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The
following are some of the principal manufacturing establishments in Chattanooga
Chattanooga Foundry and
Machine Works
This
is one of the oldest manufacturing establishments in the city, having been
started in 1849. It has been very much enlarged within the last eight years,
and is now one of the largest and most complete establishments of the kind in
the South.
It
has a foundry of fifteen tons daily capacity; a machine shop supplied with
lathes, planes and all the modern machinery necessary to do the heaviest iron work; a blacksmith shop containing five forges; a
fully equipped boiler shop, and a pattern shop.
These works are at present engaged in the construction of the largest
engines ever built south of the Ohio
River. Three engines have
just been completed of 300 horse-powers each, with blowing cylinders of seven
feet diameter and four feet stroke, for different smelting furnaces in that
vicinity. A large amount of work is done here for railroads, mills, bridges,
water and gas-works. Heavy work and large castings are a specialty.
Vulcan Works
This
establishment has been in operation about eight years, and manufactures bar
iron, bolts, hammered axles, fishplate, wrought iron work for railroad
bridges, and railroad forgings generally; also, light T rail for narrow gauge
railroads, and rails for street railroads. There is a full supply of all the
necessary machinery, together with five beating and eight puddling furnaces.
The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
Machine Shops
The
shops of this important road are located in this city. They contain a large
amount of first-class machinery necessary for the repair of engines and the
construction of cars.
The Wason Car
and Foundry Company
have
eight commodious brick buildings, well arranged for their several purposes.
Framing shop, two stories, 58 by 122 feet, pattern shop, two stories, 52 by 55
feet; erecting shop, one story, 42 by 265 feet; blacksmith shop, one story, 47
by 133 feet; machine shop, one story, 47 by 61 feet; boiler room, one story, 21
by 47 feet; foundry, one story, 60 by 133 feet; annealing room, one story, 52
by 55 feet.
The
machinery in the works is all of the latest and most approved kinds. The car
shop has a capacity of six freight cars per day, besides all kinds of car work.
The foundry has a capacity of fifty car wheels per day, besides turning out
other kinds of car castings. Other castings made to order.
Roane Iron
Company
This
company has two blast furnaces in operation on their mineral lands at Rockwood,
with a capacity of fifty-five tons of pig iron per day. The rolling-mill of
this company, located at Chattanooga,
manufactures railroad iron only. The rail mill is 80 by 650 feet, and contains
ten of Dank's rotary puddling furnaces and five common paddling furnaces, nine
heating furnaces, four trains of rolls, fifteen steam engines, from 25 to 300
horse power, one Winslow's squeezer,
one steam hammer, together with all the other machinery in use in
first-class rolling-mills. Capacity, 100 tons railroad iron in twenty-four hours.
Chattanooga
Iron Company
This company has erected the first blast furnace in the
city limits since the war, and it is the only one now in the city. The blast
stack is sixty feet high, iron shell, eighteen feet in diameter. Diameter of
bosh, thirteen feet four inches. Four tuyers. Cast house 36 by 65 feet, engine
house 24 by 38 feet, boiler house 20 by 52 feet, stock house 50 by 200 feet.
Four boilers, length, 50 feet, diameter, 32 inches. Steam cylinder 32 by 48
inches. Blowing cylinder 6 feet diameter, 4 feet stroke. Draft stack 90 feet
high, 50 inches inside. Capacity of
furnace, 30 tons pig-iron daily.
The
cost of material delivered will not exceed—
Ore, (over 50 per cent., metallic iron,) per
ton.............$3.00
Limestone,
per ton
$1.00
Coke,
per bushel 10 3/8
The
expenses entering into the cost of production of pig iron not more than
elsewhere.
Saw Mills,
Planning Mills, Etc.
There
are five steam saw-mills in the city, with capacity for the production of
40,000 feet of lumber per day. There are also five establishments for the
manufacture of all kinds of dressed lumber, doors, sash, blinds, and every
variety of house finishing materials.
Chattanooga Steam Wagon
and Implement Works
This
establishment makes a specialty of heavy wagons, and of turned handles,
spokes, and similar work. Manufactures entirely from Tennessee timber, which is found to be of superior quality.
