Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-01
MODERN
FURNACE
FACTORY
Now Located in Salem-An
Excellent Article is Man.
ufaCtured.

This article is to call the atten-
ton of the Salem people to the
existence of manufacturing firm in
their midst which few of them
know anything about. The Ander-
son Timing and Furnace Company
started in business here last MAY
and since then has been growing
slowly and steadily until now they
employ on an average of from ten
to twelve people. This firm is
equipped with modern machinery
for rolling all kinds of metal from
thin tin to boiler plate three-fourths
of an inch thick. The proprietors,
E. X. Anderson and T. Olsen, are
experienced men in the furnace and
boiler business.
Mr.. Anderson has spent his life
installing furnaces and was former
ly in the employ of the Torrid Zone
people of Marshalltown, Iowa, the
second largest furnace company in
the United States. His chief work
while in their employ was erecting
hot air furnaces, where he learned
the business from A to q.
Mr.. Olsen, the senior member of
the firm was foreman of the Lenox
Machine Company of Marshalltown,
Iowa, for twelve years, where he
had complete charge of the manu-
featuring of steam boilers of all
kinds, and for eight years he was
the City Boiler Inspector of Mar
shalltown. For one year he was
United States Government Inspector
of locomotive boilers on the Panama
Canal Such work as this thorough
ly equipped him for any kind of
boiler work and his knowledge in
this business is second to none.
When these men left Marshall
town they came to Salem and start
ed in business for themselves, be-
lieving Salem to be a good town in
which to locate the furnace and
boiler business. The furnaces
which they manufacture are not the
cheap kind gotten up to sell, they
are made of heavy boiler plate with
heavy cast iron lining and cast iron
doors, and are guaranteed to heat
house to seventy degrees in zero
weather, and will last for years.
An inspection of the furnaces is
a pleasure to the critical person as
they can see the good workmanship
and lasting quality in every point
Strange to say the furnace costs no
more than any standard make. The
firm is just completing a smoke
stack for the Salem Woolen Mills.
The stack is thirty inches in diam
eter and sixty feet high and will
weigh complete 5000 pounds. 1t
is made of 3-16 inch plate steel
about three times as heavy as the
ordinary stack. 1t is as straight as
a flagpoIe without a kink in it. Mr.
Olsen says he could build one a mile
high just as easy.
The firm does all kinds of heavy
blacksmithing. They manufacture
Invincible automobile springs and
aXles, make the Oregon Wonder"
washing machine Harvey hitching
devise and Kurtz Prune dipper and
tray, as well as all kinds of tin
work from cutters to roofing Their
machinery is of the most approved
pattern and of all descriptions, from
the heavy bend roll weighing S,00n
pounds, which will roll bOiler-plate
from one-eighth inch to three.
fourths inches in thickness and
punches and shears to handle the
same material down to the small
rolls and shears that roll ouS the
thin tin into water CUTTERS, etc
Salem people should bear in mind
that these new industries are trying
to get foOthold in this locality and
when buying goods which they man
ufacture should do everything in
their power to patronize home in
dustry, Anyone who will go around
and have the details of this furnace
explained to them can soon be con
yinced that it is a good furnace, and
in regard to the other work which
the firm does there is no doubt as
to its workmanship or quality. Es
Inmates are cheerfully furnished on
all jobs and the patronage Of Salem
people is solicited.
THE ANDERSON TIMING AND
FURNACE co.