The Harvester World: Volume 2, number 4, January 1911

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The Harvester World

A SERIES OF LETTERS From E, H, Hannett, General Agent, Evansville, Ind.
Under separate cover we are sending you by mail, addressed to the Advertising Department, three photo¬ graphs from the good old county of Christian, Ky. One photograph shows the new office building of Forbes Manufacturing Company, Hopkinsville, Ky. This building is used for offices, implement and buggy room. They have another large store about a block from the office, in which they transact general merchandise busi¬ ness; then back of the general store, which covers about a block, they have a big blacksmith and repair shop. In another part of the city they have a wagon factory operated by the Mogul Wagon Company, which in reality is a Forbes concern.
Forbes Manufacturing Company is one of our big¬ gest agents, in fact, we think it is about the biggest implement concern in Kentucky, and for that matter, in the south. The other three photographs show the home of E, D. Jones and two field views showing several McCormick binders at work. The gentleman on horseback is Mr. Jones. The boys could not get him to go to the house so they could have his picture taken in that view because he said he was so busy. We enclose a testimonial from Jones, in which he says he has purchased fifty-six McCormick binders. The writer knew quite a little about Mr. Jones, as he is one of the well known men of Kentucky. Mr. Gary, of Forbes Manufacturing Company, has sent us some imformation and we attach hereto the correspondence.
THE FORBES MANUFACTURING COMPANY IHC DEALERS
M. C. and J. K. Forbes formed a partnership about 1872. They first operated as a private firm, Forbes & Bro. They succeeded from the start. Their first suc¬ cess was in the saw mill business. That end of the business was conducted by J. K. Forbes. This gave them their start. J. K. Forbes, however, was paralyzed in 1882, hence the business has been conducted since then principally by his brother, M. C. Forbes, who was the senior member of the firm. In 1904 the business here  was  incorporated   under  the   name   of   Forbes
Manufacturing Company, M. C. Forbes, president; J . K. Forbes, vjce-president; Geo. E. Gary, sec'y-treas The capital, paid in, was about ?430,0OO.0O. Within two years the Mogul Wagon Company was incorporated out of this concern, and they have built a large wagon factory with a capacity of 12,000 wagons per year. B.  F. Avery & Sons handle this wagon at all their
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Office Building and Implement House of Forbes Manufacturing Co., Hopkinsville, Ky,
agencies. They have an up-to-date plant in every respect, run by electricity, with sprinkler systems, and their own saw mill, also run by electricity. The two concerns now have a capitalization of $650,000.00, almost all of which is paid in.
The business of Forbes Manufacturing Company is that of general hardware, implements, planing mill and lumber business, contractors, plumbers, tinners, heaters, hogshead makers, coal dealers, buggies, china, stoves, wholesale and retail grocers, jewelers, etc. The business has been, to a considerable extent, depart¬ mentalized. They do a business of about three-quar¬ ters of a million a year. J. K. Forbes died three years ago with the third stroke of paralysis. M. C. Forbes is president of both the Forbes Manufacturing Com¬ pany and the Mogul Wagon Company. One son, J. M. Forbes, is vice-president and manager of the Mogul Wagon Company, and the younger son, Wm. H. Forbes, is secretary of the Forbes Manufacturing Companj', Geo. E. Gary is vice-president and F. H. Mason, treasurer of the Forbes Manufacturing Com¬ pany.    The Board of Directors of the two companies
S. Z>, Jones—Superintending the Work ot His McCormick Binders on His Estate near Hopkinsville, Ky. In His Day Mr, Jones Has Bought B6 McCormick Binders
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