The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-30
BEST COMPOST DRILL BARN YARD
Manure Distributor EVER MADE.
Write SANDERS MFG. co., Dalton, Ga.

IneSe plates are a hah inch thick,
three inches wide. and a foot or more
long They were put in a machine by
which they were doubled up as though
they were India rubber, and that with
out the sign Of a crack. This was done
with the cold iron. I saw cold railroad
spikes twisted around and around I'M
til they looked like ropes. and sections
of cold steel rails weighing niney
pounds to the yard, twisted into gigan-
tic corkscrews. without a crack or
break anywhere showing. / stood up
a piece OF one Of these rails about
five feet long beside myself and a
Chinese workman, and had Mr.. Rup-
pert snap my amer to show how it
looks. A rail which can stand that
kind of a test could not possibly break
with the cold. It is as tough as
wrougt iron and can be ben up like
a rope without cracking.
Iron Rails for Chinese Trunk Lines.
AS we went through the works /
saw great piles of steel rails. weighing
eighty-fiye pounds to the yard, which
are now making for the CantOn-Han-
koW road. They are being turned out
at the rate of several hundred per day.
Mr.. Rupert tells me that the most
of the rails for the Chinese roads for
the future will be made at Hanyang.
The government is granting all its new
concessions, with the provisO that the
L Ill OS pu1C 1ldSSO VI thtS III
csc factory, unless the bids Of foreign
firms are at least 5 per cent. cheaper,
n quality being the same. The Han
Yang Steel Works has furnished all
h iron for the Acknowledging trunk
line, which is now over seven hundred
and fifty miles long. 1t supplied the
rails for the railway from Marking to
Shanghai, and it is under contract to
furnish those for the road now build
ing from Kowloon, the port opposite
HOngkong. to Canton. There is no
doubt but that the Chinese can make
their own railroad materials and Mr..
Rupert tells me hat they are now
making steel rails and all sorts OF a
profit.
Chinese Iron for the United States.
During my walk through the rolling
mill I asked Mr.. Rupert whether he
ever expected to export steel to the
American market. He replied:
Most certainly not. At least not
during the present generation. We
have already shipped considerable pig
iron to San Francisco and to Japan
and we have sent one shipment to New
| York by the Suez canal and sold it just
to show that we could do SO and make
money. AS for the present and for
years to come, we can do better by
supplying the Chinese demand. We
have now in hand enough orders to
hSCp dO OuSy uhll VIC C1AA "a 1S4O,
and we are receiving more every day.
Indeed, it will be a long time before
China can keep pace with her own
needs in such materials. We are build
ing new furnaces as rapidly as we can,
and are already increasing our ca
pacity. We have a scheme of expan-
sion which will keep us busy for five
years to come, and when hat is done
we shall be turning out 1000 tons of
steel per day Even then we shall have
more than we can do TO supply our
own wants.
What kinds Of steel are you MAX
ing?"
we make sheets. plates, angles,
beams and bar steel, as we'll as all
sorts Of structural steel and steel rails.
We make frogs, spikes. nuts and bolts,
and our rails run from fifty to a hun
dred pounds to the yard. All this is
by the Seimens-Martin process, and
that so well made that it will stand
the tests of the ritish LlOyds. the
German Lloyds and the British board
of trade. Indeed, we are manufac-
turing as good steel as can be made
anywhere"
Little American Machinery Used.
AS we walked through the plant and
1 saw new machines being installed l
asked as to whether much of the i'm
ports came from America.
Mot a great DEAL said the techni-
cal director. I'VE use your locomo-
tives in our yards, and we have some
American machines in u steel works,
we find that we can buy better and
cheaper in England and Germany, and
that the terms they offer are easier
than those of the United States. AS
il is now we have three Siemens-Mar-
tin urnaces in operation, two under
construction and five under projection.
Our daily output of steel is $50 tons,
and we shall soon be making 500 tons
more"
AS we walked about I was surprised
at how the new and old methods OF
working are carried on side by side.
The ore comes down from the mines
i'm great barges towed in by steam,
and it is unloaded by coolies who
.,r-, o,,f tho lnunl of iron stone in