The Iron Age 1905-04-06: Vol 75 Iss 14

“ey Ojo <A A Review of the Hardware, Iron, Machinery = .etal Kradied Published every Thursday Morning by David Williams Co., 232-238 William Be’ Naw Sort. Vol. 75: No. 14. - Bghelemastange Powe Reading Matter Contents page 1205 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers ‘‘ 249 Classified List of Advertisers.... ‘‘ 241 Advertising and Subscription Rates ‘‘ 248 Da Hosier Pulleys W\ a turned inside and out on their own center, Forster Pulley Works, Cuba, Ne ¥. ICORDAGE THE AMERICAN MFG. CO., 65 Wall Street, N. Y. CARTRIDGES AND SHOT SHELLS are sold by both the largest and smallest re stailers, be- P F conse Che ‘riminating sportsmen demand * The Best *’— A U. M. SEE PAGE 162. ’ a ; U. M C. products are easy to sell because of the quality = and thorough adve wetes behindthem. The selling sys- tem of the U. M. ¢ ). protects all classes of dealers. | / YE Wide-awak ale ‘3s ke nell stocked with U. M. C. Bristol’s Patent Steel Belt Lacing, , MEME etaiticsond shot Shen Oe? © SAVES Time, Belts, Meney. 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PICKLED SHEET ANNEALED COLD ROLLED STEEL JUST RIGHT Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Co., LA SALLE, ILLINOIS. SMELTERS OF SPELTER AND MANUFACTURERS OF wc Lise B RASS | Maa THE TRON AGE | THE PLUME & Arwooo Miro, Co, ‘yee | She and Roll Brass ”\COPPER )* ae coe a mond GERMAN GERM AN | SHEET SILVER AND GILDING METAL, COPPER RIVETS AND BURRS. ROD Pins, Brass Butt Hinges, Jack Chain, Keree SILVER | wel sen 29 MURRAY ST., NEW YORK. 144 HIGH ST., BOSTON. 199 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ROLLING MILL : | THOMASTON. CONN. LOW BRASS. SHEET BRONZE. SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER TUBING. BRAZED BRASS AND BRONZE TUBING. ::::::3::% WATERBURY BRASS C0., WATERBURY, CONN. 99 John St., New York. Providence, R. I. Bridgeport Deoxidized Bronze & Metal Co. BRIDGEPORT, GONN. Automobile Castings a Specialty. High Tensile Strength. Bronze and Aluminum Alloys. Write Us. FACTORIES WATERBURY, CONN. SOOVILL MFG. C0. BRASS, GERMAN SILVER Sheets, Rolls, Wire Rods, Bolts and Tubes, Brass Shells, Cups, Hinges, Buttons, Lamp Goods. Special Brass Goods to Order. FACTORIES: WATERBURY, CONN. D8PpotTs, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, BOSTON. Henry Souther Engineering Co, HARTFORD, CONN. Consulting Chemists, ee and Analysts, Complete Physical Testing Lab eeeeng Expert Testimony im Court and Patent Cas Arthur T. Rutter & Go, 250 Broadway, SHEET ZINC AND SULPHURIC ACID. Special Sizes of Zinc cut to order. Rolled Battery Plates. Selected Plates for Etchers’ and Lithographers’ use. Selected Sheets for Paper and Card Makers’ use. Stove and Washboard Blanks. ZINCS FOR LECLANCHE BATTERY. WENN ier S8ea-74 West Monroe St. Chicago. Best Bronze, Babbitt Metals, Brass and Alaminum C4ST!NSS, rass, Bronze and ® Aluminum #2 FOUN DERS— FINISHERS. w. Ga. ROWELL Co., HENDRICKS BROTHERS PROPRIETORS OF THE Belleville Copper Rolling Mills, MANUFACTURERS OF Brazsiers’ Bolt and Sheathing COPPER, COPPER WIRE AND RIVETS. Importers and Dealers in Ingot Copper, Block Tin, Spelter 49 CLIFF ST., NEW YORK. Ph NEW YORK. Small tubing in Brass, Copper, Steel, Aluminum, German Silver, &c. Sheet Brass, Copper and Ger- man Silver. Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire. Brazed and Seamless Brass and Copper Tube. Copper and Brass Rod. WIRE. PA ee “IT'S TOUGH.” TROLLEY, CASTINGS (ee TELEPHONE Caiiiteactee and = TELEGRAPH LINES. Millis Bridgeport, Conn. BRIDGEPORT BRASS CO., Murray St., New Y: GEORGE KROUSE HEAVY CASTINGS Mannfacturer of all kinds of Brass and Composition Castings. Brazing Metals, Hard Composition and osphor Bronze Castings A Speciallty. JERSEY CITY. N, J. r, Lead, Antimony, etc... 160 to 164 Morgan Street, THE IRON AGE New York, Thursday, April 6, 1905. The Hendey Oscillating Milling Machine, {') "aU automatic, Sra s vic sb inelies A front of the No. 2 Lime given in Fig. 2 | eal view without the base in Fig. 3. the latter showing clear- A new line of machines intended for a class of work Iv the arrangement of the drive and the manner in Which cannot be handled with facility on ordinary mill Which the throw of the crank on the driving shaft is ing machines, shapers or slotters is the latest product altered. The No. 3 machine, which is not shown, has a of the Hendey Machine Company, Torrington, Conn tuble surface of IS x S inches and feeds 714 x 3 x 8 These machines are known as oscillating milling ma nehes, of which the ver | feed is automatic. chines, the peculiar feature being that the spindle oscil The machine as put out in the form shown in Fig. 1 lates instead of rotating. The spindle carries a cutter resembles in all but the spindle parts the standard No. 4 of special form so supported that the center of the cutter milling machine made by the Hendey Company. The Fig. 1 The No, 4 Oscillating Milling Machine, Made y the Ilendey Machine Company, Torrington, Conn. coincides with the center of the spindle. The action of modifications are found in the working features of the the cutter is the same as that of an ordinary milling machine, which embody a driving shaft carrying on its machine, except that it reverses its motion frequently end a movable wrist plate and pin, which connects instead of continually rotating in one direction. The through a hollow connecting rod with an arm on the extended bracketlike support allows the cutter to be main spindle. The mechanism may be likened to the applied to the forming of slots or the facing of interior feeding motion of an ordinary milling machine, the com- parts on castings, such as would ordinarily be cut on plete revolutions of the driving shaft imparting the oscil- shapers with special tools. The new line of machines lating motion to the main spindle, and the amount of is at present made in three sizes, Nos. 2, 3 and 4, of travel being regulated by the adjustment of the wrist which Nos. 2 and 4 are shown among the accompanying plate and pin. illustrations. The cutter head may be either