Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1893 — Let’s Have That Foundry. [ARTICLE]

Let’s Have That Foundry.

The parties- who are operating the small foundry at Mt Ayr were in town Monday,, and made a definite proposition to ©or citizens to erect their establishment here. JEjbr a donation of sufficient land fern a convenient site and for a bonus of $1,200 they will put up a foundry 20 by 100 feet, a furnace of 1-| tons melting capacity, a line of ladles, patterns, small

tools etc., capable of making all ordinary castings; and will be esI pecially adapted to turning put grates and backs for any stove and to manufacture a combined anvil and vise, and whet 1-barrows. The anvil and vise they make is especially adapted for farmers’ use. It can be sold for $3 and is said to be very salabla The parties making the proposition I are well known in Rensselaer and are thoroughly reliable. They guarantee to operate the foundry continuously, l and if they should remove or cease to operate it within five years, they will refund to the donors the amount of their donations. The names signed to the proposition are, George G. Gillette, A. N. Hochstetler, David D.

Hockstetler, and Eli N. Hochstetler. This establishment will be a nice I thing to have in Rensselaer, not only as a great convenience when any work in their line is which is often the case, but it will help to build up the prosperity of the town, and will be an added inducement for the location of other industries. It is also itself likely to greatly increase and to grow into quite an extensive establishment.