The Manufacture of Engines, Saw Mills and Grain Separators

In the machine shop are employed two hundred hands, each being skilled and practiced in his particular work. This shop, as well as all the others, is furnished with the electric light, and with facilities for handling work with ease and economy. About half-way down the machine shop is located the office occupied by the master mechanic, together with the tool room, below which is a space devoted to the erection of machinery, as shown in one of our engravings. The basement of this entire building is used as a store room for all the numerous castings used in the business, which are so classified as to be readily accessible.

Beyond the erecting shop is an area used for temporary storage of finished work. From this point it is loaded on cars running on a sunken track, and on opposite sides of this track stand the testing shop and store house. This is a very convenient arrangement for the reception and shipment of goods. All engines and boilers are run into the testing shop for examination and trial. The store house is a large two-story building, containing all classes of small finished work, whether made at the factory or purchased elsewhere. Seven buildings are seen in the engraving, with their ends parallel to and separated from the machine shop by a railroad track.

The first of these is the foundry, which contains two cupolas, each of ten tons capacity, also cranes, core ovens, and the customary appurtenances of a well equipped shop of this character.

The next building contains an 80-horse power horizontal engine an excellent specimen of the company's work the dynamo machine, pumps, blower, etc., and the boilers, two of 80 and one of 50 horse power, and the brass foundry. Under this roof we also find an apartment in which castings are cleaned, also an artesian well, and at the end of the building there is a wheel and spoke shop.

Beyond this building stands the pattern shop, which is not shown in the engraving. It is a fine and roomy two story structure, combining office, shop, and store house. Here is also the flask shop.

Next in line with the engine and boiler house is found the smith shop, containing twenty fires, steam hammers, Webb's revolving bolt furnace, and a large bolt header. The next building is the boiler shop, having forges, shears, punches, steam riveters, and rivet heating furnace. A hundred men are here employed, and the work of the shop averages about twenty boilers per week, ranging in capacity from 2-horse power to 200-horse power.

At the end of this building a series of racks is arranged for the reception of boiler iron, and the building is provided with a system of tracks and turn tables to facilitate the handling of materials.