The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-09-21
MINING TIMBER MANUFACTORY.

of mining timbers was erected some three
years ago, and is situated just East OF
town on the Lovejoy ranch, and SO neal
the railroad, that the cars load on side
track that passes by, and close to the
building: This enterprise was started
and is owned by a combination of gentle
men interested in mines, mills, and the
V. Il T. r. R., and figures largely in the
development of the mines on the Com
stock lode by greatly reducing the ex-
pense of framing the timbers used in all
those mines; for it is estimated that one
machine working 10 hours a day, will do
| the work of forty mechanics. 1t requires
but five operatives to do this work,
| and they need not all be skilled workmen.
From the cars the timber is taken into
the building in which a large circular saw
is running, passed to and cut off about
the right length, by a man whose business
il is to operate this saw. 1t is then ia
ken by two laborers to the trainers, laid
upon this heavy iron frame which re-
wolves on a hinge one quarter of a circle.
Here it is hastily measured, fastened
solid in place by two screws, and then
passed by the operator of this unique and
complicated portion of the machine, who
with his hands on tn lie rs, drives with
as much ease and precision as a skillful
horseman can drive Il well trained steed.
When all is ready he turns his timber
loose to meet the knives and saws that
are to make it fit for use III the mines.
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plication of revolving knives and saws.
combined in such manner that the saws
cut the shoulder on each end of the stick
at any length you WISH and at the same
time the revolving knives cut the wood
out at the proper depth for the tenon, and
is cut just alike at the top and bottom of
the timber at the same time. The opera
tor then passes it on to pair of circular
saws one on each end and it is cut off
true and of the required length. The
machinery is then reversed the timber
runs back, the carriage containing
it revolves a quarter circle and is run for
ward again to meet the knives and saws.
passing through the same process as be-
Iore 1t is then run lack and is "a com
plete mining timber ready for use. The
screws are loosened, the timber loaded
on car at the door, and shipped to the |
mines. Its capacity for ID hours labor !
is about 40, coo feet. The machinery is !
driven by steam engine, and the chips |
and sawdust falling into an opening be- /
low the machinery, pass to the furnace /
and are used for fuel to keep up the |
fires. The machinery is perfect III all
Its parts, and the enterprise a success to |
its owners, and Il great benefit to the
miners. In 1Sj4-5 the inventors Messrs. |
Hockholzer IL Denver. erected a similar
establishment ut the Savage mine in Nir-
GINA. and We are informed that it
saved to the mine $500 in a single
year. The erection and operating these
works III Carson. is double saving to
the mine owners. the greatest of course
in difference III the cost of machine and
hand labor, but another considerable it III
OF Importance is the freight to the mines
from here. On framed timbers there
is no dead freight while tinlbers shipped
whole and worked at the mine are sub
jest to much loss in cutting up. The
owners OF this enterprise are meeting
with splendid sccess as they deserve to.
A HANDSOME SHRUB.-There are grow
ng in the neat garden which surrounds
The hou Sc of our fellow townsmen, Mr..
James A. Righy, two specimens of the
.astor bean; and handsomer shrub-or
rec, rather-is rarely to be seen. This
plant grows with great vigor- and to
ar5e size; and it looks more like a young
ropical tree than like any one of the bean
amily. Doubtless it was upon stock
If this kind that the immortal Jack
limbed up into the realms of Fairy-land
md the region of the Giants. In talk
With Mr.. Charles H. Hedges, the first in
California to make business of cultiva-
ing the castor bean, we learned this in
eresting fact, namely: That the only VA I
iety of that plant which can be raised S
With profit is the sort, the pods of which
rhen ripe and laid in the sun to cure +
nap open and discharge the beans so ,
hat they may be gathered without the +
lborious trouble of opening the pods by 5
and. These pods, or burs, look more =
Ike big beach nut burrs than like bean 7
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