Burgettstown to Get Big Smelter Plant By an agreement signed last Friday between the American Metal Company, Ltd., of New York and John A. BELL, Burgettstown is to get a new $2,000,000 zinc smelter and sulphuric acid plant. The deal just consummated was for 2,500 acres of the Pittsburgh vein of coal, and 350 acres of surface on the line of the Panhandle railroad at Burgettstown, nine miles west of McDonald. The American Zinc and Chemical Company, a subsidiary concern of the American Metal Company, Ltd., is being organized under a Pennsylvania charter to operate the new plant. N. L. HEINZ, a metallurgical and acid expert, is to be general manager of the concern. He formerly was connected with the Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Co., of LaSalle, Ill. The new factory will not be completed for about a year. The company plans to build a model town for its employees, which will number about 500 when the concern starts operations. At first it is proposed to erect a one unit plant with a capacity for 40,000 tons of sulphuric acid and 20,000 tons of zinc annually. The intention is to increase the plant gradually to three or four times its original production. Coal mining by shaft will give to the concern fuel on its own property. Within three years it is proposed to increase the cost of the entire property to about $4,000,000. With the enlarged plant, it is figured by the promoters that the concern will employ 1,500 men. Houses in the proposed new model town will be of brick and of the cottage type. The selection of Burgettstown for the new plant was made by Mr. HEINZ and Dr. Otto SUSSMAN, chief mining engineer of the American Metal Company, Ltd., after eight months' search. Tests were made of the coal and it is estimated that enough can be found on the property to supply the concern, working for 75 years. R. W. COOKE, industrial agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West, suggested the site approved.