The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-05-08

future interests of the "Fremont Boiler
Works" which heartily shares our best wish
es for its future success.
CLOUD s. WYKEs HANDLE FACTORY.
It is our pleasing duty this week to have
to congratulate Messrs Cloud & Wyke On
the resumption Of their handle and butter
tub factory in this city, within the past two
weeks. Their unfortunate disaster Of being
burnt out, in the fall, viii doubtless bo fresh
IN the memory Of most Of our readers, on
which occasion their loss was computed at
some $4,000. Though they had not then been
running twelve months they were not to be
daunted, and Immediately set about arrange
ments to resume business. With commenda-
bic zeal and enterprise, the opening Of the
present gear found them very assiduously re-
building, and in due course the work was fin
ished and new machines, one by one, arrived
and were placed in position. Having heard
they were again under way, we last week
paid them visit with the following result
We found their new factory barely go spacious
as the old one, still, withall, very fine and
substantial building, 32x6O feet, located on
the precise site of the old one, with extra out
buildings. Though their staple manufacture
ia butter tubs and long shovel handles, it must
not be supposed that that is all. They have
ample facilities for manufacturing other tubs
and quite a variety of handles, besides per-
forming anything and everything IN the Wsy
of general wood turning. One special feature
in the excellent butter tubs made by this flln
is that they are not only iron hooped but
coated neatly with blue paint, novelty and
advantage in make,only to be met with at bot
one other works Of the kind in the west. Pro
ceeding with our inspection Of the works, we
found that on the arrival Of large logs. ash
and oak chiefly purchased from this district,
they are first introduced to a large drag saw
and c1t in lengths-next taken TO a boiling
OF circular saw of 40 in. circumference, and
cut in slabs, and again taken to smaller saw
and cut in short chunks. a curious cylinder
saw Is next resorted to and the small slaves
are sawn out to the required shape-takan to
the drying room and dried. From here they
are taken to what IS termed club laths"-a
very 6ne machine, capable of doing q variety
Of work It joints and equalizes the slaves,
after which they are passed through groov-
ing and matching machine. Now the tub is
shaped temporarily by hand, and again
brought back to the tub maohine-is smooth
turned inside and out, and then taken to the
L. -
aud fixed in place. Now they are conveyed
to the warehouse and the iron hoops are
affixed and the paint applied. The process OF
manufacturing the handles is 50 simple that
explanation is unnecessary. Tho number of
tubs here turned out are 200 daily and about
50 dozen handles-the former being sent
throughout Western Ohio and Northern Indi-
ana, to the extensive butter factories, while
their handles lat present chiefly long shovel
handIes) are contracted for to any quantity
they can turn out, BY a large firm in Pitts
burg. Tho interior of the works presents a
scene Of unusnal activity, what with the nu-
merous wheels revolving over head with the
gearing belts, the various machines spinning
along with the utmost rapidity,a and here, there
and everywhere men and youths engaged car
rying about the material or finished work.
There Is q wooden tramway laid from the
works to the ware house, (sOme so to 100
yards away in which latter place Is located
the private Office Of the frm. The fine en-
CINE they have in use is forty horse power
and another fatteriug testimony to the supe-
rior mechanical skill OF d. June Il Co., Of the
Fremont Foundry" the boiler-a very ex-
cellent and substantial one-Tedonnding in no
measured degree to the ability of Mr. ). A.
June We also looked into the dry houses,
heated from the engine house, and found
them tightly packed with slaves, undergoing
the process of seasoning-the degree Of heat
thrown out on the opening Of the doors being
excessive. The facilities of this firm for the
shipment of goods are particularly good,
which though at present Of great advantage,
will be found doubly 80 as their business in
creases, and we are glad to learn that in view
of this desired contamination they possess am
pie area of ground surrounding TO extend
their works from time to time as business may
demand. The firm are gentlemen OF ezeep-
tonal zeal and enterprise, strict integrity and
ever in personal attendance suDeriutendiur
the work on hand. Again wa say. they have
our hearty and may they con-
tinue to prosper in equal ratio with their hon
est deserts.