The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-03
ROCK TO HAVE MONSTER INDUSTRIAL PLANT ON ASH CREEK
Realty Deals Involving Big
 Sums Are Completed B Golden Inn Property Last Link In Chain of Realty to Be Sold for $50, GOO.

s Indications that a big industrial plant will be established in the Black Rock section were found today in the reorted completion of a land transac- ton by which the proposed plant may have a large factory site on the Gil- man property, directly connected with the New Haven road
 The final land deal necessary to make the link complete was the trans fer of the Golden Inn property, which by nightfan will have changed hands, the purchasA- price being reported to be $s0, ,O0a
 This land, including about 1T acres, stands between the property of the E'airheId Acid works, recently aband- oned by the General Chemical com pany. which may be tnc1uded in the large dad reported for use as an am nnunit1on making plant, possibly for Ehey Bridgeport Forge & ProJectile Co., Recently incorporated
 E That the intHrests arc prepared to build an enormDus plant is indicated on all sides today and while many rus HaorB have been ahOat that one of the largest steeI mills in the world Is be- hind the prUposed scheme no definite confirmation can be secured in Bridge port today
 It is known that deals have long been carried on under cover, but the Golden Inn prcperty. owned by Rev.
 
 the LAthnzzniarn church hare but more recently of New Britain, Conn, and New HampSnfrev has stood in the way.
 It Is understood that the possibility of a spur track right of way connect ing the New Haven railroad at the Acid works and the Gilman estate re- gently purchased by simon Lake has been consfdered- The only chance of such couhectfon lay in the acut1sitfon of the Golden Inn tract which was formerly known as the Moran place and includes IT aches along Ash Creek, to the property owned by the General Chemical company and now partially occupied by the Taylor Foundry com pany. The first fntimat1on Of the big real came through city hall where 1t was learned that negotiations for the property had been in trogress.
 This land which is partially under water, only 13 acres being dry, and which sold about four years ago for $15s0o0 was slccessiveiy bid up from SEQ, 900 to $76.00o in jumps of ap- proximate4y $10.ooO each Indfca- tions today are that before nightfalI upon payment of $sO 1000.
 Simon Lake identified with the Lake Torpedo Boat company of this city is known to have purchased. the Gilman property some four or five weeks ago. This tract of land, -locat- Cd directly upon the shores of Ash Creek as 1t emptfes into the Sound near St. Mary's By the Sea, contains about 2b acres of fairly level land rising with slight acchvity, bounded by Balnnforth street, Growers Hill road and HarbOr View avenue.
 While it was first intimated that this tract had been purchased by Mr. Lake for the erection of a hotel, it is now said to have been acquired by the new concern with the possibilities
  the idea of hotel for the housing of 6unp1oyes Twill be erected.
 On the site at present there is a huge house erected by. the late George F.. Gilman which could easily be con verted into a hotel with 50 Or more rooms Huge barns of modern type would house more than one hundred persons Icomfortab1y.
 what disposition wouIdeb be made of the old acid works if acquired by the new corncern other than for spur track rights and storage warehouses is not made known.
 Z With the large acreage that would be at command of any company owing effle Gilman estate, the Golden Inn property and part of the Fairfield acid works property, an enormous plant with modern shipping facilities could De maintained with even larger possi- milItfes of expanson-
 Z 1t will be- recalled that the right of way over Growers avenue has recently been contested by Peter S. PearsaH and has been before the common council with the result that the city attorney decided it was public. This road which directly adjoins the Gill; man property leads to another section of land which is contiguous along the Ash Creek shore front wiSh the Gil man property. Should these rights be acquired dock facilities, in Ash Creek for a large fleet of ore and coal barges would be provided in addition to the creek is not navigable in it's present condition but it said to require but little dredging.
 It is now asserted that the Bridge port Projecti1e Co. and the Bridge port Forge & Projectile Co, both of which were promoted by the Hoad1ey interests in New York, are seperate and distinct concerns.