The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-02-01
What 1t is Comprised Of,
What 1t Makes, and Its
Great Future.

lance from the West End station OF
the West Virginia and Pfttsburs
branch of the baltimore and Ohio
: railroad system, is an important 10
cal industry put into operation re
Gently. The location is ideal IL
every respect as the plant is on FIVE
and one-fourth acres of well-layine
ground on either side of the rail.
lroad track, near the West Forf
river convenient to natural gas
supply and only a short distance
from the business center of the city
There is ample ground space there
for a gigantic industry of the kind
and the company evidently looked
wisely to the future, when 1t Sc
lected and acquired that site.
The present main building is sixty
by 800 feet and is ffty-four feet
thigh. 1t is a two-story structure OF
brick. concrete and steel with all
metal roof. There are several de-
partments in the building, such as
a chemical room, a furnace and
foundry room, power house and
repair shop, a boiler house and an
office.
In addition to the main building,
the company has a storage building
forty by forty feet, side tracks, a
pump house, water tanks and gas
house, all convenient to the main
building and so stationed as to OBJ
viate needless cost in their opera
ton.
The chemical department con-
tains a patent electrical chemical
furnace OF the latest design with
shaft to load the ore and wholly
enclosed in steel and it consists OF
two steel shells, which assembled
are seventeen feet in diameter and
forty-two feet high, further equip
ped with oscillating electrodes
water cooled and carrying large car.
bon rods to the number of fifty OF
more, which carbon rods perform
THE function of electrically decom-
posing the aluminium ore, which is
loaded in through shaft to the
lower part Of the furnace and held
while being decomposed In section;
lined with blocks of carbon similar
to those made at the carbon work!
at Grasselli!qe
i The etalithereafter sinks and i:
tapped or drawn off below slags
and fuxes, which are utilized for the
same purposes over and over until
they become too impure.
The output Of the furnace de.
ponds wholly on the engine power
available. To get this power eco.
nomically by the use of cheap fuel
THE company located here. -
The chemical furnace is used by
the company under exclusive agree
ments with Harold "A. Dame, of this
city, the pateltee, which agreements
confer the right of the company to
receive all royalties arising from
the use of the patent by any and all
other companies and persons.
/ In the chemical room mixture
and partial manufacture are made
of the fluxes for use in the furnace
Ten or dozen different kinds Of
fluxes are made a1d dried on 9
nearby gas drier. There are also
melting furnaces for reducing and
making metals into ingots and cast
aluminium kitchen ware.
The power house is equipped with
la modern generating unit compris,
ling twin four-cylinder gas engine
flexibly coupled to generator o.
the same capacity, and thereby the
company is enabled to generate it:
own electricity at a very low cost
The power house is also provided
with room for quadrupling the plan
in power and thereby quadruplint
the output of aluminium. In tina
room the repairing is done and fol
the present the cast aluminium ware
is polished.
There is a modern boiler house t.
supply steam pumping, and tn
company has its own water suppl!
system from the West Fork river.
The storage building holds raw
material in the shape of purified ant
crude bauxite and other material
used for the manufacture of tn
auxes, fire brick of three qualitie
and other Innings for the furnace
which have to be renewed every yea
: or two.
The chief product of the plant !
! metallic aluminium in ingots an
kitchen ware such as spoon
kettles AND so forth and tn
company's main market for thes
is in New York, althoug