Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-26
THE CHICKAsAW FOUNDRY.
FIOurishiDg lion Interest 1n This
city, which Results from n IudfeiOus
Combination of business 81 peri
euce and 6cmtas.

The Chickasaw Foundry Is situated at
the corner of Second and Winchester
streets, In this city. IL WAS started in
1865, Immediately after the war, and
was at that time but very small con-
Germ indeed, occupying the corner house.
Since then the establishment has gone
ON, increasing in business and In extent,
until now ID embraces not only the
original corner, but spreads over Nos.
SO, 9S. 100, l02 and l04 Second street,
and still the premises seem too small for
the business that continually rushes on
the hands of the prOprietors. The estab-
lishment comnTises all the departments
and adjuncts of a first-class foundry, en-
bracing pattern shopand pattern gallery,
where all sorts of models are kept In sys-
tematic order, named and numbered, so
that a boy can go and put his hand on
anything he wants ia half a minute; a
foundry department, with excellent Gu
pola; brass foundry; large machine
shop, where lathes are continually going
by the force of great engine located
right in the shop. There is also a
shop, a cOre-dryiDg oven, travelling
railway windlass that can lift tons
apd transport it with the greatest ease.
We had occasion to look into this COM
plete establishment yesterday, on busi-
ness, and was simply astOnished to find
how large the concern had become in
five or six years. II does not look like
the same place. The shop is new one,
having been built of brick, two stories
high, a year or SO ago. But the interior.
full of machinery as ii is, and rattling
with the noise OF tools, and the hum OF
wheels, was enough to confuse a person
not used to such things. This prosperi-
ty was due to the practical experience
and laboriOus energy Of the proprietors.
who are men of toll themselves, and not
gloved djlLetGntc, who leave all the
work to be done by others.
HEATH's w1lLL-BoRER.
Mr.. James w. Heath, one of the firm,
is the inventor Of remarkably efficient
well-borer, which is we'll calculated to be
of great service to all the States along
the Mississippi valley. 1t will go down
a distance Of one hundred feet in an as
tonishingly short time and at COM
paratively little expense. This inven-
ton has spread over the States of Indi-
ana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Colorado, Tennessee,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and
Texas, in all of which places the right
of making and using them has
held at profitable figures, but a
very large number are made in
the foundry at the corner of Winchester
and Second. This simple instrument
fills all the wants hitherto felt in delv-
ing for water, and, invariably secures a
copious supply from cool depths. We
felt glow Of pride in the fact that the
pioneers Of the Western wilds, are in
debted to Memphis mechanic for his
first supply of water when wrestling
with the difficulties Of the untanled
waste.
Under the management of men who
are themselves not only workers, but
also effective thinkers, the exceptional
prosperity of the Chickasaw Foundry
is not to be wondered at. 1t
wRs not astonishing to learn
that brass-work is turned out
here for railrOad-work; axle-bOxes
Of the finest quality are made and fin
ished right in the shop. At present a
compact stationary engine is in course
of construction by themselves, for their
own use, to take the place of the old one
that has been running now some years.
The engine was expected to be finished
by this time, and would have been but
for the continual rush of business that
took the best efforts of the men to sup
ply. At present the modelling depart
ment is undergoing a sort of general
overhauling, with the view Of arranging
all the models in a scientific manner,
those for machinery being placed
in one department, properly sub
divided, and those for building Icing
in department, and SO on. BY
this means the piece of work that is
wanted may be reached in a moments
notice; it is like cataloguing the objects
in museum. All the latest improve
ments in machinery Of all sorts are
modelled by the artists of Randle q
Heath, and their counterpart in iron
can be furnished at very short notice.
We noticed that the boiler used in the
establishment is ''pocketed"-tha is,
mixture of plaster paris
and sand, two inches thick, and lined
with wood, which effectually prevents
the radiation of heat, and saves thereby
twenty-five per cent OF fuelin operation.
Everything Is run upon purely scientific
and economical plans, so that pros
perity is inevitable. The fact il,
when Randle & Heath started
in business they had already organized
and all that was left for them
was to work it out. A few days ago a
new safe, worth six hundred dollars,
made by a Cincinnati house, was put
into their Office to secure the increasing
papers and books of the con-
eern. 1t weighs six thousand pounds,
aud is one of the finest in the city. We
hope that in ten years the gentlemen of
he firm will require an iron-liued vault
of ten times the capacity of the safe to
contain their valuables. The Chicka-
saw Foundry shows what may be done
In Memphis by skill and energy COM