Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
Ottumwa Box Oar Loader Co.'s
New Factory Building.
A LARGE WEST END INDUSTRY.
Plant viii Also Include Big Foun-
dry Building, Which Will be Erected
In the Near Future-Description Of
the New Buildings.

from tuesdays Daily.
The first building of the large plant
which is being erected in the west
end of the city by the Ottumwa Box
Car Loader company, will very soon
be completed, and if the work in the
near future progresses as rapidly as
| it has in the past, the plant will be in
operation within the next thirty days.
The manufacture of the box car
loader, a machine invented by Messrs.
Henry Phillips and w. e. Hunt, of OF
tumWa, promises to become one of
the most important in the city, If not
the state. 1t is a machine for loading
coal in box cars at the mine, and SO
successful in its operation proving
that the demand for it is increasing
every day. A, force of fifty men, at
least, will be necessary to carry on
the work at the factory as soon as it
is opened, and Messrs. Phillips and
Hunt said today that if they were to
work day and night for three months
they could not catch up with their or
| ders now on hand.
The factory when completed will
consist of two large buildings, besides
boiler room of proportionate dimenzt
sions. For, the present the building
now being constructed and the boiler
room for which the foundation has al
ready been laid, will constitute the
plant It is the intention of the com
pany, however, to very soon erect a
second large building adjacent to the
one now being completed, to be used
as foundry. The foundry building
will be SO feet wide and 100 feet in
length. az
| The main building of the factory is
Is feet wide and 100 feet long. 1t is a
single story structure, combination
brick and frame. 1t is being built on
the same style as the buildings of the
Dain plant in regard to lighting, a
portion Of the four sides of the struc-
Iture being made of glass.
| The entire structure will be cleo
Etrically lighted by means of a 5O.horse
power dynamo which has already been
lplaced in position. There will be ten
arc lights in the main building, be-
[sides numerous incandescent lights.
la large crane which will be used for
i loading the heavy machinery onto the
cars, will also be operated by the
same dynamo. The power for the
4 dynamo and the machinery in the
! factory will be furnished by go
horse power engine which has already
been placed in position A sidetracls
will be constructed thru the main
building, connecting with the Milw;. Il
kee tracks on the north and the Rock
Island on the south. This will facili-
4 tate shipping and reduce the expense
lof loading the machinery to mini
mum, or, in other words, the loading
of the product of the factory will be
made as easy as that of loading coal
by means of the machine which is
i loaded.
The workmen are now engaged in
placing the shafting in the building
and completing other work prepare
tory to placing the machinery in po-
lsition. The company has already oc-
oupied it's new offices. which are in
1.-THE factory building, and neatly and
conveniently arranged.
4 The boiler room, which is to be a
structure 40 feet square and erected
adioining the main building, is under
way, and the boilers will be put in in
a week or; ten days.
The Ottumwa Box Car Loader COM
pany will also manufacture a machine
for the purpose of loading grain from
elevators into box cars. This is not
an invention of the company's, but it
will control the manufacturing of it.
All the work in this factory will re-
quire expert mechanics, and the com
pany will employ a number of highly
skilled workmen whose services to-
Egether with the output of the plant
j will beafelt with beneficial influence
by everyone in the city.
A Messrss Phillips & Hunt have been
granted patent on an. automatic. re.
versing device, which they say will be
Eof inestimable value to their box car
loader. 1t is a valve that has long
been in demand, and as soon as the
plant is got in running order and the
work inNthe loader department is well
under way, it is the intention of the
company to push it's new invention
which may prove an additional indus
! try of more importance to the com.
: mercial interests of Ottumwa than is
} at first presumed.
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