Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-29
MAKING BIG STRIDES
The City Rapidly Spreading
Out Over ALI the Adja-'
cent Territory.
A GREEN BOTTLE COMBINE.
Manufacturers to Sell Their Plants
and Move to the Suburbs.
LOOKING FOR CHEAPER PROPERTY.
Centrally Located Real Estate Too yalu-
able for Mill Sites.
A GREEN BOTTLE COMBINE.
LOOKING FOR CHEAPER PROPERTY.
Centrally Located Real Estate Too yalu-
able for Mill Sites.
A RESULT OF PITTSBURG'S GROWTH

The remarkable growth of Pittsburg in
the last ten years is too well known to need
much comment The city is pushing out
and spreading on all sides through ALLIE
gheny county. Town after town has been
started in the suburbs, and while at one
time it was feared the city would be in
jrrsd by neighboring competition, the
builders of the local places knew very we'll
what they were doing.
Each town was a nucleus established
mainly by Pittsburg capital Many of
them have cast of their swaddling clothes
and have become full-fedged boroughs.
The intervening country between them and
the city has become settled and the suburban
line OF Pittsburg greatly extended. AL E.
gheny in reality is PittsDurg, and the teem-
ing population along the Pennsylvania
'oad to Jeanette, on the beautiful bluffs
overhanging the Ohio to Sewickley, and on
the other side below Coraopolis. up the
Monongahela river to McKeesport, the
iron towns of Duquesne and Honest Fad,
and the development of the country up the
Allegheny and West Penn roads are in fact
part and parcel of the great city named
after the English commoner
Bringing Big Business to Pittsburg.
The new business resulting has been enor-
nous, and has naturally gravitated to the
downtown triangle below Grant street,
from which point the varied industries of
Allegheny county are directed
1t is surprising how the hill district over
looking the Ft. WAYNE road has grown.
The Pleasant Valley Company realizes this
fact, and is building a big bridge across
Jacks Run to the old Watson place with
the intention of extending the line to Ava
Ion. 1t is expected that the structure will
be ready by spring, and real estate in that
neighborhood is booming. 1t promises to
be another East End in five years. The
people are going at the improvements on an
extensive scale, and are laying out the
streets with an eye to the future. All this
will reflect glory on the two cities. The ex-
tension of the street car lines is bound to
result proftablv
The effect of the outside development has
been to make property exceedingly valuable
in Pittsburg proper. Mills and factories
that were few years ago considered in the
outskirts of the city are now downtown,
The real estate is to-day worth more than
the buildings and the plants. The demand
for the sites to be used for business houses
and dwelling purposes is growing all the
time
Moving to Make Money.
Manufacturers recognize the tendency to
move further out, and by selling their
Snill property they can make more than
enough money to re-establish their works
on larger scale and with all modern i'm
provements.
The latest people to sscatch on" to this
idea are the green bottle manufacturers on
the SOuthside. There are four companies
in the business in Pittsburg-D O. Cum
ningham, William McCuIlev & Co., Thomas
D. Wightman & Co. and the Ihmsen Glass
Company. They control six factories, and
together do a business of $4,000, 600 per
year. The plants were built at a time when
the ground was cheap, but the city has
grown, and now they are hemmed in by
houses
H. Sellers Mckee suggested plan of
abandoning the old factories, selling the
land and with the money building talk
factory near the city with capacity much
larger than the six plants put together.
The firms have not consolidated like the |
mint glass men lne the u n1teQ states Glass |
Company, but they regard the scheme with |
great favor. The six factories are old and |
it would pay 10 rebuild them. The trouble |
now is to select a suitable site close to Pitts |
burg. All the available places along the |
railroads have been canvassed and the SUBJ !
Ject is under advisement.
The Project Under Discussion.
Young Mr. WIghtman said his company |
would be willing to sell its plant at the |
city's valuation. Mark Watson, of McCul-
lev & Co., declined to talk, but admitted |
the bottle manufacturers are discussing
such a plan. The affair is indefinite at
present, but will soon assume shape
The use of the tank in the manufacture
of glass is modern idea that is
very successful. The combination intends
to build at least two or three tanks. The
glass can be made cheaper, while a good
round sum for the manufacturers can be
turned BY pulling down the old factories
and putting the sites into the real estate
market. 1t is rumored that some of the big
mill owners out Penn avenue intend to do
the same thing. The sites of some of the
big plants in the Penn avenue district are
said to be worth at least 1000, 900. This
increase is the result of the city's develop
ment
The green bottle men employ about 800
hands, and the new move concerns at least
4, 4,000 people.