The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-05-28
VOICE OF FREEDO M.
Brandon. Thursday May as, 1916.
Continued
ThoY, N. Y. May 90, 1876.

is situated 2 l 4 miles southeast from tn
city Of Troy, and on a small stream, Gale,
Wynant's Creek. The walerwheel whicI
moves the whole machinery OF the works, i
so feet in diameter, exclusive of the buckets
which increase the size to SIS feet. Thu
buckets are % feet long; the shaft is cas-
iron, and the rim is connected TO four collar:
attached to the shaft, by 400 iron rods
(This wheel is said to be the largest in the
United States, except one at Pittsburgh, Pa
The fly, or balance.wheel, weighing 16 tons
r~evolves on its axis from 60 TO 70 times per
minute. This wheel seems to give equilib>
rum TO all the Rolling, Sitting, Nail-Cut-
ting and other apparatus attached to the
water wheel. Four thousand tons of iron
are annually passed through some Of the
branches of this establishment. Two Pud-
ding Furnaces are placed Is to 90 feet above
the Rolling mill floor, and perhaps 80 to SO
feet distant from the iron Grist mill. This
upper stone, or grinder, made of cast iron,
is constructed in the form Of a Mill stone,
and plays round in the same manner. A
cast box encloses this grinder or squeezer,
and so shaped that the ball of hot iron is re-
duced in diameter while being carried once
around the squeezer. When a portion of
iron is ready 10 be wrought upon, the Fire
man puts it in the form of a ball /; the helper,
draws or rolls it TO a conductor made Of
wrought bars !; sends it over the brink, when
it goes tumbling or shooting down like a
blazing meteor until 1t reaches its first place
of destination, when it goes once round in
this mill; is caught and passed through the
rollers until reduced to the size desired. This
squeezing operation being new TO me, and
presuming it 10 be so to most people In The
vicinity OF Brandon, led me TO name the OPP
Grafton. noted down the time of running
rods through the rollers when designed for
small nail plate, and found the average to be
so fee, per minute. While this operation
was going on, another set of rollers were
stretching out 80 feet per minute OF hall
inch square rods. Other departments seem.
ed 10 operate at about the same rate. Three
hundred hands are employed in and about
the factory. There are 81 Nail cutting ma
chimes, which cut annually 800 tons OF nails.
Eight hundred tons Of Horse Shoes have
been made there in a year; six tons have
been made by two machines in a day.
These are partly punched during the opera
lion Of forming land the balance when the
iron Is cold. Twelve hundred tons of spikes
of variously formed heads, and different siz-
es, are annually made there. Yearly dis
bursements about $3.50, 900. Philip Ford
is next 10 Mi Burden in the agency of the
Troy Iron and Nail Mandatory.
ALBANY Iron WoRKs;-J F. Winsloo,
agent. These works are established on the
same stream, and a few rods below the Troy
Works. Number Of hands employed here
22O. Amount paid them yearly, $4,000.
Amount of annual sales Of articles manutac-
tured, $35O,000. Amount invested in real
estate and machinery, $4,000. Quantity
of Springs, Spring Steel, Spikes, Nails, and
all other kinds of iron manufactured there,
4,5OO tons. Consumed, 5000 ions of coal ;
5000 tons of Pig, together with scraps,
northern bloom, bars, Russia and Swedes
Iron to make up the amount OF stock neces-
sary to produce the yield of the 1850 tons
of articles named.
Car, Coach and Omnibus Mandatory.
The establishment carried on by Eaton, Gil
bert g. Co., employs 100 hands, and dis
burses $1,000 per week, or $685. 900 per an
mum The buildings occupied for this bu-
%siness, are mainly three stories high, and
cover about 400 by 1870 feet on the ground.
Most splendid work is done here, and the
manufactures are sent to Germany, Mexico,
the Southern States, as we'll as to other por-
tons of this country. Cars are now build.
ing for several railroads, and the 100 hands
cannot supply the demand for. work so fast as
wanted. Whoever desires to see improves
ments 10 mechanism, and has occasion to
visit Troy, will no, grudge d half days ex-
animation Of the different departments of la
Dor, and the various specimens Of workman
ship ia the several buildings used for this
business.
Simmons Ace and Edge.toOI Mdnufac-
tory. This establishment is situated in
Cohoes, and on the canal, about three miles
North Of Troy, and is carried on under the
name of Daniel Simmons & Co.,-whose
Offices are at Cohoes, Albany CO., and at ID
Gold street, New York city. The proprie>
;ors employ about 100 hands ;-Manufacture
so dozen chopping axes, and 90 dozen other
axes and edge tools, daily Use $500 lbs