The Iron Age 1903-10-01: Vol 72 Iss 14

A THE IRONe:AGE A Review of the Hardware, Iron, Machine alu i Metal ades. Published every Thursday Morning by David Williams Co., 232-238 William St., New York. Wl 72: No. 14: New York, Thursday, October r, 1903. Single Copa Reading Matter Contents........ page 52 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers “‘ 235 Classified List of Allvertisers.... ‘‘ 227 Advertising and Subscription Rates f§ 234 CABLEGRAM To PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Oyster Bay. American Rifles, Ammunition and Meawon victory to-day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma trophy. (Sigued) LIBUT. ALBERT S. JONES, Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. Copied from N. ¥. HERALp. New York. Boston. ‘Ron AND This sweeping victory for America, and the extraordinary score of 1,570 out of a possible 1,800 were made with 30-40 regular factory Cartridges, manufactured by the UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY selected after exhaustive trials, by the entire Americaa Team in preference to all others, for their wonderful uniformity and extreme accuracy. Seores are improved by using U. M. C. ammunition. Souvenir Cartridges (without powder) on application. THe BRISTOL COMPANY! FF THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. Waterbury, Cenn. Bristol’s Recording 313 Broadway, - New York City ; Instruments. Factory: BRIDGEPORT, CONN, Depot: 86 First St., SAN FRANCISCO, GAL. Fer Preegere cnt, peresare : Silver Medal, Paris Exposition. All Ranges, Low Pri and Saar aniteed. Send forC SAMSON SPOT CORD Ae Mireteds of Sah SAMSON CORDAGE WORKS, Boston, Mass. TURNBUCKLES. O : GAPEWELL HORSE NAILS Office, 1 } Broadway, N York. Cleveland © city Forge and fron Co., "Cleveland. 0. NEW YORK, Branches : PORTLAND, ORE., Ee PHILADELPHIA, BUFFALO, TURN BUCH UBS. CHICAGO, DETROIT, BALTIMORE, ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS, BOSTON, SAN FRANCISCO, DENVER. SOFT COAL. FILLING & CRANE, ¢ FILTING & GAANE, jaeerotetest Ext _——— ie PATTERN. j= CY Excelsior Straightway Back Pressure Valve is simple in construction and well made, Being fitted with the divd O3i1venuNor THE CAPEWELL HORSE NAIL COMPANY HARTFORD, CONN. PLATE PATTERN. APOLLO Jenkins Disc, it is noiseless and never sticks. Gives long service, and can be relied upon at all times. Can be quickly thrown in and Why use poor galvanized out of use without taking valvé Apart. It offers no resistance to the steam when wide open. a 2 ir n at all? \pollo is cheaper, even for average work. 't is so workable. JENKINS BROS., New York Beston, Philadelphia, Chicago, London. “Swedon” Gold Roled Steel sts, Drawing a stamping THE AMERICAN TUBE & ot SR RLNG COMPANY (Cuick service. Keturn a whole sheet for an MAGNOLIA METAL. inch of fault. Best Anti-Friction Metal for all Machinery Bearings. ~ Pea-pimtie of Ber. imitations. MAGNOLIA METAL C0., Owners and Sole Manufacturers, 113-116 Ban’.Street, Se2 srg a buledepe swe meets Boston, Chicago, Fisher Bidg. WEW' SRK. | grades be Gangalive prices .merican Sheet Steel Company Battery Park New York ' a np We abort “Onl nt eel re ate time at) argent re 22. Bry PRR PE tS ~ pe ‘aes Ex oe Pe RY ETT ATM CT CSE ERE RE LTS POTN PIT LE Eee ‘ 4 ih se Ye Ny a x 2 THE IRON AGE. SHEET | THE PLUME & ATWOOD MF’. Cy, ROD MANUFACTURERS OF Arsous Bess |B RASS: oN io Sheet and Roll Brass \ pease 4N0 Coreen COPPER | “:,,) _ WERE PRINTERS’ BRASS, JEWELERS’ METAL, ceRMay le GERMAN SHEET ane GILDING METAL, COPPER Rivers Tobin Bronze) SILVER ) gem tee ee Seaiihcsaioe Seahamimandiaiaiedien Round, a "7 Square and Hexagon Bars, for Pump |LOW BRASS. SHEET BRONZE. | 99 MURRAY S8T., NEW YORK. Piston Rods and Bolt Forgings ° 144 HIGH ST., BOSTON. Seamless Tubes for Boilers SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER 199 LAKE S8T., CHICAGO, ond Condensers. TUBING. BRAZED BRASS AND ntti ee ae. 99 John Street, - -* New York. BRONZE TUBING. :::::::: THOMASTON, CONN. | WATERBURY, CONN. Randolph-Clowes Co., Main Office and Mill, WATERBURY, CONN. WATERBURY, CONN. MANUFACTURERS OF 130 Centre St., New York. Providence, R. I. SHEET BRASS & COPPER. - BRAZED BRASS & COPPER WATERBURY BRASS C0.,/J°COVIL.MES. CO. BRASS, CERMAN SILVER Sheets, Rolis, Wire Rods, Bolts and Tubes, Brass Shelis, Cups, Hinges, Buttons, Lamp Coods. BRiDGLPORT DEOXID ZED BRONZE AND METAL COMPa4NY, TUBES. BRIUGEPORT, CONN, SPECIAL BRASS GoOUDbDs= TO ORDED SEAMLESS BRASS Largest Jopbins Brass Foundry tn Factories, WATERBURY, CONN. & COPPER TUBES ee barute TO 36 IN. DIAM. LARGE CASTINGS A SPECIALTY. Tw: ooen .S0Sren New York Office, 23 Broadway, Postal Se ae and — mieeen nina aahiedaelie: = a pad Ah AO attention. JOHN DAVOL & SONS, eiettind Brooklyn Brass & Copper Co. DEALERS IN e e COPPER, TIN, SPELTER, Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Co., LEAD, ANTIMONY. LA SALLE, ILLINOIS. 100 John Street, ~ New York, SMELTERS OF SPELTER hiked Arthur T. Rutter SHEET ZINC AND SULPHURIC ACID. SUCCESSOR TO “Gaunt eee meee aa Siihemnaanear a WILLIAM S. F EARING Selected Shee r Pa P . a 256 Broadway, NEW YORK. ZINCS FOR LECLANCHE BATTERY. Small tubing in Brass, Copper, Steel, Aluminum, German Silv¢!, eee |e. Sheet Brass, Copper and o man Silver. Copper, Brass 40 OUNDERS German Silver Wire. Brazed and TINY: 1th iclillaliicsaltedlinsdidhd Seamless Brass and Copper Tule. Copper and Brass Rod. eS 8-74 West RE ea a RO ea St... Chicago. EE cate eee 2 ne Best Bronze, Babbitt Metals, Brass and Alaminum S4STINSS. “PHONO -f LECTRIC’ Re SN OW TORK WTEC TED, BRASS, BRONZE and ALUMINUM CASTINGS.| A7IEV ED. “rs tovon” AE® A { & # iC?) 3 Founders, Finishers, TROLLEY, 5 F Weise Wa SO GS BUBSURY STREET, EOSTOR W. G. ROWELL & CO., BRIDGEPORT, CONN. TELEPHONE HENDRICKS BROTHERS i. wpe TELEG? Belleville Copper Rolling Mills, LINES. Brasiers’ Bolt and Sheathing Mitts. BRIDGEPORT BRASS O0. COPPER, — 19 Murray St., New COPFRA WIRD, AND RIVITS. |i ccm wee ay 7 ingot Copper, pro Tin, “Speer, 4-ee2 “ntimony, etc. Snow. . 9 49 CLIFF : Eek | pages, figures in page half-tones, cloth...........