Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1907-05-08
KENOVA GETS
S250,O0O PLANT.
lARGt MANUFAGTORy EMPLOY
ING A HUNDRED or MORE,
MEN
10 Be Erected at This Place Work
OF Construction TO be Com
m6nCed dt0nG6 and Rushed
TO Completion.

ChaiK up another victory for our
city!
G. II. Iehle, superintendent of the
kenova Land Association, returned
"Wednesday from Philadelphia. Pa,
where he had been for the past
week In consultation with officials
of the Association in regard To Sc
curing large plant tnat will give
employment TO number of men,
a manufacturing establishment that
will mean much to our thriving and
beautiful city.
Mr.. lehle went, he saw and he
conquered. And like the Napoleon
of old, he came back victorious. His
diplomacy aud strategy, backed up
by kenova's many facilities as a
shipping point and manufacturing
center, won for us an industry that
when put in operation Will be one
of the largest of it's kind in the
United States. The genial super
lntendent IL now receiving the con-
gratulations of our citizens for this
his latest success. Like victorious
general returning from the field of
battle, he is the nero of the hour.
While details in particular of the
concern are not as yet ready to be
made public, we are justified In
stating that a contract has been en-
tered into between officials of the
Kenova Land Association and a
company composed of Pittsburg
and st. Louis capitalists for the
erection at this place of chemical
plant costing in the neighborhood
of $3.50, 900 for the manufacture of
various articles in the chemical line.
One of the chief products to
be manufactured will be material
used in the construction OF hre.
proof buildings, etc.
To show that the firm is going
into business on an extensive scale
we only have to mention the fact
that II Will require about eighteen
months to construct the buildings
and install the machinery, etc..
therein; aud when completed it is
said employment will be given to
hundred or more hands. Work on
the construction Of this immense
establishment will be commenced
at once and rushed to completion as
fast as possible. The site selected
is on the river front.
This plant together with another
large lumber producing mandatory
the latter for which deal is SAID
TO be pending) tends to prove that
Kenova is the hub around which all
the manufacturing Industries in this
section will revolve.
Yes, indeed, there are great things
in store for Kenova, and those old
fogies who have been believing,
paving up dirt and bornIng bushes
so long, will please go way back
and sit down.-Kenova Reporter.
We understand the Basic Pro-
ducts Company is the name OF the
concern and that it will have a
capital of half million.
For some time both Ironton and
Portsmouth are said TO have been en-
deavOring to land the plant, which
will mean much to the community in
which it does locate, but the super
Tor advantages OF this locality being
taken into consideration, Kenova
landed the plum. A contract has
already been signed for gas to be
used as feul.
The principal product of the com
Pany will be magnesia and a dozen
or 80 of bi.products will also he
manufactured. The company has
acquired large tract of land at
PEBBLES, Ohio, from which the rock
and earth will be brought to the
factory by the company's own
steamers. 1t is said that the quality
of the material found on this prop.
erty is equal to any in the world.
The works which will be erected AZ
soon as possible, will employ at the
beginning about fifty people.