Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-20
SOUTHWESTERN SHOPS
 NEARING COMPLETION
MANY RAILROAD PEOPLE WILL MOVE TO EL PAso WHEN
 THEY ARE DONE.

II DOUGLAS, June 19-(5pecial.l- l- II considerable number of Douglas l families will move to Fl Paso between l August 1 and October 1 on account of l the new Southwestern shops in that | city. Superintendent of Motive Power | Thomas Paxton, who will have his headquarters in the Pass City when the | shops are completed, will probably be the last of the Douglas people to move his family away, and they will go to Fl Paso about October 1. Chief Clerk i Trowbridge expects to move there Au- |, gust 1.
 l The Fl Paso & Southwestern rail way expects to have their shops and roundhouse in Fl Paso completed by [ August. so that they can move into the buildings. A force of 300 men are working under H. s. Ervay, Jr., super Ijntendent of construction. on the struc- lures, and the work is being pushed l with all possible ceierity in order to finish the buildings by the time antic- | ipated. When completed the shops will be the best equipped and fitted of any in this part of the country, 1 their capacity being large enough to accommodate a road with twice the mileage of the Southwestern.
 The buildings will be of the most modern style and equipment Elec- tricity will be used as power through out the shops. which allows for the buildings to be some distance apart, so that there will be plenty of room between them for necessary tracks. All of the structures are put up with 1 reinforced foundations, steel frames and brick walls, making them strong. , durable and fireprOOf, there being but very little wood about them. The work of construction was started last November. and it has been hastened so that tine road can get into it's new shops to do the repair work on the rolling stock. which cannot be kept in proper order under the present ar l engagements.
 The shops will be the main shops of the system, and all of the heavy re-
 pair work and overhauling will be ldone in them. Shops will be main
 tained at the engine divisions for light repair work.
 Large Roundhouse.
 The large roundhouse here will cor.
 tain twenty-one stalls, where the same
 number of engines can be housed at
 one time. Twenty-seven tracks will
 approach it.
 In connection with the roundhouse
 there will be a patented link belt coal
 chute that will have a capacity of 200 tons of coal. This is located over two tracks so that two engines can be sup
 piled at once. and so rapidly that fif- teen or twenty locomotives can be fill ed in a short time. The chute has two
 pockets. one over either track, each I thn ctn Ntt .f TAr of coal. Adjacent to the chute is a sand shed where the engines are able
 to take on sand while receiving coal
 There is a cinder pit under each of the tracks, and a water column pass es over both tracks. The turning ta-
 ble, which is to be run by electricity, is on these same tracks and a coal yard, where hundreds of tons can be stored, is close by.
 Blacksmith Shop Complete. The blacksmith shop, 70Xl00 feet. is completed. The main machine shop, 320X140 feet. with an IT. for a tool room, will be finished by August 1 and ready for occupancy. It will have fourteen tracks in it, with a drop pit under each one. There will also be a crane. capable of lifting 100 tons. in this building. and it will be used for moving an engine from one track to ! another, making 1t unnecessary to move the tools from one part of the building to another part. This crane was raised today. and 1t is the largest one In this section of the country. A smaller crane, able to raise ten tons, ] will run parallel to it.
 A large transfer table, 75 feet long, to be operated by electricity, will run between the machine shop and the mill. It will be the means of trans. l porting cars and engines from one end of the building to the opposite end of | the other.
 The mill. S0x20O feet. is all finished but the placing of the glass in the. windows. The wood for the repair of the cars will be sawed and planed here. Car Shops Last.
 l The cabinet, coach and paint shops will be under one roof, 200X112 feet. The artians are now working on the steel frame of this building, and it will be the last one completed.
 South of all these the store house, 1 150X60, is located, with the casting ] platform. 200xS0, next to it. The of flee building. 50x60. where the offices | of the mechanical department will be, | is close by. -.-. ...- l The power house, 50X100, will stand at the corner of the machine shop. | The electricity which will serve as the | power of the shops, will be generated I in this one buiidiag. It will be fin 4 ished by the middle of next month. H The oil house. 40x60, is now com- II pIeted. All of the oil for the machin- II cry and the locomotives will be kept in it. Near by are two large oil tanks for crude oil, holding 50,000 gallons