The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-24
Several Plants
Plan Expansion
In This Area
What this news about PillsburJ
building a mill?

What this news about Pillsbury
building a mill?
That question is being asked
frequently these days and rumor
has it that the plant is to be
started Immediately. Basis for the
rumor is believed to be the re-
port of the Bonneville Admins
tration on its economic survey of
this region. The Portland Daily
Journal of Commerce has sum-
med up the report as follows:
Seven food processing firms
and two mining companies plan
to construct or expand plants in
the Pasco-KenneWick area, In
GLIDING a large new mill for the
Pillsbury Flour Co., the Bonnie
vile Power Administration re-
ported in making public a report
on the Benton and Franklin
counties market area.
Pillsbury will spend several
hundred thousand dollars on its
mill which probably will be at
least the size of the Astoria
plant, the firms only other op-
GRAFTON in the Pacific Northwest.
The Astoria mill has a capacity
of 5000 cwt. per day and estab-
lishment of such Imill at Ken
newick would create about 100
jobs, Bonneville said. Pillsbury
purchased its Kennewick site sew
eral years ago, planning then to
build the mill but was postponed
by the war. The company's own
engineers in Minneapolis are now
preparing plans and construction
will be started as soon as the
material situation permits, ac-
cording to A. M. Scott, division
manager, Portland.
International Mineral & Chem
ical Co. took an option on 1872
acre site south Of Pasco before
the war, but the government took
over the site and built a lend
lease reconsignment depot.
The company expected to man
ufacture phosphorus products
from phosphate rock deposits in
Montana. Such a plant would use
large blocks Of power and pro-
vide about 200 jobs, Bonneville
said. Whether or not the plant
will be located near Pasco is un-
certain now.
An unnamed local firm is con-
sidering establishment of lime
phosphate conditioning plant in
the Pasco-Kennewick area. Or
GAMERS of the firm expect to
market most Of the fertilizer in
the willamette valley and Puget
Sound area.
Twin City Livestock and Poul-
try Co. expects to add cutting
and curing to its slaughtering op-
erations, providing about 10 more
jobs in its expanded facilities.
Expansion of the Church Grape
Juice Co. at Kennewick probably
will continue, Bonneville COM
mented, as the company expects
to increase its own vineyards and
to offer contracts to private own
ers. Church is building crush
ing plant in the Yakima valley
to secure the grapes from that
area. If the expected annual out
put of one million cases is real
lied by 1950-55, about 500 work.
ers will be required in Church's
Kennewick plant.
Another grape juice manufac-
turer recently purchased a site at
Prosser. Vineyards are expected
to expand in this area on the
new irrigated lands of the Roza
project.
Efforts are being made to Sc
cure a glucose plant for Pasco,
with the Northwest Chemurgy
and Washington Grange having
expressed the possibility of To-
eating such a plant in southeast
ern Washington to use Gull wheat
and Gull potatoes. A plant OF
economical size representing an
investment of about $3.50, 900 may
provide go jobs, Bonneville said.
K & P Industries, new local
firm plans to build 100000
winery near Kennewick.
Expansion of the iron, steel
and machinery industry will pro-
badly accompany development Of
the Columbia river, Bonneville
predicted, which could make Pas
co-Kennewick a trading center
for sales and service Of farm
equipment.
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