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Show New IIoistino Caulk. