The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-08-22


and improvements that greet one who has
been away SO long as have. Ny conf
dcnce in Big Stone Gap and bullsh feel
ing us regards it's future are being con-
tinually increased by what l have seen ut
home and learned abroad"
VIRGINIA IRON NOTES.
Industries that are springing up In yari-
GUS Parts OF the State.
Something has already been said in q
cursorv way in this correspondence rela-
tive to the new hardware factory being
established AT Basic City. Its magnitude
entities it .toa more extended mention.
On July 2Sth the Basic City Hardware
Company were incorporated with apaid up
capital of 81 80, 900, which will be increased
to $250,G20 as soon as the company be-
gin to manufacture their various spec
ialtics. The officers Of the company are
President, Samuel Fonor, who is also pres
ident Of the Basic City Land Company;
yicc-prcsidcnt and general mausger, m
icl H. Fitzgerald, Of Scranton. Pa; sccrc-
tary and treasurer, Arthr, Fitzpatrick, Of
New York City. The DC rd o. directors
consists o. ell the aboye, together WITH
Charles NJ. Hughes, Dr.. cashier First M
tio.a: Bank Of Lima, Ohio; Richard p.
Bruii, capitalist, of New York City: o. F..
Swift, member Of the Buffalo, N. Y. Lock
Company; Arthur Fitzpatrick, formerly
with the Pittsburgh iron firm of the
Moorhcad, McCleane Company; James
Bumgardner, Jr., Of Stanton, Va; J. E.
Sanger and J. 4. Wise, Of Basic City.
This enterprise is an outcome of the But
falo Lock Company, now claimed to DO
employing $500 men, and which plant is
to be gradually absorbed by the new con-
Germ at Basic City. The buildings of the
Basic City Hardware Company are said to
be the largest Of the kind in the South,
and when entirely completed will be, it is
claimed, without an equal in point of
convenience and handsome appearance in
the country. The entire building is of
granite, iron and brick, and will be rem
dered absolutely freproof by the applica-
ton of corrugated roofing and plating.
The plant was erected from special de-
signs by General Manager Fitzgerald, and
is so planned that its capacity Gun be in
creased at any. time at small cost, and
without causing any delay in operations.
An idea of the extensive proportions of
this structure can he obtained from the
following Dimensions: The foundry room
is 200x75 feet; the machinery department,
250x50 feet; the finishing room, 4251371%
feet; the Japan house, 50125 feet; the pat
tern safe, 203l2 feet The plant will be
supplied with the most modern machinery
and the latest improved devices for labor
saving. In addition % sssiSs! line Of !
builders hardware, the COMPANY 4SfSssI
manufacturing bronze, BRASS and 4eft
,prated goods: AZ A. presest there are 2l4
men at work on fhe hui di1 ga and the de-
tails of thee plan, and By few more
months this Big enterprise will be actively
in operation.
The twin plant Of the Glenwood Fur
mace Company, recently reported rs hay-
ing commenced construction at Glasgow,
is under the contract Of Julian Kennedy,
of Pittsburgh, Pa. The work just begun
will consist when completed of an i'm
proved i00-ton blast furnace, and upon its
completion the second furnace will be
commenced.
1t is currently stated at Norfolk that
the Norfolk & Western railroad Com
pany contemplate establishing at Lam
berts Point, near that city, machine shops
that will be the largest of any in the Nor
folk & Western system, employing sew
eral hundred skilled workmen. The pre-
I ;r1s, rnyi,; 70 al Il
started, and operations are expected to
soon begin on IN extensive scale. This
company have big plans on foot for build
ing up their interests at Lambert's Point
Fully six months ago they began at that
place improvements to their already large
facilities for handling the coal business Of
their road, and also improvements looking
to the increase Of their ability to handle
other freight traffic. Their great coal
pier, which has been running at an average
capacity of $4,000 tons of coal per week,
has been for some years the most con-
spicuous commercial. figure in Norfolk
harbor. The improvements alluded to,
and which will be completed by November
!, or thereabouts, will include an addi-
tional coal pier Of iron, which will double
their present capacity in the coal trade,
and they have in prospect another coal
pier of capacity similar to each of the
others. These improvements necessitated
the making of twenty-seven acres Of new
ground, which contains 81 500 cubic yards
of filling material. This new ground has
900 feet frontage on the river, and from it
the new piers start. The pier now under
construction is to he sos feet long, 81 feet
wide and so feet high. On the main land
the six miles of railroad tracks will be
supplemented by four additional miles.
These improvements when completed will
cost the Norfolk l. Western people
100000. The timber approach to the
new iron pier and the timber protection
for the piling of the pier is under way.
Part of the pier itself, which was made by
the Pencoyd Iron Company, near Philadel-
phia, is on the spot. The substructure OF
the pier will be wrought iron piles, with
cast iron disks at the lower end. These
piles are to be sunk by the water jet pro-
cess. The superstructure will be of
wrought iron. The work of sinking the
iron piles will begin in week or go. The
large new warehouse, on what IL known as
the warehouse pier, is covered with gal
vanixed corrugated iron, and has roof oil
four-p!y felt, covered With tar and gravel
All Of the woodwork Of these improvements
required 100000 feet of fine timber. The
chief engineer Of the Norfolk;k Western
railroad, w. W. Goe, has general control
of the xork, and Walter L: Keen is the
engineer in charge. The general con-
tractors are cofrode & Evans, Of Potts.
town, Pa. The galvanized iron work was
done by Barnard l. Co., of Norfolk.
The Low Moor Mining and Development,