Show < THE DEERE COMPANY Items of Interest ConcernIng the Largest Plow Factory in the World Mr Charles H Deere Vice preal i I dent and manager of the great Deere steel plow works of Molinr Ills has been in the city for several days past but left for home yesterday yes-terday morning Believing that some information relative to the immense company he represents would be of Interest In-terest to the farming community of Utah among whom the Deere wares have so extensive a circulation a HERALD reporter yesterday called on the gentleman at the Walker House and was granted a brief interview The Deere Company said Mr Deere in answer to the reporters inquiry in-quiry was established by my father John Deere who came to Grand Detour De-tour Illinois in 1S37 Ten yean later I he removed to Moline then a small village vil-lage being attracted thither by the fine natural water power and the opportunities opportun-ities for navigation afforded bv the Mississippi He started in the plow and cultivator business In 1317 with three forges and two or three grindstones The first plow he made was of the old style all wood and the first steel plow he attempted the mould was Aade from an old circular saw Today our bust is the largest in the world of its kind We run forty grindstones work 800 men keep our own fire department among them turn out 100000 plows and cultivators every year nave branch houses iu St LouIs Kansas City Council Bluffs and Minneapolis andnot only use the Mississippi for chipping bat have the rails of the UBvt Qlhe Chicago Milwaukee St Paul the Peoria < t Rock Island and the Cui ego Rock Island running In to our factory Moline since our commencement commence-ment has grown to a city of 11000 peculation Does Mr Deere still remain in the business He takes no active part he has be n resting for a number of years and the management is in my hands How is your Utah trade Z When I tell you that Utah is one of the places where we never ye lost a dollar you will sbrmisc that oar trade here is very satisfactory Until a short time ago our interests here languished somewhat but Grant Odell Co have taken hold of our goods and they are again being actively handled Is Tour trade confined to he West WestBy no means We hip in all dJr c tiins and do a large business with Oregon Ore-gon and Texas besides having agencies in most of the States and territories between We have made a good many shipments too to Russia tipain Aus tralia and New Zealand though we merely sell there to jobbing homes Have you been troubled with the recent strikes Z Our force of polishers and grinders were ordered out by the Knights of Labor but we tilled their places with green hands and the old ones came back after a few days The works were never stopped Asked as to the method by which his company retained their patents after they had ran out Mr Deere said they were all the time lnve twg and Improving Im-proving so that they usually managed to hare a new idea patented which coveted the old one the Gilpin sulky plow of which this company are the patentees and manufacturers has been imitated and modelled after in many ways but Mr Deere states they have i preserved all the original patents by new inventions so that the machine they turn out bus not yet been approashed Jycay imita tor the manner of cohstructingbracing and putting woodon to their plows he says has iiotbe B8sec sfnly eepied Tl The first slab of steel ever made in the United States was manufactured in Pittsburgh under the direction of Mr John Deere for the Deere works AH the lumber usedhy the company is sawed at Helena Arkansas where theyabo hare fan1 Immense niUl I Mr Deere besides being vicepresident and manager of the Deere Company is President of the Deere and Mausur Coin piny a distinct organiation which makes as ecialty of corn planters bay rakes and seed drills lrD ere was accompanied by his wife and daughter daugh-ter all of rriiQin spoke iu the warait t termsi ol Salt Lake and its 1peopie I they h1l6Eeiiextensivelj sHown zb tirdur ing their stay by Mr J U Grant msgeroforant Odell J Co |