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SHALL WELLAND HAVE IT?
[Welland Tribune, 25 November 1892]
Odell Type-Writer Factory to be Located in Canada
The Promoters Visit Our Town-A Proposition will be Laid Before Council
Bonus and Exemptions Asked.
The Messrs. Odell of Chicago, proprietors of the Odell type-writer, a low-priced and practical machine, were in town yesterday looking over our advantages and seeking for encouragement in starting a factory for the manufacture of their machines for the Canadian trade. They were accompanied by M.S. Bradt of Niagara Falls (a former citizen of our town), who is also interested in the project, and who believes there is money in it.
A number of our citizens met these gentlemen at the Windsor house during the afternoon, where the merits of the machine were shown, and an idea given of what inducement would be expected.
The Odell Type-Writer company will ask a bonus of $1,000 a year for ten years, free water and exemption from taxation.
Their plant and building will cost between $10,000 and $15,000; they agree to employ about twenty-five hands, and will produce from $75,000 to $100,000 worth of machines a year. They say there is no doubt about there being ample market for them in the Dominion.
Only two or three of these twenty-five men would be imported skilled mechanics-the balance would be employed from our midst.
The building proposed to be used is Bradt’s rink.
The matter will probably be in definite shape to come before council at its meeting on Monday night, when we will be able to speak more intelligently on the scheme.
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