Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-03-12

From The World of Monday:
That Berkeley county is soon to
have a new and important industry
was evidenced today when the move
ment took practical shape in this city
in the application for a charter made
by the Adamantine Clay Products Com
pany. The incorporators are G. w.
Hess and r. Hammersla, North Noun
tain, w. Va; S. l.. Dodd. Hedgesville,
w. Va; J.. w. Wolff, Waynesboro,
Pa; James NJ. Porter, Pittsburg: A.
d. Darby, j.. Frank Thompson, G. G..
Cushwa, F. Vernon Aler, and Fl. II.
Hess, Martinsburg; Hon. John P.Kear-
fott, of K~earneysville, w. Va.
The capital stock of the company is
$3.50, 600, divided into $500 shares of
800 each. The present plan Is to sell
the stock at SIS a share in order TO
more quickly raise money and erect
a paving brick plant at North Noun
tain, and get it in operation within the
next four months. The company
takes over a tract OF land at North
Mountain, seven miles northwest of
Martinsburg, owned by l.. i. Drifting
and Frank Robbins, and the Aler farm
of 70 acres. a mile southeast of Mar
tinsburg.
The proposition is backed by the
Interstate Construction Company, o,
Cleveland, o., whose representative Is
now In this city.
The plan is to complete the organ
ization of the company at a meeting
to be held in this city Monday. March
IA, at which time plans and drawings
for the plant will be presented by an
architect and contracts awarded. AT
this meeting also, James.M. Porter. OF
Pittsburg, one of the largest paving
brick contractors in the United States
and who is to be n of the directors
of the company, will be present and
it is expected will contract for the
entire output of the plant. The com
pany already has two bonafide orders
for paving bricks amounting to $50
900. AT the meeting alluded to s10,-
/ 900 of the stock, it Is expected, will be
subscribed by outside parties. The
| approximate cost OF the plant will be
500, 900.
The shale at North Mountain has
been submitted to the hardest tests and
experts have pronounced it to be sec
ond to none in the country for the
manufacture of paving bricks, paving
blocks, fireproofing. conduits, sewer
pipe and other clay products. The To-
cation of the proposed brick plant at
North Mountain has, on the other
hand, every natural advantage that
could be desired, there being an abund-
ance of water there and the property
is right along the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad and, again. the shale requires
no stripping. The industry will give
employment TO from so to 100 men ut
the start and it is expected that 1t
will be well under way by the middle
Of June. It may be added that the
shale is not only of the finest quality
for the purpose intended but the de-
post is practically in~exhaustable.
The superintendent OF the plant will
be one Of the most expert brick max
ers In the country and he proposes to
take up his residence In this city in
the near future.
It has long been known that rich
clay deposits existed near this city
and at North Mountain. and the an
nouncement that they are soon to be
developed will come as a very crafty
ing piece OF news, especially when
local enterprise is to be supplemented
by that of men Of wealth and expert
ence in the line Of clay products. All