THE MOLINE SAND COMPANY

The Moline Sand Company was bought during 1900, by the Moline Channel Ice Company, and in 1903 was incorporated with a capital stock of $2,500, now increased to $100,000, with James P. Pearson as president; Edward Weise, vice-president; Charles Loptien, secretary, and Emil Carlson, treasurer.

The present officers are J. P. Pearson, president; Wm. Messe, vice- president; Chas. C. Loptien, secretary, and Mr. Pearson, treasurer. The company owns a fleet of eleven barges and three steamboats; one, the Marquette, is being used in season as an excursion boat, the others, the Pearson and the Dewey, are used entirely for pumping and towing, gathering the sand and gravel from the Mississippi river.

In addition, the company owns a plant for screening and washing gravel which prepares several hundred yards daily. The shipments of sand and gravel average ten to fifteen carloads per day, during the navigable season, distributing over an area fifty miles in diameter. They also handle all kinds of building materials wholesale and retail. The ice company employs, during the ice cutting season, 200 men, and at other times, fifty men, while employment is given seventy-five men in season, by the sand company, and twenty-five teams are in use all the while. The men at the head of these companies are fully cognizant of the immense possibilities of their several lines, and because of their recognition of the demands of their customers, have succeeded so remarkably. Their various operations involve much careful attention to detail, and thorough comprehension of supply and demand.

At Carbon Cliff, Hampton township, there are a large tile works, and the Walsh Brake Shoe Works, already mentioned, and at Silvis, in the same township are the fine new shops of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway.

 

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