The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-25
NLHAY ENGINE EXPORTS.
.vgR FOUR MILLION DOLLARS
WORTH IN NINE MONTHS.
rrfal Heavy Engines Bought by
.,,tish Government From Ameri.
.~sn Manufacturers for Use in
he Northern Part OF Africa.

...tsi Dispatch TO the Post-Intelligencer.
BENNINGTON, May 24--The fact that
-. than 100000 worth of American
ru~.v engines have been exported in the
~. months ending with March, 1900, as
..~ssred with less than 100000 worth in
q. corresponding months ending with
80 ieN and 81 10000 worth In the cor
C-ordinr months of 1888, lends especial
s.sr,st TO the following statement from
s-,ort by the British agent and consul
sser,l IN Egypt. which has just been re-
yrea w the treasury bureau of statistics.
NJ report says:
Hare additions were made in the roll
:. Sfock In the course of the last year.
~ ~ the new stock added IL, however,
q s.siace old stock which has been con-
.sSrd. ! may mention that four trial
30 engines, exceeding in power the
ESsst locomotives in use on the English
NV. were ordered last year, two from
6scfow and two from America.
.fSe following extract from the report
Spt. tombstone, the acting president
a. railway administration. Is. | think,
suficisnt general interest TO justify my
mating It In full:
sffe number of break downs In our
stock has been very considerable, though
npplly they have not led to any con
ddcrablo accidents This is partly due
"A me changes In the workshops (now
Hying necessitated the postponement of
,1psifs and partly to some of the stock
Gpplied TO us having been of inferior
Galify. Now that the greater part of the
~ workshops are completed, repairs are
Slnf pushed on, while the list of firms
6IIoWed to tender for stock Is being care
kljy revised and the names of firms who
ns,..sd unsatisfactory material are being
efuck on.
II am glad TO say that the only loco
-.aa..- tlrr
km-M essrs. Nelson. Reid & Co.. OF elias
Nw--have not given the slightest trouble.
hose purchased from America in 1893
AVE also done well. but as they differ in
psny respects from our standard types.
VI own men have taken some time to
harn their peculiarities. and we have not
Ven able to get the best results out of
hsm.
= 1h4 action OF the board in ordering
locomotives and wagons (cars) from
Anerca has been criticised. 1t is due
)artiy to this fact: That American firms.
While they are not In position to tender
o. more favorable terms than others on
cur designs, almost invariably offer us
Meines or wagons built to standard de-
esns OF their own at lower prices and
n lssa time, whilst English and other Eu-
n2ean makers content themselves with
watering on our designs, being, as q rule.
not n the habit of manufacturing to
Standard designs of their own.
we mucn prefer adhering TO our own
randards, but In cases where time and
tpss are OF great Importance, such an Of
itr from America cannot be passed by.
On the other hand, the long time required
q present by competent English firms to
execute such orders Is prohibitive, and
% only order placed for locomotives this
ymr. besides the trial orders referred to
eewhsfe. went 10 a Belgian firm, who
&efed delivery In three and one-half
neotas less than any English Arm and
vno nave done work for us in previous
w the kenen-Assuan railway. Capt.
jcAnstone writes:
Three new locomotives have arrived
nd been taken into use-not before they
~ oadiy wanted. Thirty wagons and
miec more locomotives are on the way,
isoe nave all been ordered from America
q they were urgently needed and early
LIVERY could not be obtained else