, 1877-03-31

great shops in San Francisco turn ont
work in very slovenly way. with
Jumps ~ big a. hickory nuts and holes
all 'bushed up" with brass. II Pu-
get Sound foundry were to send out
such jobs - shat. they would get no
me re- work from such mon N. ]. n.
Gilman. who is pretty good iron work.
or himself.
GEORGE ". BULLENE,
Who is the United States Boiler Inspec.
tor and ficenser Of engineers. has
small machine shop at the foot Of Uni.
versity street. where he turns out work
that may be truthfully said to be ..aore
on honor" First We find u shaft and a
new crank for tho steamer Zephyr. The
shaft was made at the San Frapcisco
rolling mills and SO we're the cranks. bnt
they were sent up here in the rough and
have been returned and polished here
ny Bullene in person. But the thu ee
fanges of the wheel, as we'll as the two
pair of new eccentric straps and rods,
are of Seattle make. Next comes a lot
of machinery for q new departure in
the logging business inaugurnred nv
Amos Brown. He is building tram
Way on one of his claims to reach
body of timbe- that lies u mile and n
balf from navigable water Instead of
occupying half day hauling these logs
over ''skids." they will be rolled on the
trucks and shot down the tramway in a
few minutes. These trucks have each
four wheels and all the woodwork is
done in Bullene's shop. We dodge
through a maze of belts and wheels to
to the opposite side of the shop. to see
The first engine built entirely on Pug t
Sound. every pin and key being made
here. 1t is for the new sash and blind
factory Of
sTErsoN & POST.
And il the most compact thing of its
power that we ever saw anywhere. 1t
is an upright marine propeller, some
thing similar to those in use on manv
boats on the Sonnd and possesses the
merit of being available for almost any
kind cf business. The drawings were
all made here and 30 WAS every rod and
and casting. The engine stands in a
cast iron frame weighing 1925 pounds.
on top Of which is boited the cyliud-r
weighing 900 pounds. the fly wheel for
this engine weighing 2 200 pounds. The
diameter of the cylinder is fourteen
inches. with twenty inches stroke of
piston. The floor space occupied by
this powerful engine is only 4Sx32 inch
es and its height is nine feet over all
One peculiarity of its design is that
no steampipes enter into the valve
chest at all. the steam ports being cas-,
on the sides Of the cylinder. For neu,-
nesi of design and economy of space.
we have never seen an engine tha'
pleased rs better. In the trite language
of ''Skiddy" Rogers. one of the best
lw-pressure l. engineers on the coast.
''It's a good i,ea when you're bnildihg
boat to build something yon can sell. :"
so with this engine; its cnmpactness
and availability always render it mer-
chantable.
THE SEATTLE COAL COMPANY
Also have a machine shop at the head OF
their inclined plane. where some excel
lent work has been turned out. Bn,
they have four or FIVE steamboats, and
over one hundred cars of their own.
hence their machine shop is kept busy.
on their own work and has no time t.
attend to orders from other sources
Night and day. as long rs there is ves>
sci in port. their trains are going and
coming. SO that there must bs repairs
for something at all times. There is
IA boiler shop KEEP, by Mckinley & Co..
in the southern portion of the city,
which vii! have more work to do when
the railroad gets further along. SO we
note healthy tone in the condition of
our foundries and a visible prospect of
improvement When the new locomo>
i've "A. A. Denny" was first put to
gether we were looking a. her and ask
I'd Mr.. COlman if there were any dupli
Gates to her cy lnders He verv prompt.
Iy answered "No sir. and there was no
need Of sending them; for there is not
single piece of machinery about this
engine that cannot be duplicated here
and do, e as well as anywhere" SO we
plow along and 90 Seattle steadily grows
to be a manufacturing city. 1t. may
look small now to San Francisco man;
but everything mnst have beginning.