Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-05

The Vale Royal Manufacturing Com
pany-Its xtens Trade.

IL NalC NY 81 20 WIN
~panY-Its Extensive Trade.
One of the foremost industrial enter
prises of the South, is the Vale Royal
Manufacturing Company. Established
with a large capital, and backed by men
of financial ability, enterprise and energy
it already controls a large trade, and with
It's extensive facilities, is rapidly reach
ing into new fields. The company's manu-,
factories are located just west of the city,
in close proximity to the Ocean Steam
ship wharves and the Vale Royal Lumber
Mills, under the same control and man
sgement.
They embrace two large, substantial
buildings, each 50x100 feet, n two
stories high, equipped with all the latest
improved machinery for the manufacture
Of sash, doors and blinds, mouldings,
stairs and ratings, the finest and latest
patterns in office and church furniture,
desks, store and bank counters, mantels,
and allkisds OfinterlOr architecture work.
The first floor of the machinery building
contains tne heavy saws, planners, mould
ers, flooring machines, lathes,
etc, for handling the timber
in the rough. From this department
the work is lifted to the second story by
an immense steam elevator where IL is
put together, and IS then carried to the
finishing department and from there TO
the warehouse ready for shipment on
trans running on all sides of the build
ing.
The oompany's facilities are unrivaled.
The machinery is all of the latest and most
improved designs, many of the more
complicated machines being purchased
at the New Orleans Exposition.
notwithstanding the great facilities of the
company, the demand for their work has
been 80 great and orders have come in so
rapidly hat even at this early day they
find it necessary to make arrangements
for additional machinery, and the Presi-
dent Of the company is now in the North
for that purpose. The machine depart
ment now includes two magnificent
planners, of S. A. Woods manufacture,
capable OF planning all four sides at the
same time logs 8 inches thick, 30 inches
wide and of any length; a Gray a. WOODS
planer, with 4 capacity for timber l6K24
inches and fifty feet long; two moulding
machines, a gang edger and Greenlee's,
Woods and c.. B. Rodgers saw benches
and swing saws. The engines by which
the machinery is driven are OF 10 horse
power. Tn boilers are in a separate fire.
proof building of brick and iron. The
furnaces are fed with shavings carried
from the machinery by a draft pipe direct
w the bJiltl uDliHts AuJblulu6 buf ihA
machinery building is one Of Sturtevants
mammoth lumber shelters and drying
kilns, % by 100 feet, equipped with steam
pipes and drying apparatus, and having a
capacity tor 10000 feet of lumber.
On the second 100 of the warehouse
and finishing building are the cOmpa-
ny's spacious mill offices, con-
uected by telephone with the
general offices In the city. All
Of the various departments
are complete in their equip
ments, and capable Of turning out any
thing in the line OF manufacture from the
p~lainest and simplest to the most elabc-
rate and complicated work. With the
new machinery which will shortly be
added the company Will be enabled to
meet promptly all orders. and at prices
better han can be obtained from North
ern or Eastern manufacturers. There are
few establishments in the entire country
that have equal facilities for the eXpedi-
tious handling Of business.
The mills are connected by "A special
trackd direct to the Central railroad main
line and also 10 the Ocean Steamship Com
pany's wharVes. Lumber is run In on
these tracks. delivered at the mills, and
when dressed or manufactured into doors,
sash, blinds, balusfers, etc, is reloaded
and shipped direct to destination. The
quality of work done by the Vale Royal
Company Is in every way up to the stand
ard. The company offer as great induce
ments to customers rs can be obtained
anywhere in the country. Dwellings,
| offices, churches and public build
lngs are fitted up in a style
of taste and elegance unsurpassed else
where, and at prices which Northern and
Eastern concerns cannot meet. The use
of cypress lumber in interior work is COM
paraJively a new thing. The company
MAKES a specially of manufacturing this
wood, which is not only handsome, but is
durable, and promises to be one of the most
popular woods for interior ornamental
and finishing work. The cOmpany's adj
Vertisement on the first page of the NEWS
to-day gives an Idea of its business. The
directors are hessrs. d. G. Bacon, W. b.
Stillwell and II. p. Smart. MIR. II. z.
Smart Is President and General Manager
and Mr.. L. g. Bryan, secretary and Treas
urer. All are men of enterprise and bust
ness ability, and under their management
the company IS rapidly developing an ex-
tensive trade
1t is TO such enterprises as the Vale
Royal Company that the main prosperity
Of "A city is due, and when the solid and
'substantial foundation of capital and
energy upon which their business is
founded is considered it may be predicted
that that there are no bounds to their flu
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