East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-03-06
Mammoth Plant of
Goodyear Is Going
up in Los Angeles
Ten Million Brick Included in
Material Which Goes into
Factory Of Tire Concern on
Pacific Coast.

ono of the busiest places in the
west right now is the famous Ascot
Park In Los Angeles, where the big
plant OF the Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company OF California, is in the
course OF construction.
In a city not possessing a manufac-
turing concern of mammoth proper
tions, It was at first difficult for the
people to realize that their city was
10 be the seat OF one of the largest
rubber manufacturing plants in the
country. But as the gigantic shovels,
derricks and other excavating machin-
cry appeared on the ground and ton
after ton of concrete was being pour
cd into the massive building founda-
tions. and when hundreds of men be-
gan TO tit the big steel beams togeth- |
er, Los Angeles began to realize that
ii was to have n great industry.
The unprecedented expansion of
coodyear's world wide trade caused
the officials of the company early in
1919 to investigate possible sites for
the establishment of a big plant in the
west, and after the most thorough in
Vestieation of conditions in all the
western cities that could be consider
"a for the seat of the western plant,
Los Angeles was selected as combin-
ing the greatest number of the favor
able conditions required.
An idea of the magnitude of the
building operations can be gained from
the extensive outlay of construction
materials required. Among the i'm
poriant materials which 1900 men are
fashioning together into a mammoth
industrial enterprise are 5000 tons of
structural steel. $4,000 gallons of
paint $4,000 tons of sand, $4,000 bar
rels of cement. SOC tons of crushed
rock, 100000 feet of lumber and
100000 brick
The building scheme embraces the
construction of three units-a tire
manufacturing plant, a cotton fabric
min and a warehouse. Around these
three main buildings will be grouped
the various service machine shop, ce-
the power house. machine shop. ce-
ment house, administration building,
etc.
The power plant contains three 500
horse power boilers of old burning
type. An ample supply of water will
the tract. They will have a combined
capacity of 1900 gallons per minute. |
Electric power will be used in pump |
ing.
The operation of the tire plant and |
the cotton mill will involve the en-
ployznent of about 5000 workmen. The
daily output of tires will approximate
1900 and the cotton mill will turn out
weekly 75s 600 pounds of cord fabric |
and 5000 pounds of woven fabric.
The raw cotton from which this
fabric is to be manufactured will come |
from the Goodyear plantations in the
Salt River Valley in Arizona and the
Imperial valley of southern Califor-
mia.
Al most important feature of the
company's project is the extensive
plan to provide homes for the work
men. The construction of As bunga-
lows and two large apartment houses
is now under way on a ten acre tract
adjoining the factory hite.
About April first work will be
started on the Goodyear Gardens, a
160 acre tract just north of the fac
tory. on which 500 houses will be err
eeted to be sold 10 Goodyear employees.
This great home community, which /
which will represent an outlay of s3.-
0O0 600, win be one of the most beau
1iful in the United States.
Provision has been made for spa /
cious parks, athletic field, gymnasium.
swimming pool, school, library.
churches and stores And to provide |
flowers. shrubs and trees for the /
streets and parks a large nursery is /
being maintained where thousands of
these are being grown under expert
care.
Such satisfactory progress has been
made to date on the entire project,
that Goodyear officials and engineers
are confident the tire manufacturing
plant and the cotton mill can begin ac-
tual operations shortly after June first.
as originally planned.