The Washington times., 1905-12-23
CITIZENS PLEASED
WITH THE COMING
Of STEEL CONCERN
Business Men Outline
Benefits That Will
Accrue.
A TREMENDOUS BOOM
Firth Sterling Steel Company
Will Provide Employment
fer Many.
A TREMENDOUS BOOM

Great interest has been aroused in
Washington by the announcement made
exclusively in The late edition of The
Times yesterday afternoon Of pur-
chase OF tho Firth-Sterling Steel Com
pany OF seventy-two acres of land at
Giesboro Manor, opposite the Arsenal
grounds. Well-informed men in the
business and financial world of the city
recognize that this purchase means the
establishment IN Washington of one of
the most extensive manufacturing
plants in the world. the possibilities of
which cannot be estimated at this time
Corcoran Thorn who is the legal -cp-
resentative OF the company in Wash
ington said this morning: The Firth
Stirling Steel Company has been work
ing for five years toward establishing
steel works in Washington The present
development is but the result of plans
laid long ago. AS their legal representa-
tive. l have nothing TO say as TO their
immediate plans, but they are the hest
OF people and are sure OF accornnIisb-
Ing the best of results for the conmuni-
ty-
Other Options.
In addition 10 The seventy-tvo acres
transferred 10 the steel companv nv
MIS- Henrietta Brent HeiskelI the com
pany has secured options on a great
portion Of the adjoining land. which
includes nearly 400 acres 1t IS ac-
cepted as certainty that, within the
very near future the stretch of land
from the Eastern branch to Giesboro
Point will be converted into a thriving
busy community, which will add an
immense volume of business to the mer-
camille trade of Washington.
AT present, about thirty-flve trucking
farms cover the territory that has been
acquired by the Firth Sterling Comnany
and upon which il has options. These
farms have only such improvements as
are incident to the business of the truck
farmer For generations the land has
remained practically unimproyed al
though, on account of its waterfront
and railroad facilities. IL is an ideal To-
cation for just such a plant as the
Pennsylvania corporation. which has
purchased IL will establish
Adjoining the track sold by Mrs
which belong TO George Seufferle and
about 137 acres owned by Mrs Hem
rletta Ewing, OF Lancaster, Ohio. Mrs
Heisken still owns about seveptv-five
acres bordering on the land of the COM
pany.
Good Figure Obtained.
1t is understood that the price paid for
the HeiskeIl tract was what would be
termed a good figure. but those in a DO
sition TO know decline to state the
amount at which the property was
taken over The deed Of conveyance
states the mammal consideration of $40
The site on which the new steel plant
VIII stand extends from the river front
back TO the Livingston road and the
lower section OF the land is intersected
by the Shepherd branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad The understanding
is that the steel company has acquired
practically ali of the land through which
the new outfall sewer viii pass Ex-
Cellent wharfage facilities are afforded
just of the Heiskell tract where there
is water depth of fifty-seven feet
The property was originally ceded by
King George III OF England TO a family
by the name of Addison. 1t was after
wards sold under deed OF trust and
passed into the hands of the Schaaffs
family. In 1877 II was decided by them
TO Washington Young and he and his
heirs have held IL ever since. All OF the
present holders of the land except Mr.
Seu1erle are descendants of Washinr-
ION Young. Mr. SeunerIe acquired his
title In the early seventies
During the civil war the United States
government seized the land and estab-
lished on II a general corral, or the
headquarters for the horses Used by toe
Army or the Potomac. Bellevue Ar
senal now stands on part of the orr
ginal tract.
Would Erect Bridge
An extension OF South Capitol street
would go through the center of the
Giesboro Manor property. and It is pro
posed TO erect a bridge from the foot
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