The age-herald., 1898-11-12
LOCATING | B|C
 IRON INDUSTRY AddystOn Pipe and Steel Co'
 Will Spread Out WANT PLANT IN BIRMINGHAM President Daniel McLaren is
 Here in Person. HE GIVES NEWS OUT HIMSELF Business of His Company Growing and They Must Expand. DELIGHTED WITH THE DISTRICT Addyston Company Has the Oldest Pipe Works in the United States
 and Makes all Kinds of
 Iron Castings.
Business of His Company Growing and
 They Must Expand.
DELIGHTED WITH THE DISTRICT

Daniel McLaren, president of the Addys- ton Pipe and Steel company, of Cincinnati, is in the city.
 w J. Lippincott, capitalist and direc- tor of the Addyston company, is also here
 The two distinguished men of affairs are here on business.
 President McLaren is looking for a site in Birmingham for a vast plant to make pipe and all sorts of castings, including structural iron. MT. Lippincott is with him with the same end in view
 The two great leaders of industry are here for the purpose of arranging to erect what will be probably one of the largest industrial plants in the Birmingham dis trict.
 They came in night before last, and last night they granted an interview to an Age Herald reporter at the Morris in the rooms of M. " Richards the widely known indus trial agent of the Southern railway.
 "We have come here," said MT. McLaren, "to select site for a shop of our own i; a shop that will turn out all grades of iron pipe and structural and other castings.
 Oldest in United States we nave the oiueSt pipe WorKS III the United States. Away back in the sixties we made castings of old cannon and other material. Our business has constantly grown. MT. James Bowron, of the Ten nessee,. Coal, Iron and Railroad company, said today that we were their largest single customer for pig iron. We have two plants. The one at Addyston, Ohio, has a capacity of 300 tons day, and the other at Newport, Kentucky, 15O tons day.
 .sWe are now billing an order for the Semet-Sovey by-product plant at Ensley, supplying that great enterprise with all its piping. We are also filling great order for Glasgow, Scotland, and are supplying the pipes for a great electrical power plant in Dublin, Ireland, all of the machinery Of which is supplied by American establish ments. Moreover we are filling an order for Chicago that calls for $6O0.0OO. This | Chicago order calls from us train or seventy-two cars every other day drawn by two mogul engines.
 Plant Which Will Expand "wbat we wish and propose establishing is plant in Birmingham capable of ex- | mansion. Our business is expanding; 1t has | in fact. outgrown our capacity, and we de- | maQd a ste TOT our plSlt ehoe WV SeNAA o-- i pand as our trade grows. We shall keel | our plants at Addyston and Newport III | operation continuously, but we require | plant here in Birmingham to meet the re- | quirements of our trade.
 | I've have thoughtfully considered the sie- | nation of the iron market, and we came to | the conclusion that Birmingham IS the place for additional enterprise Our present | plants are too far from tidewater for for | eign trade, although we are filling the big l orders for Glasgow and Dublin. We desire l a plant here in Birmingham for the reason I that pig iron can be obtained here perhaps | more cheaply than it can be had anywhere | else in this country or perhaps in the world | You have here the iron and the coke thai l we require, and you have cheap tfansporta- l tion to the sea.
 l "We desire to enter and supply the mar | kets of Mexico, Central America and South | America; and, to be perfectly frank with | VOL" Mr. McLaren confessed, i've believe | Birmingham to be the best point at which
 to establish plant. do not wish to con- | ceal anything. I think it best to tell the
 truth so that there may be no misunder'
 standing in respect to our visit to Birming-
 ham. I bring with me plans and specified | tions for our plant already prepared. The,
 are upon liberal scale, and provide for tht
 expansion of our trade which we confidently | expect.
 '.This enterprise of ours is purely busi | ness. There is no sentiment about 1t
 Nearly all the pig iron we use at AddystoI
 and Newport comes from Birmingham
 The freight we pay on the pig is roughl, | about $22o ton, and the return freigh is about $5 a ton on our pipe and othel castings. Therefore our products
 Addyston cost about s7 ton additiona laid down in Birmingham That additiona
 cost we desire to avoid and we intend t' avoid it. To do so we will build shol
 here in Birmingham for the local condi
 tions are conducive to a profitable bust
 ness.
 "At our home plants we make 72-inci pipe and perhaps the largest castings mad
 in the United States. We make casting
 fourteen feet in diameter. That will giv'
 some idea of our works and that Is some
 thing of what we wish to do at Birming
 ham,"
 | The representatives of the Tennessee
 Coal, Iron and Railroad company and tn
 Sloss Iron and Steel company and othe
 local representatives of the business inter