The Washington herald., 1909-06-13

| Covington, Va. June I2.-The West Vir-
ginia Pulp and Paper Company COM
menced work last Monday on the addi-
ton TO its large paper mill.
! The company viii erect three buildings
$50 BY 75 feet and one go BY 70 feet. each
10 be fifty feet high. They will be con
structed Of brick. steel. and concrete.
with concrete foundations. and will house
two large paper machines. which viii
more than double the capacity Of the
present mill. as larger machines will be
installed. and when completed will have
an output Of about one hundred tons OF
book and magazine paper a day.
J. r. Pirkey. OF Covington, has charge
OF the construction.
/ The number of bricks REQUIRED will he
about 100000. Il will take about 1900
! barrels OF cement. which will come from
the Portland Cement Company. at Ford
wick, Va The brick viii be made here
in Covington by two local brick COM
panies. whose plants have a capacity of
about $1,000 bricks a day.
Will Be Done in Nine Months.
The work Of construction will consume
about nine months. and give employ
ment TO over 200 men, including steel
workers, brick masons, carpenters. and
laborers. When completed the enlarged
plant Will increase the present force at
the mill about Is men, which means an
addition TO the population Of Covington
of over 900 people
This new work will exactly double
the size Of the present paper mill. and
means the expenditure Of $4,000. This
work will not only greatly benefit Coy
inston, but will help other places in vir-
ginia-
The plant is one OF the largest indus
tries in the South. and the population Of
this place has grown from 1000 10 = 0Oo
IN the last ten years, or since the paper
ana pulp mills were erected here
In addition TO this Improvement. the
same company has now nearing comple-
ton concrete, brick, and steel building
sixty feet square and Aftv feet bi--5
and VIII install therein two wedge me-
chanical seventeenth furnaces tU-e1+,--
one feet in diameter and twenty-six feet
high, to burn the sulphur out of yjr-
ginia pyrites. The capacity of the two
furnaces is fifty tons OF pyrites q day.
the virginia pyrites containing 40 per
cent OF sulphur. which win be elimi-
! mated in this process.
Have Large Hearth Area.
Each furnace has a hearth area Of
2.oOS square feet It requires one and
one-quarter horsepower 10 drive each
furnace. The furnaces are used largely
IN the manufacture OF sulphuric acid.
but these are the first to be installed
In the manufacture OF suIphise PUN.
using pyrites.
This plant, when cornpieted min oo,,
about $4,000. The furnaces are manu-
factured and erected by the Pennsvl-
vania Salt Manufacturing Company. Of
Philadelphia. They are Of steel and fire.
brick construction. and are driven nv a.
rect current motors
This viii be the most complete plant Of
its kind in the world. The West Virginia
Pulp and Paper Company is progressive
and takes advantage OF modern Improve
ments relating 10 economical methods or
manufacturing. This plant viii be of
advantage 10 the producers OF pyrites in
virginia The trade already extends to
northern markets, but this Is bringing
~~.-AiNS0 AAsAb hOiiic 10 Old Virginia
The Allegheny Brick Company has
equipped It's plant with new machinery
and increased the capacity from 5000 10
5000 brick per day. Deford's tannery
Low Moor Company iron furnace and
planning MILL and the two -four and feed
mills with a capacity OF 125 barrels OF
-four a day, are all working full time
The Covington Machine Company, which
employs about 275 men when working
full time. has not been doing much, but
prospects are good for It to do more in
the near future. The company manufac-
lures coke extractors. and now has one
under construction for Port Arthur. on