Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-01-22
ANOTHER BIG
CEMENT PLANT
VIII Exceed Present Output of
Dixie Portland Cement Com
pany Skiold.

Another big cement enterprise is
slated for Sequachee Valley, which
will be monster in proportions, If
the plans of the promoters and hackers
are developed,
For some eighteen months passed
plans to this effect have been under
consideration, and, it is said, that the
men behind the deal are only waiting
to see how the new currency measure
is going to work before commencing
on the work. Some very able finan-
ciers are behind the measure, so we
have been told by party who, through
his real estate deals and close touch
with financiers, has learned of the
measure. At his request we are not
at liberty to give any names or details
regarding the proposed plant. How
ever, it is safe to say. that it will be
located at South Pittsburg and that
the old furnace plant of the T., CO l.
Co. will be rehabilitated for the man
ufacture of cement. This plant mas
been idle for years, and in all proba-
bility will never again be used for
iron making, as the company has
transferred all it's iron making inter
ests to the Birmingham district. Elk
merits who have looked over the loca-
ton are quoted as saying that the
location of the plant is exceptionally
good as regards water advantages, and
the limestone is unsurpassed for the
purpose. The output Of this mann
moth new cement factory is expected
to be six times the amount of the out
put of the Dixie Portland Cement
plant at Richard City. The output,
of coulse would not be Immediately
so much in excess of the product OF
the Richard City plant, but it is the
aim of the financiers in equipping the
plant to prepare for such an output.
The fact that there has been an i'm
mense field opened for the use of &C.
ment in various ways has attracted
the attention of capital. With mex
, haustible beds of limestone in this
valley it is proving lodestone to at
, tract the financier. The field is rapid
ly widening, and the market promises
strong demand. Already three
dams, any one of them the equal o
the completed Hale's Bar dam. ar
, proposed for Tennessee river, one allow
the Hale's Bar dam at Caney Creek
) and the others below it, one few
t miles below Bridgeport, and the othe
{ still further on. Railroad improve
Q ment is also on the boom, and grea
quantities of cement will be used il
] culyert and bridge work on the A. u
s. R'y, which is double tracking t.
Birmingham, and the Southern whic
a will double track to Wauhatchie, an
0 in the next four years complete 1t
southern extension, also double track
h ing it. In town and country cement
being used more and more. Farmer
Q are using it for posts, and the tow
!, dweller for side walks and steps. l
a few years frame dwelling will Il
s longer be put up except where timbt
g is plentiful, for the reinforced ste'
concrete house will take its place. A
D these things capital is considering. an
n moneyed men see that the cemer
:. making business is still in it's infano
@ and needs enlarging. Hence capital
Is waiting to set in motion this ne
project at South Pittsburg, which wi
= mean great expenditures of none.
1t and work for a very great number
1t people, possibly within a very sho
time.