Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-12-24
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ing furnaces is used to produce
steam, up to "a horse power be-
ing generated. The Forge de-
partment is a very noisy place,
here giant drop hammers with
one or two blows form all kinds
of steel shapes from hot and cold
steel. Making knife sections is
very particular work and goes
through many operations before
it is ready to go in the harvest
field. The nut and bolt screw
shop I found very interesting.
This building has 70 automatic
screw machines with a capacity
of $4,000 pieces a day. These
little machines are marvels and
rs a continuous row of pins, col
lars, set screws, small shafts and
many other parts were dropping
forth from the various machines
| stood there enraptured at the
ingenuity and capacity of these
wonder machines. The auto
matte nut tapping machines tap
from 10 to $4,000 nuts a day.
About a 1000 900 nuts and bolts
is a days output. Having seen
how the parts were made we
next watched the assembly into
complete machines. The pro-
qressive method is used each
man having a certain kind of
work to perform, as the frame
of a machine passes alone. I seen
ore machine that punches 10
holes in one operation. Few
neople are aware that they are
1900 separate parts on a grain
binder. These parts are first
assembled in units then into diff
ferent machines and all working
parts tested. Lifting is all done
by compressed air. Now we
come to the department where
binder canvases are made. Large
machines that are so entirely
automatic that all the girl oper-
ator has to do is to feed the wood
Stats on cylinder and the apron
comes out complete. Every
condition of sanitation. light and
ventilation is carefully safe
guarded in the interest of health
and comfort throughout this
vast establishment. They claim
to have the second largest lum-
Der yard in the world and 60, 900,
900 #. is used in years time
part of it going into the con-
struction of harvesting machin-
es and the balance used for
Grating and packing. In their
paint grinding department 800,-
900 gallons of paint are made an
nually and used by them. Last
but not least we come to the
Irvine mill where a great many
women are employed. l seen the
Sisal leaves and Manila plants as
they unpacked them the former
coming from Yucatan, Mexico
and the latter from the Philli-
pine Islands. The fibre is put
through several softening and
combing operations which form
the fibre into a continuous ribbon.
After the fibre in silver form is
finished it is spun into Irvine. ]
felt / could stand for hours and
watch those machines wind the
Irvine into balls. 1t was great
sight.
With my work at Chicago
finished | proceeded on my way
to Canton, Illinois. | found il
a beautiful city of $4,000 people
1t was difficult to secure hotel
accomdations owing to the great
rush of people. The P. & O.
Plow Works is the big industry
of the town and of course that
was my object in going there to
see how plows were made. This
pillow factory is one of the oldest
and largest pillow factories in the
United States having started in
1912. l spent the greater part
of the day seeing how plows and
hairows were made but ] am not
going into a lengthy description
of this manufacture. Suffice to
say l gained much information