Waterloo Evening Courier in Waterloo, Iowa

Waterloo a Manufacturing Center with Wide Export Reach

Waterloo hosts 16 manufacturing institutions producing over 3000 articles with capital above 21 million dollars, employing about 6000 and generating annual production valued at 38 million. Payroll exceeds 21.5 million dollars, and plants supply one fifth of the nation’s stationary gasoline engines and tractors. The city ranks third in cream separators and leads in small concrete mixers. Warehouses and railroads rely on Waterloo goods, with bakeries feeding 75,000 families daily and a world-spanning packing house network. Local firms include Cleveland Motor Sales, W Chapman Lumber, Connolly’s Carriage, and Corn Belt Business College.