Local board donates land for new insulator factory

LARGE INSULATOR FACTORY

IS SOON TO BE BUILT HERE

Locale Board of Trade Donates

One Acre of Ground at

Hartland

INVENTOR IS HERE

Work of Construction the

Four Plants Will

Begin October 1

An electric insulator plant is to be built and operated at Hartland near Stealey Heights in the near future. It is hoped to begin work on the con­struction of the buildings by October 1 and the construction will be rushed to as speedy a completion as the shipping of the material will permit.

The new industry is to he operated by the Electric Insulator Company, to be regularly chartered by the secretary of state with a capitalization of at least $50,000 at the start.

The product of the projected plant will consist of glass insulators, for which Jesse E. Inman, of Hartford Conn., has a patent, and Mr. Inman will be the active head of the con­cern.

The location of the proposed plant is near the projected bridge of the Clarksburg and Weston Electric Rail­way Company at Hartland. The board of trade as an inducement has acquired and donated one acre of ground for the industry and pledged another acre if the acre already given is covered within a year with shops. Mr. Inman also has an option on a third acre.

The industry will really consist of four plants, namely, a glass plant, a porcelain plant, a sherodizing plant and a machine shop. The first will be a steel and frame structure with cor­rugated iron covering. The sherodizing plant will be of wood and the machine shop of brick. Not including the porcelain plant, which will be built later, the buildings will cost $50,000.

The operation starting off will give employment to 100 persons but then it gets into good running shape it will afford employment to between 400 and 500 at splendid wages.

There is great demand for the in­sulators, orders for more than one and a half million of them having al­ready been received unsolicited, and it is readily seen that such an enter­prise will prove highly successful to those interested in it as well as to the community in general.

Many leading electric firms of the country have inspected the insulator and fully tested it, finding it a great saving in time and material as it obviates the use of tie wire, and they all highly recommend it. Several ex­press an eagerness to have the oppor­tunity to have the insulators in use. Among the concerns recommending the patent are the United Electric Company, of Springfield. Mass.; the Narragansett and Electric Company, of Providence. R. I.; the Housatonic Power Company, of Waterbury, Conn.; the Western Union Telegraph Company, of New York, as well as numerous others, including a leading power plant of Baltimore. Practical men here have tested the patent and found it satisfactory. Indeed, they say it is the most practical invention along this line in their knowledge.

The board of trade has extended the courtesy of its rooms to Mr. In­man and he will have his head­ quarters there until active work is be­gun on the plant.