. American engineer and railroad journal . byE. D. Leavitt for the Calumet and Ilecla mines, to be used indriving electric pumps for mine drainage. The company hasjust completed the shipment of six 1,000-11. P. engines forthe Westinghouse Electric Company, to be used in filling itscontract for lighting the Worlds Pair. These engines are alsocoiipled direct to 1,000 light generators. They stand 18 and make 200 revolutions per minute. The General Engineering Company of Wheeling, W. Va.,have recently sold several of the large punching and shearingmachines which we illustrate on another pa
. American engineer and railroad journal . byE. D. Leavitt for the Calumet and Ilecla mines, to be used indriving electric pumps for mine drainage. The company hasjust completed the shipment of six 1,000-11. P. engines forthe Westinghouse Electric Company, to be used in filling itscontract for lighting the Worlds Pair. These engines are alsocoiipled direct to 1,000 light generators. They stand 18 and make 200 revolutions per minute. The General Engineering Company of Wheeling, W. Va.,have recently sold several of the large punching and shearingmachines which we illustrate on another page. They are justnow making arrangements for their removal to Harvey, 111.,where modern shops have been built which are fully equippedwith modern tools, switch facilities, traveling cranes, steam-heating apparatus and electric lights. Their main building isof brick, 360 ft. X 100 ft. The auxiliary shops, such as black-smith shop, engine and boiler rooms, pattern shop and storagebuildings, are also of brick. They will continue to manufac-. IMPROVED BOLT HEADING MACHINE, BUILT BY THE ACME MACHINE COMPANY. the name of the Chicago Rolling Mill Company, are refittingthe plant with new machinery and preparing to commenceactive operations in the manufacture of iron at an early date. The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company have been offeringfor several months past to send a pamphlet descriptive of thenature and peculiarities of graphite, with a scientific opinionof its value as a lubricant, together with the experience ofIjractical engineers and machinists. This offer has been verywidely .accepted, and they now offer to send a sample of Dixonspure ty]ie Ticouderoga tlake graphite free of charge, with apamphlet, to any who will write for it. They say in theircircular that every one who has an_y use for a lubricant shouldmake themselves thoroughly posted in regard to one whichpossesses such peculiar properties, and should avail himself ofa chance to see a sample and learn of its many uses. The
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