The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-02

! communicated to the other officers and
members OF the company, and the result Of
a conference was decision to commence
the great industrial institution now in
operation here. After this there was no un-
necessary delay. Upwards OF thirty acres
OF ground along the Ohio Ievee, including
a two-hundred foot river front, were Sc
cured; the work of building, at once begun,
has continued with but short Interruptions
ever since, and will continue for some time
| to come until the Singer cabinet works here
shall be the largest and completest OF their
kind in the world.
At present the buildings Of the company
are three in number; one brick building,
perhaps, the most substantially built in the
city, three stories high and sxty.fve by
eighty feet in dimensions; another, frame,
erected back Of the brick building, seventy
by one hundred feet and two stories high,
and the third, which was but recently put
up and is barely finished, measures seven
tyiiye by hundred and seventy.six feet,
and is one story Of about thirty feet high.
Besides this, there is brick engine and
boiler room, about thirty by forty feet in
| dimensions
| There is also near the buildings log
way, which consists Of system of iron
rails running along network of heavy
tim6ers, supported about twenty feet above
ground by many piers arranged IN regular
rows each way--the whole covering about
two acres Of ground, and having a capacity
for three thousand logs, Logs Of all sizes
are iloated down the Ohio river, principal
| ~ from the Cache river now along which
the supply gum wood is almost unlimited.
They are anchored in the river in front of
the works; are taken out of the water as
soon after they arrive as possible and
stored IN the log yards to dry out thor
oughly before beng worked up. The trans
fer is effected by means of q sort Of skid,
in the bottom Of which an endless cham
with stout iron hooks attached at regular
| distances, runs The skid, OF log-way :,
| begins in the water, passes over the leyee,
| supported on timbeis at sufficient height
to permit the Illinois Central engines and
trains to pass under it, and terminates back
of the works near the log yards. Logs are
picked up in the river and travel up this
strong incline apparently Of their own Volt
ton, and are landed on q platform in the
| yards. From The platform they are hoisted
bymeans of log hooks and block and tackle,
| attached to wheels which run on the ele
| waited rails OF the log.way above referred to,
and are then easily pushed by one or two
men to any portion Of the large yards.
When the logs have sufficiently dried out,
they are again hoised from their places
and, by means Of the log way, transferred
| back to the platform and sawed into ends
Of regular lengths, the shortest being "a,
the longest AZ, inches long, These short
ends, as they droPf,on the slw.buck, are
rolled into large room, about seventy by
one hundred feet, in which there are twelve
large vats filed with steaming water; they
are rolled into these watts Gall of which are
filed every day, steamed for twenty'four
hours in order to render them more sus-
ceptible to the knives of the cutters, and
are then taken out to be dressed for the
cutters, The cutters are powerful ma
chimes The log is held firmly by the ends
and reyolyes against huge, sharp blade
which moves steadily towards the core Of
the log, while shaving its exterior of to the
thickness Of thrcc-sixteenths Of an inch.
These "shavings," as they may be called
with some propriety, come forth from the
machine cut in lengths a little over
the width Of the sewing machine tables in
the construction Of which they are to be
used. They are loaded upon trucks, hoist
cd TO the second floor aud Carted into the
"dryingroom," This is a room of sixty
five by forty. five feet in dimensions, and
is supplied With between twenty-five
and thirty stands Of drying presses
The thin, wet boards having been cut from
around log, would naturally curl up again
If not subjected to some process to prevent
this. They are therefore, placed in these
iron presses, to the number of perhaps
hundred in each stand of presses, and
are pressed out straight while being sub.
jected to quick drying process by steam,
They are thoroughly dry usually in sixteen
minutes, and are then reloaded on trucks
and transferred to the glue room, which is
on the same floor and is about forty feet
square. Here are half dozen huge glue