The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-09-21
Monarch Mill Coming.

we made q second visit to the Mon
arch Mn one day this week, and we
could hear the music Of the hammers
two or three hundred Yards before we cot |
to the mill. We found large force o; |
hands under Mr.. &. i. Padgett, driving |
nails in the floor in very rapid manner.
MIR. Padgett informed us that this was |
nothing to what was being done there |
last Saturday. lie SaySh lie had 40 hands |
driving nails that day and they used 40 |
kegs OF nails and put down 5000 feet of |
ltOoting, there We're also some 80 or 40 |
other hands driving nails in other parts |
OF the building. Judging from the
racket this force was raising Monday
with theiThammers, the Saturdays noise
must have been deafening. Mr. Low
cry, the inside boss. tells us that tie
floors will all be laid and cleared UP
been done in few weeks time. Ih.H
is about the situation now: The mill IS
no. the roof, which is covered with
five ply roofing, heavily coated with
gravel, is on, the floors are all ready ior
the machinery to be put in, the engine
and boiler room is nearly finished, the
stack is some 25 feet high and going up
rapidly, without scaifolding, an iron bar
ladder being placed on the inside OF the
stack-an immense saving III Sca1lo!d
lbnildinr-the concrete flooring IS being
mt in the boiler and engine rooms, the
two and three quarter million gallon
capacity reservoir about finished ana
ready for the concrete and cement, or
which there will be used 700 barrels.
The reservoir is within 100 yards OF the
mill ON the north side TO the rear. IL
will I've filled from the reservoir aJ tlle
branch below. and the mill will draw It's
supplv therefrom. We also ilnd Ill
houses for operatives have sprung vi
almost like mushrooms, and all but thre,
are finished on the outside, While tht
greater portion Of them are painted au'
painters rapidly plying the brush on Ih'
: rest.
e Mr.. G. S. Allen, the superintendent
: in charge of the construction, iii convel
n satjOn with us remarked that the lln
It people were the people to build mi
:. when they took hold of it and we be
d lieve he is right. We went all over IN
t. building and viewed the landscape o'e
y from tile dizzy height Of the wall on tG
le of the roof. The panorama that Sprea
n out in every direction was certain
something beautiful to gaze upon, an
ne we gaZed tc our hearts content. w
cy were someu nat disappointed, howeVe
y, when we turned to get a brdseye vie
AL of the city of Union, we could hard
lie believe our eyes when they showed
h. nothing :except tho tips OF two vhur'
steeples and the tops of the mill stack
It seemed that Union had SINK into
Significance since the springing up
the Monarch Mill and its surroundl
M Enthusiastically had hid behind the tree
cir We supposed we were going to get ma
to niticent view of the entire town, but
re- account Of tho multitude Of oak tree
intervening Union town is shut fro
III. view and one can come almost as ne
on seeing York as Union.
ton With the force of hands at work
Monarch, aud the way the different TO
,dv men and bosses keeps them humping
,ou is not going to be long before you v
nan see smoke curling from $50 foot st,
lust in rear of Monarch Mill
mes The machinery will soon begin to
the rive ard everything is ready
it when it gets here. The slasher
tbe one oflthe elevators have arrived. I'll
on. will be two elevators with a third to
ros. low the extension of ihe mill.