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ENTRANCE TO FACTORY 



"Got to have our own power plant," said 

 he. "Can't be dependent on somebody else 

 for our juice when we begin having tons of 

 copra coming in here every day." 



Big generators were ordered from the 

 States and were installed on their arrival in 

 a huge building that had been made ready 

 for them. And it was along lines of com- 

 pleteness and independence that the big 

 plant grew until, at the present day, every- 

 thing it needs for the handling and transport 

 of its product is its own, from the engines, 

 that puff up and down in the yards deliver- 



ing cars of copra, to the very ships and tank 

 cars that deliver bulk oil to the buyer in the 

 United States. 



And it was not long before those tank cars 

 were delivering bulk oil in quantities, although 

 not in the quantities that were required. 

 From soap factories it went to manufacturers 

 of cocoa-butter and from those to salad-oil 

 manufacturers and from these it found its 

 way into glucose factories and on up the scale 

 until it had filled wants that had been un- 

 dreamed of. It was needed for its glycerine 

 in the making of munitions and then the 



cake became the basis of the most scientific 

 cattle feed in the world and then they began 

 to utilize it as fertilizer with astonishing 

 results, and still there was no end to the 

 demand for the stuff. 



Following the first great demand for the 

 vegetable oil there were dozens of factories 

 started in Manila, but many of these, because 

 of their lack of the independent production 

 features that were incorporated into the 

 P. V. O. from its inception, found it hard 

 to compete when the price of the raw material 

 rose high on account of the increasing de- 

 mand for it. The P. V. O. was prepared 

 for this contingency, however, and the per- 

 fection of its plant, which had been designed 

 for this very eventuality, was equal to the 

 emergency. 



The result is that the P. V. O. is still grow- 

 ing by leaps and bounds while many of the 

 smaller competitors have dropped by the 

 wayside. 



For a nine-year-old infant-industry the 

 Philippine Vegetable Oil Co. is the huskiest- 

 looking outfit that Manila possesses. It 

 covers 110 acres of land and its huge build- 

 ings can be spotted from any vantage point 

 of the city. Its great administrative build- 



COCONUT GROVE IN LACUNA PROVINCE 



