A Match Factory for Aberdeen—at a $10,000 Bonus
The Sun Match Company offers 25 to 100 jobs if the board of trade supplies two acres and cash.
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The Sun Match Company has purchased the Washington Match Company’s plant at Tacoma and proposes moving the same here, on condition that the Aberdeen board of trade give them a site of two acres and a cash bonus of $10,000. They agree to give employment to 25 men at once, and to increase the number of their employees to 100 men within a year.
“On condition that the Aberdeen board of trade give them a site of two acres and a cash bonus of $10,000.”
Aberdeen’s board of trade was ready to hand over land and cash to land a factory, a precursor to modern economic-development incentives. The promise of 100 jobs in exchange for public subsidy is an argument civic leaders are still having.
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