The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-11-09
REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENTS
AT KINGSPORT UNDER WAY
NEW ENTERPRISES AND EXPAN-
SION OF ALREADY ESTAB-
LISHED FEATURES

village of a few hundred two years
ago there has sprung a city of some
thosuands, with great manufacturing
plants, brick business blocks, hand
some new residences, hotels, apart
ment houses, churches, paved streets
and every feature of a substantial
modern idustrial and commercial cen
tie of activity.
Buildings erected since my visi
here last January include a score OF
so for the Federal Dyestuff & Chem
zeal Co, a tannery now in operation
imGnse buildings for a woodruff
mill, now rapidly nearing completion
al addition to the Kingsport Bricl
Corporations plant for making sewe
pipe. farm tile, ETC.; additions to TIL
plant of the C~linchfield Portland CT
ment Corporation; the buildings be
ing erected for a big electric powe
plant, and those for Il number of small
er but no less important industrial
concerns of various kinds.
The Federal Dyestuff & Chemica
Co.'S plant is being enlarged to in.
clude a department for the manufac
ture of nitric acid, an ~analine OF
plant, a laboratory and an admins
tration building. A building 300X20
feet in area has just been completed
to be used in the manufacture of caus
tic soda and chlorine. This compan
shipped, about the first of Septem
Der, in one shipment, dyestuffs aggre
eating a quarter of a million dollars
in value. This will serve to give the
reader some idea of the business i
does and its Importance in the indus
trial life {. the town.
The Clinchfield Portland, Cement
Corporation, beginning five years G
with an output Of $500 barrels of ce-
ment daily, has increased the capacit,
Of its plant until the daily output il
wv bal ! II has dINlCN al uCDdIls
ment for the manufacture of hydrat
ed lime, and is now building a power
plant capable of developing 1900 XII
owats of electric power, which it pur
poses to furnish to whomsoever wish
es it for lighting and power purp
poses. Power from this plant will b,
ready for delivery before winter set
in.
TIL ebrick plant of the Kingspor
Brick Corporation has been enlarged
from its original daily capacity of so.
600 brick until now it is capable 0
turning out $780, 900 each day. Thi.
output embraces brick of many va
rieties-for high-clas3 buildings. trir
mings, paving, etc, as well as con
mon building brick. The market TO
this output is found here and in man.
other places along the Clinchfie't
road and its connecting lines.
When it was determined to built
here a wood-pulp plant to take ad
vantage of the vast amount of pull
wood along the line of the Clinchfielc
road a certain unit was decided upon
but when a market was sought 70
the output the demand was found S,
Sreat that contracts were made 70
double the amount possible of manu-
facture according to the origina
plans. So the size of TIE plant pro
posed was doubled, and the buildings
and installations arc being provided
accordingly.
And right here a word concerning
the character of buildings being erect,
ed. | have seen a good many pulp
mills, but never one of The character
Of this. The construction usually il.
OF wood. Here it is Of steel an,
brick. The same may be said of thu
wCod-eXtract pant and the tannery
The buildings for both these are O.
brick and steel, put up to stay.
} The Kingsport Improvement Cor
poration, the promoting concerI
which it at the head of the develop
ments being made here Is now engag
ed in putting in q first-class water
works plant. The water will be
brought for a distance of severa
miles and from an elevation of Got
feet. SO that the gravity pressure vii
be all that is necessary for fire pro
lection. The supply will come from
q number of mountain springs and
from impounding the rainfall upoI
1000 acres of mountain land owned
by the company, and to be kept en-
tirely free from contamination. The
water-works plans were made by F.
5. Taintor, a well-known engineer of
90 Wall street, New York.
Many workmen are now employed
in putting in a complete sewer sys-
tenn, and it is a question of but a
shori time when the town will be as
well drained as any in the country.
Meantime the health of the commun-
ity is maintained at a high level, due
to teh natural healthfulness of the
climate and the untirins efforts of
the men at the head of The commun-
ity interests. These later maintain
here a crew of trained men 10 look
after the general health and see that