Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
THEIR OWN CASTINGS.
The Westinghouse Interests May
Start Another Industry
TO BE LOCATED AT WILDERMING.
1t is Not Yet Decided Whether They Will
Leave Allegheny.
A DEED FOR OVER 81 ACRES OF LAND

The Penn Fuel Gas and Electrical En-
gineering Company have about decided to
build a foundry and machine shop of their
own at Wilmerding, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad. This will be near the works of
the WESTINGHOUSE Airbrake Company, and
it is very probable that all of Westing-
houses enterprises will be moved to the new
little town springing up near Turtle Creek.
On Monday last the deed for the purchase
of an immense tract of land which
would more than be enough
for everything Mr.. Westinghouse
is connected with, was filed IN the Record
er's Office in this city. The entry of the
transfer is to the effect that the Westing-
house Airbrake Company purchased
tract of land in North Versailles township
containing 81 and SO5-1 900 acres for $780,
600.
The Fuel Gas Company, of which Mr..
Westinghouse is president, got their cast
ings, cocks, gates, etc., from the Gas City
Manufacturing Company. This company
also
SUPPLIES THE PHILADELPHIA COMPANY
with castings Most of their output goes to
the latter company. The demand for the cast
ings has become SO great that the Westing-
house people will manufacture their own,
and save great amount of money by the
operation. When the company builds the
foundry for the manufacture of castings for
their pipes it will have an employment ca
pacity of several hundred men.
The Westinghouse Airbrake Company
have not yet decided whether they will va
cate their works in Allegheny or not, when
they open the new shops at Widening. At
first it was the intention that as soon as the
new works were built the shops in Alleghe-
ny would be devoted to other purposes.
A number of schemes have been suggest
ed for the old shops. 1t was rumored that
the company knowing they could sell the
property for fancy figure would dispose of
IL. Other schemes were to the effect that
Mr.. Westinghouse would use the buildings
for some of his new enterprises which are
continually bobbing up. 1t is stated that
the treatment of the Westinghouse Com
pany in the awarding of the electric light
contract in Allegheny has naturally made
the company not very particular whether
the city get any benefit from their existence
or not. AT that time no attempt was made
by the officials of the company to conceal
THEIR CHAGRIN.
They said that they distributed hundreds
of thousands of dollars in Allegheny City
every year, and when they came to bid on
contract they were ruthlessly showed aside
for some foreign company that never did the
city cents worth of good.
The new airbrake buildings at Wilder
ming will not be completed until the latter
part of the summer The company now
does not ex pect to do any work in the shops
until September. There has been no brick
work done yet on the machine shop, and the
stone work on the foundry has not yet been
completed. The boiler house and black
smith shop are not quite finished yet, either.
AS soon as the weather will permit the
work will be pushed to completion.
When the shops are opened it is expected
that the majority of the men now living in
Allegheny will move to the new town. The
company will erect number of dwelling
houses for the occupancy of their employees.