Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-28
SURPRISES THE VISITOR.
ELLwoOD HAS BUILDINGS, MANUFAC-
TORIES AND NATURAL RESOURCES.

Wonderful Industries Already Prosperous
Some Interesting AIachinery-A Plan
to Utilize Water Power-Splendid
Railroad FaciIities-A City That Has a
Future.
ELLwooD, Pa, Oct 23.-It's year-since
my last visit to to this locality, so the neat
station buildings, the handsome Hotel
Oliver and its grounds, the pretty cottages
to be seen on all sides, andthe several large
factories, all of which have sprung up in
the meantime, seem like a magical devel-
opment.
When visited the Ellwood Shafting and
Tube Company's building the E. P. Allis
Company's engineer-Wilcox-wa Just
starting one of their big Corliss engines
The ten-ton hywheel ran perfectly true and
the new machinery moved off as smoothly
as if it had been in the business for years.
The structure and its framing are of wrought
iron and cover more than an acre of ground
floor, which is filled with machinery of all
sorts for the making of the cold drawn
steel shafting and tubing. The latter plays
an important part in the construction of bicy-
cles and other things, while the shafting
has still wider field of usefulness The de-
.mand for both is very large and has hereto
fore been entirely supplied from Europe.
1t is said the company has large orders
ahead for each of these products.
The Derwent Foundry Company has Just
completed contracts to Immediately start a
plant for manufacturing stoves and light
castings. They will at once erect an $4,000
building. which Mr.. Sterret calls small
beginning. The several large buildings of
the Ellwood Enamel Works and the Trans
parent Roofing Factory inclose machinery
and furnaces which are operated by care
III ,l1I
enamel signs, enamel-lined water pipe,
etc., that have heretofore been imported in
large quantities, will now be made at this
factory; in fact the manager of the Bir-
mingham, Eng, works has charge of this
establishment. The outlook fully warrants
the owners in being enthusiastic.
An important feature of all this is that
several of the industries at Ellwood make
specialties which are in good demand, and
are independent of the fluctuations and COM
petition that staple goods are subject to.
Then again skilled laborers that make good
citizens and help the town are employed.
The fact that the place is on two important
trunk lines, the Pennsylvania and B. & o.
systems, With hZanother, the Lake Shore,
Pittsburg, Lake Erie and Western, knock
ing for admission, (having purchased an
old bridge lease over the Conoquenessing),
gives Ellwood all the advantages depend
ent upon facilities for through shipments
and competitive freight rates, without
those switching and transfer charges which
are dead weight to so many otherwise
good localities.
There seems to be no end of natural re-
sources about the place-coal, frebrick
clay, limestone, building stone, sand for
glass, etc. while every house in Ellwood is
lighted with either electric light or natural
gas A dam will be constructed across the
Conoquenessing, and its water power con-
veyed by compressed air to the various fac
tories. This is said to De the most practical
and economical of modern methods.
After one has considered these facts
awhile, the progress of the town which at
first seems phenomenal, is accounted for.
Every dwelling in Ellwood is taken, and
there are over 100 applications for houses to
rent, which assures investors a good and
immediate return for their money.
With two newspapers and two churches
to manage its morals, Ellwood, Pa, might
become good as well as great. MACK.