The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-12-14

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Company, and the economic condi-
tons of this city will be on a safe
basis. With payroll carrying
seventy people at this time and with
plans in view for greatly increasing
the output, necessitating further
employment of labor and additional
revenue to be distributed thru the
city's various commercial channels,
The Texas Company stands forth as
one of the most valued industrial
establishments now contributing to
the wealth Of Morgan City.
The local branch Of the Texas
Company, whose main Offices are in
Houston, Texas, and whose main
factory is in Port Arthur, Texas has
been planned and designed from the
start to carry on enormous activities.
The Morgan City factory is located
two miles east of the city. The fac
tory building and Offices are con-
crete, brick and frame and the floor
space provided in factory and ware
rooms are greater than in the main
factory at Port Arthur. With view
to safety, shipping facilities and
efficiency in operation the buildings
were constructed, furnished and
equipped with the last word in mod
ern appliances. The plant was COM
pleted during the present year and
has been in operation since August
23rd. It's output consists of box
shocks manufactured from Tupelo
Gum and Poplar and the material
for this purpose is supplied by the
Waddell- Williams Lumber Company
whose entire capacity in these woods
has been contracted for by the Tex
as Company in order to, meet their
demands. Box shocks are the sides,
tops, bottoms and ends from which
boxes are constructed. The shocks
are shipped from the local factory to
the box factory at Port Arthur and
other places to be made into the
finished products.
The Power Building
Detached from the factory build
ing is the engine or power house.
This building is of brick, metal and
concrete throughout and contains
the tiwn batteries of huge boilers,
the mighty six hundred and fifty
horse power engine and the great
dynamos which supply the entire
plant with power, light and heat.
The floor space of this building is
42x88 feet, with separating wall
between the boiler and engine rooms.
Automatic devices control the
machines from the self-gauging
water supply to the self filling oil
cups. Every measure for the conser-
walton of force and the elimination
of waste is provided in the mechani-
cally perfect appliances in USE.
An oil filter is automatically
supplied with the oil that has been
used on the bearings Of the intricate
machinery and instead Of barrels Of
expensive oil being rapidly discarded
as waste substance, the oil filter
rotates its service until the last
vestige of grease qualities has been
worn out. In the power building is
noticeable an unusual and a conspi-
cuous cleanliness that is character
istic of the entire plant.
The Factory Building
The powerful forces from the en-
CINE are transferred to the various
machines Of the factory building
which stands Is feet from the power
building. Here are placed the 3lan-
ers, the tongue-and-groove machines,
dove-tailers, splicers, automatic cut
of, rip and gang saws and other
machinery. Busy and capable work.
men convert the long, rough boards,
fresh from the saw mill into the
finished box shocks. The hum and
buzz of high speed saws and
machines make muscle for the ears Of
the dozens of men and boys who keep
them turning. Many Of the men are
on piece work and have an earning
capacity that is curtailed only by
their own limitations in speed
and efficiency. These men are prin-
cipally the sawyers who keep the
great room keyed up in order to
take care of the work they send out
from their keen saws to be finished
off by other laborers. The various
processes are saving into shook
lengths. ripping, re-sawing, planning,
dove failing, splicing and binding in
to bundles. Each process is done in
order and the rough plank, once
started on its trip to the saws,
makes no stop-overs until it rests in
a wire-tied bundle Of smoothly fin
ished shocks in its particular portion
of the wareroOn