Volume 9 , Issue 17

1903 - Shawnee Canning Factory

[Taken from The Okahoman, dated Feb. 11, 1903, pg. 2.] - Special to the Oklahoman, Site Finally Accepted and Work on Buildings Begins -- "Shawnee, O. T., Feb. 9 -- The Shawnee Canning Factory Co., through its prinicpal promotors, P. A. Chaffin & Co., and their agent, J. J. Novak, or Oklahoma City, have picked out a location for the new factory, and work on the six big buildings commenced today. There has been considerable delay in this matter as there were a few of the stockholders who objected to the sites offered and consequently held the construction of the factory back.

The site was finally forced upon them. It is well located, being a tract of land 140 by 250 feet in Oakland Park addition in the east part of the city, just east of the Santa Fe tracks and within a short distance of the Choctaw railway. President R. E. Timmons stated today that the machinery had been ordered and would be here in time to equip the buildings for handling the latter part of the crops, though the first crops of fruit will probably be marketed before the plant is in running order. I will have a daily capacity of 10,000 quarts and is capitalized at $10,000."
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