Snyder Preserve to locate at old KCGW plant

PRESERVE PLANTS ARE

ASSURED IN MARION

AND IN FAIRMOUNT

CONTRACTS ARE FINALLY SIGNED

Assuring the Employment of Several Hundred Hands

at Two Points in the County.

Snyder Preserve Company Will Make

Grant County Headquarters of

Their Industry.

Marion and Fairmount will each get a Snyder preserve plant.

Grant county will became the headquarters of the Snyder preserve industry, one of the most important branches of this line of manufacturing in the country.

This has been settled by the signing of contracts, and the acquisition of real estate for the location of the plants. The deal has been closed for a site for the Fairmount factory, and one is pending for the purchase of the Marion site. The Fairmount site will consist of four acres. It is known as the King City site occupying the same location as the old McCulloch Glass company on East Eighth street near the Big Four road, on the north side of Fairmount. Col. Livingston and C. E. McKeever of the company are negotiating for a seven acre site in Marion, the location of which is not yet announced.

Construction the factory at Fairmount will be begun at once, and that at Marion will be undertaken as soon as the deal for a site is closed. Ample sites have been insisted upon with a view to the growth of both plants. The main building of both plants will be one hundred feet wide, three hundred feet long and probably two stories in heighth. It will be of permanent construction, with view a winter as well as summer use.

The interesting announcement is made by Col. Livingston of the Snyder company that the acreage signed for tomatoes at Fairmount will make it the larges tomato receiving plant in Indiana. The acreage for the Marion plant is not yet so large, but the signing of contracts is still in progress and will continue until well toward the beginning of the tomato growing season, so that Grant county is assured of having two of the largest if not the largest plants in the Snyder chain of nine factories, and the headquarters of the manufacturing end of the company.

In commenting on the enterprise shown by Fairmount people in signing 730 acres of tomatoes, Col. Livingston said it was an achievement of which Fairmount people had a right to be proud, and in fact that he was much impressed by the spirit of unity shown among the business men of that town in the effort to locate the industry. At Marion a more difficult situation had been encountered, but sufficient encouragement had been received to justify the establishment of a plant.

About two hundred people will be employed in each of the Grant county plants. It is quite probable that the pork-and-beans plant may be removed to Marion from Hamilton, O., in which between one hundred and two hundred people will be employed even during the winter months. In all of the plants some of the tomatoes are prepared to a certain point, and then held over for the finishing processes after the tomato season is over.

It is believed that the location of this industry, which has already built up a large market for its output, means much to Grant county, and thanks are due to the enterprising business men of Fairmount and Marion for the activity they have displayed in nailing it down. Col. Livingston stated to The Chronicle today that he wanted to correct the impression that had been disseminated in Fairmount that either of the two plants would be operated at the expense of the other.