Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-07-14
Situated in the Midst of a Rich Clay
District, All Kinds Of Brick and
Terra Gotta Plants are to
be Found HereabOutS.

examined and those who had "dis-
covered" it wondered why such a
valuable site had SO long passed I'M
noticed. 1t must be admitted how-
ever, that those who owned the land
in this vicinity suitable for factory
sites were largely to blame for the
place not having been developed be-
fore. When an industry did want to
come here, as soon as the real estate
holder learned that the concern was
after his tract, he either refused out
right to sell O placed the price far
out of proportion SO that the factories
generally went elsewhere.
The Pennsylvania Railroad entered
the city before the Lehigh Valley and
later came, the Central Railroad
giving the city its excellent railroad
facilities along with its harbor.
With the increase in the use OF
terra Gotta in the construction of
buildings, that industry developed
more than any other hereabouts be-
cause of the clay deposits. After the
A. Hall Works had taken up the
manufacture of terra Gotta, five of the
employees there organized a company
of their own and started the Standard
Terra Gotta Works. This company
has since been rcorganized. Other
terra Gotta plants which have been
established here since then are the
New Jersey Terra Gotta, of this city:
the Atlantic Terra Gotta, OF Totem
vile and the Swan Hill Terra Gotta
at South Amboy.
The first of the large industfne
from outside to locate heHated on
G~uggenheim Smelter situ is now
Staten Island sound. Thising and
a part of the American Smelttnds of
Refining Company. All kieet of
ores are smelted here. A htAgeen
steamers is kept continually betMt
this port and South America, princi-
pally Chill, carrying ore.
The Raritan Copper Works, the
other smelter in Perth Amboy deals
only in copper and is the largest of
its kind in the world. Its location
here is comparatively recent. 1t &C
cupies an advantageous site on the
Raritan river just above the railroad
drawbridge and has two spurs
one from the Central and the
other from the Lehigh Valley
railroads. In these two smelters
thousands of men find employment.
With their coming the city no longer
depended upon the Lehigh Valley for
prosperity. The pay day on the
docks no longer had the influence on
the merchants.
Between the advent of these two
large industries many smaller con
Germs saw the advantages Of Perth
Amboy as a manufacturing center and
the plants multiplied rapidly. Each
one drew different skilled mechanics
and hundreds of laborers were neces-
sary for them to carry on their work.
Thus the population of the city con
tlnued to grow SO that during II past
ten years it has more than doubled
and is rapidly mounting higher.
The Ramsay shipyards was a thriv-
ing industry here when the Guggen-
helm plant was established. Some
large vessels were built. Other in
dustries along the shore are the two
dry docks where vessels of all sizes
are lifted out of water for repairing
and car floats are built. These are
operated by the Raritan Dry Dock
Company and the Perth Amboy Dry
Dock Company. Patrick White &
Sons iron foundry does an extensive
business, the Graecen-D Derby Machine
Company, Schantz & Eckert's ma
chine works, and the Dutton Engi-
5 n%eering Company all line the city's