The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-06-30
FOUR GREAT BUILDINGS
which viii Constitute Part of The
Cement Plant-One Hundred and
Twenty-Five Cars VIII BE
Required 70 Haul II.
ACRES OF GROUND
viii be Covered by These Buildings
The Contracts for Which Are
Already Let.


letter from Mr.. John I. Holmes, Pres
ident of the Michigan Portland Ce-
ment Company, in the course Of which
he says;
at may be interesting to you to
know that we have placed contracts
for our buildings for our Cement fac.
tory at lola. These consist OF four
buildings of steel construction except
the walls OF the power house.
"The main building will he 4oO feet
long and 800 feet wide The power
house will he 4O5 feet long by IS feet
wide. There will he two storage
houses, each $50 feet long by Il feet
wide.
The contract calls for these build
ings to be entirely completed by the
first Of February. They will contain
nearly three and one-half million
pounds of steel and it will take l25
cars to convey it to lola.
~ Will be in lola the latter part of
this week with our engineers to lay
out the foundation plans and arrange
the building site for our factory"
The foregoing official statement,
while sent in private letter, is of
such very great interest and impor-
tance to the people of lola that the
REGISTER trusts Mr.. Holmes will ex-
cuse the publication OF it.
1t is hard to realize otf-haud the
enormous extent of the buildings
which Mr.. Holmes describes. We
have been used to thinking that the
main building OF the Lanyon Zinc
Company is of pretty fair size, but it
is only $50 by 60 fee, hence five Of
such buildings could be set down in
the main building of the Cement
works and still lack 26OO square feet
of filling it. The block of buildings
on the west side OF the square, with
the New York store at one corner and
Northrups at the other could be set
down in this Cement building and
leave lO5 feet on one side and 225 feet
on the other of clear space. The walls
of this main building might serve as
fence to enclose something more
than Thirty North Side school houses
and yet leave the children fair
amount of play ground. Altogether
the superficial area covered by these
four buildings will cover something
over five acres Of ground. There may
be "A more extensive manufacturing
plant somewhere in Kansas than this
one will be, but this paper cannot now
locate it,
The publication of these figures will
explain the delay which has led a
good many people to doubt whether
the Cement plant were coming at all.
One hundred and twenty-five car
loads of steel cannot he shaped into
building beams in day, 20 say moth
ing of halfa million dollars worth of
machinery that is to 90 into these
buildings and that had to be made to
order. The fact that so much has
been accomplished az has shows that
the greatest diligence has been used,
And the farther fact that these great
structures are To- be completed by
next February is evidence that the
work will be pushed hard from this
time forth,
The REGISTER has repeatedly as
sured its readers that the works OF
the Portland Cement Company would
exceed in extent any single manufac.
turing enterprise in Kansas and would
be one of the largest factors in build
ing lola into city, 1t Is still of thai
3 opinion, and submits the foregoing ii
evidence as "Exhibit A."
BACkACHE should never be neglect
ed 1t means kidney disorder, which
If allowed to run too long will result
in Brights disease, diabetes or othe
serious aud often fatal complaints