a part of the main Fig. 1 gives a view of the No. 4 machine, the largest spindle or a separate fixture, in which case it is centered size made, which has a working surface of table of 3614 and held in place by a drawing-in bolt. The cutter itself x 10% inches, a vise capacity of 6°, x 154 x 334 inches, is made with a suitable shank, which is dovetailed to F 4 we SO 8 9 IRIS aoe Bi AONE eon ~~ oO | AN TANTEI! es 1144 the cutter head. It is of such a length as to bring the axis of the cutter in true alignment with that of the main spindle. The construction of these parts is brought out in Figs. 4 and 5, which are also interesting in show- ing two of the typically simple operations of the ma- chine that would be somewhat difficult for any other style of machine. The cutter is always in contact with the work regard- less of the direction of the stroke. Hence the teeth of the cutter are milled radially from the center, with no clearance in either direction, and may be of V shape or a flat form of tooth, which may be ground across its face, giving it a double cutting edge. This latter form is preferred for cutters of large diameter. Work to be slotted must first be drilled out to remove the stock, as would be necessary were the work to be performed on a slotter, for as the cutter does not revolve it cannot clear itself and is therefore not adapted to be worked THE IRON AGE Fig. 2.—The No. 2 Hendey Oscillating Milling Machine. down into solid material. The relatively high speed of the cutter permits a proportionately fine feed, which prolongs the life of the cutter. The time taken to finish ordinary slots is on an aver- age about four minutes, depending on the size of the work. <A slot in a tool post 54 x 2 inches, for example, ean be cut in four minutes, and the work illustrated in Fig. 5, including the time taken for chucking and finishing both sides of the boss, was done in about four and one-half minutes. There is no general rule as to the depth of slot which can be cut with a given size of cutter. According to table of dimensions given by the maker a cutter ™% inch in diam- eter and from 1-16 to 4 inch thick will cut a slot through a piece *% inch thick; cutters 1144 to 3 inches in diameter will cut a slot 3 inches deep, and from the average of the range between, it is apparent that the general thick- THE IRON AGE April 6, 1905 ness of the material through which a slot may be cut is about 50 per cent. greater than the diameter of the cutter. Cutters up to % inch in diameter may be used on the No. 2 machine and from % to 3 inches in diameter on the Nos. 3 and 4. Lake Iron Ore Matters. The Standing of State Mineral Leases, DULUTH, MINN., April 2, 1905.—What has a possible bearing on tbe future of State lands on the Mesaba range is coming up in a suit just institued by the Attorney- General. It grows out of the status of the little sliver of land north of the Sauntry mine, lying like a thin wedge between townships 58 and 59. This was overlooked in the original survey, and when finally adjusted the land was claimed as swamp by the State, under the provisions of its organic act. This claim was fought out and the State Fig. 3.—Showing Crank and Rocker Arm for Oscillating the Spindle. won. Upon this it was leased to Mabel Evans, who was later reported to be in the interests of two clerks of the State land office, who by virtue of their positions were not themselves permitted to take State lands. However, Miss Evans holds the lease. The land is supposed to be valuable. It adjoins the opened portion of the Alpena- Sauntry and should contain iron ore. It is not too nar- row to make a mine, and is 14 mile long, east and west. Now comes the State Attorney and enters suit to cancel the Evans lease, and bases his action on two grounds. The first of these is the claim that the lease was taken for the benefit of State employees. This is denied under oath by all connected with the land, and is a matter of but minor moment anyway. The real diffi- culty with the situation lies in the other aspect of the case, and this may have an unsettling effect on State mineral leases far beyond present intention or expecta- tion. The State constitution, article 2, reads that all State lands skall be sold at public auction. Now, these mineral leases are virtually a sale of the ore in the land and are therefore to be regarded as sales. They are, un- der the State mineral act, not sold at public auction, but at private sale to the first applicant, and if there is a conflict of applications, not even then at public sale, but at auction between the original applicants. If, there fore, mineral leases are unconstitutionally issued it fol- lows that they must be canceled. This is the position of the State Attorney, but he does not appear to see what will result. If the leases have been unconstitutionally issued and are canceled, the State must refund the money that has been paid for them, the royalties that have been received by it under them, and the fees that have been April 6, Igo5 THE IRON AGE L145 paid it for 50-year contracts. This would amount to a very large sum. Once before a State Attorney started an investigation of this matter, but when he realized what it meant he dropped the plan. The courts will strain every point to protect vested interests. The Movement from the Mines, The upper lake roads have been hauling ore to docks at Duluth, Two Harbors, Superior, Ashland and Mar- quette for some days. They are taking ore from shafts and nearly all of the daily hoist from many mines on all ranges, but of course nothing will be done at steam shovel mines for some time. No shovels have started Fig. 4.