 An electric war ensued when in 1883 J. Ogden Armour, heir to the Armour Packing Company purchased the company on May 14, 1900, to power the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and Kansas City Electric Light Company.Under Armour the company bought competitors and built a new power plant in 1903, providing steam heat to downtown businesses.The company focused on the trolley company and in 1911 it went into receivership.