The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-19
Plans Have Been Completed
For Erection of an Addition
al Foundry and for a Mod
ern Warehouse.
COMPANY TO EMPLOY
MANY MORE WORKMEN
When Improvements Have
Been Completed, It Is Ex.
pected There Will Be 1900
On Roll of the Concern.

Business, SO extensive that Z few
members Of the sales department of
the local branch of the American
Seeding Machine company have been
temporarily laid off until the compa-
ny can catch up with standing orders.
was a statement made this morning,
followed by the announcement that the
company would construct an additional
foundry building. sufficiently large for
the employment of 40 moulders and
their assistants. just as soon a the
weather modified enough to break the
ground.
With the completion Of the building
and the employment of the additional
moulders. the local branchl of this
great corporation will be one of the
largest factories in the. state and the
largest factory in the city. 1t will be
much larger than the Springfield. O.,
branch.
A New Warehouse.
The company has purchased the
block just west of its office quarters
on Thirteenth street, on which is locat-
ed the Starr Hame and Chain Works.
Just as soon as possession is given by
the owners of the chain and hame fac
tory. the building will be razed and In
its place and ON the vacant lot to the
south, will be built one one Of the larg-
est warehouses in the state. It u
planned for the new warehouse to be
sufficiently large, 80 that all storage
may be made In 1t, thus giving opportu-
nifty for installing machinery In the
buildings now used for storage purpos-
es. The Improvement will also mean
the employment Of q much larger force
Of men.
The company now employs between
700 and 500 men. Tho completion Of
the foundry will mean that about 200
more men, including the moulders and
their helpers will be employed. After
the change in the factory arrangement
IL effected by the completion Of the
new warehouse. two to three hundred
more men will be added to the force.
making q total Of about ] 300 men on
the pay roll.
indication Of Sire.
Another indication Of the size Of the
factory, or rather what It will be when
the additions now planned for are
completed, is the fact that it will be
two and q half blocks in length. The
buildings extend from e street to the
Pennsylvania railroad. which II about
q square distant. The company also
owns . large lumber yard Of almost
similar sire to its factory building
sits, north of the railroad and op.
posite the buildings. It also owns sew
eral lots ON North Fifteenth street,
but there is NO indication that i'm.
provements win be made on these in
the near future.
According to the statement made
this morning. the new foundry build.
ing win be located Just east of the
present foundry, on space which r.
now vacant. The building WIN extent
from the foundry to the alley to the
west Of . factory building, formerly
Ioccupied BY the Westeott Carriacs
company.
ces< q improvements.
e win b one hnnArea and ninety
feet east and vest by two AunAfod
feet north and soutA. tn conGtTnctiog
win be similar To the present fbunATy
departments, which are moot mo6os1
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