Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-28
HAD TO BRANCH OUT.
The Largest FIGURING Mill East Of
Minneapolis Projected.
SITE PURCHASED In ALLEGHENY
A Mammoth Elevator and Coal Depot is
Part Of the Plan.
ANOTHER EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY

An important movement that has been on
foot and engineered with little or no noise
for some time past has been finally con-
summated, and is one of very great interest
to this city. Marshall, Kennedy & Co..
Limited. have purchased the extensive
furniture factory and ground belonging to
M. Seibert & Co. The ground is 19Ox400
feet and is bounded by River avenue, Hope
and Lacock streets, Allegheny. There are
two very large buildings on it in which
furniture has been made, and these are to be
reconstructed and converted into the most
complete roller.fouring mills this side Of
Minneapolis. The price paid for the
property is $50, 900, just as it stands, but to
effect the Transformation intended will cost
big pile.
Though Marshall, Kennedy & Co. have
at present an output capacity of 1,10o bar
rels of -four per day, their facilities have
been less than they need, and they have
made arrangements to obviate all the diff
culties under which they now labor. An
idea of the size of the undertaking may be
had by considering the work necessary to
modelling of the furniture factory.
A COSTLY STRUCTURE.
A grain elevator will be built on the
ground for the private use OF the company
and for the use of the public also. Neither
Mr.. Marshall nor Mr. Weixel were pre-
pared to say just what the cost of it would
be, bat they stated that the boilers and en-
gines were each to be of 800 horse power and
boilers and engine alone would cost SIS, 900.
They propose to start with sufficient power to
accommodate all the strain they can by any
possibility ever need. They propose to re-
turn to coal for fuel and say they do not
care to depend on gas. As there is railway
trestle work there suitable for the purpose,
they also propose to establish coal yards and
say they have no doubt that in a few years
they will be operative to their full capacity.
The location is perhaps the best, SO far as
shipping facilities are concerned, in the city
as the company can load and unload Into
and from the cars Of all the railways center
ing here. By the Allegheny Valley Rail-
way they connect with the Pennsylvania
Railroad East and all the Pennsylvania Rail-
road system West, and by the Pittsburg and
Western with the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railways, thus
there is nothing at present left to connect
with and is not likely to be in future, these
systems covering all the points of the COM
pass and giving all the competition possible.
AN IMPORTANT ITEM.
When it is considered that as high as 30
carloads. consigned 10 this firm often lie in
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway yards
at one time, which must all be hauled by
horses, it will be seen that the saving in this
one item will in few months equal the cost
of considerable plant. So great is the
item OF terminal cost in the handling of
grain and heavy freight generally that the
best idea to be obtained is from the rema. K
of an iron manufacturer who invested q
fortune in the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Railway In order to secure the building OF
it. When asked if he ever expected to get
a dividend, to say nothing of getting his
money back, he replied: "Why if the road
never pays cent will be reimbursed and
get large dividends in addition in the saw
ing of hauling, as can run switches into
my Southside mills, and load and unload
directly"
Marshall, Kennedy & Co. said they were
unable to state how soon the new mill would
be running, but said it will be in operation
Just as quickly as the work can be done, as
they need it very badly now.