The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-27
MAKING ASPHALTPAVING
AT THE SOUTHERN VULCANITE
COMPANIES WORKS.

Begun nov. / and the Liberty Street
Contract to be Taken Up Next-The
New Company to Fave a Capacity
for Laying 1000 Yards of Paving a
Day-A Visit to the Paving Works
Where the Asphalt Comes From and
How 1t Is Prepared.
The work is progressing rapidly at the
two yards of the Southern Vulcanite Pay
ing Company, and Supt. Vandenburg is
kept busy going backward and forward SUI
periutending and hurrying up the work,
but lie took tie time yesterday to show a
MORNING News reporter through the yards
and to furnish coed deal of interesting
information connected with the extensive
plant which is now being constructed here.
The first visit was paid to the mixing
yard which is located on the Ogeechee canal
at the foot of Bryan street, reaching from
Canal street to the canal. The lot is 235 by
1871 feet. Here a force of twelve brick
masons, four carpenters and twenty laborers
is employed. On this lot the sand heater
asphalt heater and mixers are to be located.
The sand heater is a brick structure with
hot air cells, on which will be mounted four
rotary sand heaters for beating
the sand and crushed granite before going
to the mixers The sand heater structure
is OF brick, with furnace and hot air cham
bers lined with fire brick, and the masonry
is II feet inches front, 10 feet 81 inches
deep, and 90 feet high. Over these are
placed the four rotary heaters, which are of
iron, IL feet long and 2 feet in diameter.
An elevator conveys the sand and granite
TO the top of the heater where the sand is
emptied into two of the rotary drums and
the granite into the other two. The sand
heater lie to be supplied with two iron
smoke stacks, 2S feet high, with four fur
naces beneath.
THE HEATING WORKS.
The asphalt heater is Of masonry, 16 feet
10 inches front, IL feet inches deep, and
feet high. Two heavy iron watts, each II
feet long, 6 feet wide, and 3 feet inches
deep, with a capacity of from 100 to $50
barrels of asphalt are to be laid in the ma
sonry over the furnaces. In these watts the
asphalt and distlllate are heated. The
mixers, two in number, are large cylindri-
cal vessels with revolving iron paddles, one
of the mixers being used for inder and the
other for surface. They are to be placed on
raised platform, and two iron carriages
with graduated iron buckets bring the
sand and asphalt to the mixers, where the
contents are emptied into the mixers and,
mixer slides and dumps the mixture into
carts at temperature Of from 200 to $40
Fahrenheit to be carted away to be spread
upon the streets The boiler and engine
will be located in the rear of the mixers,
and the three structures are to be put under
a corrugated iron roof.
Storage sheds are being erected for lime
and cement, and neat office has been
built between two wide gates fronting on
Bryan street, where all the outgoing carts
are checked and all the products are noted.
Two large gates open on the canal to re-
ceive the sand, asphalt and distillate which
are lightered UP the canal-the sand from
the Savannah river bars and the asphalt
and distillate from steamers. Mr.. Martin
| Cooley has the contract for
delivering the sand, and has
| yard is to be net work of narrow gauge
tracks to facilitate the handling of material
| in labor-saving way. There is a large
gate on the south for bringing in the fine
rock from the crushing yard.
| SHIPPED FROM THE NORTH.
The asphalt and distillate come by steamer
| from the works of the National Vulcanite
Asphalt Company at Jersey City, aud will
| begin to arrive next week. Superintendent
| Vandenburg says the mixing yard will be
ready to go into full operation in two
| NeokS, WHICH IN as soon dS LueV Will want
| to Use it, and the material will all be on
the ground. Mr. George Schley has the
| contract for furnishing the lime and cement
| There are thicty-slx men employed in the
| construction OF the works at tue mixing
yards, and all the machinery, except the
engine and boiler, is on the ground The
mixing yard, where the works are being
operated. will give employment to ten men,
| three of whom will be skile in the work
| Tba,n ic nj vii o. "a i,,t.
yard, at Harris and West Broad streets,
where an office has been erected, and where
| ten carpenters and fifteen laborers are at
work putting in the foundations for forty
horse power engine and boiler to run the
crusher and elevator, aud finishing the plat
form for receiving the granite and laying
| the foundation for the Crusher. The lot Is
| s. by 100 feet, with railroad track on 8
raised tresile running parallel with the plat
form, and on q Level with the car flows SC
that the granite can be rapidly unloaded
Tie platform is so by 20 feet, and the
crnsher is to be built up in it. The crushed
granite is conveyed in elevators to the hight
of 40 feet, and delivered into screens OF
three different grades and discharged into
three separate bins, Of an entire storage
capacity of between 800 and 900 tons, the
bins being sc feet by "a by H.
THE STONE CRUsHERs.
| L ne cruSIer is SET 10 . Inches ana the 1Ol
| lowing grades come from the screens:
No. l-One quarter inch and less which
goes into the wearing surface. No Q
Above 4 inch and up to ] d inches, which
enters into the composition OF the binding
surface and is known as the binder both
OF which grades go TO the mixing yard
pass through the heaters and are mixed
with the asphalt for their respective courses
No. 3-All over Il inch goes into the base
and is carted direct to tue streets at night
in cars adjusted to run on the street rail
way, and spread on the street, where a
special mixture of one gallon to the square
yard is poured over it hot. and it is then
rolled with a lotion roller and compressed
TO solid mass. The carts pass under the
bins, which are automatically opened and
shut to load the carts. The stone
is not touched by hand from the
time it is shoveled into the crusher from the
raised platform. Three carloads Of granite
can be unloaded at once on the platform,
the granite coming in ten carload lots
daily. Twenty tons an hour can be run
through the crusher, aud it is calculated &c
crush ten carloads daily. Mr.. Vandenbure
says the yard will be ready to crush stone
in ten days. Ten men will be employed at
the yard.
TO LAY 1000 YARDS DAY.
"The entire plant" said the superintend
emit, sis calculated to lay completed 1,00t
yards day, If necessary. We will begir
| grading Nov | Wa will start with tweu.V