Chattanooga Steam Wagon
and Implement Works
This
establishment makes a specialty of heavy wagons, and of turned handles,
spokes, and similar work. Manufactures entirely from Tennessee timber, which is found to be of superior quality.
Chattanooga Steam
Carriage and Wagon Works
Manufactures
buggies phaetons, carriages, hacks and wagons. Sewing machine wagons and
livery work a specialty.
Flouring
Mills
The
Lookout Steam Mills have five ran of stones and an eighty horse-power engine.
Capacity, 250 barrels flour per day. The Chattanooga Steam Mills have three run
of stones- Capacity, 50 barrels flour per day.
Chattanooga Fire-Clay
Works
This establishment manufactures
fire-brick, drain pipe, and fire-clay work of all kinds. Has capacity for 4,500
fire-brick per day. The products of this factory have stood the severest tests.
Chattanooga Soap
Factory
This
is a new enterprise, but is starting out under auspices which bid fair to make
it an important addition to the rapidly increasing number of manufacturing enterprises
in the city.
Southern Pump
and Pipe Company
Superior
wooden pumps are made at this factory. There is also made here wooden pipe for
aqueduct purposes, and especially adapted for mines, water-works, and
railroads. This pipe is made to sustain an equal pressure with iron pipe made
for the same purpose, and is much cheaper
.
Chattanooga Steam Baker
This
manufactory is supplied with improved machinery for making crackers and
similar products. Has capacity for using twenty barrels of flour per day. There
are two other bakeries in the city.
ChattanoogaSteam
Leather Manufactory
Main
building, 38 by 290 feet, three stories. Bark mill will grind twenty cords per
day. Steam engine forty horse power. All necessary machinery complete. There
are 112 vats, 20 limes and soaks, six large leaches, one ten-cord Allen and Warren leach. Capacity, 26,000 sides per annum.
The Novelty
Machine Works
Manufacture
brass and iron articles in large variety.
The Chattanooga Fertilizer
Works
Engaged
principally in the production of bone fertilizers.
The Chattanooga Steam
Furniture Factory
Have
large capacities for making all kinds and quantities of household furniture.
Chattanooga Brewery
This
establishment makes lager beer, and has
capacity for 20,000 kegs per annum.
Mountain City Cotton and
Woolen Factory
This
factory has all the necessary machinery for making cotton yarns, rope and
cloth, and also for making woolen goods. The factory at present consists of one
main building, 50 by 105 feet, three stories, with wing 50 by 80 feet, one
story. Three thousand spindles are now set up. Engine forty horse power. The
buildings and machinery are so arranged as to increase the capacity at any
time.
The Future of Chattanooga
The
lumber trade of this city will necessarily swell into large proportions. It is
estimated that, within the region of country tributary to Chattanooga, there are 5,000,000,000 feet of lumber of the more
valuable varieties. This trade already extends to the Northern and Eastern States.
A
cotton market of
importance would be established at once in Chattanooga upon the
erection of a cotton
compress, with a supply of capital to make purchases or advances. A large
amount of business which now goes through and around the city would then be
transacted here, this being the natural center for collection and shipment.
The
foregoing statistics show the vast amount of grain, live stock, and provisions
distributed over the country south of Chattanooga, and indicate, not only what
will be done in the future of this rapidly growing country, but also what
opportunities there are for producers in Tennessee.
The
opportunities and prospects in regard to manufactures, and especially with
respect to the production of iron, have been fully set forth.
The
railroad facilities which Chattanooga
possesses, and which give the city direct communication with every section of
the country, have been mentioned, and are shown by the accompanying maps.
By
the removal of the obstructions to the navigation of the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, this river will be open throughout
its whole length to the trade of the country. Thus cheap transportation will be
afforded for all the heavy articles of commerce, and a line of water communication
can be provided between the great North-west and the South Atlantic and Gulf States.
The
time is not far distant when the varied products of the soil, the mine, and
innumerable furnaces and manufacturing establishments, and the commerce which
will course through the natural channel of trade, will make Chattanooga the metropolis of the central South.
A History of Tennesseeand
Tennesseans; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and
modern activities - 1913
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