Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-23
GLASS PLANT IS
BUILDING AGAIN
INIIIN .HI'BHhRD 60, 10 GAR
LOADS BEHIND ORDERS AND
INLARGING Plant.
Center OF THE INDUSTRY
sand springs win soon Have -Four
GlaSsw orks, Employing Total
0g 900 Men

SAND SPRINGS. okla. July 22.--
The enlargement Of the Kelly Hub
bard glass plant at this place began
yesterday. and the company now has
about so mon engaged In the task OF
! more than doubling the capacity Of
the glassw
This plant began operations at
Sand Springs early last spring and
although Il worked shifts both day
and night, when It closed for en-
larRemcnt a week or 80 ago II was
more than 40 cars behind in its or
ders. When Increased in capacity To-
the intended size, II win operate 80
shops which, within themselves, viii
give employment TO 1870 men. Its
product is lamp chimneys and glass
globes When In operation 1t viii
employ more than 100 persons
Preparations are being made by
the Kerr plant at Altoona for re.
moval To Sand Springs. and II is eN-
peCted that the equipment Will begin
arriving within a week or two Not
only will the entire plant at that place
be brought TO Sand SprE-s but the
Kerr plant already cstabIlshd here
will be largely increased THIS viii
give the Kerr company two glass
plants at this place, The new ono
will be directly west of where the
millions of fruit Jars were mAnufaC-
tured last winter and spring and
viii occupy a site OF ten acres prac-
tically all OF which viii be devoted
10 the plant and the required build
ings I'm which to place and pack the
product for shipping.
When All Of the glass plants ~
Sand Springs are fully under way.
nearly | 900 will find employment be
cause of them. The Chanutc window
Glass company. manufacturers Of no
glass products save window glass.
have selected its hte and Will begin
the work Of erecting It's plant here
within the next few weeks This
company I'm reality gives Sand
Springs four glass plants and VIII
make II the glass manufacturing
center OF oklahoma. If not I'm the
southwest
The majority Of these plants. tho
same AS the most of them have come
into the state of oklahoma within
the last four or five years sought lu-
cations elsewhere than In the state
Of Kansas because OF the failing gas
supply In that state. Cheap fuel is
one Of the things necessary In the
manufacture OF glassware products,
ana IN the on beIl pSbctldlN, inc
cheapest fuel known is natural gas.
The Sand Springs field Is particu-
larry attractive In this respect to all
manufacturers who require cheap
fuel in a pever-ending supply because
OF the immense quantity Of this
natural product underlying the town
and the surrounding country. and on
account OF the ChheaDncss at which
II Ia offered. coupled TO the fact that
but a small quantity of the actual
production viii ever be placed under
contract Not only has location at
sand Springs proved the most attrac-
tive in oklahoma TO these many glass
plants. but both the Phoenix and
the Waters-PierCe oil companies
when casting about for location
FOR their mammoth rcflneries. located
here. The process Of refining oil re
quires great amount Of fuel. and
for this cause together with the rail
way facilities and other natural ad.
vantages offered here, both OF these
refiner'cs are now doing business at
this point
II is estimated that the full quota
of workmcn who VIII be employed
In the four glass plants and the tw"
big refineries will be about 1000.
The Waters-P Pierce refinery will be
the last OF these manufacturing in
dustries 10 get under way ana II IS