Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-20
BIDS ON MACHINERY
CONTRACT ACCEPTED
Much Work is Being Accomplished
at National Sewer Pipe &
, Tile Plant.

The contracts for the machinery
for the National Sewer Pipe & Tile
Co., amounting to $4,000 was lei
Friday to the Taplin-Rice-Clerk
in Co., of Akron, Ohio, and the Eagle
Iron Works of Des Moines. The
goods to be purchased Of the latter
company are the wet and dry pans
which alone are priced at $4,000,
or, thereabouts.
The sealed bids for the manu-
featuring machinery yer opened al
most three weeks ago, but owing to
the fact that there were almost
twenty bidders from all parts of the
country, each one of which had to
be closely investigated, a decision
could not be reached until yester-
day. The contracts let that are to
be furnished by the Taplin-Rice-
Clerkin Co., consist of the following:
/ steam sewer pipe press. 1 storage
feeder for press. Complete set of
drain tile dies up to thirty inches.
Complete set of standard sewer pipe
dies including thirty-six inch die.
Dry clay elevator 20 feet high. Wet
clay elevator AS feet high. 8 double
Gagged gravity elevators with auto
matte lifting gates. 5 four wheel
trucks. 6 two pronged trucks. /
set FOUNDERS. / set rockers and
beds. From the Eagle Iron Works Of
Des Moines the contract calls for:One
nine foot heavy duty dry pan. Two
eight foot double steel frame wet
pans.
The companies have agreed to de-
liver the goods within sixty days.
Owing to this fact the work or the
machine shops is being pushed and
the roofing will be completed in a
short time. For the installing of
the machines both companies will
have an expert on the grounds to
oversee the work. When this part
of the equipment has been placed
everything but the transmission,
plumbing and power elevators for
the hosting of materials from the
ground floor will be ready for the
opening. The hosting material will
be contracted for in a few days. The
buildings are fast going up. One OF
the handicaps which the factory
management have been forced to
face is the impossibility of prompt
shipment of building materials.
Lumber that has been ordered from
the state of Washington for sew
eral weeks is expected here at n
time. This delay was caused by
fires in the country that did much
damage to the mills. The lumber is
in large sizes seldom seen in this
part of the country. One carload
consists Of upright posts to be used
for supporting the dryer. These
beams are of such measurements
LudL Tie WSSlGIH GOuuti Ia thV III
1y producer of them. Another car
lot consists of cross beams which
measure 10 inches by 20 inches. AS
o as the cross beams arrive the
work on the main building can be
resumed. The different kinds OF
brick necessary for the building of
the kilns and chimneys are also
causing some trouble by their fall
ure to arrive on schedule time. In
the building of the kilns almost ev-
cry conceivable shape of brick is u.s.
ed, and they must be built especial
ly for the National company. Two
of the kilns will be completed as
soon as the brick for their crowns
are here. As the work progresses
people are becoming more and
interested. Each day brings many
visitors to the place, many OF whom
are strangers, but who have heard OF
the building of the enormous plant.