The Mississippi Valley Stove Company -1900

THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STOVE COMPANY

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 3/28/2017 at 21:42:56

The Clinton Mirror
W. D. Eaton, Editor
Clinton, Iowa, February 3, 1900

The Mississippi Valley Stove Company factory started today, after a shutdown of about a month, with a full force in all departments. While the factory was closed an addition 24x26 feet, two stories high, was built on the south side, and into this addition the polishing and nickeling departments were moved, the polishing downstairs and the nickeling upstairs. The machinery was overhauled and repaired, the woodwork in the east end of the building white washed and the whole interior renovated. Machinery has been added for the manufacture of steel ranges and this branch of work starts today for the first time. About 500 tons of iron are already on hand. Last year over eighty men were employed and between 6,000 and 7,000 stoves were made, yet such was the demand that when work was suspended there were less than 500 left. A large number of orders are entered already and the prospects for an unusually season are bright. The best evidence of the success of the factory is in the general satisfaction given by the stoves made there, which have insured an ever increasing demand for them. The wages are good, some employees in the moulding department making as high as $5 a day, while lowest wages paid are $1.50. – Fulton Journal