The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15
UNDERMINING BLACKFOOT
PRINTING HOUSE
Condensing Equipment and Opera
lions. Multiplying Service
and Effectiveness

In the new Republican building
now being built at Blackfoot, econ
omizing space Is one of the watch
words OF the management. The ar
rangement of the stock room has
been reduced to such a system that
by using only one-tenth as much floor
space as Is used in the old building,
they will be enabled to store double
the amount Of stock and have it bet
ter protected anu more accessible.
In other words, the expense or rental
of room for storing stock will be re-
duced to one-twentieth of what 1t
has been, the operating expense in
the stock room will be less than here
tofore, and the goods will be better
protected. The printers organization
of America have what they call 'effici-
ency tests by which to determine
how to get the greatest possible SER
vice from the smallest investment of
money, space or energy, and the re-
suits of efficiency tests have been in
corporated in the plans of the new
stock room or stock cabinet.
When the printer goes to select
paper to fill an order Of printing, he
will open a cabinet and have before
him 200 reams of 40 different brands
or weights of paper, and every kind
accessible at touch. He can take
out two or three sheets or two or
three reams of any of the 40 kinds
without liftino or moving or disturb
ing any of the other 80 kinds. The
system or lack of system by which
paper stock is usually handled in the
average printing house, and the way
| IL is handled in the Republican office
at present, is cumbersome and waste
full.
In the old building the mailing OPP
erations are done on table 3x7 feet
in size, and it occupies that amount
of space in the building all the time.
Once month they pay rent on that
amount of space for that purpose,
and all the month they keep roof
over it and keep it heated, swept and
cared for. In the new building the
mailing devices will be collapsible,
and will occupy space 31x1S inches,
or one-sixth as much space as the
old one. 1t takes about 80 minutes
for the addressing machine to do its
work. and during that time it will be
extended to occupy a space seven feet
long, and then it will collapse or be
wheeled on its casters to position
by the paper cutter and be contracted
to any desired size for use in hand
ling stock for the period when it is
not working as a mailer. Half a
dozen of the bulky pieces of furniture
in the old building are slated for re-
ltirement to give place to modern de-
lyices that are not exactly cOllapsible
but which enable the operators to
handle from three to twelve times as
much business in the same floor
space. The new style furniture and
fixtures are very expensive, but when
1.-THE operating expense Is considered
when rent, heat, and care-tak1ng, fol
instance, are cut to one-third or one
Twelfth of what is usual, the cost Of
the modern labor-saving, rent-de
lstroying, heat-reducing dust-defyin1
cabinets and collapsible devices be
come a source of advantage to botf
operators anu customers, besides in
creasing the quality of the service
land reducing fire risk. When W.
Ispeak of rent on the new building W.
: do not mean rent exactly but the cos
|of carrying THE investment that take'
the place of rent. The new building
is to be small in length and breadth
: and in the sense of dimensions, bu
it will be large and roomy in thu
sense of housing much goods ant
equipment, and by reason of it's being
: small in linear feet it will be econom
ical to build, to maintain and to op
crate in.