The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-10

I nooga's best factories of today began
In an exceedingly small way. Mr..
Fuller Is busy as bee making plas-
tering lath, has demand for more than
he can supply and gets satisfactory
price.
This is the first manufacturer of
shoes to invade Chattanooga. They
produce only high-grade shoes for la
| dies. Their coming to this city was
the result OF the initial work OF Nor
row Chamberlain and Charles Howell
The Industrial Board furnished
power, labor and transportation data
SOMCRvlllE IRON WORKS.
Mr.. Il. G. Bush, Jr., manager of the
Chattanooga branch of this great
New Jersey concern, has said, unso-
licited, SO many fiattering things
about the Chamber of Commerce In
dustrial Bureau and hospitality of the
city at large recently in meetings that
elaboration here is almost unneces-
sary. The Industrial Bureau won a
distinct victory in presenting the adj
vantages of Chattanooga to these
gentlemen, as shown by the building
operation on the 35-acre tract located
on Manufacturers Road, North Chat
tanooga. The product of this $780,
900 plant will be soil pipe. 1t will be
the best equipped plant Of its kind in
the United States and unique, almost,
because the sloping character of the
ground lends itself to a gravity opera
ton for receiving raw material, un-
loading it and charging the cupola
without use of an elevator, and the
pipe, after passing the tarring
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shipping track or yard.
RAccooN COAL CO.
This is the work of the Industrial
Bureau. The company has the dis
tinction of operating actually the first
coal mine ever opened on the Tennes
see river. 1t mines the coal on the
western slope of Raccoon Mountain,
loads it upon its own barges. lows 1t
to Chattanooga with its own tow
boats and distributes to its many GUS
toners with its own trucks. 1t is lit
orally from the mine to the boiler in
one operation.
STONE. Flzz CO.
A $250,O00 corporation, embracing
some of the best known men in the
city. While the Industrial Bureau had
no hand in the formation of this COM
pany, the originator. Mr.. A. j.
Knowles, came to Chattanooga
through the Industrial Bureau on an
other matter that failed to material
ize. So he and the Chamber take the
position, mo Knowles, no Fizz."
There are several cases where men,
ton Of progress is warranted at this
time, although the plants were located
by the Industrial Board prior to 1919.
The Mascot Stove & Manufacturing
Co. has enjoyed a splendid and in
creasng business. Recently it took
over the former foundry of the brake
shoe company and doubled it's ca
pacity. The first six months after the
Bureau secured this plant their pay
roll amounted to 5000 per week, and
it now runs to $4,000. The American
Hame & Singletree Co. has replaced |
its burned plant with better one and |
is making more complete line.
The Lipson- Ryan Manufacturing |
that has added to its vol |
ume and variety Of products so fire.
quently that the first efforts are lost |
sight of to all save its president. Maj. |
J. L. Ryan.
Another case deserves mention OF
a sort, although 1t is of a nature that
the Industrial Bureau seldom has to
face. This was an industry which,
for reasons sufficient to the manage
nent. had decided to leave Chatta-
nooga, The Industrial Bureau learned
Of this condition and submitted COM
parative facts, all favoring Chatta-
nooga, as against other points being