The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-10-30
Party of Distinguished Experts
Makes a Visit to the Con-
Germ at oil City, Pa.


The Oil City Derrick. published al
Oil City, Pa, recently contained the
following article Of interest to many
here:
Prominent oil and gas experts, gas
engineers, among the most noted in
the country, to the number Of more
than twenty. were In Oh City Thurs
day to inspect the mammoth plant OF
the Oil Well Supply Company In the
Tenth ward, the largest plant IN the
world of its kind. Nonother concern
In existence turns out SO many ar
tieles, all completed under one roof
The party came from Pittsburg in
special Pullman attached to p. r.
r. train No SO. arriving early Thurs
day morning. 1t included General
superintendent w. L. McGloy, General
Purchasing Agent Arthur Booth, of
the Philadelphia Gas Company, pitts
burg; General Manager II. o. Sulli-
van, Assistant General Manager M
B. Layman, Purchasing Agent w. ].
Patton and Assistant Superintendent
r W. Hay, Of the Manufacturers
Light & Heat Company, Pittsburg;
Purchasing Agent Russell johnson, Of
the Hope Natural Gas Company, Pitts
burg; Treasurer J r. Hoffman, Penn
Mex Petroleum Company, Pittsburg;
Purchasing Agent H. NJ. McCandless,
Ohio Fuel Supply Company, Pitts
burg; Purchasing Agent A. A. Arm
strong; Union Natural Gas Company.
Pittsburg Vice President David Hol-
brook, Dayton Coupler Company, Day
ton, o.; George Ireland, a distinguish
! ed mining engineer ofsPretoria, South
Africa. in the British service, and
NORWOOD johnson, representative of
the Carnegie Company, Plttsburg.
The party was chaperoned by these
! repre sentatiyes of the OIL Well Sun
ply Con pany: Secretary Grant Hub
ley. Treasurer D. J. Brown and GEM
eral Salesman W. H. Spain, all Of
Pittsburg; E. r Gnade, j. H. Chick
ering and H. H. James, OF the Oil
City Offices, together with General
Superintendent Raymond Cross and
Purchasing Agent Lynn Holbrook, OF
the United Natural Gas Company, and
w. o. Walker, of the Central Ken
lucky Natural Gas Company, all OF
Oil City.
Practically the entire day was spent
in thorough and very profitable in
spection of the processes OF manu-
featuring oil and gas supplies and In
witnessing the fabrication of fittings
from the raw material to the finished
product. Eeach and all expressed
themselves as being highly gratifed
with what they saw, as well as sur
prised at the complete equipment and
magnitude of the plant. The forenoon
was devoted to an inspection of the
maleable iron department in which
three foundries are installed, malle-
able and grey iron and brass. The
party saw the entire process from the
casting of the crude material to the
! completion of the article in the fin
fishing room, the details being carr
ried out before their eyes.
Plant Of Magnitude.
The afternoon was passed in the
finishing department, the gas man
layers exhibiting and expressing sur
prise at the magnitude of the. works
asa whole They found a succession
of connected buildings, thirty-one in
number covering q ground space Of
fifteen acres OF. land; crammed with
machinery, each department running
to its fullest capacity. The number
of separate articles Of oil we'll sup
plies turned out is amazing, being
fully 5000, while the number OF fit
tings, large and small, exceeds 5000,
a total of $4,000 articles made by this
great concern in its Imperial plant in
the Tenth ward These include every
article that goes into an oil well or
into the operation of a gas well.
Every article turned out is machine
made. While the establishment en-
ploys approximately 1000 men hand
labor in the fabrication of implements
is conspicuous by its absence. The
machines for the greater part are au-
tomato. This is perhaps the most
surprising spectacle OF any.
r. 1Fhis company owns fforty-two acres
of land in the Tenth ward. The bust
ness has increased to suehla a magni-
ttude, the present works benig craInp-
led, and so crowded with orders that
the present buildings will be Increased