Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07

Friday Morning, March 2. 1873. 0ayuta Wheel and Foundry Com.
 P@my. WnverIy. N. Y.
 Among the many important and success ful manufacturing enterprises of which Waverly can boast, the Cayuta Wheel and Foundry Company stands in the front rank The organization is a new one, having been in operation and existence but few months. and many of our readers have little knowledge of its strength and charac- ter, and of the important part which it is likely to play in all our business and finan- cial affairs. It has already brought to our locality large sums of money, which it is constantly expending for material. ser vices. buildings, Sc. That the public may understand what it really is, is the purpose of the present aricle.
 ORGANIZATION.
 The Cayuts Wheel and Foundry Com. pany was organized in 1872, with capital of $50 coo, by Messrs Coffin, Robbins, Lymaa, j.. and ST. and Snow. The resi- dent officer of the company is Moses Ly- man, jr., Treasurer and General Manager. The gentlemen forming the company art all, with this exception, eastern capitalists largely interested in the manufacture of the celebrated Salisbury iron. This iron is made from ores obtained at Salisbury. Ct, and Richmond, Mass.. and Is admitted to be the best in the world for car-wheels, be. ing capable of enduring 8 greater amount Of speed than any other, without effecling its tenacity.
 BEGINNING OF BUSINESS.
 The buildings now occupied by the com pany were erected in the summer and fall of 1872, at the junction of the Lehigh Val ley, Ithaca 6 Athens, Southern Central and Erie railroads, in Athens township, Pa.. 8 few rods south of the state line. The eight acres of land on which the buildings stand, were presented to the company by Anthony, Pitcher & Elmer, as were also four acres a short distance to the south west. intended for residences, auG upon which six houses have already been erected.
 The first casting was made Jan. 4th, 1878. since which time business of manufac- turing has been uninterruptedly prosecuted, though no wheels have yet been cast, the company having been busy with the mak. ing of the necessary machinery and cast ings and putting them in order. Every thing is now ready for wheel-casting, and the business will probably begin next week.
 THE FOUNDRY.
 The main building. known as the foundry or moulding room, is 60 by 100 feet; walls l6 feet high and l6 inches thick; the height from floor to peak, 45 feet the roof of slate. This building is to be extended northward another hundred feet, early in the spring. Four cranes are already set for handling iron and wheels, and another will be added soon. There are also two cupa- los in active service, one for general cast ing and one for wheels, the latter having a capacity of forty wheels per day. Two more cupslos for wheels are to be erected next summer of still larger capacity, as it is the intention to give the foundry a work ing capacity of l50 wheels. One hundred wheels a day will be run during the coming season, and more as the demands of the market increase. In this building ten men are now at work, but when its full capacity is reached, employment will be given to at least fifty.
 DIFFERENT APARTMENTS.
 The foundry building is divided into four apartments, the cupalo room, blower and pitting rooms and core oven. In the cupalo room the melting is done. The iron and coal arc poured into the cupalos at an ele- vation on a level with the second story floor, for which the location affords pecu- liar advantages, a natural embankment twelve or fifteen feet high, extending for long distance along the west side of the building. Each cupalo is heated by the aid of Sturtevant blower, made of drums with steel fans, which are driven at the rate of 5000 revolutions per minute. This forces the air with great rapidity through sheet. iron pipe into the side of each cupalo, near the bottom, sending an intense heat through the coal and iron, and causing tho latter to melt rapidly. The pitting- room contains a number of iron pits into which the wheels are placed when taken red hot from the moulds they are then covered with sand and allowed to cool very slowly. This careful process. which occupies several days. is necessary to prevent cracking, and renders the iron very tenacious. The wheels are taken from the pittlng-room as soon as cooled, rolled into the machine shop. bored. and fitted upon axles. This brings us to
 THE MACHINE SHOP.
 This building is 40 to GO feet, two stories high, built of brick, roofed with slate, and lighted by double windows. Like the foundry, it is very substantially constructed and calculated for long and hard service. Connected with this building is substan- tial brick smokestack 60 feet high. The machine shop proper is in the first story, while the second is used as pattern shop and storehouse. The machinery is driven by 8 beautiful engine and boiler of fifty horse power, from the works of Payne & Sons, Corning. The line shaft passes under ground to the foundry building where it drives the blowers. The other articles Of machinery on this floor, are, as follows:
 A boring mill, very swift and strong, . Frnu, Rounatf Rr 2ana Philodolph;o Th;o