The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-29
JACKSON TO BUILD
$125,000 PLANT
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one of the most modern in the
south and will represent an invest
ment of more than SIPS, 900.
1t will be a two-story building.
1875 feet by 200 feet and will be built
of brick with a stucco finish. Large
plate glass openings will afford the
public a full view of the bottling
plant operations.
The building will be of the most
modern design, with circular glass
brick corners. The plant will have
Stonex tile floors and wainscoting
and will, have a modern ventilat-
ing system with ventilating steel
sash and exhaust fans.
On the second floor of the build
ing will be situated an attractive
hostess room with observation WIN
dows which will afford a full view
of the plant. This room, together
with the offices and lobby will be
air conditioned and equipped with
rubber tile floors.
The entire plant and offices will
be lighted with the new and mod
ern fluorescent lighting fixtures.
A special warehouse where Bud
weiser beer will be stored will be
large enough to hold ten carloads
of beer at one time. At the side of
this warehouse there will be a spur
track of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad which Will allow h r e e
freight cars to be unloaded stimuli
taneously.
Twenty Garages
In the rear of the warehouse
there will be 20 garages to ac-
commodate the fleet of trucks used
to distribute Pepsi-Cola and Bud
weiser beer, each of which will be
equipped with automatic overhead
doors and ventilating skylights.
II am building this plant to care
for the expansion in the distribu-
ton of Pepsi-Cola and Budwetser
beer which has come throughout
the southeastern section of North
Carolina in the past year" Jack
son said in announcing plans for
the building.
Jackson began distributing the
products of the Anheuser : Busch
Brewery, located in St. Louis, Mo,
some years ago when engaged in
the wholesale grocery business
here and after beer was legalized
in 1888 was appointed as distributor
for the product for the southeast
ern section of the state. In 1886
he obtained a franchise from the
Pepsi-Cola company, Long Island
City, N. Y, to bottle and distribute
Pepsi Cola in this area. The popu-
larity of these two products, he
said, with an accompanying ire
mendous growth m sales have
made it necessary for him to es-
tablish recently an additional Bud
Weiser beer warehouse at Fayette-
vile in order to be able to give
better service to the trade in and
around Fayetteville and Fort
Bragg.
Because of the large volume OF
freight and plant is expected to
handle, the Coast Line has agreed
to put a spur track into the new
plant from the present belt line
so that raw material for the bot
ting plant and beer for the ware.
house may be unloaded directly
into the building.
Unloading C%onveyors
At the unloading point conveyors
are to be Installed to allow the
rapid handling of freight.
At present IS persons are EN-.
ployed by the J. w. Jackson Bev.
erage company which serves its
territory at present with a fleet OF
IA trucks, which is to be ENLARGED
to 20 trucks when the new plant is
completed.
The new plant will be located
within the city limits because,
Jackson said, II have faith in the
future of Wilmington and because
l want to do my part to aid in the
growth of the city," ]