-- For sale by David Williams Co., 232 Willia. ©‘. ©" THURSDAY, Oc' rhe Stockbridge Motor Driven Shaper. of Worcester, driven e Stockbridge Machine are building an Company improved motor shaper he \ embodies several improvements, including a new motion, a method of gibbing the ram, a mechanism ; complishing the down feed of the head and a double, opie screw, which permits of the machine being ed on a concrete floor without the necessity of ), ting a hole in the floor to take the screw. The shaper , 24-inch stroke with a four to one quick return. The companying engravings show the machine equipped ; with direct connected 3 horse-power double commuta- . >, jes ’ K. THE IRON AGE BEI 1903 justs itself to any position of the bar soth down feed and cross feed screws are fitted with graduated collar reading to sixty-fourths of an inch The manner of gibbing the ram is new. The gib is and the is done with a taper which is backed up at each end by a screw. his makes the ram perfectly rigid, as though the ways vere planed out of solid stock. The same method is em- ployed on the side packing, which does away with pack- A friction clutch operated by a lever enables the shaper to be started and stopped while the motor is the latter. About 70 changes of speed are possible, by means of back gears and bolted down solidly adjusting wedge Ing screws in operation without stopping i. f, r, I- 1d 1d es ee , fHE STOCKBRIDGE MOTOR DRIVEN SHAPER b] ~torey motor, which, through a rheostat speed con by the variable speed of thie motor, from 450 to 2100 revolu- Toler, gives to the operator a range of speed of 300 per tions aminute. The dimensionsof the shaper are : Length of The drive is communicated by means of a Morse stroke, 24 inches; vertical travel of table, 15 inches; hori- The crank motion which drives the ram is power zontal travel of table, 30 inches; feed to head, 9 inches; - d mechanically new. This motion is accomplished top of table, 14 x 20 inches; ram bearing in column, 36 ied ans of a gear and crank, which gives an even cut- inches ; width of ram in column, 12 inches; vise open, 12 speed through the whole length of the stroke. The inches: size of vise jaws, 12 x 3 inches; finished weight atic feed to the head is operated by means of a dog wl, shown on the gib and ram, the paw! operating ternal ratchet which throws the feed in and out 2h pairs of beveled gears to the head screw. The iS a travel of 9 inches. The screw operates on bal! The feeding is done at the extreme end of the re- | t ‘Toke, so that the tool is not dragged back over the nd requires little clearance to feed in. The varia- the down feed is from 1-120 to % inch. The ma- 48 a cross feed of 30 inches and is automatic in lirection, with a variation of feed of from 1-100 to The cross feed is operated by a rod. which ad- zs sz .- Sere i of machine and countershaft, 3700 pounds em According to press dispatches from the Pacific Coast, results accomplished this season show that the tin de posits of Cape York, north of Cape Nome, will become an important factor. The output this year has been greater than expected without machinery. Plants have been ordered, and their operation next year will result in a large output. Returning miners state that the benches adjoining the streams of that locality are full of tin ground has averaged 80 pounds of tin One man’ sitnheeisnieee ore to the cubic yard. At Nome the Greater American Mining Company of New York have filed contracts for assessment work on their property at York Sass Gun Foundry Plans [lodified by Ordnance Bureau. WASHINGTON, LD. C., September 29, 1905.-—The Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy Department has taken impor tant action upon the report of the Gun Foundry Board published in The Jron Age for September 24. The recom mendations made by the board contemplated a continuing 2 THE IRON AGE. October plete the armaments of vessels already authorize, time they will be required, and to provide for t able future needs of the navy, a considerable « of the gun plant at the Washington Navy Yard necessary. The bureau believes that, in gener; preferable for the Government itself to manufact guns and their accessories for the navy, as not the product more satisfactory than if procured tract, but the fact that the time of completion better control when the work is performed in tf} ernment shops is a matter of great importance work of such a character is given out by contra: is no certainty as to when it will be completed ; 1 Fig. 2.—Rear Vieve. rH STOCKBRIDGE MOTOR DRIVEN SHAPER. programme for the development of the foundry at an ultimate cost of $4,182,393, the expectation being that Congress would appropriate a portion of this amount in the next naval appropriation bill, and would supply the remainder from time to time within the next two or three years. Rear Admiral O'Neil, Chief of the Bureau of Ord nance, has reached the conclusion, however, that the recommendations of the board should be somewhat modi fied and the estimates reduced by excluding all unneces sary items and that Congress should be urged not only to make the entire appropriation at the coming session, but to render it immediately available so that work need not be deferred until next July, when the funds carried by, the annual naval appropriation bill become available. It is probable that the Secretary of the Navy, iv his an- nual report to Congress, will adopt Admiral O'Neil’s sug gestion and that Congress will act favorably thereon, In his indorsement of the board’s report Admiral Neil says that it is quite evident that the present fa- cilities of the naval gun factory are wholly inadequate for carrying on current work, and that in order to com- less, the force of circumstances has obliged the to contract for GO guns of medium caliber and the | therefor to supplement the product of the naval gi tory, but this alone will not suffice to procure with proper limit of time the armament for several of t! sels now under construction. There are but few establishments. in this country which are pl equipped to execute the class of work that is per ut the naval gun factory, and the best and, in f: only practicable means of supplying the vessels | der construction with their armament, by the tin needed, is to make an immediate and substantial to the facilities of the naval gun factory. W mee A new fuel is being manufactured in Californi: is made from twigs and leaves of the eucalypt mixed with crude petroleum. It is said to burn free give good results, Piles made from this tree are i from attacks by .the teredo and last longer. than pine.. The demand for them is greater than the s! cal Oe ei renee nee Se a eel i ae ? 