Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-02-16

I This is Aisl q comparatively new concern. II
was started by Mr. w. s Mayo, two years
since He has lately associated with him Nj.
f. A. Pope IS partner. Mayo s. Co. manufsc-
ture packing boxes, moullings, bsttens, square
snd fat pickets for fences, cloth boArlS, sc,
They occupy $50 feet by 80 Of the second aoor,
over Chase * Smith, aud 80 By IS feet in
another building, besides two or three store
houses and lumber sheds They have a dry
house. heated by steam, Of II By 30 feet.
1t might be supposed, at first thought, that
such a simple operation IS the making Of pack
ing boxes, would be as easily and chesply done
By the consumers, as by anybody but such Is
not the case. Il has been found thst the boxes
can be got out in great eu4atities. in the large
lumber marta, and sold 10 consumers Al much
lower figures than it would cost them to make
them. The business consists in planning on
both sides the lumber used, saving it into
pieces Of the requisite lengths. matching them
together Of the widths desired for ends, sides
sni covers Of the boxes, mailing clests around
the edges Of the ends for the larger boxes, and
shipping the sane in assorted lots, containing
all the pieces to make given number of boxes,
which are packed fla, And are put together by
the consumers This business W.s s.srted in
Burlington by Messrs Crane, whose establish
ment we shall come to shortly, and it forms a
large proportion OF the growing business Of
Mayo & Co. This was started by Mr. Mayo
with one set Of box machinery and SIX men. They
now run five full sets of box machinery, and en-
pky forty men. They have sided new branches
of buLiness from time to time Thus they inAu-
gursted the wholesale Manufacture Of fence
pickets in Burlington. OF these they made and
sold over 100000 lsst year. The machine used
for pointing square piGkets, was the invention Of
Mr.. Mayo. Before its invention. pickets had to
be pointed by SAWS, leaving AZ end which must
be smoothed by hand. Now by single arrange
ment Of large chisels with beveled, or rather
slsntins edges, attached to a pitman, the ends
are cut as smooth and true as can be
desired. man with this machine will point
fire thousand pickets day. The machine will
make rounded end to the picket, with equal
facility. Cloth-boards- thin boards around
which cloth is rolled by the piece, by the manu-
fscturers-are slso quite branch Of the bust
meas of the firm. The ends Of these are chamfe1-
ed nearly to an edge, which is then rounded
Heretofore the makers have bad to round them
of by separate process, on = sandpaper drum
But Mayo s Co. have mschiue, Of Mr.. Mayo's
contriysnce, which, by swiftly revolving cutters,
chamfers the board on both sides, and rounds
the end, by a single operation. They have ship
ped 100, 900 Of these boards on single order
They make some 200 different styles of mould
ings. They run in all come thirty machiues
Their machinery is exceedingly well arranged
Their shafting is all Of one size. The arbors Of
their Esws and pulleys are all uniform, 80 thEt
they can be shifted at will Their planners dress
four sides at once, and the shsvings are all re-
moved as fast as made, by Mcclellan blower.
An elevator raises and lowers the lumber and
manufactured stuff to and from the second story.
They do a business Of about 100000 year
They worked up last year two and half million
feet Of lumber, and will use three million feet
this year. They are young, enterprising and
industrious men, Snd we have no fears for their
success.