San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01
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LOCAL PEDEN IRON &
STEEL PLANT HAVING.
BEST BUSINESS YEAR
Additions to Stock Pro.
Uide for Stocking Hard
ware Store Completely.

Provided business continues TO in
crease during the next four months
as it has done during the last eight,
the local branch of the Peden Iron
and Steel Company will have had its
best year since being established in
1910, according to n. +. Van Hoogen-
heyze, sales manager.
During the first half of 1923, says
Mrs. HOogenheyZe, the local branch
of the Peden Iroa and Steel Company
has seen one Of the best periods of
business in the history of the plant.
Large additions have been made to
the stock of the San Antonio plant,
he reports, and this is the first year
the local house has been able TO fur
nish hardware store completely.
Every article sold in general hard
ware store is carried in stock in the
Peden Iron and Steel Company's plant
on South Flores street at the S. A.
& A. Z. tracks.
A Large Supply House.
The Peden Iron and Steel Com
pany probably is one of the largest
concerns of its kind in the United
States. Its home office is in Hous-
ton and branch houses have been es-
tablished in Fort Worth and Shreve-
port in addition to the one i'll San
Antonio. The Houston plant is the
largest CT the four. while the one here
is second in size. The company has
capital of $2,J00,000.
This company was organized in
1890 and incorporated in 1902. The
local branch was established in 1910.
1t is one of the largest wholesale
houses in San Antonio. The San An
tonic plant alone employs 80 people
and has fourteen statesmen who cover
all of Southwest Texas. This COM
pany also has large trade territories in
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mexico.
Forty statesmen are necessary to cover
the company's Texas trade territory.
This company deals in general hard
ware, shelf hardware. builders hard
ware, household goods, heavy hard
ware. sporting goods. automobile nc
ccssories, paints, varnishes, and oil
well supplies. 1t has statesmen in
practically every oil field of Texas.
One of the new lines added to the
already long list of products dis
tributed by the Peden Iron and Steel
Company is the Buckeye" incubator
and brooder. This line was taken on
during last year and according to Mr..
Van Hoogenheyze is meeting with
great success. The possibilities in
Texas for the development of the
poultry industry are unlimited, he
says. This industry is still in its
infancy in Texas and the distribution
of brooders and incubators is provid-
ing means by which farmers can raise
chickens on commercial scale. Dur
ing last week. Mr.. Van Hoogenheyze
reports. the San Antonio branch of
the Peden Iron and Steel Company
unl0aded two cars of in:ubators and
breeders. Statesmen in all parts of
the state are selling large numbers of
the Buckeyes" he reports.
Paid All His Bills.
On one occasion. salesman re-
ported to Mr.. Van Hoogenhs we that
farmer had told him that during
last year he realized enough money
from chickens and eggs to pay his
grocery bill throughout the entire year
and had $40 surplus at the beginning
of 1923.
1t is an astonishing fact. Mr.. Van
| HOogenheyze says, that only a com.
paratiyely small number OF the farm.
crs in Texas raise chickens to sell
Practically every farmer has his small
brood of chickens for home use but
only few are raising chickens and
eggs TO market. He says he believes
that the proper distribution of incu
bators will greatly relieve this situa
| ton.
The local branch of the Peden Iron
and Steel Company is managed by
John W. Watts. Mr.. Watts is also
the general manager of the Fort Worth
plant.
Heading the company are: f. A
Peden. president; ID. ID. Peden. vice
president and treasurer; ]. A. Harvin
vice president and manager; Charles
G.. Golding. vice president II. c. Ter.
rell. secretary and ii. II. Stone, sales