Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — High Chimney of Steel. [ARTICLE]

High Chimney of Steel.

W. W. Christie, in the Engineering News, reports the following as among the high steel chimneys in the United States: Nichols Chemical Company, Brooklyn, N. Y., 310 feet high, 35 feet in diameter at base, 12 feet at top; Pennsylvania Salt Company, N tar on a, Pa., 225 feet high, 10 feet flue diameter; Maryland Steel Company, Spar row’s Point, Md., two chimneys, each 225 feet high and 13 feet inside diameter. It is noteworthy that all 'these are at metallurgical plants. Also, the highest two brick chimneys are at metallurgical plants, the old Grant smelter at Denver, Colo., and the works of the Orford Copper Company at Constable Hook, New York harbor, each of these being about 350 feet in height