—A Nearer View of the Tool Head and an Example of the Work It Is Adapted to Do. and cannot for weeks. In a day or two ships will be at docks for ore and the season of navigation will have commenced. The first vessels to load will be ships of the Tomlinson, United States Steel and Peavey fleets, all of which have boats wintering at Duluth and Superior. During the past month these have been overhauled and put in commission. It is probable that first cargoes will be loaded from the Two Harbors docks of the Duluth & Iron Range road, where there has been no ice for some time. Reports are that the eastern end of Lake Su- perior and the channels leading to Lake Huron will be ready for shipping during the week. What little ice was formed at the western end of Lake Superior the past winter has gone and there is no possibility of obstruction from this source. There has been no more chartering of lake ships for ore, and the situation is as it has been of late. Some Important Undertakings. The Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Company at its Monro mine, Iron Mountain, is making improvements leading to a far larger output than before. New build- ings are going in, new machinery has been placed, and a quantity of stripping is being taken off the ore body, which is to be mined by the milling process. Some ore has been mined during the winter, but the greater part of the work done has been in getting ready for a lively summer. This is the only one of the Buffalo & Susque- hanna mines that shows signs of operation. The Oliver Iron Mining Company at its Mansfield mine, Crystal Falls, is bailing the water out very fast, and in less than 30 days it will be possible to install the big pumps and begin underground drifting. By June the mine should be producing ore at a good rate, unless there are unforeseen hindrances. The company’s other mines in that region are busy. At the Corrigan mines of Crystal Falls a great deal of work is going on, and shipments of ore to Escanaba have begun. At Great Western the big cave is being filled from the surface, and the ore that was exposed is being mined beneath the fill, which is settling down as desired. The cave is kept full of waste earth, and as mining goes on below the filling is run down and more is put in to replace it. This saves the exposed ore and the shaft. Lincoln mine has commenced hoisting ore. Lamont will have its crusher ready and in operation in a week or more. The water is being lowered in the Dunn pit through the drill holes bored to the old workings, though slowly on ae- count of the fact that these holes were not put through to water but were stopped in loose ground and readily become clogged. A second crusher and a new equipment of hoisting machinery are being placed at Tobin mine, which is to be a very large producer this year. Production of Siliceous and Lean Ores, The production this year of siliceous, limonitie and other off ores, including lean Bessemers, of the Marquette and Cascade ranges, the sale of which in some quantity was referred to last week, is sure to be far larger than it has been for any preceding year. Ever since the Mesaba range became prominent these ores have been considered valuable, largely as a mix for the low silicon Mesaba, but of late for themselves. They are mostly easily mined, are in large quantities near the surface, and the siliceous Bessemers carry very low percentages of phosphorus, running about 40 to 45 per cent. iron and oo to 40 per cent. silica, making them excellent for fur- nace use. They are usually hard and many of them re- quire crushing, plants for which are now going in at several points It has often been thought that as the supply of high grade ores along Lake Superior became less and less the low grade Mesabas would be utilized. but there are hundreds of millions of tons of these old range low grade ores that will come in long before ore of equivalent units of iron is taken off the Mesaba. This will be true for a number of reasons. In the first place the royalties on these old range mines are usually less than for Mesaba ores, and there is not the tendency to advance these that has been shown on the Mesaba of late. Then the freights are better, as they make a saving of from 60 to 75 cents a ton from the mines to Lake Erie ports. The ores are quite often Bessemer and when crushed are kindly in the furnace. They exist in such quantity and are so placed that they can be mined at very ie Yel. Fig, 5.—Another Example of Difficult Work That Is Easily Done on the Oscillating Miller low cost. The Oliver Iron Mining Company is mining one of these properties on the Cascade range by steam shovel, having stripped a few feet of surface off the bed of ore, and others are operated by milling. D E. W. on a oe - At the recent meeting of the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers, New York, the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: John J. Amory, president; H. A. Lozier, Jr., first vice-presi- dent: Chas. A. Strelinger, second vice-president; Henry R. Sutphen, third vice-president; J. S. Bunting, treasurer, and Hugh S. Gembel, secretary vance ~ Se Pi oe Nero Nee 8 ue 1146 Matters of Interest in Canada. Port Arthur’s Furnace Project, Toronto, April 1, 1905.—By a majority of 256 votes the ratepayers of Port Arthur approved the by-law em bodying the Town Council’s agreement with the Atikokan Iron Company. The voting took place March 22. The approval of the property owning citizens does not com plete the transaction. A bill has to be introduced into the Provincial Legislature to cover certain points of the contract, for the Municipal act does not give Port Arthur full competence to enter into and carry out some of the specific undertakings of this bargain. If the town sim ply agreed to pay some named bonus to the company, rat ification at the polls is all that would be needed. But in this case the town undertakes to buy and sell the com pany’s bonds. The agreement is one in which the town of Port Ar- thur, the Atikokan Iron Company and the Canadian Northern Coal & Ore Dock Company are joined. The town agrees to subscribe and pay the par value for $200,- () of the bonds to be issued by the Iron Company, but the obligation to subscribe is conditional upon Mac- kenzie, Mann & Co. taking $400,000 of the Iron Company’s bonds, and J. C. Hunter of Duluth, with others, taking $100,000—all on the same terms. The bonds subscribed for by these three parties, amounting to $700,000, to- gether with $300,000 more which the Iron Company is to issue to pay for its mining properties, making in all $1,000,000, are to be pooled and deposited with the Na- tional Trust Company, which is to hold them at the order of a committee after the blast furnace, coke ovens and roasting plant have been a year in operation. Then these four groups of subscribers may receive back from the Trust Company so much of their respective portions of the $1,000,000 of the Iron Company’s bonds as remains unsold by their committee, receiving cash for the rest of the account. Besides taking $200,000 of the Iron Company’s bonds. the town agrees to expend $25,000 to acquire a site for the Iron Company. The location of the site is specified in the agreement, and is to be not less than 40 acres in ex- tent. Further, the works of the Iron Company are to be exempt from all municipal taxation except school taxes and local improvement taxes for 20 years. It is also agreed that the town shall close sections of its streets run- ning through the site. For school taxes the assessment of the Iron Company is to be kept down to $200,000. what- ever improvements or enlargements of its plant may be made. On its part the Iron Company will at once begin and complete within a year blast furnace works of a daily capacity of 100 tons of pig iron, coke ovens and a roast- ing plant. It will issue 20-year 6 per cent. bonds to the amount of $2,000,000, secured by mortgage to the Na- tional Trust Company. Its mining properties are held in fee simple, and are described as follows: Atikokan River. E 10, 11, 12. The Dock Company’s part is to construct a coal and ore dock on the water front of the town, with a minimum storage capacity of 200,000 tons of coal and 100,000 tons of ore, the whole to be completed within a year. Morrisburgh Wants Tin Plate Works. Another by-law to establish an industry in another town was voted on on the 31st and carried. the by-law authorizing the agreement entered into be- tween the municipal authorities of Morrisburgh and the promoters of a tin plate industry there. Only 15 property owners marked their ballots against the agreement, which was therefore carried by an almost unanimous vote. Free power, free water and free light are the privileges the works are to receive. With this by-law went another which was practically coupled with it. providing for the construction of works to develop electrical power and distribute it to industries. The capacity of the works to be constructed for this purpose is 1100 horse-power Both by-laws received the same vote. As stated in a previous letter, the concurrence of the Dominion Govern ment is required. It has been secured, the Government consenting to the utilizing of This was the Cornwall Canal as a THE IRON AGE \pril 6, 1905 liberal terms. J. Wesley Allison, the promoter of these Morrisburgh enterprises, is from New York. Associated with him is a Mr. Lewis, understood to have the inception of the tin plate industry in the United States and prior to that a manufacturer in Wales. souree OF power | Wpon certain been connected with Freight Rates. In the House of Commons the freight rate question consideration this session. It has heen gone into rather fully by the Agriculture Commit tee, whose chairman, Mr. Gordon, has given much study After producing a mass of evidence to show that the rates on agricultural products leaving the country were arbitrary and on many products excessive, the rates on commodities were dealt with. The export rates on these manufactured articles were found to be from 50 to 60 per cent. higher than the import rates— that is, the American or other foreign manufacturer could send goods to Canadian customers over Canadian railroad lines at rates 40 to 50 per cent. below those exacted from the Canadian manufacturer. Members from the Northwest had something to say about freight there. In pursuance of an agreement with the Manitoba Government the Canadian Northern Railway Company a few years ago made a sharp cut on grain. But. according to the representations of one member from that part of the country, the rates on manufactured commodities coming into the country were raised more than correspondingly. On farm implements and kindred goods he stated that the rates had been increased from 10 to 100 per cent. on both the Canadian Northern and the Canadian Pacific. The matter is to be pressed on the attention of the Board of Railway Commissioners. Apparently, however, the Canadian railroad rates, favorable though they are to manufacturers in other countries, are not considered favorable enough to some of these. Complaint is made of them by Franklin Saun- ders & Co., Limited, a British tin plate firm. It made its views known by a letter to the Canadian Press Associa- tion, an agency subsidized by the Dominion Government to keep Canadian newspapers directly in touch with senti- ment in the United Kingdom on all subjects of common interest. Saunders & Co. say they had been notified that the rates on tin plates and kindred lines from Bristol Channel and Liverpool to Canadian ports had been re- duced to the same figures as last year. The company’s letter proceeds: is receiving some to the subject. rates But in view of the keen competition from the United States manufacturers, we are anxious to secure a further reduction. It seems to us the carriers can easily meet us in this respect and still leave themselves a fair margin of profit. The rate from South Wales is 24 shillings a ton, to Toronto 23 shillings and 6 pence, and in view of the much shorter haul to Toronto there should surely be room for reduction to the latter point. We received to-day a letter from one of the largest buyers in Ontario to the effect that they can buy as cheaply from the United States as from ws, and considering the convenience of getting their requirements in carloads just as they need, instead of ordering from this side and carrying large stocks, they pro- pose purchasing from the United States this season unless we can offer a sufficient inducement