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INDUSTRIES - - -
- THE
RIB MANUFACTURING CO.
The Rib Manufacturing Company, the newest enterprise in the village
- and
just recently started, is employing about forty people. Their
principle
- production
at the present time will be the manufacture of Hull’s Patent
- Umbrella
Rib, which is a very unique, modern and highly approved
- improvement
in the manufacture of umbrellas.
They are also chartered broad enough so that they may engage
in
- the
production of anything made from metal, wood, leather or paper,
- and
they anticipate making other novelties. They now have in view
the
- production
of a patented woven steel dress rib and stay, and also
- novelties
for the production of superior bicycles.
The factory is very favorably located, with offices in the main
building;
- the
company hope, however, in the near future to build same independent.
- The
floor space occupied by them is about 18,000 square feet, with
splendidly
- equipped
engine and boilers sufficiently large to drive another factory
of
- same
capacity.
-
- They
are capitalized for $100,000 with $90,000 paid in. The officers
are D.L.
Cockley, Pres.; R.P. Hull, Vice-Pres. & Gen’l Mgr. and
H.K. Beck, Secy. and
Treasurer.
- from The Republican Industrial Edition - 1897.
-
Article
contributed by Ruby Bonecutter
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