The Wheel and cycling trade review . on its machinery can be gatheredfrom the fact that between 300,000 and 400,-000 bricks were required for the masonryunder and surrounding the machinery. It is astonishing to realize that the mill wascompleted and tubing drawn in less than sixmonths from the date the first brick was preliminary event took place in thelatter part of March, and in the first week ofSeptember the engine was thrumming loudlyand regularly. The output has been in-creased daily since then, and is now turningout every day a very respectable amount oftubing. The capacity of
The Wheel and cycling trade review . on its machinery can be gatheredfrom the fact that between 300,000 and 400,-000 bricks were required for the masonryunder and surrounding the machinery. It is astonishing to realize that the mill wascompleted and tubing drawn in less than sixmonths from the date the first brick was preliminary event took place in thelatter part of March, and in the first week ofSeptember the engine was thrumming loudlyand regularly. The output has been in-creased daily since then, and is now turningout every day a very respectable amount oftubing. The capacity of the mill is about 10,000,000feet of tubing a year, but with eleven acresof ground to work upon, there is no dangerof the American Weldless Company ever get-ting more than it can do. Necessarily, the company state, our millis adapted to turning out the best quality oftube as economically as it can be made any-where in the world; we have culled from themills of America and England the best ma-chinery of each. It is all new and ~PC1 We have had lots of faith, and have made alarge investment for the purpose of gettingthe best of everything. If we cannot makethe finest quality of tube, and make it cheap-ly, it is inexplicable. From the belting to thedraw-benches, everything is new. The office of the company stands just offthe street, and perhaps 200 hundred feetfrom the mill. It is unique in point of hand-some fittings, and is calculated, from its fur-nishing and the convenience of its fixtures, torender business pleasurable. Thus early the company has bookedand is working on orders for several million feet of tubing. Their prospects are a capacity for knowing their businesswell, with an excellent management, anda clientele of friends that includes some ofthe most desirable custom to be bid for, itseems as if they could hardly escape successand dividends. This is the personnel of thecompany: President, Samuel Snell; A. L.
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