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DOMINION METAL PRODUCTS CORPORATION

Roanoke's newest enterprise is the Dominion Metal
Products Corporation, a concern that will be in active
operation by the fifteenth of March. This is a Roanoke
enterprise, backed by Roanoke capital and will be
managed by Roanoke men. The Dominion Metal
Products Corporation was organized in 1911, with an
authorized capital of $150,000 of which $50,000 has
been paid in with $50,000 common stock and $50,000
treasury stock. This stock is owned almost exclusively
by local people, therefore the Roanoke Metal Products
Corporation is a home enterprise. The plant, now in
course of erection, is located on Walnut Street, contiguous
to the Norfolk & Western and Virginian
Railways, and their shipping facilities will be unsurpassed.
This plant will manufacture corrugated metal
culverts, general sheet metal products, metal ceiling,
sheet metal roofing and siding, metal shingles, eaves,

trough, and conductor pipe. They will make a specialty
in the use of No-Co-Ro metal which is rust
resisting and "Acme (nestable) and Imperial" riveted
culverts. The plant which is fifty by two hundred
feet will be of steel construction, the outside covered
with a steel product of the concern, representing
brick and stone, and covered with a steel tiling, another
product of the plant. The officers of the Dominion
Metal Products Corporation are: James B. Botts,
President and General Manager; P. H. Tucker,
Secretary and Treasurer, and J. W. Hancock, Vice
President. The directors are James P. Woods, J. W.
Hancock, Perry Van Horne of Canton, Ohio, James
B. Botts, O. A. Kearns, E. C. McComb, and P. H.
Tucker. These gentlemen are all well known in this
city and section and their names are an absolute
guarantee of solidity and safety.

When completed this enterprise will furnish employment
to a large number of skilled laborers and will
add greatly to Roanoke's prestige as an industrial
center.