The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-18
RIVERS SMELLING
AND REFINING co.
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pany and a number Of other
concerns. Recently an official
Of the company has been in Col
orado making new and enlarg
ing old contracts for ore which
will be shipped to Keokuk for
refining purposes. The general
offices of the National Lead
company, are all III Broad
way, New York city.
Hall Coming Next Week.
r. G. Hall of st. Louis, who is the
man who perfected this. process TO-
National Lead company, will be here
next week, according to present al
vices. It is believed that the opera
lions on the buildings will commence
within the next fifteen days. Mr..
Hall will have charge of the prel1m-
|inary work, such as the building ct
THE factory buildings. He will like
wise be in charge after the building
lis completed and the smelter Is IN
running order.
The building will be 400 feet square
Ito start with and 1000 horse power
will be USED in smelling the ore.
This will be increased to 10000 horse
power The buildings for the smelter
will not at first cover all of the
Eground which has been donated by the
industrial association for the factory
'site. This ground will be coverea
later on by the auxiliary buildings
L - ,,i1f 10 tho far
tories which will use the product or
1.-THE Rivers Smelling and Refining
company. :,
The Typographical survey has all
been made and all plans for the build
Iings are complete.
Location of Smelter.
The smelter will be located on
what is known as the Daily tract,
which is northwest of. the city. There
are 100 acres in this tract of land.
The Daily tract is located near the
rein tract q short distance to the
northwest It is accessible from the
city, and there will be trans portation
means. no doubt provided. There are
two roads running to the factory site
and the land is served by the MI
Pleasant branch Of the Burlington
railroad, A switch about $50 feet In
length will be built. The Burlington
en- eineers have the switch plans madn
and the building of this spur Will De
done very soon.
The smelter is close to the location
of the newer residence additions
Home Park and Belknap, which are
being rapidly built UP. One Wagon
road turns OF from the Main street
and Plank road and there is another
road from the Johnson street roae
which will lead to it. also.
The Associations Part.
The Industrial association was ask
ed to give the raw ground, which II
lid. There was purchased the Daily
tract and a piece of land less than
four acres in extent, from the land
owned by Miss Linnie Hagerman
This was for the right OF way from
1.-THE Burlington tracks.
The association is planning to CIT
the front end of the Rein tract into
residence lots, so by 14O feet Inese
will be sold, and the people OF keokuk
will be expected to take them up. Inc
proceeds from this sale VIII pc use1
Ito nay OF the mortgage which the
association placed on the Daily tract
and Rein tract to buy the necessary
land for the location OF the smeiter.
With this mortgage paid off. the
association Will be in good shape,
With 5o acres in the Rain tract and SO
in the Daily tract. e..
There will be no solicitation FOR
stock in the new smelter In fac',
IKaokuk people could not buy one
hare of stock If they wanted to. There
will he no solicitation for funds. How
eyer the Industrial association is
LOOKING to the people to take up these
lots which they will sell at actual cost
to cover the mortgage
! The smelter people will not use one
acre of the ground in Daily tract t''
anything but their smelter buildings
No residences will be erected mere
ar the land used for anything but tue
smaller and it's allied factories.
No Fumes to Fear.
There will be no fumes or gases
under the electrical process, whlcn
will harm vege tation. This is assured
Investigation has showed that the new
natented electrolytic. process diners
Substantially from the old coal and
gas processes where vegetation was
frequently blasted by the fumes IRON
the smelters. There will be nothing
Of this sort in the electrolytlc pro
cess smelter such as the Rivers Re-
inning and Smelling company Will To-
cate in Keokuk.
Some of the people who live near
the location Of the new plant have
been fearful that there might be
something Of this sort to contend with
investigation shows, however, that
this Is not the case with the RIVERS
Smelling and Refining company.
| About Labor Employment.
The number of men to be employ
ed by the Rivers Smelling and Re
fning Co. will not be in proportion 20