West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-01-06
ale. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail
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TOaO WAS dttcI ~ oos PAiy T~es
600 for it. Mr.. Thomas II. Savery,
vice-president of the Pusey h Jones
Company, of Wilmington. Del, was
one OF the bidders. He saw the Bal
timore and Ohio's $4,000 and went
800 better. The property was
Knocked down to him for $25, 100.
For the Shenandoah property there
was no competition, and Mr.. Savery
secured this rich prize for $slc.
For this Insignificant ann he found
on the site material enough in the
shape of fine cut stone, &c, the foun-
dations and walls of the old rife
factory, to build the foundation OF
the pulp mill, which it is estimated,
if it had to be quarried, could not
have been placed in the mill for less
than $4,000.
The new pulp mill, nowin-courss-
Of erection An the Shenandoah, is
near the site of the old rife factory.
It's front and sides are Of brick and
the back of wood. 1t stands on
foundation walls Of stone four feet
thick, laid in Portland cement, and
is composed of two buildings, de
signed as one, and connected. The
main building is 11S feet wide and
60 feet long, and spans the old canal,
which runs along the Shenandoah
river. The smaller building joins
the main one in the rear. extending
down stream 80 feet, and is 80 feet
wide. At the ridge the@building is
about 25 feet high. The.under part
of the mill is divided into six fumes,
each Is feet wide, in which the wa
ter is held back by semicircular
sheet iron bulkheads Is feet high
and one-quarter inch thick. These
fumes are divided by four-foot walls,
similar to the foundations. Four of
the fumes contain eight 36-inch
New American turbine water-wheels,
two to each flume. The fifth flume
contains one 25-inch wheel of the
same make, which is used for driy-
ing all the machinery except the
stones, of which there are eight, one
for each wheel. The sixth fume is
the overflow. There are four 6-inch
shafts, to each Of which is keyed
two of the 36-inch water wheels, and
two of the grindstones, which are
four feet in diameter, with Is inches
face.s The castings for the stones
are being made by the Pusey d
Jones Company. Each contains
three pockets, 18 inches wide, 8
inches high and 15 inches long, for
wood. These are furnished with
brass plunges 10inches in diameter,
actuated by hydraulic pressure, 40
pounas 70 the square inch They
force the woodin the pockets against
the stones, which, making 200 revo-
lutions per minute or more, $500
circumferential feet grind the wood
into pulp. There arc two floors to
the mill; the upper one is the larger
and contains all the machinery ex-
cept the wheels and stones. There
is a large circular saw 40 inches in
diameter, two barking machines for
removing the bark from the wood, a
splitter, ,and four wet press machines
for making the pulp into bundles.
The lower floor contains only the
wheels and grindstones.
An immense amount of work had
to be done on the old canal before it
could be used. 1t was widened in
some places, and for distance of
800 feet before the mill the bottom
of solid rock was blasted TO depth
of Is feet. The tail-race, onethird
OF mile long to where it enters the
Shenandoah at its junction with the
Potomac, was excavated to a depth
of u feet and made 30 feet wide.
The distance between the head and
tail water is 80 feet, of which IL
feet are gained by the natural rap
ids of the river. Of the 80 feet 26
feet will be used. Eighteen hundred
horsepower will be developed. The
mill will be heated by steam and
lighted by electricity. ,.and will have
capacity of 40 tons Of pulp for day
of "a hours. 1t will be run night
and day, and two sets of men, 60 in
all, will be employed when the mill
is running, as it is expected to be
by the middle of February or first
of March.
The Shenandoah river is damned
at a point one mile above the mill
by q cribwork dam, Is feet wide and
1900 feet long, which, running di
agonally across the river, turns the
water into the canal, or headrace,
which, running down to the mill,
forms lovely lake, in some places
over 800 feet wide, which has very
little current The lake will be used
for boating, and will be called Lake
Quigley, in honor of Mr.. John F.
Quigley, the designer and construc-
tor of the mill, and vice president
and general manager of the compa-
nv. The water of the hcadrace en-
ters the mill from the upper or front
side, filling each of the fumes. run
ming thence to the water wheels,
placed on a four-inch oak floer,
passing through the draught tubes,
rs inches in diameter and II feet
deep, whence it is discharged into
the railroad. and carried down for