'ETUAG IS AFTER
GOVERNMENT PUNT
|\<(i\p </nm|?tign Is Started to Land
8! 1,000,000 Armor-Plate
Factory.
.AIMS AUK PUT FORWARD
Representatives in Congress Asked
Xot to Commit Themselves I'ntil
Advantages of Cockado <"ity Are
I'laeed Refore Them.
[Special to The Times-Dispatch I
l'KTRRSBUK?I, VA.. August 21.?Pe
tersburg will bid for the $11.000.00ft
Government armor plant, and will til*,
[villi Secretary Daniels ami the gen
?ral hoard at Washington a statement
?setting- forth in detail the many ad
vantages offereil by the city as a loca
tion for the big plant Meanwhile, in
I. iew of this fact, the Virginia Sen
ators ami Representatives In Congress
have been communicated with and ask
|-d not to commit themselves to any
other city until they have ha'l oppor
tunity to consider Petersburg's claims.
|Phe industrial survey made hv l.erov
Hodges under tiie direction of the Bu
reau of Kconomles has brought out
rhe many advantages or. me city fo?
industrial plants, vrhich will stand fa
vorable comparison with those offered
any other city seeking the armor
|>lant. Important among these are its
large area of railroad frontage, Its
splendid facilities for transportation
rail ami water, three great trunk
[ines of railroad running north, south.
^st and west, center in the city. A
(written brief of Petersburg's advant
s will be submitted for the consid
eration of Secretary I'aniels and the
reneral board.
t>u I'odI Inrrr fining l-"i?n*e.
