Oil lighted under furnaces at California Glass Insulator Co.

OIL SHOT INTO

GLASS FURNACES

Machinery Tested and Fires

Burning Satisfactorily

At the Southern California Glass Insulator company's plant today oil was shot into the fires for the first time. The fires were lighted last Saturday and burned all day yesterday. The officials of the company were well pleased with the way the fires burned and also with the oil melt. The machinery at the plant was also tested out yesterday and Saturday and operated in a manner that de­lighted the officials of the company.

As soon as the plant is working smoothly in every department the company will begin to fill a large or­der that is to be shipped to Calgary, Canada. This order will include several thousand glass insulators.

The sand bed from which the company will obtain its sand for the man­ufacture of the glass lies on the Bixby property in Riverside county. Rob­ert Frist, the general manager of the company, states that this sand bed contains a splendid silica material.

A sample of this sand sent to a glass manufacturer in the east, and out of it he made a piece of glass­ware that was almost perfect. In fact, the naked eye was unable to dis­cern the slightest flaw in this article of glass, made from the sand bed from which the local corporation will obtain all of its material. The glass manufacturer in the east wrote to the local company and informed its offi­cials that the sand they had obtained was of the finest quality which it had been his fortune to analyze. Accord­ing to the officials of the company here, this sand bed will last for 1000 years, being virtually inexhaustible.

The American Glass Sand company of Los Angeles, has obtained the con­trol of this sand bed and with this company the local corporation has a contract which guarantees a supply as long as the sand bed lasts. The president, of the American Glass Sand company is John Shumacher, a glass expert.

The glass plant, Mr. Stanley Stonaker secretary of the company, stated will be in operation within a week, at the latest.