The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
TOPEKA STAvE FACTORY
New Industry That Is Opening Fresh
Fields.

There is a newly established industry
IN Topeka which promises to grow to
goodly proportions. The industry is To-
Gated at the west approach of the East
Sixth Street viaduct and was estab-
lished by the Armstrong-Anderso
Commission Co. Though only sprung
into existence within the past few
months the stave factory already
boasts of three buildings of goodly size
with more to be erected in the near
future. The buildings already erected
are the cooper shop, 80 by 40 feet; store
house. 40 by 20. and manufacturing
building, 20 by 60. A storage building
will also be built within the next few
weeks; this latter structure will be $50
by 30.
The machinery necessary to turning
out the slaves, box material and basket
stuff is located for the most part in the
manufacturing building. In the list of
machinery is a veneer machine, heading
turner. for turning out material for the
heads of barrels, planer, a saw header
and a drag saw.
The principal piece of machinery is
the veneer machine which takes hold
of a four foot log of no matter of what
dimensions and turns it out IN long
sheet of timber varying in thickness of
from one hundredth second of an inch
TO five-eignths of an inch in thickness.
The ordinary stave stuff is from three
efghthS to f1Ve-eighthS of an inch in
thickness, the basket one thirty second
while the egg case stuff is one fourth of
chine gives the necessary bevel to the
stave in addition to turning it out in
the proper thickness. In short, the
veneer machine called Goes is the
whole thing.
The saws cut up the cottonwood logs
into the proper lengths. Cottonwood is
to furnish the NAV of the machinery with
it's food.
in fun running capacity will be two car
loads OF stuff per day for the year around
and will give employment to from 10 to
Most of the box and egg case material
will be shipped away in a knocked-down
ments for the barrels and egg cases in
ready to use a cooperage shop will be
trade. An interesting part of the factory
will be theh basket department which in
pert from the east will be brought to take
charge and weaving machinery will be
installed
The whole plant is to all purposes some
thing entirely new to Kansas and this
nature has to be shipped to the west from
Michigan; Wisconsin, or, the
will be no difficulty to take care of the
product. In fact it will
of all the orders at first. Enough timber |
exists adjacent to Topeka to supply the /
If that should become exhausted it would |
still prove profitable to ship the new ma |
terial in and manufacture II In IOpeka |
NJ. S. Holly is the superintendent of the |
plant and has been in charge for some |
time past of the cooperage shop run by |
Anderson Commission COM
pany. - orr
The way the industry became a realty /
IS rather interesting to note. The COM
mission company referred to has been |
in ding II rather difficult to secure par
rel and egg case material as well as bas- I
kets. Shipments would not always move |
or orders would incur delay IN
alling at the factory. Finally to do away |
with all of this annoyance the owners OF
this new industry decided to establish n
plant of their own. Thus with this inten--
lion in mind they erected their buildings
On the present site near the Sixth street
riaduct which as far switching ia
.flities a re concerned, could scarcely he
mprOVed upon.