The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26

plant at Caney, Kan Free sites were
given for these factories and often
times large bonuses for moving ex-
penseS were paid to the factories com
ing west
Several Plants in Southwest.
There are now several other plants
located throughout Oklahoma, Texas
and Louisiana, viz Okmulgec and Sa
pupa, Okla Shreveport La. lcxar-
kama and Wichita Falls, Texas Many
OF these plants were the same as those
mentioned above IN the Kansas towns
| For instance, one OF the Coiieyvillc
/ plants known rs the CoiicyVillc glass
factory was moved to Okmulgce as tho
nucleus Of the Okmulgee Window Glass
company, and Baker Brothers moved
their plant from Caney, Kan, to Okmul.
gee, Indepcndcncc Kan, to Toxarkana
and the Chanme plant TO Wichita Fall,
There were tws other plants still re
naming IN CaHcy, Kan The Cancy
: Glass company and the Cheyenne Glass
COMPANY and the Sunilowcr remained 1t
/ Coficyvillc.
All Of these window glass plants are
what is known as hand plants. and of
about thirty to forty blower capacity
They employ iror, 10 to 200 men
Machine Blowing Plant.
The Okmugcc Window Glass com
pany has greatly increased its plant and
has made of i, a machine blowing fac
tory This is the largest window glass
factory of any kind ives, oi the MiSSiS-
Sippi river. and mas only one other rival
N the United States II the owner, DR..
| l. S Skclton, carries out his plans this
will be the largest window glass factory
IN the world.
The Baker brothers hand plant, 10
Gated in Okmulgce, while not so large
as the machine factory, has a reputation
for putting ont very high quality OF
glass The Kansas City jobhcrS claim
that there is no finer glass produced in
the United States. hundreds Of car
loads of glass have been shipped from
these two factories to all points in the
middle west, and even TO South Amer
ica and the orient
200 Carloads Year
More than 200 carloads OF window
glass arc shipped on, OF Okmulgec each
year In fact the daily out put las,
year in Okmulgcc alone would have
covered 30 acres. Other glass in
dus,ricS also followed to the west and
located at Coiicyyillc, 1yro and Peru
Kan, and afterwards at Bar'lesville
and Sapulpa, Okla, which made elec.
trio globes and gas light globes, pitch
cts, glasses, fish bowls lantern globes
lamps. &C. Later on both OF theS,
factories made a fine quality of higl
grade cutglaSs.
The Mon,vallcy has since moved tc
\ Ada Okla, and united with the GlaS
I Casket factory of that city,
There is also located in Okmulgc,
J bottle factory which makes coco;
I cola, soda pop and other bottles of Nh,
same description.
The combined glass factories men
4 toned above employ about 5000 mcr
and practically all Of this labor !
4 skilled labor. The window glass fac
Il tories alone consume more than 10.
y 100000 feet Of lumber for boxing N
4 glass,
= Ingredients for Glass.
\ The main ingredient is silica san,
y and 5000 tons Of this are used in III
\ window glass foctorieS Twenty. iiv
b thousand tons oi crushed llmeston,
\ 2S.OO0 tons OF iluSlng chemicals ar
X also used IN these factories All q
\ this material is manufactured OF Pre-
\ duccd west of the M,sSlsSippi river An
b practically one half as much materi'
y will be used by the other iao,otic
n mentioned above The natural gas use
n 10 reduce raw material TO a molten stat
X will approximate 500 W0OW cubic fee
n for the window glass factories alon
\ The payroll for these window glass II
\ duStrlc, will approximate 2OO0OoO tn
q year
\ The glass industry in Oklah.ma
y Just IN It's infancy II was ncccSsar
q in procuring the first laborcrS to pa