The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-27

ciWh anu 10 uetbB well ana strongly
built. 1t will be heated by steam and
equipped with steam elevators, having
railroad switch in the rear.
The mill will contain grain ele-
vator which will hold 5000 bushels of
corn and sixty horsepower engine
The capacity of the corn and feed mill
will be 700 bushels day.
Mr.. Huff expects to have the build.
ing completed within thirty DAYS.
When finished and equipped 1t will
cost about $4,000 The architect is
Gustav Bottiger, of Roanoke, and the
builder G. w. Acorn, of Salem.
The Roanoke Electric Light and
Power Company are making some very
which, when completed, will more than
double the capacity of their works.
Inc improvements include two
boilers OF 100 horse power each and
two OF the Buckeye Engine Company's
engines each of 100 horse power.
The engine and dynamo foundations
are completed and the engines are on
the ground ready to be placed in posi-
ton. The dynamos, four in number,
are ready to be shipped immediately.
They were built in New York by the
q. q Q. Motor Company. a large store
room and office have been added to tho
The improvements include an arc
light plant, and as soon as everything is
completed the engines will be run day
and night. Pole lines are being eX-
tended oil over tho city. The cost of
the additions will be in the neighbor-
hood OF $4,000, and the company ex-
poets to have them completed and in
running order within month.
One industry has been successfully
established in Roanoke that not ono In
twenty people is aware is in existence.
1t is Mr.. Louis B. Scholzs vinegar fac.
tory at tho corner of Wise and Smith
streets, opposite the Cold Storage plant.
Inc building is a neat one-story frame,
25x60 feet. Tho business Represents an
investment of S. 600. 1t has q capacity
OF $50 barrels a month, and turns out
line grades Of white wine, cider and
crap apple vinegar. 1t will succeed, as
does everything Mr.. Schoz undertakes.
The capacity Of the j. ID. I4azell brick
works has been greatly increased dur
ing the year and the works now have
capacity Of $4,000 bricks day. Anew
Penfteld brick machine has been nut in,
as also new boiler. A new kiln has
been built and tramway to carry the
clay to the pug mill A dryer is now
being constructed which will dry $4,000
| SAAOno III pWChbJ hours. Onp Sec
ton of this dryer has been in operation
and it works very satisfactorily. Tho
improvements will cost about $4,000.
| Oliver S Co. have erected n planning
mill on Earn st avenue. The building
Is two stories high, 5OXlOO feet and is
furnished with the latest improved ma.
chinery.
e. ID. Stewards mattress factory is O.
structure two and one-half stories in
height, 45x00 feet. 1t was built by II.
Z. Oakley, of Roanoke, from plans pre-
pared by Mr.. Stewart, and cost $4,000.
The American Bridge and Iron Com
pany and the Roanoke Machine Works
have made improvements and repairs to
their buildings during the year. new
blacksmith shop was erected by the
former company, 60Xl25 feet, in place of
the ono that was destroyed by fire. On
one side of the shop is second floor.
which is used as pattern shop. The
building is of iron and fire proof, and
cost about $4,000.
Inc blacksmith shop of tho Machine
| Works, which was crushed in during the
heavy snow storm OF year ago, has
been rebuilt. The work was done bv
Messrs. Cofrode s. Evans, OF Philadei-
phia. A 35x20 foot addition was also
built to the boiler shop at the planning
MIL. a1 O. cost OF So 600.
The smith shop was rebuilt from the
top OF the walls, and portion of these
were thrown down. The structure is
22oX60 feet. The work was done at
cost OF $4,000. An addition was built to
the storehouse at the machine works,
| 4Ox60 feet at cost of So, OOO
The Grocer Furnace Company has
erected an engine house at the furnace.
| The Virginia Asphalt Block and Con-
crete Pavement Company has secured
Tor tho location Of its factory a desira-
Bile site IN Northeast Roanoke. on the
line of the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road, and will use the building thereon
aztec considerable alteration, formerly
used by the Virginia Canning Company.
The size of the structure will be 5Oxl4O
feet, with side addition. The plant
used by this company will be massive,
and will embrace the newest patents
Tor the manufacture of compressed
asphalt block and tile large part of
the machinery has already arrived. and
by February
The capacity of the plant will be suf-
ficient to manufacture 10000 tiles or
blocks daily, and will have exclusive
ntrol of the large territory allotted
TO 1T by the parent company, embracing
part of Ave states. The alterations in
building, inclusive OF plant ard nachin-
cry. etc., ETC., will cost bout $50 900.
Tho company has already received a
number of orders for tiles. The tiles
are very popular in eastern cities for
their attractiveness, smoothncss, econ
omy and durability for sidewalk pave
ments.
This company will require large
number of skilled workmen. Limestone
IS largely used in the manufacture of