Owl Creek Phosphate Company Opens Large Plant at Benotis
Some of the State's Foremost Business Men Are At Helm
Memminger Manager
Plant Offers Employment To A Large Force of Men; Are Operating Plant Now
A business that will mean much to Florida and this section in particular, is the development of hard rock phosphate by the Owl Creek Phosphate Company which strarted work two weeks ago on a plant at Benotis, four miles east of Carbur and twenty miles from Perry.
Owl Creek Phosphate Company has purchased two tracks of land, one of 200 acres at Benotis on the ACL Railroad, where they are now constructing a mill of 200 tons daily capacity. The other tract containing 1,950 acres is in the same vicinity.
It is said that both locations are exceptionally rich in phosphate deposits and unusually free from deleterious materials, such as lime, flint, etc., which are generally found in hard rock deposits.
The Benotis plant will employ a large number of men and is being rushed to completion, estimated to be within sixty days. The company has now upon the property, office and camp quarters buildings together with loborers houses. They are now working fifty men at the plant construction, including carpenters, machinists and laborers. The beginning of this operation has naturally been a factor of absorbing some of the unemployed in this section and the company is making such purchases as are obtainable in this vicinity with the local merchants and manufacturers.
Article from The Perry Herald, August 16, 1928