Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
I'LL REMODEL THE PLANT.
ktensive Changes to Be Made
at Paper Mills,

10 hhOnuSs--
Expenditure OF Several Hundred
thousand Dollars within Few Years.
At the general offices of the International
pei company in New York have been
fteently drawn plans for the important re-
aiding and enlargement of the plant at
Tbs point, and it is probable a large
mount of work will be done in this direc-
Ion during the coming season. These
rams are drawn from the complete and &C.
curate surveys made of the mills and canal,
~ they now stand, which were completed
Inst summer by two civil engineers of the
company sent here for that purpose. The
new plans have been in Bellows Falls re-
Gently in the hands of the assistant general
manager of the company, who brought
them for the purpose of comparison and
further planning for their execution. 1t is
now evident that all the changes made in
the last few months at different points
among the various mills of the company
have been with the end in view of an al
most entire rebuilding of the plant, look
ing particularly to the much greater econ
nFny and development of the water power,
Materially increasing the product of the
IeDQws Falls plant, as well as the employ
me- & of much increased force of men
Xhilo6il be welcome news to every citizen
3 81 I locality as there has been such
iargvonHpunt of doleful croaking regarding
ne slo1 ble disastrous results o; the mills
going e \ the trust year ago.
Thee >eral plans contain, among many
other Rou changes, the entire rebuilding
md enat ,ment of No. l boiler house,
With neNe Nilers, all to be of high pressure
instead of low pressure as now. This part
of the change is well under way, three old
hnilars having hao, pap,ayaJ nj tuyg Df
much greater capacity are nearly ready for
use A new steel stack is in place that is
% be used in connection with the old brick
chimney until new chimney capable of
accommodating all the boilers (eight in
humber) is erected.
The plans show a contemplated extern
zion of the present branch of the Rutland
railroad considerably further than at pres
emit, over the canal. This will greatly
facilitate the shipping of the product of all
the mills, as 'e'l as getting coal and stock
10 the mills. will pass in front of the
Robertson u Flint mills, greatly bene-
lifting both.
They show also the contemplated grad
H. rebuilding of numbers l, ,, 8, 4, and
machines and adding one more, making
six large sized machines standing parallel
with each other instead of at different angles
Sc nOM. HtJ are W Siduu relatively Int
same as Nos. and ) now do, only re-
B versed, the finished paper being delivered
In the direction of the finishing rooms, and
3 railroad, instead of toward the river as
now. All machines are to be run by
steam engines, and the plan of reversal of
machines is shown by the present work of
Putting the steam engines which are to
run Nos. 4 and at the opposite ends of
+ the machines from what would be done
were the machines to stand as now perma-
nently.
"A Probably the offices will eventually
come up on Bridge street, near where they
were 20 years ago, and the present loca-
ton be IJ/X for manufacturing Rur-
poses, for %H/I it is more valuable. The
plans show an immense iron pen stock %
feet iH diameter, from the canal between
No. > machine room and the Robertson
Paper company's mill, furnishing power
to large pulp grinding mill containing 90
stones, and the wheels running inside the
pen stock similar to those in No. 2 pulp
mill. Just as small an amount of expense
is being put to repairs of the present pulp
mills as possible with the view of entirely
rebuilding in the interest of greater econ
omy of power
Nearly as important improvements are
projected at the south end of the mills as
are indicated above at the north end, and
to one who has watched the movement of
t business of the company the past year,
ring at some details of changes, or
Ia Schanges, at different points, the
expla.- of the present plans make
plain many obscure movements, and can
but greatly encourage us to think our vii
lage is upon the eve of much greater pros
perity than in the past.
The improvements which are already
mapped out by actual drawings made, and
in conformity with which all changes are
now being made, indicate the expenditure
If a number of hundred thousand dollars
here in the immediate future. Consider
able has already been done. 1t is expect
ed some of the larger changes may be be-
gun this season, but the present intention
is to do them gradually, covering some
years in all.
These facts are matter of great con-
graduation to all interested in the growth
and business interests of our village.