The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

shop is 46 by $50 feet inside meas
urement. The crane will work back
and forth from end to end. or across
| from side to side of the immense
room and will carry anything given
to it right up to the lathes and ma
chinery or to the place where it is Ia
be placed in the roll ng stock. Along
one side of the room will be series
of lathes. There will be a wheel-bor-
ing machine. a wheel compressor to
put on or remove wheels from the
axles. a wheel lathe, a power rail saw
for cutting steel rails for switches,
frogs. ETC., and a variety of other
| machinery.
Pneumatic Tools.
In the blacksmith shop there will
be a heavy hammer, operated by air.
and in the carpenter shop will be
hand saw, ripsaws and such other es-
sentials. In every department will be
an air compressor. which will furnish
100 cubic feet per minute. Practic-
ally all the tools will be electrically
driven. They will be erected in
groups, each group with its own mo-
| tors.
In add ton to the large shop, with
its pits so that all parts of the cars
may be reached with little or no NOV
ing of the rolling stock, there is the
blacksmith shop, an armature room,
the carpenter shop and offices Tor
Master Mechanic y. \. Gilman, for
the engineers, storekeeper and 9TH
ers. Later a foundry will be added
and later. also the car barns adjoin-
ing the machine shops will be en-
larged. But there $ one piece of
work which will be undertaken and
carrie through to completion this
! fall.
Genital Heating Plant.
The company proposes to erect a
central heating plant which will fur
nish heat for the sub-station, the
shops, car barns and the offices. This
will require 400 cubic feet of radia-
ton and the transportation company
has already entered into contract
with the Yakima Hardware company
for the essentials.
| Beyond question the machine shops
will be used, for time at least, by
the North Coast railroad after its ar
rival in this city, and there is pos
sibil ty also that some commercial
work will be done there for private
concerns. Primarily the company
erects the plant because of the dis
lance from North Yakima to any base
of supplies. Spokane and Tacoma or
Seattle are long way from this val
| ley, especially when rush work is
wanted. What the transportation
company is doing will be direct
benefit to the community, in case of
need, as well as an indirect benefit.
Big Employer of Labor.
There are today upwards of 10
men on the payroll of the street rail-
way company and of these two-thirds
are of the permanent force. The
new machine shops will add another
score or so at this time and later,
when the heavier machinery is in
stalled, when the foundry is operated
and when general work is done, will
require a much larger force. Hither-
to the Cascade Lumber company has
been the largest single employer of
labor in the community. 1T now
looks as if it is to be supplanted and
relegated to second position, for
Messrs. Richards, Henley. Bell, Gill
man and the others who are enlarg-
ing the transportation company are
building up an institution which is
assuming gigantic proportions com
pared with other enterprises in this
city and valley.