Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-10-25
South Pittsburg Captures
An Immense Concern.
WILL COST MILLION
AND EMPLOY 800 MEN
Secretary of Company in
City and Tells of Great
Industry. -Chattanoo-
ga May Get Offices.

A 81, 900, 900 cement plant will be
constructed at South Pittsburg. Work
is to be started within few days.
The plant will have guaranteed out
put of not less than $500 barrels per
day and will furnish employment for
about 800 men. The company which
is to be known as the Dixie Portland
Cement company, has been incorpora-
ted under the laws of Tennessee This
information regarding one of the larg-
est cement plants in the south was
given out last night by Richard Hard
y, secretary of the company, who is a
guest at the Read house. The officers
of the company are George A. Nichol-
son, lola, Kans., president; A. B.
Cockerill, Nevada, Mo-, vice-presi
dent; L. L. Northrup, lola, Kans.
treasurer; and Richard Harry, De-
troit, Mich, secretary. Four other
large cement plants are operated under
the same management, but known I'M
der different names.
In speaking of the new plant, Mr..
Hardy said 1.-THE work ON our new
mill will be started not later than Nov
ember 1, and it will be pushed to a
speedy completion. We expect to be in
operation the latter part of next sum-
mer.
"Our company has been investigating
for the past two years to find suita-
BILE place for the location of southern
cement mill, as at present only about
one-fourth of the total output of &C.
ment in the United States is manufac-
tured in the south. We have rock and
shale in close proximity, with on in
exhaustible supply of water. The
lime rock is as good as could be found
in the entire south and appears in
large quantities A strong feature of
the proposition is that of cheap fuel.
We are located right at the gateway of
the immense coal fields of Tennessee
and Alabama, and we have contracts
covering fuel supply for term of years
at very reasonable price. Then there
are two railroads SO that we have very
good facilities inhandling our products
and conveying it to foreign markets.
"With the completion of the mill,
} said Mr. Hardy, which is the fifth
of the number, we will have daily
output of about fifteen thousand bar
rels of cement day under one han
: agement and we will be in position
to serve the country from our northern
{ border to the gulf, without invading
! each other legitimate territory, an(
2 also avoiding long freight hauls. Thi
advantage in distribution will enabl
l us to protect ourselves in numerou
: ways whenever competition demand
$ it.
1.-THE plant, said Mr.. Hardy il
, speaking of the details of the con
s struction, sis being erected by tn
t Hunt Engineering company along sim
liar lines to the one which we have re
S Gently completed in independence
+ Kans. We will install ten rotary kilns
: eight feet in diameter, and ITO fee
long. These win be used in burnin
h the cement, and with their lining
d will weigh approximately 300, OC
:. hounds each. Our crushers will b
the largest made. The largest wi
h weigh over 100, 900 pounds. We wi
y also install 1900 horse power waite
= tube boilers, with like capacity
= Cross compound engines. There wi
be four dryers, six feet in diamett
|, and sixty feet long. The line sha
% grinding machinery will be in keepin
l. with the magnitude of the other al
# pliances. The contracts for the buil'
ings have been let and will be col
:, structed mainly of structural stee
d The warehouse will be 105 feet
n width and $50 feet long.
is That the new cement plant was loo
n ted in the south is largely due to Il
!. efforts of Col. Spencer. Aiken, and fl
re the bringing of the plant to Sout
>, Pittsburg largely is due to the etfor
% of A. A. Cook, cashier of the Soul
L Pittsburg bank.
A The new industry will mean mu'
/. to South Pittsburg. 1t will also ben
l. fit Chattanooga to large extent,
half of the trading of South Pittsbul
a. is done in Chattanooga.
r Head offices of the new company al
lie yet to be established. 1t is understo'
re that Nashville is putting up stror
IN fight for the headquarters of the plan
IN A number of the board of trade officis
it and other commercial organizations
Nashville cal ed ON Mr.. Hardy yeste
of day afternoon. Mr.. Hardy said Ia
n, night that this question has been ful
IN decided upon, but that he thought tn
rs either Chattanooga or BridgepC
rd would be the place named. He seem
MS to think that Chattanooga bad an c
eel cellent chance.
in THE BEST medicine Won cah ia