The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-27
ANOTHER BIC PLANT
MAKES FINE START
Payne & Joubert Have Booked
Big Orders
ELECTRIC POWER is USED
High Grade Foundry and Machine
Plant at East Birmingham En-
ploys 200 Men, Most Of Them
Being Highly skilled.
ELECTRIC POWER is USED

Every year witnesses steady In
crease in the number of Birmingham S
manufacturing plants and the best of
1T is, no industry established here in
recent years, be 1t large or small, has
failed to prosper.
One of the largest and most I'M
portant concerns that has built in the
district within the past twelve
months is the Payne & Joubert Ma
chine & Foundry Co. It's plant is at
East Birmingham and no foundry is
better built or equipped with more
modern mechanical or electrical de-
vices.
The main building is constructed
of concrete, steel and brick, no wood
being used. 1t was erected by the
Scully Steel and Iron company of Chi
cago and.-cuyers an area of SO, 900
square feet.
In the works are installed three
great cranes, three large electric
lathes, 4O-inch plane, a 16-foot Dor
Ing mill. a 1O-foot boring mill, two
7-foot radial drills, one bolt cutting
machine four drill presses, two Whit
ing cupolas, each with melting ca
pacity of fifty tons a day, Corliss
engine, built by the Birmingham Ma
chine and Foundry company, an cleo
trical generator and other appliances
furnished by the McClary-J emison
company.
Electric Power.
Only electric power is used to drive
the machinery, and this power is gem
Grated by the Corliss engine at a
cost of only ton and half of coal
a day. Before modern electric ma
chinery was introduced steam for run
ming this plant wonld have required
ten tons of fuel day.
In the old days nearly year would
have been consumed in building the
Payne & Joubet plant. But concrete
and steel have revolutionized con-
struction work. Ground was broken
March 1 and the company made its
first heat" in August. 1t started off
with a 100000 ton order.
Near the main building is a large
fire proof two -story pattern house,
constructed of concrete and brick. The
pattern work is done on the second
floor and the first is used for storing
the patterns.
The Payne & Joubert Co. carries
ON its pay rolls 200 men, most of
them skilled workmen and all of them
faithful and true. The works are run
day and night, double shifts being
necessary to keep up with the or
ders.
The company makes a specially of
sugar apparatus, heavy machinery and
high grade furnace and building cast
inRs. 1t Is now doing work for the
Tennessee company, the Soss-Shef-
field and the Southern Steel.
Large Contracts.
The company recently finished a
large contract for j. c. White & Co.,
of New York city, general contractors.
This contract was for casting for a
government irrigating plant at Yuma,
Ariz. Every casting was inspected by
the government officials and out of
$50 tons not a single piece was re-
jected.
Payne & Joubert have Just started
a new order for a sugar refining com
pany at Chalmette, La, whose plant
represents an outlay of $4,000, 900.
This order includes five vacuum pans,
each fourteen feet in diameter,
Weighing three quarters of a million
pounds. These will be the largest
vacuum pans ever made in the
south.
The principal officers of the COM
pany are w. Il. Payne, president; r
s. Mcknight. vice president and gen
eral manager, and L. l.. Joubert, sec
rotary and treasurer.