Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-01-09 | Page 29 | Enormous Plant has 20 Buildings

E111S PLiT HAS 21 BUILDINGS Fisk Company Has 29 Acres of Floor Space Devoted to Manufacture. The exterior construction work of the several new buihlings now being erected for the Fi?k Rubber company at Chico- ; pee Falls is nearlv completed, and an , idea may now be had of the great size that the plant will attain when these buildings become a part of it. With the new structures the Fisk company has twenty-nine acres of floor space wholly devoted to the manufacture manufac-ture and distribution of tires, the ca- i pacity in automobile casings alone being. ! increased to 12,000 daily. i The handsome appearance of the new administration building is impressive. It is fifty by 200 feet and seven stories ; high, built of stone and tapestry brink. : Its 70,000 feet of floor space is divided into more than fifty private offices, general gen-eral offices, reception rooms, conference rooms, etc., as well as three dining rooms capable of accommodating 20u ' persons. There are also rest rooms anci a complete kitchen equipped with re- ; frigerating and ice-making machines. The reception room is to be elaborately finished in English oak, and opens into a main stairway twenty feet wide. The new milf building, constructed of brick and steel, is 108 by 600 feet, and has five stories and basement. The new storehouse is 108 by 300 feet, five stories and basement. It is of reinforced re-inforced concrete and steel, with brick panels. This building also is equipped with fire towers and sprinklers. The garage and service station is also finished and occupied. It is sixty by 100 feet and built of reinforced" concrete, con-crete, with tapestry brick eide-walls. The first floor is a garage for the pleas- : ure cars and service station, and the basement a garage for trucks, repair shop and store room. There are air . compressors with pipes to various parts of the building, oil tank in the baae- ! ment piped to the main floor and I equipped with pumps and a large gaso- 1 line tank in the yard.