The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-12-08
St. Paul Machinery Mig. Co.

A New Corporation Of Which Walter B.
Kelley, a Belfast Boy" Is the Manager.
The Dovetail Box Machine Co., and
the St. Paul Ditcher & Carrier Co., have
been amalgamated into new corpora
ton of $3.50, 900 under the name of the
St. Paul Machinery Mfg. Co. The in
corporators are John E. Burchard, Walter
B. Kelley, Julian Noyes Kirby, William
]. Dean and Chas. M. Powers. This
will enable the concern to solicit and
handle much larger business.
The Dovetail Box Machine Co., has
not solicited orders for over two years,
and the St. Paul Ditcher & Carrier Co. j.,
has not solicited new business since the
spring of 1910, and yet the volume of
business for the past year has been
double any former year, and with the
new arrangement the business will be
pushed from now on.
However, in the interim, they have
designed, built and perfected machinery
for making boxes, in the Dodd's Setting
Up Machine, that is so well made that
the breakage of lumber is always frac-
ton of per cent. even at so per cent
increased speed over their former
'SqueeZer.
The officials of the company have also
appropriated their original principles of
saving the wedge shaped pins and "V"
shaped grooves into new double end,
automatic hopper feed, wedge dovetail-
ing machine, and the capacity of same is
limited only to strength of the operator
to keep the chopper" the wood box"
filled.
Describing the machine further, Mr..
Kelley says:
'The bottom board is fed automatical-
ly into two vice like clamps, (the ma
chine has twelve) and is carried on
straight horizontal line through two pairs
of circular hollow ground saws, which
dovetail the boards perfectly regardless
of the uneven length of the lumber.
Same is true if the shook was not cut
square or if it be of uneven thickness.
This insures uniform inside dimension of
the box regardless of long or short lum-
Der. These machines have capacity of
300 boxes per hour and are adapted to
any size box from 6-inch 6-inch, to &c.
inch 24-inch, any depth up to 14-inch.
The cost of labor to frame up" is from
15c. to Csc. per hundred, according to
the price of local labor and size of box.
"We feel certain that in this machine,
we have overcome every objection that
any box maker ever made to wedge dove
failing machinery. The boxes turned
+, out are absolutely uniform, strong and at
: tractive. These machines require only
part of power that is necessary to oper-
ate lock-corner machines, and have
double the capacity of any lock-corner
machine.
: 1.-THE other branch of the Dovetail Box
Machine Co., known as the St. Paul
; Ditcher & Carrier Co., has developed
and patented the Rowland Tile Ditching
Machine, and Caterpillar Traction uaed
with same, so that it has no competition
in machine for ditching wet farm lands.
The mechanical and commercial success
can possibly be shown by the fact that
three years ago the price for ditche,
! and traction was 81, 500 ION time" The
last sale this fall was 81, 600 cash and the
! of 500 to $500 day, so that it is reason.
/: able to suppose that with the earning
power and being patented and no com.
petition, the company has certainly &
bright future. In years to come the
company will manufacture a small out
fit that will be bought by the farmer OF
group of farmers, as the threshing ma
chine is sold.
! The St. Paul Ditcher & Carrier Co.
/ has also designed, patented and built ;
Caterpillar Plow Traction embodyins
many Of the same principles as thei
traction used with the ditcher. 1t pull
| 8 to IL plows, turns square corner il
about minutes time, has a speed o
2 IL miles an hour, plows every squar
foot of soil, does not ''pack down. tn
soil, so that the crop is much larger thai
if the land is plowed in the spring by tn
round wheel tractors. The plows are hing
ed to the traction frame, raised and low
cred by power, individually or in groups
The whole outfit can be backed up afte
the plows are raised to clear plows o
distractions such as "quickgrass, etc
Mr.. Kelley and his associates have tn
highest endorsements of both ditcher an
plow traction, by such eminent author
ties as Prof. Andrew Boss of the Stat
Experiment Farm, also the Robertso
Bros, who own the farms east of tn
State fair grounds, St. Paul, probabl
where more steam and gasoline pillow
have been demonstrated than any othe
farms in the world.
The active management of the ne,
company will be vested in Walter E
Kelley, and Julian Moves Kirby, an
they will have the able assistance of tn
other incorporators as directors.