Last August the Fisheries Products Co. Of this city bought the Hilton Compress property from W.B. Cooper, and at once started work to convert it into a modern fertilizer plant.
This plant is ideally located on the Cape Fear River, with a depth of 27 feet of water, so that their boats loaded with raw material can come up the river and unload at the factory. On either side of the factory is a railroad track, one of the Seaboard and the other the Atlantic Coast Line, each with a capacity of 20 cars, so that the fertilizer can be mechanically loaded out of the factory to either railroad or both at once, giving a loading capacity of 40 cars at one time, the heaviest capacity of any fertilizer plant in this section, it is said.
The factory is equipped with machinery which expresses the last word in fertilizer manufacturing. Electric motors are used throughout. The Fisheries Products Co., at their own expense, put a cable under the Cape Fear river, connecting their plant with the plant of the Tidewater Power Co., from which they draw their current. This arrangement saved the expenditure of an enormous sum of money for producing power, and has therefore cut down overhead expense to the minimum, enabling the plant to operate entirely by electricity, for loading and unloading, as well as manufacturing, and this new plant is said to be the best equipped in the country.
The factory has started with a small force of 50 men. This force will gradually be increased, until it is expected 400 men will be employed.
From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, February 1, 1921
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