San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-29
The process is las follows:

put into sulphid of lime
and steam watts; from there
they are put into liquor
of lime baths, where they are left
for twenty-four hours. After they
are taken out of those baths they
are allowed to stand on iron cars
to drip and dry. From there they
are run into the operating room
and run through die to remove
the acid and lime. They use three
sizes of steel rods, Nos. 6, and 9
and they make all sizes of steel
wire nails from t of an inch to 6
inches. The wire, after it comes
from the watts, is put through the
dies, which reduces in to the size
of nail required.
Persons who have never visited
a wire nail factory cannot have
any conception of the magnitude
of such works, nor the cOmpli-
Gated machinery that is used in the
manufacturing of them. One of
the machines is so powerful and so
perfect that it will take hundred
pound coil of No. steel rod and
reduce it so small that if stretched
on the ground, it would more than
reach from San Antonio to Chi
cago.
They manufacture the following
styles of nails: spike, depressed,
checkered, wagon, flat, hinge.
stating, oval, rivet, screw, barbed
roofing brads, barrel, moulding,
clinch, finishing, flooring, hoop,
barb, casing cone, counter-sunk,
hung, bath-boX, rose, boX-comb,
etc. They manufacture staple
and barb wire nails for fencing.
The smallest nail that they make
takes $4,000 to a pound and the
largest II.
The capacity of the plant is 100
kegs of 10Ob each every 10 hours.
AS they have new machinery on
the way they are going to double
the capacity of the factory. They
employ 40 men. They manufac-
ture their own nail kegs, and as
soon as they get their new ware
house up they will manufacture
all their own wooden and paper
boxes.
AS they have 100 acres of land,
they propose to erect a race track,
and operate it in connection with
the race course that the president
of the company, Col. r. G. Pate, is
now establishing at the City of
Mexico.
The Monterey and Mexican Gulf
and the Mexican National Rail-
way companies, have run their
tracks into the yard and along side
of the factory. The officers are:
r. c. Pate, president and treasurer;
Fred G. Burgdorfer, vice-president
and general manager, and VIM.
BUSHNELL, secretary. Capital stock
100000. The office is two-story
brick, 35x7O, with broad galleries
around it.
STREET RAILWAY.
A charter has been procured to
build a street railway from the
Monterey and Mexican Gulf Rail-
way depot to the Guggenheim
Smelter, the nail factory, the
Cuauhtemoc brewery and the
Mexican National Railway depot
and east to the place of beginning.
All the material for building it is
now on the ground, and the
ground will be broken between
now and July 10.
EMANCIPATION DAY.
The colored people in Monterey
celebrated the 10Th by giving a
picnic at Topo Chico Hot Springs
and local amusementS in the city.
FOURTH OF JULY NEXT.
The committee who have charge
of the 4th of July celebration have
issued their program for this year.
Judging by the preparations that
they are making they are going to
have a good time on that occasion.
DIED.
On the 10th Mr.. Henry Oliver, a
brother of VIM. Oliver, died at his
ranch near Montemorales, and was
buried on the 18th. Mr.. Oliver was
a lawyer by profession and was for
about a year, private secretary of
Gov. Hogg.
| PERSONALS.
Mr.. J. r. Davis, the general man.
ager of the Waters-Pierce Oil com.
pany, for Mexico, has been in the
city on business this week.
w. T. Frazier, a prominent min.
ing man of Portland, Oregon, is
here on a prospecting tour, and sc
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