The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-03
A GREAT ENTERPRISE
THE OLIVER CHILLED pLow WORKS
Their Texas Brancb-A Doscr'p''""
Of their WORKS vt south bsn"'
Indiana--A Monster Corpora
tiop-ExceIlent Quality
of Their GOODS.

welfare of our thriving, busy city IMAM tpe
branch OF the Oliver chilled Pillow works, OF
South Bend, Indiana. The branch ctlice Tor
Texas is at the corner of ommerce and
Jefferson streets, this city, where full sup
ply of all tho goods manufactured by the
company is kept on hand, and where orders
are filed through the various sub-agents
at all principal points in the State
They do an immense business In Texas
farmers claiming that their plows, etc. are
of such superior quality that would be al
most impossible to get along without this
institution in our midst.
Having in our mind the great advantages
of such on institution being in our midst, and
| in cleaning over our exchanges, we came across
fine following complimentary mention ana
orsnhic description of the works in the
louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, and repro
duec II. The Courier-J Journal says:
"a representative of this paper, during q
recent visit to the thriving, pushing, wide
awake little city of South Bend, Ind, WAS
shown through the shops OF the famous
Oliver Chilled Plow owrks.
Nothing short of q personal Inspection can
convey an idea Of the magnitude OF tbs great
corporation, aud the work done INSIDE its
walls.
Three years ago, when a correspondent OF
the Courier journal participated In a reunion
of the agents Of the company, an account Of
which we published, this great factor was 4
giant To-day it is monster LIS huge
bulk has peora doubled since then. LIS own
era assert that nothing approaching " In SIZE
for the manufacture of plows alone exists on
the globe, and still the work of enlarging
ooas on. a number OF new bulldogs are
now in progress
TO SAY that building is 80 many hum
dred feet in length by 80 many in width con-
views but an imperfecl ides of it's dimension.
| But when we state that the foundry OF
| this system contains two and half acres
of floor space under one roof, our readtrs
will understand what big figures mean An
admirer of our national game exclaimed GA
seeing it for the first Time "Whsta delight
| ful place for game of base bail, If the pIi-
| lars were removed and the roof raised" The
| story of the belated colonel, who,on entering
| ST. Peters, 8. Rome, could not tihd bis regi
ment, which had preceded him 10 church, II
heing hidden away in ona of the side eieles
seems reasonable enough gfter seeing
the foundsry Of the Oliver Chilled Plow works.
-Four cupolas and an air furnace With 3
melting capacity of seventy-tive tons daily
are in constant use. The scene presented
here every afternoon is not soon forgotten.
The cupoiss, like miniature volcanoes, spout
| ing streams of molten metal, attended by
brawny operatives stripped to the waist
showers of sparks flying; men rushing hithef
and thither, bearing the ladies OF boiling,
seething iron; the flowing streams entering
the molds, seen here and there through toe
clouds of vspor, which transform the work
men into shadowy, fantastic Shapes; the
hoarse rosr of the blsst fans; the sharp cries
of the foreman, urging greater speed; the
beerimmed, sweat-stained faces of the men,
lit up by the glow of the furnace, led the
spectator to imagine himself somewh re on
| the outposts Of the internal regions.
Sixty tons of iron are melted here
every working day in the year. DO our
readers realize what this means? Let US see
Six carloads daily-thirty-six car loads q
week-over ], 800 carloads year. Think OF
a freight train twelve miles long, loaded with
iron. This is what it requires 10 satisfy the
appetite of this hungry monster for twelve
months; $4,000 tons Of iron entering his
cavernous NAV yearly and emerging in plows
and parts of plows. II seems incredible, AID
yet Il is q fact.
The wood-shops. pAint-shops, finishing
shops, and other auxiliary buildings, are on
tho same massive scale A few examples
will convey an idea of the whole. For in
: stance, the grinding-room, adding extensions
now in progress, will DO 420 feet in length ol
so in width. Seven hundred tons of grind
inc stones are ground to powder here every
year. The machine and blacksmith shop il
6Cx50 feet In size The clGtter Of steam
hammers. drop-presses, forming-mechinee
/ bolt-headers, and the ike, nlied OUT Dy To-
clsng Of an "anvil chorus" beaten by score;
Of brawny arms, turns the place into pan
demonium. the wood-shop, with its srra'
D OF costly machinery, shapes, planes, bend
a and fits nearly 500 carloads of timber yearly
, into plow-beams and handles-and so OF
through every department Of this beehive 0
industry.
The ftorehouse is smother feature Of th
Q place. Here. as everywhere, dig figure
Z rule. There Is enough Of II 10 make build
+. ING a quarter Of mile in length and fori
feet 10 width, and 1t Is packed 10 the rafiei
with finished goods. Flows of ell fizes, ffor
e the little "pony" pillow which could be car
a ried away under the arm, 10 the six-hors
"ga-e" turning tao furrows ut once, eac
fifteen inches wide, are stacked up In "knocI
= down" form-thAt is, with the bottoms 9
4 metal parts detached and telescoped int
each other, and piled rank on rank IN thou
sands, the beams and handles Ia The eam
n way, i've plows in this shape occupying onl
e the space Of one mounted.
q There are acres OF plows and plow-shsre
. stscked I'D here tier on tier. One wonder
where they ell 90 and The mystery deepes
when we learn that stocks Of goods arc car
e ned Of each Of the company's ten branc
A houses, located al distant points through %
country. Flows sre moving into and oui e.
: this warehouse, in an endless procession, D
= The rae Of 1000 week.
: Immense timber sheds occupy Il e rear
the factory grounds, which are gridircns
with rsilr0sd tracks, on which cars are m0t
ling bither and thither, enteri1g with fa'
. nster:sl OF departing lsdsn with fnisbe
q goods. Every working day IN the year th
A raw material delivered and hniahe
goods shipped makes up n very fair ir.ir
load.
e Ass sample Of the broad gsugs pl.n .
e uhicn fhinrz ere done here, The msIlcahi
a casiirgs IL which immense quantih-s
used 10 bofh hsnd and sulky plors. are o.
, made IN the works. This company Is g.
o only on in ths plou business masking he o.
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