The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-19
rRichmOnd as a Manufacturing City.
THE WORKERS IN IRON.
Tanner E CO.-Archer, Goodwin q
Co.-JeInsOn f. CO.-Hall 30 Co.
and Sloat & Addinston.

| Co.-Johns0n f. Co.-Hall 90 Co..
and Sloat & Addinston.
We continue this morning our sketches
| Of Richmond manufactures. The fo)lowin!
notices are of firms engaged in iron worl
and machinery-sketches of several of tht
] largest manufacturers in the same depal i
ment are, owing to their length, deferred
until our next issue.
METROPOLITAN BRASS AND IRON WORKS.
The success which has followed the enter
prise of William E. Tanner g. 70. should bt
q matter of pride to all who take an Interest
in our manufactures. Colonel Tanner i!
| still young man, but was before the war {
| member Of the Tredegar Company, and haG
charge of its office business. MIR. Alexander
Delaney, at present bis partner, was chief ell
| gineer Of the Tredegar Works. In 1875 Col
Tanner founded the Metropolitan Iron ant
| Brass Works. The firm name was first Tan
ner & Ehbets; then Tanner, Ehbets & De
lanev and now, William E. Tanner & Co
| Their business has been steadily increasing
| from the start, and its present value to the
city of Richmond would surprise not few
who think they know what is going on il
| this department of manufactures.
only comparatively small brick building
on the corner of Seventh and Canal streets
but the lines have been Hide.led as neces
| sity demanded, until now the shops Of tt IS
concern cover nearly two-thirds of the
block bounded by Canal, Sixth, Cary, and
Seventh ST. cets. The office is large, convc.
niently and neatly fitted up; the iron and
i, brass foundries are entirely new brick build.
! fngs. 1t has been necessary several time to
move the blacksmith shops to accommodate
the increased number OF forges and the old
| Pae narsion, on Sixth street, is used as q
pattern.house, and is literally packed full
of patterns. Everything about the prem
ises betokens skilful and judicious manage
ment, and is equally indicative of prospc-
| ritv.
The firm of which we w.ite have been
especially successful in the manufacture of
stationary and portable engines, saw-mil's,
and railroad work. They are continually y
Shipping South engines to be used for saw
ing and agricultural purposes, and they
have reason to be proud of the fact that
they have never sold one that has not gwen
satisfaction. Only few davs ago they sent
three to Mansfield, La, distance OF 1,4t
miles from Richmond. These engines, too.
| it is VOL th knowing, are manufactured ana
sold here for less than in GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
or Newark. n. j., and the freight upon them
from Richmond to the cities further South
| is less than from Baltimore.
| 1t will cost less to take an eng inc from
this city to Macon, Ga, by an all-rail route
Of seven or eight hundred miles, than to
take it by water to Savannah, and thence only
| 191 miles by rail to the same point. Hence
! it is that as the southern planter becomes
! alive to the impol Gancc of having steam
engine on every plantation to thrcsh tis
wheat, hllSk and g.ind his corn, saw his
| fencing, gin and bale his cotton, hull his
rice, and cut and press his sorghum cane,
he naturally turns to Richmond to have his
wants supplied.
The forty-hve horsepower steam engine
exhibited by Tanner 81 Co. took the first
| premium at the Georgia State Fair in Macon
| last wear; and an engine of the same kind
| received Il recommendation for q first-claSS
premium at the Virginia State Fair Of 1855
as the best piece of machinery on the
| ground.
We have stated that railroad work occu'
| pies a large share of the attention of this
concern. The character Of the work done
| in this department also is such as to attract
attention from a distance, large proper.
tion of their cars hay ng been built fol
roads beyond Knoxville, Tenn. Their IA
cilties for shipping this as we'll as other
| kinds of work are also very complete, as
car can be placed on track 4 few hundred
yards from their door, and run to New Or.
| leans on its own wheels without break ol
gauge, thus saving an immense amount in
freight alone. OF bridge work also they dc
q large amount, having three tirst-class bolt.
machines and superior facilities for turning
out such irons as do not require threading
They made the iron for the Great Pe-cc
| !, rIar loft pnI
Rutherford railroad the Savannah River
! bridge, OH the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta railroad; and many others o
| less note. In fact, they furnished nearly
| all the iron for the rebuilding since the wal
of the bridges on the line of railway be-
| tween Lynchburg. Va, and Dalton, Ga,
as well Us of the new roads, three i'll num-
| Der, radiating from Knoxville, Tenn. This
iron, being furnished by a Richmold firm,
was probably the means of bringing to
Richmond not less than Il quarter of mil
lion of dollars that would otherwise have
gone North.
TO descend to minor jobs, we may ado
that Tanner Il Co. have this year the con
tract for supplying the city Of RichmonC
with gas-pipe, and have already furnished
several miles of pipe for the purpose, They
are just now engaged in another local worE
of misunderstanding the sumac-r'l ]
of Hulst & King. Tanner g. Co. work l.:
men, and their fires are going day ant
night.
| VULCAN IRON WORKS.
The proprietorship of these well.knowi
works rests " ith Archer, Goodwin & Co.; {
firm composed Of William NJ. Archer, j. f
Goodwin, and L. Z. Finch. Messrs: Ar
cher and Goodwin received their training
| in this line of business at the Tredegal
| Works. Mr.. Finch is resident of the
county of Mecklenburg. They commenced
work In 1865, and there is abundant eH idence
| that their business has doubled every year
Indeed, within the last two years their pro
| ducts have been quadruped.
The Vulcan works are famed for nuts ant
bolts of superior quality. Their manufac
lures include hot-prcssed nuts, wrought
iron washers, lag screws, machine bolts
! cc55r7,,iage bolts, plough bolts, bolt ends
1 Sn;da.SS~Scd roof bouts, boiler riyets anC