. Electrical news and engineering . acres of ground. This plant has been built within thepast six years and equipped with new and modern machinery. The many railroad tracks, travelling cranes and elevators inuse upon the premises and within the buildings are so well placedthai all articles of machinery manufactured, whether in theircrude or finished condition, up tt^ 60,000 pounds weight, arehandled as readily as a farmer handles his ploughs upon the farm,or the merchant his goods in the store. The plant is suppliedwith the latest and most improved machine tools, such as boringmills, pit lathe
. Electrical news and engineering . acres of ground. This plant has been built within thepast six years and equipped with new and modern machinery. The many railroad tracks, travelling cranes and elevators inuse upon the premises and within the buildings are so well placedthai all articles of machinery manufactured, whether in theircrude or finished condition, up tt^ 60,000 pounds weight, arehandled as readily as a farmer handles his ploughs upon the farm,or the merchant his goods in the store. The plant is suppliedwith the latest and most improved machine tools, such as boringmills, pit lathes, shafting lathes, planers and whatever else isneeded in the construction of turbine water wheels, iron flumesshafting, pulleys, gearing, steam boilers, etc.—some of the boringmills and pit lathes being large enough to allow of pulleys, ropesheaves and fly-wheels being turned off and bored out, as greatas 25 feet in diameter and six feet wide upon their face. Thereare also some remarkably large and fine machine tools forcutting. and dressing gear wheels up to 20 feet in diameter and as muchas 30 inches on the face. On looking through this shop and noting the many massive andmodern tools it contains and the conveniences for handling everyarticle manufactured, one readily understands why it is that theMcCormick and New Success water wheels and other machineryfor cotton, paper, pulp, flour and saw mills, so extensively builtand sold by the S. Morgan Smith Co., give such excellent satis-faction. The company is composed of father and three sons, who ownnine-tenths of the plant. All of them are hydraulic and mechani-cal engineers, as well as practical business men. These factsexplain why it is that the buildings composing the shops are sowell constructed and arranged, why all the railroad tracks,travelling cranes, trolley lines, elevators, boilers, engines, cupolasfor iron and brass foundries and great lathes and boring mills,are each and all seemingly located just in the right pl
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