The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-10-13
The So. J0hnsbury Scale Works.

| The st. Johnsbury Caedonan OF the 9th of
| October gives the following interesting account
| of the Messrs Fairbanks Scale Mandatory
| at st. Johnsbury, on the line of the Portland,
| White Mountains and Ogdensburg Railroad.
| 1t will be seen that the business gained by the
road in the transportation of freight for this
establishment alone will be no inconsiderable
| matter: e Ga. fearet '.eto4jfeE fea7i
There are at present employed in the manu-
| factory Ats men, and the monthly pay roll
| amounts to over $4,000. Besides the force at
| their mandatory, large number of men are
| employed at their branch houses in the prin-
| cipal cities of the Union, and about the coun-
| try in selling and setting up scales-in all, at
home and abroad over 600 men.
The freight delivered to, and received from
the Railroad, is over ten thousan tons per year.
| 1000 tons of Lehigh and Cumberland coal,
$4,000 bushels of charcoal 40 tons of cast steel,
80 tons of copper, and 100000 feet of lumber
are yearly consumed. Also pig iron and bar
iron in large quantities; 5000 gross of screws
$50 dozens of files, &c, &C., and we might
mention many more items of interest but the
above will suffice.
Last week they packed for shipment 4O8
portable platform scales and 101 hay scales,
besides large number of smaller scales
Thelr weekly product varies from 800 to 1000
scales.
Wien we consider that a village usually re-
quires for its business but one hay scale, we
are led to inquire ''where do all these scales
CO. and show soon will the world be sup
plied?"
Since the first of May last they have manu-
featured (only ito order one hundred and ten
railroad depot and track scales, with platforms
varying from IL feet to 112 feet in length, and
if built in one continuous platform it would
extend nearly three-fourths of a nile. They
are now constructing for a railroad in Penn
sylvania two scales, each to be 112 feet long,
with capacity of 125 tons
Their foundry is one of the largest in New
England. 1t has all the modern improvements
IN the way of machinery. 1t has three large
one or anUIuer nearly all day. EIguteen tons
OF iron are melted each day and poured into
the moulds for scale castings erczuSiyelu.
The whole establishment is marvel for order
and system. Each department is under fore
man, separate from every other, while these
foremen report to others, who see that the
work is transferred from one department to
another, as it progresses in finishing, SO that
there is no delay or confusion in advancing the
work In Its different stages, from the raw ma
terial to the finished scale; and all is under the
immediate supervision of the partners of the
house. . -. :
Besides an increasing demand and sale in all
shipment to foreign countries (South America,
Russia, the German States, Japan, China, SC. J
are steadily increasing. These scales are adapt
ed to the standards of the countries where they
are to be used-Chinese characters being used
for figures in scales shipped to China, and the
turkish characters for the Turkish Empire,
Persia, &c. In short, there is scarcely civil
lied country the world over where the FAIR
BANKS SCALES have not been introduced,