in price to make it worth their while to revert to us. Therefore the urgency of a further reduc- tion of rates is plain. The United States Steel Corporation. The following dispatch from Port Colborne, dated March 28, was received and published by Toronto news- papers : James Gayley, first vice-president of the United States Steel Corporation, accompanied by Messrs. Morrison and Farrell of the same company, arrived here by special train this morning. They were met by Reeve R. Mathews and members of the Town Council, who spent the greater part of the morning pointing out to them the materia! advantages that this town possesses. They were also taken over what might be termed the ideal Canadian site for a steel plant Port Lake Erie entrance of the Welland expenditures are being made there by the Dominion Government for the better equip- ment of the port as a traffie point. The improvements ure especially designed for facilitating the movement being one element in the Colborne is at the Canal. Large of grain, flonting elevators plans. Whether there is any idea of bettering the port’s accommodations for ore, coke and other material used in iron and steel making is not known. April 6, 1905 A St. Thomas newspaper notes that party of United States Steel Corporation otticials passed through the towh on a special train over the Michigan Central to visit Port Colborne, Tilsonburg, Port Burwel St Thomas, Rondeau and Walkerville in quest of a site for stee] works arrived in Sarnia yesterday. It consisted States The party of 12 persons, officials of the United They business men, with whom they Steel Cor poration were met by a delegation of Sarnia inspected a property on the water front. The establishment of a plant of the United States Steel Corporation in Canada would not be an unnatural development. Canada’s home market is rapidly expand ing, and it has been lately made much less accessible to outside manufacturers of iron and steel. This is due to the adoption of the prohibitive duty on_ steel rails and to the strict application of the new well as to makers clause of the tariff, as While outside are put at the greatest disadvantage by govern- mental policy, the Government offers the liberal inducements in the way of duties and bounties for en- terprises to launch into iron and steel making within the country. The Steel Corporation could cheaply at an Ontario port of Lake Erie as at an Ohio port of that lake. The product of its Minnesota mines is as free to enter Port Colborne as to enter Conneaut Har- bor, for there is no Canadian duty on iron ore. Nor is there any on coke. If Canadian works of the Corpora tion should find the home demand unequal to their out put the surplus can be marketed abroad as advantageous ly as can the product of any of the United States plants In fact, if the company pleases to make a specialty of manufacturing rails or plates for export it can bring in billets from its American mills, ship out the rolled prod uct and get back all the duty paid on the billets but 1 per cent. As to bounties, it can share in these as lib- erally as the chief Canadian interests, for they import their ore antidumping some other changes. steel most land its ore as steel Notes, Mackenzie, Mann & Co. state that an order for 20.000 tons of rails for the James Bay line of their Canadian Northern system has been placed with Bolekow, Vaughan & Co., Middlesbrough, England. The Canadian agent of this British firm is Charles Cassells, Montreal. The con- tract calls for delivery at the rate of 4000 tons per month, beginning with May and ending with September. Mr. Mann suavs that the reason for going abroad for the rails is that they will be needed for construction before they can be obtained from Canadian mills. The net duty will be $4.66 2-3 per ton, one-third of the regular rate being taken off under the preferential clause of the tariff. Negotiations are well forward for the starting of a shovel and tool factory in Hamilton by American parties, the following names being mentioned in connection with it: Philip Dyer, Easton, Pa.: a Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Elton of New York, and Charles H. Holton, Hamilton. The capital is to be $250,000. The Minister of Finance has been applied to to adjust the duty on lead. In Montreal corroding works have recently been built and are about ready for operation. The pig lead, which is the raw material used, is subject to a 15 per cent. duty, while the finished product bears only 5 per cent. It is to redress this inequality that the Minister has been approached. It is stated that the Sydney rail mill will be turning out product in June. The new steel plant of the Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company is expected to be in operation before the sum- mer is past. Ck Od, In a lecture on lightning rods recently delivered by Sir Oliver Lodge he called attention to a very common error, which is to make the rods of too great conductiv- itv. He stated that a small cross section should be used, and the rod be made of iron rather than copper, as the rod of less resistance passes the current too quickly and produces a due to the inductive effect, being liable to side flashes, while a light iron wire causes shock, besides THE IRON AGE L147 erent ft y* r} 117 cure t Ue if al I 1OLe mb ilaual lly, and perhaps perceptible dis better than one, lo Luse the wire 1 so dolly, with little turbance. A number of conductors are and may be readily renewed +o The Outlook in the Building Trades. Bradstreet’s from 10S cities and towns of varying size in the United States point to an buildings, whether State, municipa aggregating $455,000 Special reports to expenditure for new or private, during the year 1000, over the as nearly as can be buildings OOO, a gain of 15.7 per cent. iscertained actual value of the paired or enlarged during 1904 at the identical cities. It might be that the greatest expansion shown is that reported in the West. The gain there indicated is 24 per cent., as against a gain of 17 per cent in the Southern States, 