Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-30
MILLS AND BUILDINGS.
Immense Structures for American
Lumber Company.
ENGINEER DAVIS At WORK.

Chief Engineer Davis, of the Amerl-
can Lumber company, is busily engag-
ed in drawing up the plans for the loca-
ton of the mills and buildings on the
company's grounds northwest of the
city To Citizen representative, the
plans, as far as completed, were given
for publication
At the extreme northwest corner of
the site the log pond will be located.
This pond has a capacity for about g.
100000 feet of logs, board measure.
Next to this will be saw mill No. /,
double band mill. the main building
n;aeeUring 70x230 feet. The large en-
gines and boiler, to be used for furnish.
ing power for the plant, will be located
east of saw mill No. l. Near to the
power house the large machine shops
will be located A refuse burner, for
consuming all the waste material that
will accumulate around the mills will
be built south of these buildings. BY
this means the premises will be kept
in clean and neat condition.
Saw mill No. will he located direct
| ly west of mill No. l. This mill will
be the same size and will be exactly
the same design as mill No. l, and an
other power house will he built tc
furnish power for mill No. 2.
Tracks will be run to both mills In
order that the timber in a manufac
tured state can be loaded for shipment
| right from the mills.
The next building will be a large
pumphouse, containing the water sys
TEN, which the company will use to
furnish water for the log pond wher
the water in the Rio Grande is low.
Near the pur1phouse a water tower
eighty-five feet high, having a capacit,
of $4,000 gallons will be erected.
| Then in order, trending toward tn,
south will be built the dry kllns, dry
lumber sheds, planning mills, large
box factory, storage house for boxes
Grated ready for shipment. The dimen
sions for these last named buildings
have not been decided upon as yet.
| A main line spur will be run from
the Santa Fe main line direct to the
log pond, spurs will be run from this
main spur to all the different buildings
Track No. / will run to the planning
mill. Track No. ~ saw mill No. l.
Track No. to the box factory. Trec,'
No. to the storage house. Track No
8 to the yard containing the stock as
1t comes from the mills, and to mill No
2. Track No. 6 to the yard in which
will be stored the lumber in the rough
state. South of all the other buildings
the storage grounds, which will have q
capacity of from 15,0VO,OO0 to 10000,
900 feet of lumber. The grounds of the
company will be entered about a hall
mile north of the city limits at the enc
of Twelfth avenue.
Engineer Davis stated today that
they were waiting for the arrival of the
Santa Fe engineers. who will lmmedi
ately begin work on the main nne spur
AS soon as this is finished stone, lum
ber and building material will be
| shipped in, and work wil begin ON the
construction of the buildings. Ii will
possibly be three weeks and perhaps
less time before everything will be in
readiness to begin work.
The great expense which will be nee,
essary in erecting all these buildings
assures the permanency of the Amer
lean Lumber company's plant.
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