[1] Operations began that fall, with Frank Riley Ashley, secretary of the Western Chemical Company at the time, as president.
[2] Even though the company was only in operation for a single year, they managed to produce a fairly large volume of products.
[citation needed] The most well known products of the Western Flint Glass Company are their telegraph insulators.
Evidence also strongly suggests that CD numbers 145, 190/191, 288, and 298 were produced, although none have been found to date marked with the company name.
Co. was never very successful in the bottle market, where glass of uniform color and appearance was important.