The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-04-21


age plant in tie eity. Three rooms
3oxfo feet each, furnish capacity ior
he storage of large quantity oi peF-
ishable products The walls are thick
the interior being cork board and ey
esy room Is ike Refrigerator.
Two ice making machines, one hay
Ing a capacity Of 50 tons per day and
the other Is tons, are contained IN
the plant and immense engines and
boilers are employed to furnish power
The company also owns the other ice
plant il the city. which is used dur
ing the busy season Last year the
company shipped ice to Oklahoma
city. I'll Reno and many smaller
towns
chickasha Gas & Electric.
Coming from the Apache OH mill,
the party stopped al the chickasha
Gas Electric comDany's plant, IN
speeting the machiVery for the manu-
facture of gas. the immense gas hold
ers ana retorts, the process cf max
ing and purifying the gas being ex
planned to them by the manager, g. F. +
Ross. Here also the auxiliary electric
plant was seen. consisting Of a 300
horse-pow producer gas engine and
generator The auxiliary Is used
when for any reason the wheels at the
dam are out Of commission. The com
pany has IL miles Of gas mains.
At the water power plant on the
river, which was not visited there
are two sets Of turbine wheels and
generators. On one set the wheels
are 40 inches and 375 kilowatt gem
orator IS used and the other pair are
80 inche wheels with 500 kilowatt
I generator. The combined gas and
electric plant is complete and modern
in every respect and is one of the
Z largest and best Of the kind in the
state. .
I chickasha Iron Works.
Conrad Bros, proprietors OF the
Chickasha Iron Works. have a plant
that employs from ID to Il men and
is thoroughly equipped with mechanl
cal appliances for the manufacture ~
ali kinds OF castings, machine paris,
bridge material. etc. In the foundry
At the present time 400 metal chair
bases for the /. & c. school are being
turned out. The patterns are design
ed and made in the shop and the pro
duct is cast complete from molten
metal All kinds OF heavy blacksmith
ing. boiler work and general repairing
are done. If a min Or any other fac
tory in the city has broken coe
wheel. shaft Or any thing Of the sort
it can be made new In the local foun
dry at less cost and in less time than
IT generally takes a letter to 20 by
mail to a distant factory.
Rock Island Shops.
Greatest among local industries is
the Rock Island machine shops, car
rying on its payroll at the present tims
1898 men.
The various departments which th'
visitors inspected were the shops pro
per. which as a maze of machinery
The blacksmith shop. copper and ii
shop. paint shop carpenter shop an'
he 2e stall round house.
Tho shops are now working q ful
force 90 hours per week and are turn
ing out mere engines than ever peior
I'll their history According 'o Rec
leland official there b ne siga of
shutdown Or slack .werS q The shoa
his surmer ~ ihese snpps ioes
eiiv raa practically Dc hnili frcr
ercnld w. G a Mccarthy is th
master mechanie in charge aaa Z y
Tipca e me general foreman. W
cgsdou Is the car foreman, 4 {
Richards is 81 charge pE tbc Fcu7
cuse aud the ahcp faremen aro N
II. 0Leary and Homer Meyers Ta
yisitcra found mlcb % interest ihcI
in the engine work and thc ri
through thc shops was very instri'
tive
chickashs Milling CO.
The chickasha Milling company ha