11 per cent. in the middle At launtic States and 9 per cent. in New England. It of course should be kept in mind that these est mates are merely given as such, being the best obtainable figures at this time, and are subject to all the usual vicissitudes which may erected, re observed occur as the year advances and which are spoken of at length above. They in fact are a result of a canvass of opinions of builders, contractors, Additional re towns here architects and business men generally. turns from other cities—the 108 cities and reported being only a portion of the long list canvassed by Bradstreet’s representatives—will undoubtedly swell the aggregate totals, but will not probably materially change the tendencies shown. The immense expenditure here indicated may be va If, for instance, the grand aggreyate aut 108 cities is to be taken to indicate a country-wide development, some interesting reflections on the total probable expenditure this year for building are possible. If the aggregate of $455,000,000 is taken to cover, Say, three-fourths of the country’s total expenditure, a grand aggregate of about $600,000,000 for building is here fore shadowed. <A fair estimate of the cost of an average building is probably 40 per cent. for material and 60 per cent. for labor; but if half is allowed to each of these items a total of $300,000,000 for material, such as lum ber, brick, stone, iron, hardware and paint is possible, and a like sum must be credited to labor. It is hardly necessary to say that the building material markets have for some time past reflected some of the possibili- ties contained in this expenditure, and the labor market will no doubt also shortly feel the stimulus offered by the putting into circulation of this vast sum of money. That a great impetus has been and will be given to all allied lines of trade and industry goes without saying, and the carrying out of these vast improvements with- out labor friction would seem to be a vital requisite. Touching upon this it might be added that there is ap- parently iess than ordinary friction perceptible in the building labor market, and all signs seem to favor 1905 being regarded from nearly every point of view as the greatest year the American building industry and its allied trades have ever witnessed riously regarded. i -——————— Allis-Chalmers Company to Remove Shops to Mil- waukee.—The announcement that the general offices of the Allis-Chalmers Company are to be moved from Chicago to Milwaukee is followed by further statements by offi cers of the company that eventually all the shops of the company will be located at West Allis, just outside of Mil waukee, and that instead of handling the several de partments at long range, as under the old system, with works in three other cities, they will all be concentrated in one place, thus eliminating the necessity of constant traveling to and fro and effecting a great saving in tiine and expense. These changes will, of course, take time for their completion, but that they will be made eventually is freely admitted. When the shops are located at West Allis the general offices will also be moved from the Cli ton street works to the general plant. Plans have already heen prepared and the site selected upon the company’s own land at West Allis for the office building 1148 A New Niagara Power Press. A new power press of the straight sided type, designed for heavy embossing, forming and punching work in the manufacture of automobile parts, drop forge work, &c., was placed on the market a short time ago by the Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Buffalo, N. Y. The ma- chine weighs about 14,000 pounds, and is known as the No. 58 Special. The frame is cast in one piece, with four steel tie rods 314 inches in diameter shrunk into place to relieve the frame casting of tensile stress. The distance between the uprights is 22 inches. The distance from the bed to the bottom of the slide at the top of the stroke THE IRON AGE April 6, 1905 is 1 to 734. Below the bed there is a knockout attach- ment which ejects the work from the lower die after it is formed. a The fifth annual of the summer school for artisans, held under the direction of the College of En- gineering of the University of Wisconsin, will begin June 26 and continue for a period of six weeks. Courses of study are offered in engines and boilers, applied elec- tricity, mechanical drawing and machine design, ma- terials of construction, fuels and lubricants and shop work. The instructional force is taken from the regular faculty of the College of Engineering, and the entire laboratory session rhe No. 58 Spe ial Power Press, Built and with the highest adjustment is 11 inches. The frame is so designed that the press can be furnished with a long stroke up to 8 inches. The shaft is 644 inches in diameter, is made of ham- mered steel, and has its strongest section at the crank pin. The slide has long guides with V A ball and socket connection is used for the slide which prevents the adjustment from becoming unlocked while the press is running. The movement the slide is controlled by a positive clutch of the sliding key type, and a positive stop device causes the crank shaft to stop with the slide at its highest point after each revolution whether the treadle is kept depressed or not. It therefore neces- sary to depress the foot treadle for each stroke of the The The ratio of the gears gibs. is slide unless the positive stop device is disengaged. gear and pinion are machine cut. by the Niagara Machine & Tool Works, and shop equipment belonging to the college will be used by these students in the summer school. It thus offers to those unable to take the regular course an oppor- tunity obtaining working knowledge of methods of testing and the use of instruments, together with such theoretical principles in each case as the nature of the subject and the preparation of the student may permit. Frederick E. Turneaure is dean of the College of En- gineering, Madison, Wis. of Experiment has demonstrated that when iron