El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-21

to Washington by way of San Francis
co and New Orleans, and when opened
it was in as good condition as when
it started
The modern machinery for bottling
waters and other liquids was perfected
by American genius. One can scarcely
travel far enough away from the bor-
ders of the United States to get be-
you'd the range of the influence of the
American. This is illustrated in the
fact that on the banks of the river
Jordan there is a bottling works,
equipped with American bottling ma
chirery, engaged in bottling the water
of the river Jordan for piOus people
throughout the world. The great de-
mand for bottles in the United States
has led inventors to perfect machine
for the mechanical blowing of them.
It is found that this machine is one Of
the greatest labor-savers ever devised.
and that il produces better and more
uniform bottles than were made by the
old-fashioned hand method. Even Their
mometer tubes are now frequently
blown by machinery.
Mechanical ShOe-Making.
One Of the most striking cases of Ia
bor-saving as applied to American in
dustry is that of mechanical shoe-m max
ing. Under the oId-fashioned cobbler
method it required the shoemaker two
days to produce a pair of shoes. To-
day that same pair of shoes may be
made in 20 minutes. There are so op-
eratives and As machines utilized in the
process. In the ShOemaking world, Is
in many other industries, the patents
have been made a temporary monopoly.
The machines are only leased. and a
portion of the cost of every shoe We
&c do Of Nv lo1 pH
by the holders of the patent rights.
The steam driven sawmill is the pro
duct Of American genius for making
the best use of power. Without the
modern sawmill it would be impossi-
bic to furnish the vast supplies of
manufactured lumber demanded BY The
country. The first steam Sawmill was
a queer little machine, with a capacity
of only a few thousand feet of lumber
a day. Now the huge mills, tur1iag cut
thousands of feet of lumber a year
find the sawdust alone to be worth
more than the entire product Of the
first sawmills.
1t requires billions of boxes to carry
the berries and fruits of the country to
the urban consumer. If these had to
be manufactured by the old fashioned
hand process they wcul1 be s. eXDeTi-
sive as to make their Use almost pIo-
hibitive. TIE same ingenuity that has
made it possible for an American in
ventor to oro lice a biz which VIII bore
a square hole, has made it possible to
evolve a machine which when fed strips
of thin lumber, turns out completed
boxes One girl and box-making ma
chine will turn out $4,000 berry bas-
kets a day, or 1000 grape baskets.
Every year witnesse the issuance
ton re xr-bi eli loE 0r
cost of manufacture as to materially
reduce the cost of the output of the
factories. The machinists universally
agree that there is still much room for
progress. They see in the electric fur
mace the greatest step forward since
the invention of the blast furnace and
the converter, and believe, with the
late Pig Iron" Kelly, that it will sup
plant them both and that the resultant
Improvement in iron and steel and
their products together with lowered
cost, will give the American factory a
new lease on world supremacy.
Mining and Metallurgy.