Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-12-20

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len the Potomac and Shenandoah Nv.
lers IS available from two power com.
paaieg Another favorable factor is
The good car supply and low freight
I rates west on account of tbs empty
coal cars returning through Martins
burg to the Western coal fields
i Five companies are now operat-
ing in the field, and they control ex.
tensive and valuable deposits. The
pioneer in the industry was Mr.. Dan
q Baker of Baltimore, who opened
his first quarry south OF the town 20
gears ago, and who today, through
his organization. the Standard Lime
e Stone Co., ships the largest tom
mage of any company in the field,
| practically all the product going to
the Pittsburg district. This conn
/ pany now operates quarries in sew
eral other states and number at
other places in this state At Mar
tinsburg they operate the south and
west quarries in highgrade lime
stone. The openings are 40 to so
/ feet deep, and their area is nearly
400 acres south and 5s acres west of
The town, with other tracts not yet
| opened, making a total acreage Of
1000. The capacity is $500 tons
daily of hlgh-grade stone They al
so operate mill for fine grinding of
the stone for the glass factories and
1 for fertilizer with daily capacity of
| 200 tons. This is the only plant in
he area engaged in this by-product
manufacture. While the same com
oany is a large producer of lime in
It's other plants, it only makes a
small quantity at its plant west of
the town
The National Limestone Co, plant
| md quarries adjoin the Baker prop
erty south of the town on the east
side. II is engaged in the produc-
lion of flux stone only at the present
time. It's plant, the last one built
in the field, is one of the most mod
I'm in the country and was describ-
ed in the Manufacturers Record
year ago.
At Bunker Hin, 10 miles south of
he town, on the Cumberland Valley
Railroad, is the plant of j. E. Baker.
wh oh ships flux stone to Harrisburg
and Baltimore. The company con
trolls large lime industry at York,
Pa.
Four miles north OF Martinsburg is
the plant OF the Security Lime &
gemeat Co. It's cement plant IS near
iagcrstown. Md. and at ils Martins
oarg plant Il ship considerable
onnage Of fux stone ana ballast. but
! rs main output IS iigAe from enc OF
30 most modern lime plants in the
eountrT The stone Is burned On three
iarge steel kllns fred With producer
gas and equipped with various labor
'aving appliances. II also operates
here complete lime-hydrating
)lant, the product sold under the
name of Berkeley hydrate. lis large
rushing plant is equipped with an
extra sixe crusher, conveyors and
Greens and large storage tanks for
finished product. Each year seems
20 record marked increase in the
output of this plant, and proves that
his limestone makes valuable lime.
It is the only company in the district
making a specially of lime for the
general market.
Three miles east of Martinsburg Is
the plant of the Blair Limestone Co.
associated with The Jones & Laugh
in Steel Co. 1t controls an acreage
# $50, with several belts of high
-rade stone. 1t operates 10 modern
{ilns of a daily capacity each OF 10
Is tons. 1t is shipping flux stone
and lime to THE Jones & Laughln
furnaces in the Pittsburg district.
The Pittsburg Limestone Co, own
ed in large part by the Carnegie
Steel Co, has opened a quarry on
the bank of the Potomac river. where
there is vertical bluff of the high
Grade stone, about IA miles north OF
Martinsburg. The branch of the
Western Maryland Railroad to this
quarry is not yet completed 1t plans
an operation at this point which will
give an annual output of 100000
tons.
From this review of the industry
at Martinsburg il is seen that the out
put is already large, but not in pro
portion to the amount of flux stone
used in the territory that can be
reached. The prophecy, based on