The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-01-26
With the Granting Of the
Franchise to the LanyOn
Zinc Company this big
Enterprise is
Assured
WORK TO BEGIN EARLY
In the Spring and Will be
Pushed Rapidly to Com
pletiOn

Mr.. j. s. Rodgers, president of the
Lanyon Zinc Company, received a
dlsp tch from Topeka Thursday
that the franchise, formally and
officially granting the company
authority to do business In this State,
had been granted by the State Charter
Board.
This is the best news that has come
to lola for long time, for 1t means
that the last obstacle that had stood
in the way of large additional invest
ments IN lola is removed.
The first of these investments will
be the construction of large zinc
rolling mill, for the manufacture of
shingles and other forms of zinc plate.
AS already noted in the REGISTER
some months ago, the Lanyon Zinc
Company has long had it in mind to
build such = mill, but If this fran
chise had not been secured 1t would
have been built in st, Louis or Kan
sas City. With the granting of the
franchise, however, the only objection
against lola has been removed and it
will be built here.
In conversation with a representa-.
tive of the REGISTER Thursday
Mr.. Rodgers authorized the above
statement, and said further:
1--WE have had the construction OF
rolling mill under consideration for
nearly year, and our plans are now
so fully matured that we hope to be-
gin work ON it early in the spring.
We have had o man in Europe for
some time studying the plants of that
country, which are far more complete
and perfect than any in the United
States, and the knowledge which he
" i'll gain will enable us to construct a
mill which we hope will be equal to
the best in the world.
Until recently the largest zinc
plate mill in this country has been
~ elve tons daily, although believe
the stlhieson- Hegeler people have
recently enlarged their capacity to
twenty five tone. We expect to put
in a mill with a capacity of twenty
tons daily, to begin with, although
the capacity can be easily increased II
the business warrants it.
"Up to this time, owing largely to
the fact that it was more expensive
than other material, zinc has been but
little used for roofing in the United
States, the consumption for that pun
pose in Europe being many times
greater than here. With the facilities
VIII ich we have for it's manufacture,
, however, we hope to be able to place
it upon the market at q price that
Will bring it into much more common
use and thus enlarge the market fol
the product of our smelters.
= "Such mill as we expect to erec
t will cost upwards of one hundred
q thousand dollars and when in opera
a tion will employ about two hundred
4 men. We have not decided fully OF
Q the exact location yet, but it will
D probably be built just west of our M
4 l Works"
a Chow about the sulphuric aciC
3 works which it was reported SOM
: time ago you were thinking of build
ing ?"
ave are still figuring on that propo
sition, but have reached no definite
conclusion asfyet. One of the grea
obstacles in the way is the question
OF dieposing of the large amount o
waste. We have not yet been able t
figure out how that can be- done.
think l can say, however, that such
plant will be built here sometime, bu
!. l am not prepared to MAX any NOR
= definite statement than that RICH
r now.n