The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-14
Wisconsin Oxygen-H Hydrogen Company Comp
lete Plans for Building Large Plant
in KenOsha.
IN OPERATION 18TH OF DECEMBER
Building to Be Completed and Equipment Installed by
First of December Manufacturers Product
Needed in KenOsha Industries

city, who use these gases largely in
their work, have been forced hereto
fore to ship them from plants in other
cities.
An Independent Plant.
The Kenosha industry will be an in
dependent organization but it will be
modelled after the Indiana Oxygen Co.,
a similar plant located in Indianapolis,
which for several years has furnished
some Kenosha factories with oxygen
and hydrogen. The Indiana company
has been very successful and the plant
in Kenosha has been built because OF
the great demand for the product ii
this and neighboring cities.
The capital for the establishment Of
the company has all been furnished bv
Indiana investors. The officers Of the
company viii be: C. P. Brant. presi-
dent; J. R. Brant, president; w.
L. Brant, general manager; w. g.
Schoonoyer, secretary and treasurer.
They are all men experienced in this
industry and have been very success-s
ful in carrying it on in the past Sew
eral OF tFa men interested in The ge.
nosha 6 apany are al tarested il
the Ihdlana pi<, Wftcn Will continue
In operation, but the two concerns ara
entirely Independent of each other.
Use Electrical Method.
W. G. Schoonover, who is now in
Kenosha to superintend the work Of
installing the new plant and who will
continue in charge of the industry, ex-
planned that the company would use
the electrical method Of separating the
hydrogen and oxygen from the air and
storing it away in tanks to be sold to
consumers. The process of electrolvsis
is used in separating the air into its
component elements and each of these
is then pumped from large gas CON
tainers into cylinders containing 200
cubic feet.
Mr.. Schoonover declares that the
oxygen produced by this method are bv
test purer than those produced by the
compressed air method, which has been
used heretofore in manufacturing the
gases used in Kenosha industries.
The plant will have a capacity large
enough to provide for a growing bust
ness and it is expected that ii viii
expand in a short time into a flourish
ing business.
Building Is Model.
The new building for the plant. the
plans for which were drawn bv the
White, White, White & Co., architects.
of Kenosha, is said to be model for
this kind of factory. It has been 50
built as to make expansion easy and
to provide convenient methods for in
stallation of the expensive electrical
machinery which is to be used by the
company. The building is practically
completed but it was not until this
morning that any announcement was
made regarding the nature of the in
dustry which it is to house.
Secretary Schoonover declared that
the company would bring to Kenosha
number of men skilled in the work
who would install the plant and put II
into operation. They expect to instruct
Kenosha men in the work and the fac
tory is expected to be manned entirely
in time by Kenosha labor.
Have Many Contracts Signed.
The local industries have welcomed
the new industry to Kenosha. 1t il
said that its product viii be used By
practically every Kenosha industrv
where electrical welding is necessary
and that contracts have already been
signed by many of these concerns for
the use of the hydrogen and oxygen
produced by the company. Contracts
with other concerns are now pending
and by the time that the plant is open
ed it is believed that these will have
been secured.
The company declares that the es-
tablishment of the plant in Kenosha
will make it possible for them to fur
nish the product at lower rate than
it has reached Kenosha heretofore
when the quality of the product is
taken into consideration. The cleo
trical method of liberating the two
gases is said to be economical wher-
ever enough industries are located thai
the output of a plant can be taken care
Of without heavy transportation chare-
es.