, 1905-12-04

Pittsburg, and which were shipped on
the oath of November, arrived last
night and the car was switched to the
mills this morning, where the blanks
will be unloaded and turned as soon
as the work can be done. Joe Sholl,
who will have charge of this feature of
the mill work, arrived from the east
with his family yesterday morning, pre-
pared to make this city his home, and
was at the mill today, experimenting
the placing of the lathes to be used in
turning the rolls to the desired shape.
The roll lathes will be placed in the
large mill, in front of the pudding fur.
mace. The little house heretofore used
to shelter the lathes in the center of
the building will be torn down and re-
built larger to take in the two lathes.
A second lathe has been received from
the shops at Cheyenne and will be con
verified into a roll lathe, making the
plant double its former capacity.
The foundation for the large train
OF rolls war rouna DC adjective, thu
rolls being entirely out of line with the
engine shaft. The foundation has been
torn out to the bottom of the stay bolts
and will be rebuilt of concrete, the
train being lined with the shaft of the
big engine.
A carload of new seven-inch steam
pipe arrived yesterday and the pipe will
be used in conveying steam from the
boilers 10 the different engines. The
steam, water mi oil pipes 10 be car
ried to the west side of the mill have
been buried and some of the engines
are now ready to couple up. Some four
inch pipe has been received for use in
tho air reservoir
The big fan in the little engine room
has been placed on a new concrete
foundation, the old wooden foundation
and wooden props having been re.
moved.
TIL boiler for the Denver engine is
in readiness to be used. A carload of
coal was sen to the mill yesterday
and steam will be made as soon as
Mr.. Sholl is ready to start his lathes.
The boiler room has been newly rooted.
The battery of two additional boilers
will be planted as soon as they arrive
and the present boiler will be reversed,
the furnace being placed at the other
end. A coal chute will be built to take
coal direct from the a to the door of
the furnace, obviating a long wheel,
barrow haul and saving the labor of
at least one man, besides labor in un.
loading the car.
The warehouse recently burned will
be replaced, Supervisor Beck having
the plans for the building, and he will
start some men as 500 as he com
pletes the erection of the snow. fences
west of this city.
A peculiar condition was produced
by the severe wind last week. 1t was
thought that about all the scrap iron,
several thousand pounds, had been
picked up in the east yard. 1t was
carted into the mill and stored in a
bin for that purpose. Yesterday Dis,
trict Foreman Sullivan noticed a large
amount of scrap uncovered in the yard
the wind having blown the dust and
gravel away. 1t is believed several
hundred pounds can be saved and con
verted in the pudding urnace.
Drawings of the fittings of the new
Underground rails to be placed on the
Wyoming division have been received
and a set of rolls will be turned &C
cordingly. These include angle bars
fish plates, bolts, nuts and washers OF
a size larger than for the present eigh
ty-pound track, and will form a con
siderable portion of the output of the
mill.
One of the old shears will be convert
ed into a combined punch and shear
one operation punching the holes II
the angle bars and another, before the
red hot bar leaves the machine, shear
ing it to the proper length. Heretofore
these bars went first to the punch ant
afterward to the shear.
The old bolt room has been enlarged
by the removal of a brick partition wal
and the raising of the roof several feet
1.-THE bolt tappers will be in n portion
of This room and the machine shop il
+ the other, the machines being driver
by the Denver engine.
Tie line shaft to connect the ma
chimes along the western side Of tn