The Ketchikan miner., 1909-01-02
The New England Fish
 Company's Plant.

she plant of the New England Fish Co. also many who have visited it. have not the tsinte>s idea of the con- sirucsion of the plant The freezing sni cold storage building contains more lumber than any fire builings in Keschiksn and is put up in manner which makes it absolutely air tight when all the doors are closed. To begin with she consrl uceio0 of the plant and give il 10 you in detail We sill begin with the foundation and end with the roof.
 The fouundasion is of cement there being s sixteen inch wall on two sides with two rows of cemen. pillars rum ming through the center. the sills are sweIve by twelve inches in diamater
 and all ioiss are three by twelve. twelve inch ceuters- S,udding two by six bracrsd every two feet. twelve inch centers and raf1ers two by txelve. twelye inch eenters- Under heath the building and on she under side Of the floor ioiss are two layers of flooring with building paper be- tween. and on top. or she floor. are two layers of flooring with building paper between, then one layer of two inch cork dipped in hot asphaltum and laid Shile the aSphalsum is hot and securely nailed down. then layer ot building papre. then layer of one inch cork treated as above with as- phalium, then layer Of building pa per which is completely covered with hot asphslsum. then layer of ce uens. then metal Isth and finished with another layer oi cement which completes the floor.
 The side walls on tbe inside are treated in the same manner exec pt that 10 cement is used on the cork. instead. there is coat of budding pa per placed On the cork and flooring cIosey matched finishes the side walls. The sharp treezers where the tenn perss1re is to range near the zero mark are, treated all over the same as the DOTS The second story is com psied the same as the first except the ceiling which has two layers of floor ing with building paper between.
 The ceiling iOiss down stairs having oOshing or tben- On top of the ioist in ihe attic there are two layers of flooring with building paper between then cork treated the same as dowr stairs then finished with a layer of floor ing.
 The roof is laid with matched floor ing and covered with kind Of pre- pared paper for roofs. There are no Eindo1s and only three doors to the cold storage plant
 The sharp freezers which are about sixteen bg thirty eight feet, have nearly to thousand feet of pipe in each room leaving space iD the ceDsre a. bout four feet wide in which 10 pIsc. the fish 10 be frozen. The ceilings O. the entire building is complete ret work of pipes for the ammonia slou- lion.
 On the outside walls there are two layers of flooring with building paper between and bsttens over the cracks. The whole is painted white which gives K cIeanIy appearance. h con- nection with this there is twenty ton ics plant and power room where the pumps are stationed for pumping the ammonia and where the big dynamos are set which furnish the power which is generated at Georges Inlet and is transmitted oyer six and one half miles Of wire.
 And ths end is not yet. Mfr. Sted- man is away now completing plans for the coming year's work and by the end of the coming year buildings wili be con pIeted for all kinds Of re- pairs on the feet of fishing crafts, and no doubt many residences for the em- pIoyees, making Panama quite town in itself.
 Thomas Torey. who needs TO intro ducsion 10 the people Of Kescbikap. las charge Of the construction and his work speaks for itself. being fire demonstration of his mechanical sbii- iiy.
 industries Of this kind k what we need to make Kelehiksn sbe leading city Of Alaska.