7 ¥ ber 1, 1903 THE Coal Production in 1902. increase in Bituminous Nearly Offsets Anthra- cite Strike. VASHINGTON, D. C., Septenrber 29, 19038.—A prelim report on the coal production of the United States 1902 has been prepared by Edward W. Parker, statis n of the United States Géological Survey. ‘The fig though subject to slight revision because of a few in omplete but unimportant returns, are sufficiently correct to enable comparisons to be made between the output of i902 and that of former years. For the first time in the history of the United States the production of coal has reached a total of over 300 yoo,000 short tons, showing an actual output of 300,930, 650 tons of 2000 pounds, valued at $373,133,848. Of this total the output of anthracite coal amounted to 36,865,- 710 long tons (equivalent to 41,289,595 short tons), which, as compared with the production of 60,242,560 long tons in 1901, shows a decrease of 23,376,850 long tons, or al- most 40 per cent. This decrease, as is well known, was due entirely to the suspension of operations by the strike in the anthracite region from May 10 to October 23, a lit- tle over five months. Had it not been for the strike, which practically stopped production in the anthracite region for this length of time, the output for the year would have probably attained a total of over 65,000,000 long tons. The value at the mines of the’ product in 1902 amounted to $81,016,937, as against $112,504,020 in 1901, a loss of about 27 per cent. The average value of the marketed coal sold during the year at the mines was $2.50 per long ton, the value in 1901 having been $2.05. The comparatively small amount of anthracite which was mined during the strike, and which brought such exor- bitant prices, did not have the effect on the total produc- tion that might have been expected. \n interesting feature of the production of anthracite coal is the increase in the recovery of usable fuel from the old and unsightly culm banks that exist through- out the region. Up to 1890 no attempt had been made to recover and utilize this fuel. In that year, however, the washery industry was started, and during the year 41,- 600 long tons of coal were recovered and marketed. That industry has steadily increased until, in 1901, the wash- ery product amounted to 2,567,335 long tons. Many of the washeries as well as the mines were closed down dur- ing the strike, and the production of washery coal fell off to 1,959,466 long tons, which, however, was not in the Same proportion as the decrease in thé mined product. The percentage of the total product obtained from wash- eries in 1902 was 6.28, against 4.79 in 1901. In 1899 only U.11 per cent. of the total product was obtained from washeries, \ large part of the shortage caused by the strike in the anthracite region was made up by the use of bitu Ininous coal and of coke. The shortage was, however. hot entirely made up, as many factories, unable to pro cure any fuel whatever, or, if at all, at prohibitory prices. were obliged to close down entirely, and were unable to resume until prices for fuel again approached normal conditions. The output of bituminous coal (which in ‘udes semianthracite and all semibituminous and lignite coulis) amounted in 1902 to 259,641,064 short tons, val $292,116,906, as against 225,826,849 short tons, valued at $236,406,449 in 1901. The increase in the pro d m of bituminous coal was, therefore, 33.814.215 1 quantity, and $55,710,457 in value. the 30 States and Territories in which coal was ced in 1902 there were only seven in which the out iS less than in 1901. These seven exceptions were tnia, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania. and Washington. The production of bituminous Pennsylvania in 1902 exceeded that of 1901 by S74 short tons, but was not sufficient to overcome eat loss in anthracite production. The States in w the more important increases occurred were IIli- ni hich gained 5,547,751.short tons, or a little more t ‘ c ‘ 2 = ) per cent. over 1901; Colorado, whose increase was - Short tons, or about 40 per cent.: Ohio, with a IRON AGE. gain of 2444577 short tons, not quite 12 per cent.; In diana, with an increase of 2,268,371 short tons, or nearly 33 per cent.: Alabama. with a gain of 1,490,865 short tons, or 16 per cent., and Kentucky, whose output in creased 1,193,176 short tons, or a little over 20 per cent. rhe following table shows the quantity and value ot the producton by States in 1902 as compared with 1901 TOT mor Quantity Short tons Valne Quantity Short tons Value. LO.598.917 $12,505,798 Alabama G.0990,052 S1O,000.892 Arkansas 1 816,136 ? OGS.613 2 OZS 96S 2,639,055 California and Alaska 151.079 394,106 85,406 256,398 Colorado D.TOOOLS 6.441.801 8,014,427 9,086,999 Georgia and North Caro lina 354,825 $26,685 {37.083 623.518 Idaho ies ‘ : 1 250 3,300 Illinois . 27,331,552 28,163,937 $2,879,303 35,221,959 Indiana . 6,918,225 7.017,148 9,186,596 10,116,667 Indian Ter ritory ... 2,421,781 3,915,268 2,769,895 4,187,554 a 5 617.499 7.822.805 5,896,245 8,641,484 Kansas ... 4,900,528 5,991,599 5,265,490 6,859,466 Kentucky 5,469,986 5 213,076 6,663,062 6,556,278 Maryland . 5,113,127 5,046,491 5,271,609 6,329,119 Michigan 1 241,241 1.753.064 964,718 1,653,192 Missouri 8,802,088 4,707,164 3,855,935 5,316,933 Montana 1.396.081 2 009,316 1,484,277 2,448,526 New Mexico 1.086.546 1.546.652 1,048,763 1,500,23 North Da a 166 601 214,151 216,871 312,780 CR 6.8085 20,943,807 20,928,158 23,388,384 26,758,721 Oregon .... 69,011 73.646 63,150 153,675 ennsylvania : Anthgacite 67,471,667 112,504,020 $1,289,595 81,016,937 Bituminous 82 305,946 81,397,586 98,061,820 105,413,251 rennessee 3,633,290 4,067,389 4.393.777 5,411,840 Fexas .... 1,107,953 1 907,024 902,882 1,477,745 WEG as ew 1,322,614 1,666,082 1,574,022 1,796,567 Virginia .. 2 725,873 2,353,989 3,177,528 2,538,694 Washington. 2,578,217 1,271,076 2,400,221 4,389,806 West Vir ginia .... 