Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-05-20
PAVING BRICK PLANT
IS NOW ASSURED
Dayton, Ohio, Man Infuses New Life
Into Enterprise And Work to
start at Once.

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From The World OF Tuesday.
This paper has at various times
during the past year or more told
about paving brick plant that was
going 10 be established at North
Mountain. seven miles northwest II
this city, but nothing materiallzed and
people had begun to think that the
| proposition had flunked. Not so. The
men behind 1t didn't want to strike till
the iron was hot, so to speak. Now
there is going to be something doing
within the next few days.
The Adamantine Clay Product Co.
has completed its organization and
has to the present time sold enough
of stock to guarantee the immediate
construction and operation of the pro-
posed plant at North Mountain. Mr..
G. NJ Raymond, general manager of
the c. w. Raymond Co., of Dayton, o..
has been in Martinsburg for several
weeks in the interest of this ent ar
prise and has sold the local company
the equipment fer the plant. A com
plete survey for the plant was made
today (the survey for the b. &c o.
switch having been previously made)
and Mr.. Raymond will now complete
the plant. Actual work will be com
menced within week.
The plant will make high grade paw
ing blocks and its initial capacity will
be 10000 hard bricks day. 1t will be
so arranged that with a comparative
ly small additional equipment and
construction its capacity cam be
doubled A capable man will be Sc
lected for superintendent.
This will be a new development in
Berkeley county and its success seems
to be assured from the start. The clay
deposit en- land owned by the company
at North Mountain Is of the finest
quality for paving bricks and, perhaps,
second to none in the country. This
has been practically demonstrated by
the thorough tests to which samples
Of the clay have been subjected in the
hands of several experts. The pro-
duct of the plant will find a ready
market in large territory in which
no clay suitable for the manufacture
CT paving bricks is found at all, while
the plant will be right along the main
line CT the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
toad at Intersection Considering,
therefore, the substantial character of
the men identified with this new en-
terrrise, the high quality of the clay
to be had, the extensive field waiting
for the product at hand presage sue
cess, and the industry will undoubted-
ly mark an era in the material devel-
opment Of this county,
Mr.. Raymond said today that it is
his purpose TO install the equipment
of the brick plant first and then burn
enough bricks with which to construct
the kiln, which will be a large affair.
This will take about three months dat
ing from today. The expense OF buy
ing bricks will thus be saved. Allow
ing two months for the construction
of the brick kiln 1t is confidently ex-
pected that the plant will be ready to
turn out vitrified paving br cks ready
for the market in about FIVE months
from this date. The plant will cost
complete about 5000
The capital stock OF the Adaman-
tine Clay Product Co is 100000, di-
vided into 1000 shares of a par value
of 800 per share. AS stated above a
sufficient amount of stock has been
subscribed for to justify the contract
already closed for the plant equipment
erd other steps locking to the begin
ming Of building operations,
The officers of the company are as
follows:
President-C. G.. Cushwa.
Vice presidents. l.. Dodd.
Secretary and treasurer-A. D. Oar
by.
Directors-C G. Cushwa, "A. D. Oar
by, Henry Hess, J. Frank Thompson
and d. II. Dodd. Martinsburg; G. NJ.
Raymond Dayton, o.; S. L. Dodd, Lit
tie Georgetown; C. C. Tabler and
Frank Robbins, North Mountain, aad
J. P. Kearfott, OF Kearneysville.