From the Greensboro (NC) Daily Record, 10/22/1915, p. 5, c. 1

ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTH INCREASES
MANY NEW ENTERPRISES STARTED AND PRESENT PLANTS BEING ENLARGED.

…Negotiations are under way for the purchase of the Tredegar Iron Works, of Richmond, one of the oldest and largest concerns in the South, which during the civil war was a leading factor in providing cannon for the Confederacy. These negotiations are reported as with a view for enlarging the plant for making munitions of war, but the company declines to give any definite information in regard to the matter as yet. Pittsburgh people are reported as planning to build at Richmond an open-hearth steel plant with a capacity of 200 tons a day and an ultimate capacity of 600 tons. This follows very closely after the announcement last week that the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works of that city would build the first electric steel-making plant constructed in the South.

[remainder of article was not transcribed – MDG]

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