24,068,402 20 848,184 24,479,804 24,459,460 Wyoming 4,485,374 5,507,881 6,060,462 4,529,591 Totals. .293,.298,516 $348.910,469 300,930,659 $373,133,843 we te OO Carborundum Company Extensions. The Carborundunt Company are again making en- largements of their plant at Niagara Falls—a fact which is of special interest in illustrating the growth of an entirely new industry. Carborundum was invented in 1891. The first commercial furnace of the company had au capacity of 4 pound a day, and the first sale made was a little lot of 20 carats, sent out on an order from a jewelry house, at a price of 25 cents a carat, equal to $450 a pound. These small furnaces sufficed to supply all demands for the new abrasive for nearly two years. when they were replaced by what seemed at that time to be enormous furnaces, requiring the use of 150 electrical horse-power. In 1896 the company built the plant at Niagara Falls, employing furnaces using 1000 electrical horse-power, with a capacity far in excess of the demands at that time. By 1900 the demand had more than caught up with the production, however, and the capacity was doubled. Last year another 1000 electrical horse-power was added, “but the growth of the business has been so rapid that even with 3000 electrical horse-power the company have for months been unable to fill their orders. A contract has now been made for 2000 more electrical horse-power, and this will be turned into the works by December of this year, giving the plant a capacity of about 10,000,000 pounds of carborundum per annum. To properly take care of this large amount of power, the company have secured an additional factory site of 4 acres, making in all over 8 acres of ground now covered by the plant. On the new site is being erected a new mixing and furnace building, 134 x 146 feet in size, so planned as to be capable of extension in two directions. The building will have two stories and a basement and will be of fire proof construction throughout. The new furnaces will be run by a current of 2000 horse-power each, which is just double that used by the present fur- aces, a ~) Dips cy : s — Le Pi ERR E ES ASD, tS 5 ANE Ke ae or +e NS A RAL Ta. 4 THE IRON AGE. Canadian Notes. Wholesale Hardwaremen of Canada. Toronto, September 26, 1903.—On Tuesday, the 22d inst., the Canadian Wholesale Hardware Dealers’ Asso- ciation held its annual meeting in this city. About 20 of the principal dealers in the country were present. Espe- cially well represented were the houses of Toronto and Montreal, the latter city sending the following: F. O. Lewis of Lewis Bros. & Co., W. Starke of Howden, Starke & Co., T. H. Newman of Caverhill, Learmont & Co. and A. Jeanotte of T. H. Hebert & Co. Representing the wire manufacturers were A. E. Hamm of the Dominion Wire Mfg. Company, Montreal, and T. Esmond Peck of Peck, Benny & Co., Lachine. T. B. Lee of the Rice Lewis & Son, Toronto, presided. On Tuesday evening the mem- bers were the guests of Mr. Lee at the National Club, where he gave a dinner in their honor. The meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday were taken up with business which the association did not regard as of public interest and of which, accordingly, no report was given out. It is known, however, that one question before it was not of the association’s own raising. It was contributed by the wire manufacturers and was nothing less than a serious disagreement between the Canadian wire drawers and the American Steel & Wire Company. Some time ago the American Steel & Wire Company raised the price of wire rods to what the Ca- nadian wire drawers considered an excessive rate. They had been buying their rods from the company, but after the advance they went elsewhere. Then the American Steel & Wire Company began selling their manufactured wire here at. prices deemed low by the Canadian wire manufacturers. This, at all events, was the complaint of the Canadian makers. Among those present at the banquet given by Mr. Lee was G. A. Childs, Canadian sales agent of the American Steel & Wire Company. It would appear, therefore, as if both sides were heard by the association. At all events, better relations were evi- dently established between the parties at variance. In answer to an inquiry by a newspaper reporter, Mr. Childs said that so far as competing with the Canadian manu- facturers was concerned the American Steel & Wire Com- pany was not in the market at all. Since the meeting of the association one of its officers. Thomas Birkett, M.P., of Ottawa, made the statement in an interview that the Steel & Wire Company had re- turned to their former prices, and that for the present at least there was no trouble being made in the whole- salers’ wire trade by marked differences in the prices at which the goods are bought. He remarked that the loy- alty of Canadian dealers to the industries of their own country had blocked the attempt to demoralize prices. Of course, the wholesalers had an interest in the matter as well as the manufacturers, for if one wholesaler in a town was getting wire from United States manufactur- ers at a price much below that at which another in the same town was getting wire from Canadian makers the effect would be disturbing. It appears the low price cam- paign lasted but four or five days. The association elected as its officers for the current year the following members of the trade: President, F. O. Lewis of Lewis Bros. & Co., Montreal; vice-president, John Bowman of the John Bowman Hardware Company. London; secretary-treasurers, Jenkins & Hardy; Execu- tive, Thomas Birkett, M.P.. Ottawa: A. Jeannote. Mon- treal: W. Shaw, Quebec: C. A. Whtman, London; A. G. Macpherson, Montrea!. Imperial Steel & Wire Company. The Imperial Steel & Wire Company have issued their prospectus. Among their directors i¢ John Charlton, M.P., a member of the Joint High Commission for ad- justing relations between Canada and the United States. The works are to be in Collingwood. There are to be a wire rod mill, a wire drawing plant, a wire fencing fac- tory and departments for the manufacture of wire nails, screws, &c. From the Cramp Steel Company, Colling- wood, Ontario, in which town the wire works are to be situated, the steel billets required are to be obtained. The company have a bonus of $25,000 from the town of Collingwood. October 1, 42 Material for the Grand Trunk