The evening bulletin., 1891-09-12
THAT STEEL PLANT.
The Company Incorporated, the
Ground Secured and Work
Soon to Be Com
menced.
Additional Particulars Other Enter
prises Talked 0f-Fuel Gas.
Our Opportunity.

Mention has heretofore been made of
the incorporation of a company to estab-
lish steel plant in the West End. The
BULLETIN has secured additional informa-
ton in regard to the enterprise.
The name Of the organization is "The
Maysville Fuel, Light and Steel Com
pany," and the incorporators are w. H.
Harris, ]. o. Lee, DIR. John NJ. Frazee,
Colonel Frank S. Owens, Thomas Wells
and w. w. Ball.
1t will be seen at once that the incor-
porators are, with two exceptions, we'll
known citizens of Maysville, and at the
same time among our leading and most
successful business men. Messrs Harris
and Lee have recently taken up their
residence here and are the prime movers
in the fuel gas works lately erected in the
West End Mr. Harris is the inventor of
the process used in making the gas.
The capital stock of the steel plant
company is 100000. The articles of in
corporation have been signed and ac-
knowledged, and the company will pro-
ceed at once to perfect the organization.
The ground lying between the G. and o.
railroad and the old Blue Run turnpike
and the Thomas tobacco warehouse and
the grave yard property, in the West
End, has been secured for the location of
the plant. The lot adjoins that occupied
by the fuel gas works. The capacity of
the plant will be from five to eight tons
per day, and when running at its best it
will furnish employment for from sew
enty-five to one hundred hands. In
talk with Mr.. Harris yesterday afternoon
he said that work on the plant would be
commenced just as soon as the necessary
arrangements could be made.
This new enterprise grows out of the
establishment of the fuel gas works. All
the incorporators of the steel plant COM |
pany are also interested in the gas COM
pany, and one object in locating the two
enterprises in the same neighborhood is
that the steel plant may have all the adj
vantages of the cheap fuel the gas COM
pany claims to be able to furnish. The
parties directly interested in the fuel gas |
works have been very enthusiastic ever
since the works were tested, and make
wonderful claims for the new fuel. As
has been stated this gas is manufactured
by an entirely new process. In the con-
versation with Mr.. Harris he stated that
one ton OF coal converted into gas by this
process will furnish as much heat as five
t )ns of the raw coal. He stated also that
he can manufacture in twenty-four hours,
at the works just completed in the West
End, twice as much gas as is consumed
in Cincinnati in the same time. A Gin
cinnati chemist has tested the works and
the result was entirely satisfactory. If
all this can be done it will be readilyr rec
ognized how cheap fuel the company
has. And there is no wonder that the
parties interested are enthusiastic. And
the gas is not only fuel gas, but it can
be used also for illuminating purposes.
The company claims it can now furnish
all the fuel and light needed in Maysville.
The gas is an excellent fuel for use in a
pottery, fire brick and tile works. Par
ties have also written to Mr.. Harris with
a view to starting pottery.
Mr.. Harris is very enthusiastic over
the matter, and he believes with the
proper encouragement from the peo-
pie fully Sl,OOO,OOO can be added to the
value of property in Maysville in the
next year, He thinks it is Maysville's
Professor ]. II. L. Payne, an expert
enced chemist and metallurgist OF Cleve-
land, o., has been engaged, and is now
here to devote his time to the develop
ment OF the steel plant.