Western Porcelain Company plant will start soon on order from Standard Oil refinery.

NEW PORCELAIN PLANT

STARTS WORK TUESDAY

RICHMOND, Aug. 10. — Rush is the order at the new plant of the Western Porcelain company, just completing its big $35,000 building between this city and San Pablo, as it is the intention to start up work on the initial order for $10,000 worth of goods received from the Standard Oil refinery next Tuesday. The big order from the Standard is for electrical insulators. A carload of machinery for the factory arrived yesterday and is being put in place. The big chimney being erected is nearly completed.

The Western States Gas and Electric company which has the contract for the power, is running a 22,000-volt line into the plant. Fifty men will go to work in the new factory Tuesday and more will be added as soon as the buildings are completed and machinery installed, when 75 men will be employed, and eventually 250. These workmen are skilled men brought here from other sections and as many of them are men of families they will add considerably to the population and the demand for residences, already hard to supply.

The company owning this new manufacturing plant is controlled by R. J. Tyson, president of the Seaboard National Bank, and other Oakland and San Francisco capitalists and is destined to become one of the largest of the local industries.