Pacific. Clause 17 of the Grand Trunk Pacific bill pr. that there should be no addition to the cost of co: tion or to the capital of construction account in r of customs duties in cases where there is direct im; tion of supplies by the Government. This meant, a ing to the interpretation of a high legal authori whom it was referred by Mr. Osler of the Oppos that material and supplies could be imported free of As about 1600 miles of the road are to be built and 0 by the Dominion, all the rails, &c., directly import: the Government or the Commission in charge of work would be exempt from tariff rates. This view previously been taken by the Canadian Manufacturers Association, who protested against such an opening of the market, 'The weighty legal opinion submitte:| Mr. Osler caused the Government to defer the consi tion of the clause when it came before the House in due course. The line from Moncton to Winnipeg, whe: built, is to be turned over to the Grand Trunk Pacifi Company, which company are to pay after five years of operation a rental of 3 per cent. on the cost of construc- tion, the Government being bound to keep the cost of construction as low as possible consistently with efi ciency of roadway. In the lawyers’ opinion, the con pany could refuse to pay a rental on any part of the «ost that has been made up by customs duties paid upon su; plies and material imported by the Government. Tl: delegation of the work of construction to a commissio: does not, according to the same counsel, make the Go ernment less the builder. Nor, to pursue the matter fu ther, do the interpreters of the clause consider that a contractor working under the commission and importing materials himself removes the construction from the yovernment. He is its agent, and the Government could not charge to capital any duties he might pay and recom- pense himself for. When the clause came before the House again Mr. Fitzpatrick, the Solicitor General, had an amendment prepared, making it clear that only supplies imported directly by the Government on capital account for the eastern division of the line should be exempt from cus- toms duties. On all materials imported by private per- sons or corporations for the purpose of the road duty must be paid. Bounties on Rolled Steel. On Friday the Steel Bounties bill was considered in committee by the Dominion Senate. Senator Ellis op- posed the bill. He referred to the statement of the Min- ister of Trade and Commerce that out of $1,245,000 paid out in bounties in the last year, the Dominion Iron & Steel Company had got $885,965. Hon. M. McMullen though a free trader a few years ago, approved the bil! and the bounty principle. Hon. Mr. Edwards entered his protest against boun- ties on anything. He dissented entirely from Mr. Mc Mullen’s. views. The principle was taking money from the mass for the benefit of the few. He asked them to look at the result in Germany of the sugar bounty. It had simply meant that everybody in Germany had been paying for Great Britain’s cheap sugar. The same tl/ng applied to Mr.: MeMullen’s argument. The Canadian people would pay for some one else to get cheap iron aud lead. The condition of the works at the “Soo” and the Dominion works was due to the fact that they had !ven called into existence by unnatural means. The bill passed in committee, as did the Lead Bount bill. Cc. A —_—_—_————— | The Wheeling Board of Trade, Wheeling, \\ have purchased a large plot of ground on the Db: the Ohio River and are prepared to offer free * to desirable industries. The property is exception: 0- cated for manufacturing purposes, having abunda: its ural gas and shipping connections with all ra is, cheap coal land adjoining, and is 15 minutes by ey from the heart of the city. In a circular recently ied by the board the advantages of the Wheeling © strict for the location of manufactories are clearly se' rth and a large list of important plants in the Ohio ley is given. 1D ha ab be th nN — ed d oO Oc ober 1, 1908 Crocker-Wheeler Motor Driving Barret Boring Machine. the time when individual motor drive for machine ti was first commencing to attain popularity many adaptations of the system were made that in the light of present practice would be regarded as crude, to say the le Later, with the benefit of previous experience and wiih more and better talent turned in that direction, the number of creditable designs embodying motor drive in- erensed until now it is exceptional to meet with a new scheme which does not possess a fair quota of commend- able features. But even among the most approved de- signs of the present day seldom is so simple and success- ful an arrangement encountered as the one employed on the drive of the horizontal boring machine illustrated herewith. The tool is a No. 3 Barret boring machine similar in all particulars to the belt driven style, except that the cone pulley is replaced by a 13 horse-power motor mounted on a special cast iron base, which is bolted to the bed of the machine proper. Over all the equipment THE IRON AGE. wt lustration, is secured to the boring bar, the feeding being accomplished by sliding the whole bar endwise. The ex tended frame, shown at the right of the machine with a third bearing at its outer extremity, contributes to the rigidity of the bar and supports the feeding mechanisn). This consists of a sliding carriage containing a sleeve that revolves with the boring bar and may be secured to it at any point, consequently any shifting of the carriage causes a lengthwise movement of the boring bar. A pin- ion on the carriage engages a rack on the frame, allowing direct hand feeding, and there is also a system for auto- matic feeding much the same as that commonly used on lathes. By this arrangement the bar can be handled very rapidly and as easily as a carriage of a 30-inch lathe. The machine has a continuous feed travel of 48 inches in either direction, and will bore and face both ends of 2 cylinder at the same time. With but the one speed reduction the machine is capa- ble of 12 speeds in either direction, varying from 22-7 to 153-7 revolutions per minute, secured by altering the speed of the motor. The latter is equipped with the Crocker-Wheeler system of multiple voltage current sup- CROCKER-WHEELER