Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-20
PULLMAN SHOPS
 ENLARGED
Three Millions to be Spent to Make Them Largest in
 World.
STEEL CAR PRODUCTION
 WILL BE INCREASED.

CHICAGO. May l9.--Work has been begun by the Pullman company on sse00.000 improvement of the car slirps at Pullman, which will make thcm the largest car construe- tion plant in one unit in the world. The expenditure was decided upon by ;he beard recently in the belief that by the time the additions to the works are completed, which will be in September. the company will be able to place the entire output of be- tween 10000 and 5o,000 freight and passenger cars a year.
 The capacity of the plant is to be increased two-thirds. the increase be- tug entirely in the line of steel car construction. One of the first orders which will be turned out by the new shops will be that of the Pennsyl- vania railroad for 900 ali'steel pas senger cars to be used by that com pany as soon as the tunnels into New York City are completed.
 Expenditure of Company. The detailed expenditure which the Pullman company is going to make was ofiicially announced yesterday by Richmond Dean, general manager. and it means the employment at Pull man Of between 10000 and f2.000 practically under one roof. The max. imum number heretofore employed at the shops was 1000 during the ban ner year of the company when 25.000 cars were constructed The expendl- lures which have been decided upon and for which contracts have been awarded are as follows:
 For two car erecting shops s00.00o Electrical power house ..- 100000 Steel cabinet shop .----- 10000 Brass foundry --.-.---.---.-- 100. 900 Freight car shop .---.E.. 1.25o. 900 Equipping shops for work in
 cidental thereto and for
 Mscel, improvmts. .. I 000. 900
 The work means the entire rear. rangement of the Pullman plant into more compact whole with all the modern improvements which will en- able the company to manufacture cars at a minimum cost. Before the board of directors decided to spend this large part of the company's sur plus, General Manager Dean made an investigation of the equipment condi- tions of all American railroads. This work led him to the conclusion that when business shows a sign of re sumption upon a normal basis the railroads will enter upon the greatest era of equipment purchase in their history. In the opinion of Mir Dean this era will be upon the country by the time the Pullman shop improve ments are completed.
 "I am so certain of my conclusion iKa .hfgs rd hr ba4 strongly urged our people to invest the plant so that we may keep in the front rank of car builders"
 On Calumet Lake Shore.
 The two car erecting shops to be built will stand upon the shores of Lake Calumet, cast of the railroad tracks, and each will be 420 by 220 feet and will have transfer table between them. These arc 10 be steei constructed buildings and just west of them and west of the tracks vii be erected the electrical power plant which will be 200 by 15o feet. This plant will be the most complete of its kind in the country and will be capable of developing 5000 horse pow CT. some of which will be utilized In running the car shops.
 The steel cabinet shop. which is to cost sl50.000. will stand north of the power house and will be 200 by 150 feet. In this shop will be made all of the interior finishings of the steel Pullman cars The old brass foundry which is at some distance from the main Pullman shops is to be aban. doned, and a new and modern foun- dry will be erected north of the cab inet shop. This will cost S100.00 and will furnish all the brass needed by the entire shops.
 The site of the ail-steel freight car shops has not been decided upon. but will be selected soon. This shop is to cost s1,250000 and will be mod el in It's class. The shops will have capacity of 1500 all steel freight cars month Tn connection with the present shops, in which wooden freight cars are made. the freight car capacity of the Pullman shops will be 2500 cars each month. and even more If the work is pushed. With the present shop equipment of the company fl is able 10 turn out about 100 passenger cars a month, and the new shops will increase this capacity to approximately l75 cars. In the present passenger car shops the comany can turn out either steel or wooden frame cars. but it is ex- pected that the major portion of the future output of the shops will be aIl-steel cars
 Demand for Steel Cars.
 The demand for this class of cars is rapidly increasing both in the freight and passenger service. and within few years. ii is thought. there win be no more orders for wooden frame cars, either for freight or passenger business. The fact that the Pennsylvania. on account of it's tunnels into New York, will not or der any more wooden frame cars, has sol the race in this direction