Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-28
The MOLINE PL0W COMPkNY's
's' WORKS

~hicn we propose 70 .
give sshort- description. 8 The works form |
three sides OF q square and occupy an area q
of 2SOfs. on Main, and 3I7 #. on Mill Street;
en- extra warehouse covering 20 #. on Main
and loo #. on Mill Street and are bulls of
brick. An admirable peculiarly about
these works ID that they we're buils sill at
once and the work, once commeaeed, goes
on in them uninterruptedly until completion
q saving of time, and contrast with what
one sees in other Works, which we're built
peaeemeal. There are, in addition, three
Warehouses of wood, which are used for
storing timber and manufactured goods
The basement is used for seasoning wood
and ia il is sound seasoned wood, which has
been there a year. enough TO make thirty
thousand ploSs. Next years stock of wood
is now being laid in. The COMPANY own
fourteen hundred acres of good timber, in
the south part of this State, whence comes
the lumber from which their beams and
handles-celebrated for their t~oughness-t
are made. The works have just been pro- |
tected from injury by FIRE, BY the, now Just
ly famed, system of Holly Water Works, in
q complete outfit of which they participate
with the adjoining Paper Mannfactory. The
Holly pump, which is in q FIRE proof build
ing, I've may as well here remark that, like
it, each apartment on the Plow Company's
Works has q FIRE protection of double
iron doors 20 inches apart, separating it
from the next one,) will probably Issue
twelve or fifteen hundred gallons per min.
ute THIS powerful pump is worked by
water power. TIE Plow Works are efici-
emily protected by five twojet fire hydrants;
the Paper Mill having one less. In case
Ere should break out there is not . part Of
either establishment which would not be IN
der the control Of powerful streams Of
water in two or three minutes from the first
alarm indeed, if all the available hose IN
Moline we're used-for all will ''piece on
one may speak cheeriugly of immunity from
the rav&ges Of FIRE for that region.
On the solid rock, where the works stand,
you will notice the commencement of g new
four story building, which is to be used as
finishing and ware rooms, and offices il
fronts no feet on Main and so feet on Mill
street. You then enter the establishment,
and, after a question or SO, notice it's aceura.
cy of detail. Forming three sides of a
square the wood ana iron departments be.
gin at the extreme eads and. joining in the
centre, show that they complete iheiE
work without e moments delay. The Com.
panY's Works are very large, and, before we
say what We have to say about their cork.
c we feel tempted to give some slight descrip'
= tion Of their routine. Ia the foundry the
metals of the future plows are moulded and
- cast. After that comes the Blacksmith
~Room-200 feet BY 60 in dimension-witt
its eighteen FORCES; its SIX furnaces and III
hammers. Thence to the finishing shop
where we note q dozen and mors relentless
machines. After that, the metal,-lesvinI
few sins behind it, goes to be ground snt
n polished, in q room containing ter grind
stones and faur sets of emery wheels
Other details are passed through
ere We meet the wood at its ap
pointed place. Taking up the woot
at its opposite starting point We frat notict
. that it-so lar IS the building which con
9 tAins 1t 10 concerned-is commenced at worl
IN a three story building which measure
fifty feet by two hundred and ffsy-fvs. Sal,
h building being of brick like the rest, an,
facing the iron department. 80 far as exter
nal ends Of the works are concerned. i
/ the FIRST room is the machinery where all I'd,
wood is got ont in the rough. Sawed
plsned, or bored and n~orticed boards ar
II fixed here ready for the fnisber upstairs
A where the work is taken by one of the Gifts
q in the place. In the intermediate, setting
up room, the iron and wood are put to
- gether and then they go-plow made-int
the painting room, whence was removed
, in conjunction with its sister room last yea'
q for shipping purposes, q little over twenty
eight thousand plows. In the finishing an,
fitting department. many mschines are rul
by many men. Thence the goods 90 lat
the packing room, over which ia a lsrg
storing and sample room amply 6lled. Tn
company do very large trade in the West
They are last finishing q lot of plows 70
Portland, Oregon, and also for San Francis
- 90 and Sacramento. Their shipments i
the last year amount TO . little over twerty
;, eight thousand plows and cultivAtors. Thes
pIOws 60 largely to the Pacific coast. Ore
gon says no plow has ever given so grea
satisfaction there. In case Of need-shoul
: such arise-on the C~ompAny's Works stand
: q big lao horse power engine, ready for us
in any emergency. Their preparations ic
exhibition at the Fair are of elaborate MT
terisl and workmanship and what the
show they make for every one who orders.
b. e. MAYO BELLS the celebrated Ts
N0 Harhop carnnt varn