Canton Hughes Pump Company, The

Canton Hughes Pump Company, The
	The Southwestern Way. Wooster Progress. 1914.
Type	Pumps
Industry	Manufacturing
Fate	Dissolved
Headquarters	Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations	1
Services	Complete line of Steam Pumping Machinery consisting of Air Compressors, Automatic Feed Pumps and Receivers, Duplex Boiler Feed Pumps, Single and Compound Duplex Pumps, Hydraulic Pumps, Water Works Pumps and various other styles of Pumps.

Locations

0000 Unknown St., Wooster, Ohio 44691

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Comprehensive History

Wooster Gets Big Factory: Pump Factory Employing Two Hundred Men Will Come From Canton

Wooster Gets Big Factory: Pump Factory Employing Two Hundred Men Will Come From Canton ^[1]

The Wooster Board of Trade on Thursday night closed a deal that will bring to Wooster the Canton Hughes Pump Co., incorporated at $_________, a concern which will employ 200 men. By the first of next January, or at least not later than the first of April, the company will have their buildings erected here and a force of 75 men at work. The contract says that the number of employees shall be gradually increased during next year, and that the full force of 200 men shall be at work on or before January 1, 1912.

This deal, which as many people in Wooster know, has been under way for a long time. The Board of Trade has been dickering with this company for almost two years, but about a month ago it was rumored that the deal had been closed. For a time it seemed a matter of only a few hours until everything would be done, but the final settlement was not made, and a little later on, the deal seemed on the point of falling through altogether.

A committee consisting of Albert Dix, George Gerstenslager, W. R. Barnhart, Ed. S. Wertz, Judge Frank Taggart and W. F. Kean was appointed to confer with the representative of the company. Mr. Whiting. The conference was set for Thursday afternoon, and when the meeting adjourned at 4 o'clock, a meeting of the directors of the Board of Trade was called for Thursday evening when the matter was finally adjusted.

The Board of Trade agrees to pay the company a bonus of $30,000 to bring the factory to Wooster. A very small portion, if any, of this money is to be raised by soliciting among the merchants. The Board of Trade invested the $17,500, minus the costs, obtained from the Glass Works after a long contest in the courts, in real estate, and this land will be allotted, the lots sold, and the proceeds applied to the fund to bring the factory here.

The building is to be located on the five acre triangular tract of land lying north of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks, west of Palmer street and south of Nold avenue. The Board has also agreed to build a switch from the main Pennsy tracks up through the ravine to the factory site. The main building is to be 100x250 feet and will cost the company $40,000. In addition to this $30,000 will be spent to erect cranes. The machinery which the company will bring to Wooster will be worth $60,000.

The Canton Hughes Pump Co., is one of the solid manufacturing plants of Canton, and it means a lot to Wooster to bring this institution here. They manufacture steam pumps, small ones worth $50 each, and from this on up to masterpieces of workmanship worth $30,000. The company is just now finishing a contract for a $20,000 pump for a large water works department of a large city.

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Wooster Progress (1914)
- 1914 - Manufacturing

"The Canton-Hughes Pump Company had been in business for a number of years at Canton, Ohio, and moved to Wooster in October, 1911. They have erected a strictly modern and fire-proof factory which is equipped with the highest grade of machinery for building their product, and they are doing a very nice business.

This Company builds a full and complete line of Steam Pumping Machinery consisting of Air Compressors, Automatic Feed Pumps and Receivers, Duplex Boiler Feed Pumps, Single and Compound Duplex Pumps, Hydraulic Pumps, Water Works Pumps and various other styles of Pumps.

They have a very good reputation as pump builders, and their product is shipped to every state in the Union as well as to almost every foreign country. They but recently shipped a number of pumps to Australia. Recent installation of Water Works Pumps have been made at Marine City, Birmingham and Dowagiac, Mich., Findlay and Painesville, Ohio, Union City, Ind. and Marshall, Ill.

Every pump built and sold by them, or any of their agents, is fully guaranteed, and they solicit your trade.

If interested in their line, drop them a postal and catalogue will be promptly forwarded. ^[2]

Timeline

1911 - October, Moved to Wooster, Ohio.

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References

↑ Wayne County Democrat, Wooster, Ohio. 1910 Jul 20, p. 1.
↑ Wooster Progress. 1914, p. 11.

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[1] Wayne County Democrat, Wooster, Ohio. 1910 Jul 20, p. 1.

[2] Wooster Progress. 1914, p. 11.

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