NEW PACKING HOUSE

NEW PACKING HOUSE

DAVENPORT MEN TO ESTABLISH ONE HERE

Henry Kohr’s Sons in the City Looking for a Location to Start a New Plant

Among the other new industries planned for this city in the near future is a packing house. Two gentlemen from Davenport, sons of Henry Kohrs, the well know packer of that city have been in Clinton for several days looking for an opening to start up a packing house at this point. The Messrs. Kohrs are the two oldest sons of Henry Kohrs [Conrad Caston and Henry Jr.] and have received excellent training in the business.

They expressed themselves as pleased with the outlook in Clinton and will return here in a few days to further consider a location. They expect to start up a plant costing in the neighbor hood of $3, 000 to $4, 000. They will kill at first about 100 head of cattle a week. Besides this they will conduct a slaughter house to which local butchers can take their cattle and hogs and prepare them themselves, the owners of the establishment buying the offalls.

A site was looked at down near the old packing house but no definite place has yet been decided upon. The new industry is one which the butchers in this city will be pleased to see materialize. The name of the firm is sufficient to warrant a good business and one that will be a good help to Clinton. Messrs. Kohrs have been in consultation with a number of the local butchers who have promised them their support. It is to be hoped that they will decide to locate in Clinton.

Clinton Weekly, July 19, 1901 Clinton, Iowa