Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1911 — FACTORY LOOKS FAVORABLE AFTER INVESTIGATION. [ARTICLE]

FACTORY LOOKS FAVORABLE AFTER INVESTIGATION.

Committee trill Report to Directors, Saying Proposftien ia GeedThlng— Slight Exceptions. ** / Things look good for the factory. The proposition the commercial club is now entertaining is by far the best that was ever brought up to Rensselaer, and it quite certain the direc tois will do all In their power to contract with the gentlemen who have been here to try to locate their factory. A committee appointed to investigate the men and their factory made a trip to their home city Wednesday and came home feeling more confident than they were before that tbe factory will be a splendid thing for Rensselaer. They were told that there was no question about the value of their patents on match making machinery, that the matches produced from them were the best looking match on tbe market and that the men who were figuring with Renaselaer are great bustlers and business getters.

Members of the committee did not care to go into detail concerning their investigation until they had reported to the directors of tbe commercial chib, who commissioned them to make the investigation. This will be done at a meeting held tonight, Thursday, at the office of County Clerk Warner. It is probable that the directors will act favorably on the report and offer to contract with the factory people with only slight alterations to the contract which the factory people have drawn up. The meli are expected to visit Rensselaer again Friday morning and it will not be surprising if they agree on terms at that time that will locate the factory in Rensselaer. If it does locate there, work will be started within a week or ten days toward the erection of a $26,000 building to harbor tbe factory. Almost simultaneously will start the building of several dwelling houses to accommodate the factory labor when it arrives. It is almost certain that the location of this factory here will be a great boom for Rensselaer. There are now only a half dozen vacant houses within the city and these will be grabbed up in a hurry and it will require thirty more houses to care for the factory labor that will be employed. Probably the factory Owners will erect a number of these houses on the factory tract There will be some high salariedemployees of the factory. The superintendent is paid SI,BOO per year, the composition man $1,500 and the mechanics maks 32 V 4 cents to 35 cents an hour. Female labor makes about $lO per week, beginning at $6. The factory at the start will employ about 100 people. With the boom occasioned by the starting of the factory should come better chances of securing an interurban railroad. llensselaer will be fortunate If P. secures this factory, and the men who are backing it make good their expectations.