at the temperature of the electric furnace passes from the molten to the solid state it increases in volume if it is saturated with carbon. If, however, it is free from car- bon, or nearly so, it follows the usual law by increasing in density at the moment of the transition. April 6, 1905 The Queen City 24-Inch Shaper. In The Iron Age of September 1, 1904, a 16-inch crank shaper built by the Queen City Machine Tool Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, was described, in the design of which special attention had been given to the providing of ample strength for heavy service. This machine has now been on the market for some months, and has given such satisfaction in actual use that much the same lines have been adopted in the 24-inch shaper illustrated here- with, which has just been brought out by the same com- pany. The 24-inch shaper is intended for rather heavier work than the 16-inch, and is made only in the back geared pattern, whereas the 16-inch is made either sin- gle or back geared. The 24-inch shaper is also fur- THE IRON AGE 1149 to maintain permanent alignment. The cross traverse inches, and has a gradu- ated collar. It is at this point that the cam previously mentioned is provided for quick changes of feed without stopping the Vertical adjustment is effected by bevel gears, which are protected from chips and dirt and have ball bearings to minimize the friction. The is connected to the ram by a which is set so as to is Oo the screw operating it machine, rocker arm link, a straight pull and an even cutting speed, with a very quick return and no lost motion. Adjusting screws are on the rive provided to compensate for wear The readily detachable from the saddle and is provided with an extension which the full length A planer type of vise is shoe table is crank gives a broad clamping surface so that of the stroke may be utilized. supplied, which is firmly bolted to the table and arranged New 24-Inch Back Geared Crank Shaper, Made by the nished with a detachable support for the outer end of the table, as shown in the illustration, which is fur- nished on the 16-inch shaper only on special order. An- other feature which is new to the larger shaper is the feed cam on the cross traverse. The ratio of the back gearing on the 24-inch shaper is 29 to 1, making it possible to derive full benefit from the use of high speed steel tools. The bearing for the ram is 11 x 40 inches, and the ways in which it works are overhung, particularly on the front, to greatest possible stiffness. The ram is of a design pecul- iar to these two new Queen City shapers. It will be observed that it is of arch form, which brings the maxi mum section into service when the cutting tool is in its extreme forward position, when the leverage on it is the greatest. All of the adjustments of the ram and table are accessible from the working position, and the length of stroke or position of the ram can be changed while the tool is running. The rail is extremely heavy, and has a 9-inch front and 1°%4-inch ton wearing surface give the Queen City Machine Tool Company, Cincinnati, Ohio head are accurately to table and the graduated quickly and any angle. The down feed screw on the head is also provided with Both the and can be set to swivel. a graduated collar. The following are the principal dimensions: Actual length of stroke ‘ .25 inches. Vertical traverse of table ...15 inches. (‘ross traverse of tabl .30 inches. Greatest distance ra t table 17 inches. Feed traverse of the head ‘ . 7% inches Number of grades to cone.. ‘ eau, Number of ram speed eee ae Revolutions per minut countershaft . 330 Net weight of the ma ne and nt if $400 pounds. Under the ram there is a large opening through the frame, through which shafts or similar work of great length may be extended when cutting key seats at any distance from either end —— nO Mining En- on May 2, 3 Institute of D. €, American held at Washington, A meeting of the gineers will be and 4. II50 The Plant of the Standard Scale & Supply Company. The layout of the new works of the Standard Scale & Supply Company, at Beaver Falls, Pa., is given in the companying plan. inv, Limited, ership, The Standard Scale & Supply Com- 1892 a limited part- machine shop connection in foundry and Iron Company Bellefonte, Pa., with only seven Was organized and securing the perated by the Valentine with blast furnace at anufacturing scales as in it commenced employees. At the outset only the heavier kinds, such as mine, wagon its The business increased ry rapidly, and the works at Bellefonte were enlarged ~ much as possible to meet the growth. Later the manu facture of lighter portable scales except counter scales up. When it was found that the works were too small to care for the constantly increasing trade and did not permit of further enlargement, it was decided to build new and larger works in the Pittsburgh district. to be near the source of raw material supply and to acquire other advantages which that locality offered as a manu- In the spring of 1903 a site of 8 acres nd railroad scales, were made. was taken facturing center. 5¢ THE IRON AGE April 6, 1905 structure, and is isolated for fire Between the power plant and the foundry is a large ) for storing pig iron, coke and other materials, and througl it a complete system of tracking extends for receiving and distributing the materials to the various departments fhe foundry is an iron, 80 x 148 foot, building, served »-ton Whiting electric and equipped with a cupola also furnished by the Whiting Foundry Equip ment Company, space being left for a second cupola \ Craig Ridgway & Son Company elevator is used for hoist toot, brick prote etion ard by a crane ing the cupola charges and a Connersville vides the blast. In the foundry are barrels for cleaning castings, which are driven by an engine built by the Erie Pump & Engine Company, Erie, Pa., and also tanks in which are pickled castings too large to be rattled blower pro The forge shop is a 50 x 140 foot fire proof brick build ing, and contains a tempering and annealing furnace and the usual equipment of forges, hammers, shears and punches, power for the latter being supplied by an elec- tric motor. The wood working shop is 45 x 100 feet, and contains, in addition to the usual complement of working tools, a kiln for drying lumber and a glue room. A Milwaukee motor provides the drive for the tools. The wood . aa STORE GRINDING ee = BOILER . ROOM SCALE 7 ROOM . Ys ° oe Sic! 23°0 _ os SE ke a POWER . 