The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-15
DEMAND GREAT FOR
MALLEABLE PRODUCT
Vice-Presldent of Big Iron Range
Company Talks of Con-
Gitions.

r. w. Rodgers, vtce-president OF the
Malleable Iron Range company or Bea-
YER Dam, Wis, is q guest at the
Knutsford, en- route to San francisco,
to reopen the large agency maintained
there before the catastrophe. Speak
ing in a general way. he said:
cat our works at Beaver Dam We
have some 500 men employed, and VIII
soon havo 600 moro, by reason OF the
establishment OF n new malleable iron
works for railroad equipment, to servo
the great orders coming in from the
Chicago. Milwaukee and St PAU llno
for its transcontinontal extension.
1t is not generally known that Of
late years all appliances used In rail-
road traffic are made OF malleable Iron.
whore before they were single castings
II you have ever examined curve on
a first-class road you saw the supports
to meet the blow Of the train on tho
outer rail, and often the blown very
cold weather-would crack an other
wise strong support, and, often, derail
the train. With these things made OF
malleabIe iron it cannot happen.
Equals Foreign Mixture.
I'VE have an article OF iron In the
famous iron ridge near our factory
which, when mixed with Southern iron.
such as we get from Alabama and Ten
nessee. makes a malleable plate equal
TO any we ever got from a miXtu<t Of
foreign irons. Tho Southern iron is OF
q soft nature, and our native product
is hard; the mixture being just what
was needed for railroad purposes,
Just think what 1t means for the safety
of railroad travellers. One-half of all
railroad accidents come from faults In
the rails or Toadbed and where mallea-
BILE iron is used this percentage Will be
wiped out.
This demand brings people to our
section, and the west line OF Lake
Michigan is no longer q barrier for
the drift OF population. In fact the
center OF population is now to the
westward of that line We have had
the largest business this year. espe-
cially in our great Monarch Range
plant, We have known, and all other
lines Of business about us have the
same story to tell. Civilization demands
the better aids to domestic life, and
the demand for high grade cooking
ranges is greater than ever.
Still Another Outlet.
There is still another and important
outlet for malleable machinery, In the
greatly increased demand for all sorts
OF farm implements mado therefrom,
Headers. mowers, reapers, binders,
thrashers and all sorts of plows are
now fitted with malleable attachments,
and the inducement for profanity and
aggravation, by reason OF a broken
casting, no longer exists. We employ a
cultured chemist who carefully ana
lyzes all ores and pigs that come to
us. and n combination Is made, such
as can stand any degree of cold or
heat and any strain possible to place
on parts made from It.
$50 great has the demand grown for
malleable supplies In all lines OF work
that sll factories are swamped with
orders for a year ahead. Castings for
a thousand similar uses are practically
q thing Of the past
The great catStF6phe at San Fran
cisco In no way affected trade In the
great valley areas OF California, and
demand, even now, is remarkable
Practically every cooking range In San
Francisco's burned district was ruined
and 1t VIII take all the output Of all
the factories now running for a year,
at least TO supply the demand there.
and keep up trade at all other points.
Utah is great center for our lines Of
goods and we are fully alive to the
needs of this growing field"
Have you attended Desky's clothing