Holt & Brandon Ice and Coal Company

A NEW ENTERPRISE.

Sterling R. Holt, of Indianapolis, and M. C. Brandon

Form a Partnership to Be Called the Holt & Brandon Ice and Coal Company

A Sight Has Been Purchased On Walnut Street.

A new firm has been launched in the business circles of this city which will be called the Halt & Brandon Ice and Coal Company.

The senior member being Sterling R. Holt, of Indianapolis, who is joint owner with Hon. Tom Taggert of the Grand Hotel, city and county treasurer and connected with many other enterprises and interests at the capital city, and who is rated at over half a million dollars. He is the sole proprietor of the famous Lake Maxinkuckee ice plant at Marmont, Indiana, and has been indirectly connected with his partner M. C. Brandon, in the ice trade for a poriod of ten years.

Mr. Holt was in the city lust Monday in conference with Mr. Brandon and James Lauer, the real estate agent, for the purpose of purchasing a site on which to erect an immense ice factory and ice and cold storage plant. They selected the property corner of Ninth of Walnut Streets, which has 76 feet frontage toward Eighth Street and is 120 feet deep, on which is situated two cottages.

The purchasing was turned over to Mr. Laner in the morning and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon be completed the deal with Mr. Heberer, who owned it, in which he secured the property for $7.000. He then deeded it over to Holt, who immediately made arrangements to build.

Work will begin at once on a large first-class brick building into which will be placed the most modern improved machinery known to the artificial ice business. A large ice cold storage will be erected in connection with the above building for the purpose of keeping a good supply of Lake Maxinkuckee and artificial ice on hand for, emergencies, so that the people of this city may be assured of a continuously, healthy competition and that scarcity may be felt.

The plant will be in same area where is now located the office of Mr. Brandon, and will give a frontage on Ninth, Wainut and Eighth Streets and also an entrance on the alley, which is along the railroad track inside the E. & T. H. yards. This will afford splendid facilities for loading and unloading cars.

It is expected the plant will be in full operation at the beginning of next year and the citizens no doubt will hail it with delight. -- Evansville Journal Sep 26, 1894