12 HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. 



men employed, of which 175 are skilled workmen and 115 

 laborers, the monthly pay roll amounting to $22,000. 



Travis Glass Company. The Travis Glass Company, 

 with head office at Clarksburg, VV. Va., has a branch plant at 

 Weston, located on the West Fork River, along the B. & O. 

 R. R., at the south end of the town, operating under a lease 

 from the Lewis County Glass Company, the owner of the 

 plant. The factory was first established under the name of 

 the Bendale Lighting Glass Company, but w r as later sold to 

 the Bastow Manufacturing Company, and finally came into 

 the hands of its present owners. According to Charles Bass- 

 ford, Superintendent, the plant manufactures milk bottles, 

 with an output of 12 tons daily, the total capacity of the tank 

 being 90 tons. The O'Neil semi-automatic machine is used 

 for blowing the product. Natural gas is used for fuel at a cost 

 of 4 l /2 cents per thousand cubic feet. The plant runs 11^ 

 months annually, the list of employees totaling 65, of which 

 47 are men and 18 boys, 26 of the men being classed as skilled 

 labor. 



Weston Brick Works. The Weston Brick Works, with 

 its head office at Weston and works at the south end of the 

 town, will be fully described in Chapter XII, under the sub- 

 ject' of "Clay". 



Danser Manufacturing and Supply Company.- The Dan- 

 ser Manufacturing and Supply Company, with head office at 

 Weston, the works being one-eighth mile north of the B. & O. 

 R. R. station, was established in 1905. According to W. C. 

 Danser, President and General Manager, the concern manu- 

 factures heating stoves, oil well tools, gray iron castings, and 

 does a general repair and jobbing business. Twenty-five men, 

 of whom 10 are skilled workmen, are employed, with an aver- 

 age weekly pay roll of $400. 



B. & O. R. R. Shops. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 

 Company has maintained general repair shops at the north end 

 of Weston since 1889. According to G. A. Schafer, General 

 Foreman, 85 men are employed, of whom 30 are skilled work- 

 men. 



Bennett Bros. Post Factory. Bennett Brothers operate 

 a small factory, located on the Pickens Branch of the B. & O. 