MOTOR DRIVING BARRET BORING MACHINE. occupies a floor space 18 feet 14% inches long, exclusive of the projection of the boring bar, by 7 feet 4 inches wide. The boring bar is 6 inches in diameter and 16 feet 8 inches long and is.made of hammered steel. An Albro worm and worm gear with a ratio of 70 to 1 transmits the power, affording the very smooth and even motion to the boring bar so desirable in cylinder boring and work of a similar character. The worm and worm gear are incased in one casting, which protects the gears and con- fines the lubricant with the assistance of a stuffing box surrounding the worm shaft. The bearings in the pedestals supporting the boring bar have their centers 24 inches from the surface of the bed and are bored out 9 inches in diameter. Within these bearings are sleeves; one 23 inches long is contained in the tail pedestal and the other, 3014 inches long, forms the hub of the worm wheel. The sleeves are fixed against endwise displacement but are provided with feathers Which engage the keyway extending the length of the ‘plined boring bar so as to cause all to rotate simultane- usly, On extensions of the sleeves between the pedestals ire nounted arms which carry facing blocks. The latter support the facing tools and are arranged to feed axially tat right angles thereto by the turning of star shaped land wheels. To make the feed automatic, tripping tlc s may be fastened to the bed and set so as to revolve the screws one-fifth of a turn at each revolution of the ‘rig bar. For inside boring a cutting head, not shown in the il- ply, whereby six fundamental speeds are obtained by dis- tinct voltages, increasing in increments of 40 from zero to 240 volts, and six intermediate speeds secured through the use of a small resistance between each fundamental step. The Barret boring machine is built by the Mead- ville Vise Company, Meadville, Pa., and the motor is the regular semi-inclosed type, size 10-I, shunt motor, sup- plied by the Crocker-Wheeler Company of Ampere, N. J. ere - {It will be remembered, doubtless, that an English commission visited this country a few months ago to ex- amine into our railway systems and adopt such plans and devices as commended themselves. The custom in England is to haul very light loads at very heavy charges for freight, and the commissioners were much impressed with our steel cars, which will hold 50 tons, and our powerful locomotives, that will haul a great many of them. The London & Northwestern Railway, while not prepared to experiment with the largest ears, did build some to carry 20 tons, but it seems that they are not adapted to the railways themselves, being too high to go under the colliery screens and too wide and too heavy for the scales provided. The mine owners were not willing to make any experiments in the direction of better cars, so the railway is now building some to hold 15 tons only, which is a singular method of experiment- ing, and not much advance over the systems already in use in England a,’ cE an cn ——— es | | Deowd’s ~.) memiednas ve. oir eae. nen PE eo, + ie af ‘. Per} ee Si 1 «ey ‘ y i “4 : 6 THE IRON AGE. Lake Mining Matters. Curtailment of Mining Operations. DvuLutTH, MINN., September 26, 19038..—Mining opera- tions in both the iron and copper regions of Lake Su- perior are suffering from some curtailment, but the total dloes not begin to approach what might be feared from a perusal of the daily papers, and is, indeed, a minoy mat- ier. While some points will suffer, others will be pushed more heavily than ever, and the general situation is most encouraging. It seems strange that in the copper coun- try, where demand is apparently well up to production and where prices are claimed to be perfectly satisfactory, retrenchment is the rule, but that it is cannot be doubted. Machinery men report a lack of orders, and mining super- intendents all say they will reduce all unnecessary ex- penses for the present. ‘The district is making about 16,000,000 pounds of copper monthly, and there is no accumulation of stocks anywhere on the iake. In the iron region the demand for some classes of ore has diminished to such an extent that spring schedules of expected shipments have been maierially revised. Non-Bessemer ores are not now wanted by the constituent companies of the United States Steel Corporation, for example, as largely as had been hoped for, and mines producing these grades will immediately retrench, some closing down October 1. Among the latter is the Soudan mine of the Minnesota Iron Company at Tower, Minn., where all operations will cease on Thursday. The com- pany will take care of their married men, and will find places for many of the others at other mines. The Ely group will continue mining heavily, and the Mesaba mines of the corporation are likely to make a bigger show- ing the coming winter than in any preceding closed sea- son. At non-Bessemer mines of old ranges, too, there will be some curtailment; in fact, men have been let out at Negaunee, Ishpeming and on the Menominee range. At Ironwood about 500 have been discharged. There is a decrease in the number of miners employed, on all the lake ranges and by all companies, of about 1500 men in the past 30 days. A good deal of this is to be made up by shifting to other properties, whose ores are just now more sought for, and some old range mines will be run very much more heavily during the winter than in the past. At one Menominee property which has been mak- ing about 100 tons a @ay the United States Steel Cor- poration expect to increase the output before January 1 to not less than 500 to 600 tons a day, but in the lists of changes and reductions such an item as this is disre- garded and overlooked. For the past few days all steam shovel mines of the Steel Corporation on the Mesaba range have been idle. This was due simply to the vessel situation and to the fear that dock pockets would become s9 congested that they could not be emptied before cold weather, provid- ing the strike on shipboard was not settled. To-day or- ders have been wired to all mines to commence again as before, and the volume of ore to docks will be as great as ever in a short time. Total lake shipments to September 30 will be nearly 20,000,000 tons, the