The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-13
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


| Work upon the plant of tho Radford
Pipe and Foundry Company has been
taken up energctically. The company
has forty-two acres of land west of tho
location Of the Crane Iron Company's
plant, between First street and the
river. Upon this site the buildings
have been located and the work of put
ting in tho foundations is to be done at
once by the same force which has the
contract for the foundations of tho
Crane works. The buildings alone will
occupy space |. 200 feet square. This
conveys an idea OF the size and impor-
lance of this plant. 1t will be a grand
thing for Radford.
According to calculation made by
the Economists Beige. the cost of firing
Lotion gun is. i'll round numbers,
SS32, divided rs follows: $50 pounds of
powder. $3.50, 1850 pound proicctile.
S435; silk for cartridge, $l7-SS33. But
this not all. The llO-ton gun. it ap-
pears, can be fired but % times. and
after that becomes incapable Of being
used, and requires repairs. Now, the
cost of the piece being $50, 400. it is
necessary to estimate the cost of wear
at about $S6S for each shot, thus raising
the cost of each charge to 81, 700
The Bradford Reservation" syndicate.
which recently purchased large tract
OF land in the thriving town of Brad
ford, divided the acquired property in a
just and equitable distribution manner
Saturday afternoon. The division was
made in such manner that each stock
holder received deeds in fee for his pro-
portionatc share of stock.
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A tower of iron and steel. 1.50o feet
high. has been designed by Charles
l\lnklc and &. Il. Pohl, architects. OF
Washington, ID. c.. TO be erected in con
nection with the Worlds Fair. at Chic
ago. and it is said that number of cap
ltaitsts i'll New York, Washington and
Chicago arc behind The enterprise. and
Will erect the structure without asking
ana OF the fair managers or ANYBODY
else. The only name given is that OF
VI. II. Baily. contractor and builder.
who is one OF the incorporators. The
tower. according to the report is to he
erected within Il mile OF the commercial
centre of the city. regardless of the To-
cation of the fair. be permanent and
cost 100000.
The base will be $50 feet in diameter.
with skeleton Of stcel-framcd lattice
work on III hypcrbolic curved legs" and
ity to seat 10000 people. and Il hotel
with 1000 rooms in the structure space
for the public library, rooms for the
Grand Army. public institutions. etc.
There arc TO he eight elevators for the
| first 100 feet. four To 200 feet four TO
400 feet. and two to the top. The floors
will be 33 feet apart.
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The making of artificial fuel gas is
deeply interesting l'ittsburg manufar-
turers. Among the companies men
toned rs preparing for this change in
fuel is the Pennsylvania Tube Works.
Messrs. Swindcll & Bros, makers of re-
| generativc gas furnaces for making
artificial fuel gas by the Siemcns, An
dcrson process, have considerable work
in hand on new plants for mills. They
| say they can manufacture gas cheaper
than it can he piped from wells.
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| Nicaragua Canal adviccs of October H..
! say that work has been commenced on
| dredging out the bar to the harbor and
! the first level of the canal. Five of the
| drcdges used at Panama and now at the
Nicaragua Canal are in Il condition to
| go to work. The railway is steadily APP
preaching completion, but progress is
| necessarily tedious, as it passes through
swamp land and all material must come
! from the east end. The timber in the
swamp is cut, formed into rude cribs
and then filled with sand brought from
/ the Grcytown end.