South Broadway Street became a center of business and commerce after the Pere Marquette railroad was extended to Saginaw by way of Lowell and Belding and a new depot was built between South Broadway and Hudson. Lowell Manufacturing Company loaded sprayers directly onto train cars for shipment around the world, while Edwin Fallas and Company produced Dining Car Mincemeat, made tin cans, and canned tomatoes and beans before the operation became the L. W. Rutherford and Sons canning factory, which shipped by rail and truck to every state. John Kellogg established an apple drying plant in 1894, a cider mill in 1900, and Kellogg Evaporator, Jelly and Cider Works in 1906, then built a cement vinegar plant in 1911; Paul Kellogg took over in 1924 and improved production with a generator from Germany. In 1965, Kellogg Corporation bought the Rutherford property and the Dining Car Mincemeat recipe, moved bottling and processing there, and piped vinegar and apple juice from the old plant, while the old Kellogg Vinegar Plant was razed in 1979 and replaced by a Michigan Wire Processing Company building later owned by King Milling Company. C. H. Runciman purchased the Jakeway Elevator and in 1931 expanded into a bean elevator using pioneering electric color sorting machines that replaced one hundred women on hand sorting machines, and the Electric Sorting Machine Company, known as SORTEX, kept its offices in Lowell until 1957.