1% : g S H E @ i < 2 ° > w = — c » = 2 > - “ 4 oO . < = > = w ‘ g i FOUNDRY < x 36 EB — > Oo i .4 ¢ = . —— ‘ z | SF ; seal > t i S t ————_ ~ 5 = As * = - * ; om o od g ™ , 2} s = ore . r x 1°25 a = o =4 o KILN < 3 - 2st ¢ WOOD-WORKING SHOP Z > Gue 3 3 ‘o ROOM - i, ‘ ; “ “ 10 + = 2 z * =< a 2s \ > + Se — —— SS PATTERN am — House 4 he- — — — — —]00- - - —_— THE N AGE STORAGE Ground Plan of the Works of the Standard Scale & Supply Company, Limited, Beaver Falls, Pa Was purchased at Beaver Falls, Pa., about 30 miles from Pittsburgh, having a frontage of about 1000 feet on the main line of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail- way. Building operations were begun in April, and the entire works, comprising boiler and power houses, pattern storage, foundry, forge, wood working and machine shops, assembling, painting and packing rooms and warehouse were completed in October, 1903, or in seven months’ time. The power plant is in a fire proof brick building, 31 x 36 feet, and contains two compound Westinghouse en- ines of 150 horse-power each, direct connected to 75-kw. which furnish light and power to the whole The boiler house is a 36 x 50 foot iron building, senerators lant. and contains batteries of boilers of 125 horse-power each, furnished by the Union Iron Works, Erie, Pa. The boil- ers are equipped with Jones underfeed stokers and slack is used fuel. An engine driven fan set, built by the American Blower Company, distributes hot air for the of the buildings. This and a Cochrane water furnishing hot water for the boilers are located in the boiler house. The pattern storage ‘building as heating heater is a two-story, 40 x 70 machine shop is 50 x 110 feet, and contains drill presses, double grinders, screw cutting machines, lathes, horizontal drill presses, planers, milling machines, punches, slotters and shapers, all of which are electrically driven on the group system. Adjoining the machine shop is a depart- ment wherein the materials are gathered and assembled in the manufacture of small scales. The assembling department for portable, dormant and wagon scales is contained in a 50 x 240 foot brick build- ing equipped with a number of cranes. <All the machinery is motor driven. The lighter scales are assembled in one end this department and the heavier in the other. In the railroad scale department there is a special notching machine for railroad track scale beams and for This notching ma- chine is accurate to within 0.0005 inch on the full length of the beam. Another interesting machine is an intricate dividing engine for universal graduation, which wil] grad- uate beams for any standard. For example. the Ameri- can standard may be marked on one side of the beam ahd the standard of any other country on the other. This machine is largely used on scales for export, as this com- pany has a targe foreign trade. of scales compound beams for wagon scales. \pril 6, 1905 THE IRON AGE 115! fhe brass beam department contains a marking ma- month and for the eight months of the fiscal year ending chine, grinders, drill press, Gorton double surface disk with February are given in the following table: grinders and surface polishing machinery, all driven by ts nad “Te un electric motor. After the scales leave the painting de 4 . Fig ths partment they go to the packing room, which is in a 40 x 190 1904 1902 19 oU foot fire proof building, and thence to the ware Commodities \s St Gross 3. Gross tons. Gross to! house, which is 50 x 140 feet. The scales are loaded into ——— " a : ae = ne rt cae the cars from the shipping platform at one end of the par iro, : 581 TO 16,230 24248 warehouse, and the cars are then switched onto the main Rails . : 7.04 7.9096 32,594 line of the railroad. Hoop, band and scr ~~ “2 1,oS4 1507 The works have a complete heating system supplied sag ago Pet 5 with exhaust steam from the engines. This is used in n.e.s S09 1.514 6.366 88.714 indirect radiators to heat air, which is distributed through Sheets and plates 108 L0G] 1.300 8,854 the different buildings by an overhead piping system fin plates and rhe buildings are all connected by bridges, and a com- \\ Aegan aa 1 san ‘ ate saaee plete system of narrow gauge tracks with turn tables ex Wit nd articles tends through all the buildings, affording excellent facili- made fro1 zo4 oe 2.317 3,002 ties for the transfer of materials from one department to One - ee +871 10.92% another. F. B. Gill is president of the company; Wm. H. eying 1} ax 201 044 Black, secretary ; John C. Reed, treasurer, and Eugene M. Anvils 12 1S 0 18S Motchman, mechanical superintendent. Sidi 29.472 39 O37 165.64 77) a ak selena * Included in \ pri t July 1, 1903 February Iron and Steel Exports and Imports. The total value of the imports of iron and steel and Exports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof manufactures thereof, excluding iron ore, Was $14,343,904 in February were much larger than those in January, |” the eight months of the fiscal year ending with Febru- notwithstanding the fact that it was a shorter month, ary, against $19,447,258 in the corresponding period of The total value of these exports, excluding iron ore, as the previous fiscal year siven by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Sa r Commerce and Labor, was $9,179,124 in February, against $S8.957,989 in January. Taking the commodities for which quantities are given, the February exports foot up 70,429 sross tons, as compared with 56,810 tons in January. The lebruary figures, however, were considerably less than those for any of the last three months of 1904, when the exports averaged over