El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-01

falls on the sIaE. breaking it. and
crushing 10 TO a powder. The power OF
the ma Euet comes from the electric
plant, the Juice being turned off and
on by the man who rs dOinE the work
After the Stag is crushed there rs
more or less iron left iu IT, This rs
a ken out by magnets, which are
passed over Do again and again until
almost no iron is left The final
crushing rs done in 4 ball mill which
consists OF thousands or manganese
steel balls the size OF marble or
larger They roll around through the
Stag and grind IL 70 powder At the
end II is so fine that 10 viii pass
through mesh OF 800 holes TO the
square inch. II is now fertilizer. and
is put ND in bags and shipped 20 the
farmers
Man Plays small Part.
one or the surprising things about
the modern steel plant is the small
part that man has IN the work The
machinery Is largely automatic and
although there are 1900 employs
connected with the Tennessee Coal
and Iron company YOU see but few of
them about The furnaces and IN the
great rolling mills. The work seems
to he largely mana Ecd after the mot
TO or the photographer You pres
the button and I'll do the rest The
same force is used over and over
again The excess gas from the fur
uaces smelling the iron goes 10 the
boiler plant and runs IT, The WORKS
have .. great boilers. which produce
mora than Is. 600 horsepower. The en-
zines that force the blast into the
furnaces are run by these boilers
They are equipped with belt wheels as
high as Il two story house
And then there are the great niger
=oll-Esud turbines, which use the eN-
1susr steam from the other engines.
Fnar NJ q -
minute against pressure or 80
pounds 10 the square inch The ma
chinery Of these engines IS kept
quiet They look rs though they are
dead and n takes only one man q"
handle them. Nevertheless each tur-
engines II produces 5000 kilowatts
Of electricity from exhaust steam
which once went 70 waste. The whole
plant. in short. shows wonderful
ecorouiza tion and reproduction Of
force. r. takes the giant gas and
turns him into steam, and works him
until he - worn 10 frazzle- AFTER
that IL picks NJ his remains and
changes him into electricity and
WORKS him over again
Employees 1900 Men.
This same spirit Of common sense
and broad-Esge economy MS 2een
adopted in handling the labor con-
nected with the work OF this iron and
steel making COMPANY Pres dent
era wford believes that the health
and spirits Of the men in the plants
are as important 4 cost-efflclencF
item as tho character Of the machin-
cry ard rhe raw material that 20
through f. He looks upon humar
labor as = commercial asset. and his
welfare work. which IS large rs based
upon the profits that accrue there
from 70 the works he has here
the largest steel plant in the south
r. includes mines Of coal and i-on-
many great furnaces and an enorm-
Gus hv- product plant He has alto
-e-1er about 1000 workuen. Of
whom eight thousand are negroes
about seven thousand white Aworr-
cans and. I'M addition moro --ar two
thousand fn-ei Eue-S Tr was ar T-lV--
fo-d's work 10 take trrs labor 0afs---
al and IN increase l-s Cfflr-Fur~ -l
me CHEST posi- bic degree When
no took charge nan E-c-lEtE1 ta-'-
u7e- The sEcl men Or the north said
he could notnake good steel with nergo
Ia Dor and that the white and colCred
men would not work well together
He has proved that they we're WRONG.
and he has TO-DAY force which IS
said 70 be one o. the best in the
court-v-
In reo-EsnizinE the IA nor NJ Crav-
ford had = -iEid physical examination