New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-04
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It has been discovered that the manufacture Of rope
and cordage can be made as profitable and extensive
branch Of enterprise in the South, as 1t IS IN any
other part Of the country The raw material for rope
making is to be had here cheaper and more conve
nienty than in Northern ces the labor requisite to
the manufacture can be had quite as cheap; ana the
profits of the manufactures are increased by having
an extensive market, with neverfalling demand at
their very door. Under these Inducements 10 actVe
enterprise, stock association has been organized IN
this city, under the title of the 1.-THE New orleans
Manufacturing Company" whose object is to supply
this market with bale rope cotton cordage and twlne
of quality SO excellent and at prices so cheap as to
largely abate if not entirely dispense with the neces
sjty of importing those articles. The company have
been by no means idle. They have built large and
splendid factory, which will 60 into operation in
very short time 1t will operate eAperlmenlally, we
are informed, this week. o."
4 On Saturday. in company with Mr.. Dufius, the
Superintendent we visited and examined the factory
of the company. 1t is situated in the upper part OF
Jefferson City on the river bank, and adds not little
to the good appearance of that vicinity. IL IS large
6re.proof brick building, three stories high, one
hundred feet long, and forty feet WIDE with taste
fn cupola on top, and the doors and windows digni-
| Shi'NNNAN' $500
storehouse, also fre.proof, which stands separate
from the factory. and is designed for the reception
and storage of the raw manufacturing material There
are other oubuildings and the whole ESTABLISHMENT
occupies the largest part of square.
Inside the factory we found men at work, amid
perfect wilderness of machinery, putting things in
order for operation more completely arranged
establishment for manufacturing purposes we never
entered. The engine is in an outside building, and
the boilers in another-sout brick walls, without any
kind of fire communication, intervening between
them. The boilers, two in number, are encased in
complete and handsome Jacket of brick.work with
small supply boiler between them The construction
of the furnaces and hues is such that the water Is
heated to a high boiling point in the supply boiler
; before entering the steam boilers The connections
are such that one or both boilers may be used as
: cason requires. Each boiler has water guage OF
ingenious construction the superiority of which over
. all others is generally conceded by engineers. A
small hollow crank index, on the outside, turns
corresponding pipe inside. AS it is turned the exact
height of the water is Indicated by the steam ceaslne
to come out and the water coming out instead so soon
as the end of the inside pipe dips into the waterthe
end of the outside pipe Of course, pointing the height
of the water inside.
Entering the engine room, the eye rests upon on'
of the finest and most beautiful pieces OF machinery
ever set up in this city. The engine is OF the SAINT
= kind as that recently put in the u s. branch MINT
and is equally admirable for the neness OF It's lnisl
and the simplicity of its details 1t revolves glgan
tic drum. which in its turn revolves the smale
y drums and shafts that ramify the factory oppost
g the engine is one Of Worthingtons steam pumps,
u fire engines; powerful machine, by which delug
of water can be supplied to any part of the factor
" at moments notice.
- We will not confuse our readers by undertaking
u describe the machinery for rope and coroage maxim
" which covers the three floors of the factory Th
upper story is set apart to hemp carding and splt
ID ming the second story to cotton cardlng and spE
ming and the lower story to laying rope, Or gVln
re the strands as they come from the upper stories the
" final twist together and coing up for use There al
5e all sorts of machines" pickers,' " blowers, bea
le ers cards ." spinning ennies"" willows, forT
u ing Machines" and Laying machines; )" togeth
Oh with large and powerful lathe, for repairing ar
keeping the other machines in order. The process
IS cardng and spinning is sufficiently interestlng b
On as it is not new thing here, we will not underta
to describe it-although the improved and beautlt
p kind of machinery used might well justify us
IL, going into full details.
ed There is one machine however that excited our p
ay ticular admiration-the ropelayer,' or twlst
ne machine 1t is so simple that child may understa
OF it, vet so ingenious as to cause wonder how such
ire thing could ever be conrlved. 1t is about ten tt
ot long and does with ten times the rapidity the Wo
M of the old handprocess under sheds hundred yai
rs long Three spools bobbins of strands are plac
Wy in rack at one end. strand from each enters
ne iron NUT through separate hole and all come twist
together out of one large hole in the other end OF
H., 4, Inr
'us tension to which the strands subjected rel
lated by a contrivance which we are unable to
scribe lucidly The rope, as it issues from the n
49, coils itself upon a large bobbin, which when full
slipped out and another put in its place each
bin full being of the size and extent of coil OF b
,ar rope. The machine turns out coil of bale rope
rdi- seventy pounds in fifteen minutes With mum
$50 of these machines in operation-the business,
co.. on learn will begin with sx-t is easy to perceive
uer the capacity of the factory for rapid production
npa, very great The machinery is adapted to the ma
eS facture of everything, from steamboat cable dc
to piece of Irvine but the especial business of
n4 factory will be the manufacture of bale rope and
als ton cordage.
'fety The mechanical genius of Philos B. Tyler the
ventor of the Tyler cotton press, is very conspcl
bcod throug bout the factory The ingenious waterga
most on the boilers which we have described, is bis
n the magnificent seventy horse engine is his and the
. mirable rope-twistng machine is hisall from
con- establishment in Springfield, Mass The great
,rfsc of the spinning and carding machinery is from
the establishment in Patterson, N The importatt
the this machinery does not conflict with the claim
his our Southern machnebuilders, as it is all Of
st hi. which has never been in sufficient demand in
niteS, South to Justify the embarkment in its manuac
neea The cost of the faCtory-ground, buildings mat
ery and all-wil not fall short of SS5 900 The ca
stock of the company is 100000; and though
store all taken enough of it has been taken to forward
Use the enterprise to its present state of advancement
Gals n, put it into active operation. That it will be an
~; &C nently successful and prosperous enterprise, W
man unable to entertain doubt, and this result we
,inted, hail with the highest satisfaction.
n th"t The factory, we have already stated, will
,.,, be in operation and it will richly repay visit
Uncle who will take the trouble of paying it one.
, Silver Siftings--BY CREsCESTA.
on Asdaylight can be seen through the smallest
DIS the SO do the most triling things show persons
fiS'"s' acter.