant of the Horton Manufacturing
Company at Minneapolis, the Vaughn
brothers on October 10, 1915, had
completed six machines considerably
improved over the first models and
showed one of these six at the West
Central Corn and Alfalfa Show at
Benson, October 18th with such
splendid results that an order was
igtven the Horton company for 100
machines for delivery January L.
1916. Tim Vaughn was still on his
farm, and Pat Vaughn personally
sold these first 100 machines In a
very short time and ordered 200
more. In July, 1916, T. C. Vaughn
sold his farm and moved to Morris
to help in the business, and a corp
Grafton was then formed. This corp
oration did the very unusual thing
of showing net earning of $1369.16
its first year ending June, 1917, and
went steadily forward and earned
$5,871,55 in its second year and
$5,939.75 its third year ending june
1919, totaling $4,000 in the three
! years. or $500 more than the total
/ invested capital
| The jobber thru whom these ma
chimes had been sold was then taken
over and absorbed by another COM
i pany, leaving the Vaughn Manufact-
uring Company with no means of
reaching their market, as the dealers
who had been retailing their ma
chimes were the jobber's dealers and
not the dealers of the Vaughn Manu-
featuring Co. No Substitute jobber
could be found to take the line over
on account of the well known re-
strictions now prevailing in the
wholesale farm machinery trade.
Under the present plan of reorgan-
ization the Vaughn Manufacturing
Company will have sufficient finances
to do direct selling and will build
up list of its own dealers largely
among the same old ones to whom
the jobber sold the machines.
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