The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-02-04
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Great Delay in Work Occssion-
ed by Car Shortage.

Marilla 6lass factory Needing AOre
Cars New Gas Main to Page fac
tory Board Walks at Marilla.
One thousand additional men
could get employment up the Deck
ers Creek Valley in a very short
time, If better railroad facilities were
provided for shipping in materials
aud shipping out manufactured
goods.
All the factories building are be
ing delayed py lack of materials fol
construction, and those completed
are suffering for want of cars to shiI
away manufactured goods, as wei
as for shortage of raw materials II
be shipped in.
But with all this impeachment Il
business caused by insufficient trans
portation facilities, one cannot helE
being impressed with the impor
lance and real greatness Of the en-
terprlses being carried on up thu
NJ. o. X. railroad along the Deckers
Creek Valley. The kickers, who
have been questioning these indus
tries, ought to make visit up the
creek some fair day. A trip OF 2!
miles up will be sufficient 10 con
vince them that too much money
has been invested already to leave
any doubt as TO the ultimate inten.
ton of the parties at the head Of
these enterprises.
The Rolling Mill Company has
invested already an amount running
up into the hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Their building is first
class in every respect. 1t is being
completed fast as the materials can
be gotten. Five of the double fur
naces will be done in few days.
The electric dynamo is installed.
The big crane with capacity OF
10000 pounds or fifteen tons) has
been erected. An immense amount
Of concreting has been done for
foundations for the engines and
heavier machinery. This is being
built sixteen feet in the ground to
make it perfectly solid. Everything
about the mill is being done with a
view to permanency. The building
is fire proof having steel frame, and
being covered with corrugated iron.
1t would be ready for rolling steel
in very little while, il the railroad
could get material delivered.
The exterior work ON the Pressed
Prism glass factory is completed. 1t
is very handsome building of brick
and most substantially constructed.
The main building is $40 feet long
by 100 wide. The foundations are
concrete and there will be con
crete floor. No glass factories are
ever built more substantially than
this one. Soon as the gas main
reaches the plant, the interior work
will be rapidly completed. Work of
laying this main was begun Fri.
day.
The Marilla Glass factory is being
worked on full time, three shifts Of
workers keeping the plant earning
money six days in the week and
twenty four hours each day. They
are greatly hampered in their ship
ping by lack of cars and railroad
transportation, and the ware ON
is piled nearly full of window glass
This company is manufacturing SOC
boxes, or one car load per day of sill
yer clear window glass. The glass
is shipped to all parts of the coun
try. One order is awaiting car tc
be shipped to Butte, Montana. An
other goes to Norfolk, and car Just
loaded on the siding is billed tt
Philadelphia.
The ware room presents very
different appearance from that i
exhibited on a former visit from thu
same representative of this paper
Then it was piled high with tn,
household effects of about twenty
families, who had sent their pr per
ty here last fall, to end their nev
homes still not completed, Will,
three or four families had pitched
their tents, and were camping in til
building. Now it is we'll filled will
boxes of window glass of all sizes
all arranged in perfect order in row
of boxes with aisles between. Every
thing is arranged by system, so thu
any size window glass ordered ca
be found at once ir its prope
place
The factory is now using sand ex
clusively from the quarries of tn
Decker's Creek Stone and Sand com
pany and at saving OF forty to fit
dollars car load in freight charge
as compared with the cost of dc
| liveriag the Hancock sand. Ahou
three car loads per week are used.
Yesterday was the close OF tn
week for the blowers 1t take
Friday, and Saturday till noon t
finish up the glass blown on Thurs
day and clean up the shops for Sun
day and fresh start is made agail
Monday. Today was devoted T.
setting new blocks in the walls O
the tank. These blocks are NOR
than foot thick, and are moulde,
from specia! clay that resists fir
remarkably we'll hut the terribl
heat in tank of l. often glass, wear
away the blocks, and they have t.
be renewed. The lower blocks ha
are continually covered with m tel
glass do not diaiutegrate but las
indefinitely.
You would not expect to find
glass company using hay. and We
they use several tons each weel
here, and are having trouble getting
it, just as the feed store men have
Good clean meadow hay is repaired
1t is used for packing glass in tn,
boxes
The box making shops have tn,
appearance of regular wood work
ing factory. Several men are KEEP
busy at the machinery and work
bench all the time, making boxes o
all sizes in which to pack the glas.
after it leaves the cutters.
The workers here are a happy
cheerful crowd of fellows, apparent
ly enjoying their work. But some
OF them are discouraged with the
few accommodations offered tn, m BY
Morgantown, because they have M
way to get to town in muddy wealth
er. Mr.. Griftord and Mr.. Lewis
appeared before the CITY Council
last fall. and asked for board walk
to connect With the board walks II