The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-11-27
q SUBSTANTIAL CONCERN.
Inc oesls Foundry and Machine
Works Forging Ahead-coverIng
the Territory From oesis to
Tampa.


ocala feels justly proud Of her sew
eral industries aud she has none more
substantial than the Ocals Foundry
and Machine Works or one that is
making greater Roadway.
These works were moved to Ocala
from Orange Lake in 1890 and was
then a very small concern. But it
not only held its own but continued
to grow despite bank failures, freezes
and other calamities.
Some years after moving to OcaIa
it absorbed the Graham Foundry and
Machine Works ian entirely new
plant and introduced supply Of
new and up-tO-date machinery and
is now beyond all odds the strongest
plant of the kind between Jackson.
vile and Tampa.
There are twenty seven men on the
pay rolls all of whom are kent ac.
lively employed and no man on the
force is ever idle.
The establishment has just turned
out complete saw mill for the Raw
observation-disclosures and new has
one under way for the Northern &
Southern Lumber Company.
In front OF the establishment are a
number of locomotive engines, mill
boilers and other huge pieces of ma
cbinory that have been or are i'm the
process Of being overhauled.
LIZ there Is anything in the world
We de not know anything about it is
machinery, but it does seem 10 us
that the Ocala Foundry and Machine
Shops is the busiest place in the city.
The building is tremulOus with the
whir OF wheels and to see the red
sparks and molten iron and all sorts
of machines automatically at work
saving, drilling and shaving iron
bars and plates as though they were
wood, is very interesting sight.
The plant, among other machinery,
has six lathes, two planners, three
drill presses, one sharper, one KEY
seating machine, two pipe machines,
and a large stock of tools and other
implements used in a plant of this
character and the foundry and black
smith shops which are under the
same roof but in separate apartments
are furnished complete throughout.
This establishment is especially
fitted up with a large stock of mill
supplies, such as inspirators, lubrica.
tors, injectors, governors, pump
valves, setting nuts, sheat and rod
packing, steam guages, safety valves,
machine hollis, set collars, shafting.
pulleys, belts, etc, and also makes a
speciality of phosphate mining SUP.
plies and has made a success of a
picking table, which has almost en-.
tirely taken the place of the picking
belts heretofore used. 1t makes car
wheels and boxes and is building
small portable machines for general
sale.
The Foundry and Machine Works !
is in charge ot Mr.. b. s. Anderson, a
graduate of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute (the best in the SOUTH and
who spent six years with the Lom-
bard Iron Works and Supply Com
pany, of Augusta, Ga.
Under Mr.. Andersou's direction the
Ocala fOunury ana Machine Works
is rapidly extending its business and
is acquiring a reputation among all
the phosphate miners, mill men and
turpentine operators in all the terri
tory from Ocala to Tampa and during
our visit was just filling an order
from the city of Tampa.
The company has enlarged its
building for the third time and is still |
cramped for room.
If you want to feel that OcaIa is
growing visit her shops.
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