The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-03
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Accepts Free Site and
Cheap Gas Rate.
OPERATION OF BIG PLANT Y
Is Expected to Begin by the
First of Next June in Nor
wood Addition. AZ,

The Ptttsburg Plate Glass Conf
pany. OF Pittsburg, has accepted q
donation Of fourteen acres Of lana
at Norwood from the Clarlsburg
Board OF Trade Land Company, ups
on which 1t will construct tand opff
ate a glass plant to cost $250.090s
The site adjoins the pottery plant ot
the McNichol Pottery Company NOW
nearing completion.
The negotiations for the plant
were conducted by the board Of trade
and cheap gas here was the induce
ment.. in addition to the free Site
The concern has perfected q glass
making machine and has successfully
tested 1t at its operation at Mt. Ver-
non. o.. where machines are now IN
use with more than 300 men ems
ployed largely as cutters and fiatten-
ers. The Clarksburg plant will be
a machine one
Negotiations had been on several
months and would have been closed
in May or June but for the hnancial
depression of the country Reais
izing the splendid advantages here
of free site and the cheapest fuel
Ou C1l SLt thC CVlC0Ln tthkVAHA btAXAAT(
uous efforts In the financial world
obtained the cooperation to enable
1t to begin the construction Of the
plant at once and 1t Is announced
that 1t has the construction material
ready to ship to the site. ~
The plant will cover the ent 3
fourteen acres. 1t will consist b
two tanks OF steel and brick coustfiit
tion. fattening house, ware hour
power houses and raw materigt
houses. It is estimated as preyiottt@
ly stated that the plant win cost
$250;0O0.
Each tank will produce 2, 900. 000s
pounds of glass every four weeks
and operation Of both tanks will RS
.quire the. employment Of from 3 20
to 400 men. many OF whom will he
skilled. The anntal pay roll VIII
probably be, $S50,000s
The concerns engineers are e3-
pected Oh the grounds this week and
Baltimore and Ohio civil engineers
have been telegraphed for to lay on
the side track. They, too. are ek-
pected here this week.
The first tank is expected to Be IN Z
operation by June next empl6 Dying
200 men and the second tank VIII
be completed as soon thereafter RB
and upon It's completion ~,
200 men will be employed
In. addition to the free site yte land
company has given the concern an
option of eighteen months on land In
the rear Of the site donated and it
is probable the company will erect q
third tank thereon soon after cotn-
pleting the second tank.
The Pittsburg Plate Glass Con-
pany is also erecting plant at SAN
dusky, o. 1t Is its intention to make
all its glass instead Of buying It as
heretofore.
The business people Of Clarksburg
again showed their boundlese inter-
terest in the development Of the
community by more than meeting
one Of the requirements to get this
plant, that OF furnishing twenty-five
houses at Norwood for the workers.
George w. Dudderar, secretary
treasurer of the board Of trade, along
with members Of the board obtained
pledges for the erection OF twenty
five houses but also almost forty
houses, whose average cost will be
at least $1,000. They will be mod
ern cottages of six and eight rooms.
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