Steel Corporation’s proportion of which is in the neighborhood of 12,000,000. Last year the corporation moved a trifle more than 16,000,000 tons, and this was some 25 per cent. above a 12 months’ re quirements, so that it may be seen that the corporation are not so far behind their needs for the entire coming year as they might be, even were they to close shipments at once. It was announced at the time of the vessel strike, now satisfactorily settled, that corporation ship- ments would cease about November 1, and this is not un- likely to be the approximate date, though some special ores may be moving a good deal later. Some of the largest independent mines will surely close about that date, generally with their allotments well up. Mahoning is one; Biwabik is another, though its hope of making 1,100,000 tons for the year has been dissipated and it will not make more than 750,000. Stevenson is probably another to close early. Estimates of this year’s production of lake ores are now quite general at 25,000,000 tons, a considerable de- ¢line from the previous 12 months. It 1s an outside fig- October 1, 1) 3 ure, I take it, and the total for the year may fall } this quantity. The Minnesota Mines. Whatever may be said of old ranges, Minnesota will be working more heavily, in the aggregate, than past winter season. More stripping work is under tract and contemplation than in any winter, and sey large jobs are still pending. Many of these will be ried on throughout the cold weather, contrary to fo: custom. Generally speaking, stripping contracts going now at about 40 cents a yard, with higher fig) for small jobs. On one small contract, not preseni; any unusually difficult factors, contractors wanted 4s cents, but the mining company decided to do the wo themselves, and will put on a shovel at the close of shipping season. A new firm has entered the stripping lists—the Killorin-Philbin Company—and have taken the contract to strip the Commodore mine, at Virginia, to the extent of about 2,000,000 yards. This is a mine that has been operated underground for ten years, and that it is now to be stripped is a strong indication of the way the wind is blowing as to mining methods on the Mesaba, and of the “ foot for foot’ theory heretofore discussed in this correspondence. A still stronger proof of this condi tion may be given in a short time in the stripping of a property whose surface considerably exceeds 100 feet istimates of stripping for this property have been made and a contract is under consideration. Mesaba ore win ning becomes more and more a civil engineering proposi tion and less and less one of ordinary mining knowledge. Republic Iron & Steel Company have their Franklin, Mesaba range, nearly worked out, and are now reopening their Bessemer shaft, adjoining the former, expecting to make it an important producer another season. Their Union has a large stock of ore on surface, and will be idle for a time; their Franklin will be mined during the’ win ter. The Consolidated Lake Superior Company. Affairs at Sault Ste. Marie are not so threatening as newspaper reports indicate, though what may result if the sensational stories are continued is hard to say. At most of the properties work is still going on in a smal! way, and it is hoped that arrangements may be con cluded immediately to permit their resumption in ful! swing. The sudden closing of operating and profitable plants, some of them with unfilled sales on hand, would appear to an outsider to have been a serious error of judgment. That negotiations are under way for the segregation and purchase of a portion of the works by heavy capitalists, proficient in the parts of the business they propose to acquire, is well understood. Local and Dominion Governments are favoring the move, and it may be accomplished speedily. ‘There is great value in the Soo plants, and it is beyond the bounds of belief that shortsightedness shall permit them to fall to pieces. ‘Tle story that the United States Steel Corporation have blocked the efforts at reorganization and the raising 0! money seems too ridiculous for a moment’s belief. Copper Developments. The importance of the most recent amalgamatio! lake copper interests by the purchase of Copper Range of Trimountain is scarcely to be overestimated. ‘!' mountain’s mile of mineralized land lies between separates the more than three miles belonging to Ba and Champion, both of which have for two years bee! the hands of the Copper Range Company. The |t properties have 11 working shafts and room for ne as many more, and are abundantly opened undegr: They have 17 miles of openings, and are making mo! about 1500 tons of refined copper. The three have — ''"’ acres of mineral land, and probably have a greater « value than any lake company ever had. Their rock up to 30 to 35 pounds of refined copper to the ton |: case of Champion, and they are about to make divi( Trimountain, the newest to join the amalgamation six miles of openings and operates 63 drills. It is operated hereafter on the filling system, which has in use at Baltic. The three mines will, in another | °°: be much larger producers than now, through the co! tion of facilities that have been under way at both ! and mills. D. FE i] ’etober i 1903 Notes from Mexico. Meeting of Congress. DURANGO, September 22, 1903.—The Congress of Mex- , reassembled on the 16th inst., the anniversary of the :tion’s independence. The chief feature of the proceed- es was the address of the President, which embodied comprehensive review of the administrative acts of the ‘ifferent departments of government and of the progress ade in education, sanitation, finance and material ex- loitation. A cheerful view of existing conditions per- ides the address, the attention of the law-making body ing called to the “ universal progress of the country, which is more or less pronounced in every branch of the ublic administration and of the national industry and wealth.” The President also says that “a similar prog- ess is noticeable in all the factors that contribute io the moral development of Mexico and its position and credit among civilized nations.” The recent amendments to the patent and trade-mark laws are referred to, and the fact noted that a special office has