Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-19
BOOM At QUANT|CO
BECOMING REALITY
Actual Work of Developing
Virginia Village Is Now
Well Under Way.
SITES ARE PLOTTED OFF
FOR PROPOSED FACTORIES
Location for $4,000 Hotel and
Electric Lighting and Power
Plant Also Chosen.

Special Correspondence Of The star.
QUANTICO, Va, February -
Actual work on the development of this
village into a huge industrial city was
started during the week, when sur
yeyors and workmen plotted and
staked off the site OF the proposed steel
manufacturing plant. big brick work.
and locations for several hundred ccs-
tages and other buildings.
Locations have already been chosen
and staked off and preliminary work
started on the twenty-thousand-dol
hotel building and the electric light
ing and power plant.
The first building of the new steel
manufacturing plant. to be known as
series /, is to be $50 feet long and 40
feet wide. According to information
obtained from superintendent on the
work, the completed plant is to be
composed of seven series or units. In
formation obtained from the same
source is to the effect that the
plant is to manufacture boilers. steel
railway cars, both freight and passen-
ger, and many other steel products.
Brick Concern Acquires Land.
A site of twenty-five acres of ground
has been acquired by big brick-manu-
featuring concern, the name of which
has not been made public but which is
said to have plants in a number of
other cities, and it is also stated the
Quantico Improvement Company plans
the establishment of a big work
ing plant. The company is the original
development company which owns
more than 1000 acres OF land embrace
ing the village Of Quantico. Its articles
Richmond. give the paid-in capital as
100000, and the officers as Eldredge
Jordan. president; Walter ]. Long. vice
president, and b. r. Walters, secretary
and treasurer: all Of Washington.
Bills of lading were received here
this week for the dynamos. generators
and other machinery for the electric
lighting and power plant. Carloads OF
brick, lumber, lime. cement and other
building material are sidetracked in the
yards here in increasing numbers, sew
eral cars being shunted off practically
every freight train passing through.
Workers Quarters Being Rushed.
Work is being rushed on the barracks
for the accommodation and housing OF
several hundred laborers and mechanics
who are to be employed on the con-
struction work for the steel plant.
brick works, electric light and power
plant, hotel, etc. As soon as quarters
are available. it has been announced.
the workmen are to be brought here
and construction work is to be rushed.
AS one of the foremen expressed it. in
speaking about the expected boom.
dirt is going to fly here by March l.
Residents of the village who have
held on to their property are receiving
hattering offers for such land as has
not been acquired by the development
company or on which the company doeS,
not hold options, but no deals have
been made in the last few weeks. Guam
tico people seem inclined. to keep their
property a while longer to await fur
Their developments in the big boom that
is to get under actual Roadway early
in the spring. evidently anticipating
further enhancement OF real estate
values.