The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-19

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whole mind into their business. --I
Their establishment is located on the cor
ner Of Ninth and Canal streets, and the
site has been selected and TIE building ar.
ranged with view to carrying on the bust.
ness on large scale. The machinery is ali
new, and embraces the latest improve.
ments for working in brass and iron.
however heavy the work. The appoint.
| ments of the pattern-shops and foun.
dries would attract the attention of any
good mechanic. The business done EN-.
braces everything of iron and brass work,
but the speciality ofthe establishment Is mill
furnishing, o depal sment which Mr.. Hal
knows, perhaps, more about than any man
in Virginia. They have just put up large
job of work OF this character for the Ga!le9c
Flour Mills, and specimens Of their skill N
the same line are to be seen in nearly all o
our leading mills. Just now they are fitting
out large sUmac-nill in this city with
some improved machinery. They have also
done 4 good deal of work for the city, and
judges say that everything they turn OFT is
of the best quality. '
Hall & Co. have m enviable reputation as
mechanics and business men, and there is
reason to believe that the value Of THEFT
business for the first year will equal that ol
several older firms.
| sLoAT & ADDINGTON.
These gentlemen make or repair ANYTHING
in the line of machinery from needle to O
steam-engine. The firm is composed OF
George l.. Sloat and A. j. Addington. Mr..
/. Sloat is the inventor of the sewing machine
which bears bis name, and was formerly
superintendent Of the Union ManufactlI.
chinist Of large experience, and is about as
well known as anybody in our community.
! Their establishment Is located on Cdi 7
street between Fourteenth and Fi.leenth.
1t is remarkable for its complete appoint
ments and the orderly. arrangement of
everything it contains. We were struck
with this placard, which appeared in seye.
raj places on the walls " A place for every
thing and everything in its place. Any
employG Iail;1g to ob-eryc this rule will he
discharged" The establishment includes
a machine shop, blacksmith shop, and
foundry, all ofwhich present an air Of busi.
ness.
! SIoat & Addinaton do mostly q local busi-
ness, but receive also many orders from Il
distance for repairs and manufactures.
They make and repair all kinds of tobacco
work. but particularly tlatten rS-mi'ls. and
! do a good deal Of work " this line. They
also keep all kinds Of brass work of supe-
rior make for steam-engineS, such as gauge
cocks, oil and tallow cups, oil-cups for
shafting, sclf-leeders, steam-whistles, water
gauges, globe-yalyes, and boiler-fue clean
ers. Their work is of the best quality, and
has attained considerable celebrity.
J. R. JOHNSON & co.
J. r. johnson, II. J.. Strong, John IL.
Snyder, William NJ. Ledley, Spencer w.
Snyder, and John ii. snyder, form the con-
cern owning the Richmond Steam Forge
and Rollng-NIill. Mcssrs. johnson and
Strong and the Messrs. Snyder are practi-
cal mechanics. Mr.. John H. Snyder was
for thilty-five wears superintendent of the
ment at Troy, n. Y. These gentlemen three
wears ago started the Richmond Steam
Forge, and 4 year ago last July the rolling
mill was placed in operation.
The office and works of the company are
Immediately on the james river, at the foot
of Ninth street, and near the Petersburg
railroad bridge. They work day and night,
and keep about fifty men constantly en-
ployed, tulling out about ten tons of fin
ishod iron every twenty-lour hours.
Their manufactures include every variety
of iron work, such rs steamboat and sta
ti0naly engines, crank shafts, locomotive,
truck, and car aXles, and bar iron of all
sizes and lengths. They make speciality OF
railroad aXtes and he.yy slafting, aud also
pride themselves on the superior quality Of
their horseshoe iron, wDick Is 11rst tho
roughly hammered and then twice rolled
The demand for their horseshoe iron is
large, and increases as its quality becomes
more widely known.
: The railroad business of this firm in the
South promises to be large. They are doing
something for all the railroads centring in
Richmond, and are getting out a good deal
of car iron for the Virginia and Tennessee
railroad. Trey furnished the rolled iron
for the Harvey, Pedee, and several other
large bridges down South. Their bridge
iron is guaranteed to stand tensile strain
of 60, CO. pounds to the square inch Of cross
+ section. :.
! The steam hammer of the Richmond
steam forge is not only great curiosity in
itself, but is Of great use to all the IRON
workers Of The city. A man can work it
with one finger, and it can be made to
lightly drive tack, or deal 4 blow worthy
OF Vulcan himself upon the heaviest an
chor. There is not another hammer of this
description in the southern States, unless,
perhaps, in the nayy-yard at Gosport.