been established to deal with matters affecting patents and trade-marks. The number of patents issued during the second half of the last fiscal year was 227, and of trade-marks registered in the same period the number was 176. Mining titles to the number of 4132, covering an area of 61,396 hectares, were issued during the year, being an increase of 524 titles over the number issued in the previous fiscal year. Increased production of antimony ore is noted, and a number of title deeds have been granted to mines in which nickel and tin are the predominating values. In relation to new railway construction the President gives the following interesting data: The increase of the railway system has been 432 km. The railways of the republic now aggregate 15,918 km., and if rail- ways subject to the jurisdiction of the States and private branches be added, the total is 18,197 km. I may add that the National Railway of Mexico only lacks 92 km. to complete the standardizing of its gauge between this capital and Laredo. In relation to the purchase of stock in the National Railway Company by the Government some time ago, which caused so much discussion at the time, the Presi- dent enlarges upon the reasons which induced the move- ment in a way which leaves room for inférence that the Government’s entire programme in “railway politics” has not yet been revealed. A gratifying increase in the public revenues is shown, the total for the fiscal year being in excess of $74,000,000. The currency question is considered at some length, but nothing is said as to possible future action by the Government in this regard. In taking steps to bring about the needed stability of the value of the Mexican dollar the purposes which the Government has kept in view have been “ to protect the national mining industry, to rectify the point of view, which, unfortunately, was becoming more generally unfavorable to silver, and to sive its aid to every measure capable of enlarging the sphere of applicability of that metal.” As to the reception by other governments of Mexico’s proposals for co-operation in its plans for currency re- form, the President says: It is gratifying to me to inform you that the steps taken by Mexican mission abroad have been attended with favorable is and that on all hands the Executive has received in- vitable proofs of the esteem enjoyed by this country and of ingness to co-operate in the realization of the desires ex- sed by the Mexican mission and the mission which, at our st, was appointed for a similar purpose by the Govern t of the United States. in its entirety the message is of optimistic tenor, and ulated to strengthen the general feeling of confidence h exists. Industrial Notes. Che British Consul, in a recent report to his Govern- t, deplores the great falling off in the trade relations een Mexico and Great Britain, and makes sugges- s which, he thinks, English manufacturers ought to rve in order to increase their trade. He says: “ We ot afford to ignore the Mexican market, nor a coun- whose revenues have increased in 20 years from THE IRON AGE. [2,000,000 to £6,000,000; imports from £3,000,000 to £13,000,000, and exports from £3,000,000 to £13,000,- 000. I would advise those who really wish to do busi- ness in Mexico, and particularly in that part within my consular district, to guarantee fixed salaries to agents for a year or two, with the promise of a certain commis- sion in addition when the sales exceed a certain amount. The Americans have succeeded throughout the country by paying large salaries and being well represented.” Sefior Justo Prieto, a lawyer of the City of Mexico, has obtained from the Government, in his own behalf, or in behalf of a company which may be organized, a con- cession empowering him to use the waters of the Del Verde River, Jimenez, Chihuahua, for irrigation and motive power purposes. A deposit of $5000 in bonds has been made as a guarantee. An important work in the way of irrigation is about to be undertaken by the Industrial Mining Company of Bascurito, Chihuahua, who also purpose operating placer mines along the Sinaloa River, which will entail the util- ization of considerable machinery. The formation of another company whose object is to exploit Mexican oj] bearing lands is announced. The con- cern is known as the Oil Fields of Mexico Company, of New York, and incorporated in Delaware, with a capital- ization of $10,000,000, presumably gold. They purpose operating in the State of Vera Cruz. The contract for sugar mill machinery for the plant to be built by the Tampico Navigation Company, near Tampico, has been placed, the order for mill and engine going to the Whitney Iron Works Company. A shipment to New York of 2200 bars of copper was made last week by the Teziutlin Copper Company of Teziutlin, Puebla. The city of Zacatecas is constructing a water works system, and may be in the market for piping and pumps. The company recently formed to manufacture electric light lamps, and known as the Mexican Incandescent Lamp Company, have secured a site in the capital for their proposed manufactory. Sommer, Herrmann & Co., the old established German hardware house of the City of Mexico, announce by circular that they will continue to do business under the same firm name, the active partners in the company now being Gustavo Sommer, Gualterio Herrmann, German Durandt, Enrique Renner and Ernesto Otto. Five thousand feet of cuble tramways are to be laid down by the Negociacion Minera de San Salvador, at Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leou, the order for the necessary mate- rial having been placed with the Trenton Iron Company of Trenton, N. J. The Southern Rubber Plantation Company of New Orleans, La., capitalized at $1,000,000, who own an ex- tensive area of timber lands in the extreme south near the Atlantic coast, intend to engage in lumbering on a large scale, and will require saw mill equipment and machinery. The United States Consul at Leipzic, Germany, re- ports that the Monterey Iron & Steel Works Company have contracted for 50,000 tons of coke from Westphalia. The company bave been importing coal from Westphalia for some time. Canadian capitalists are obtaining control of many electric lighting plants in the Republic. They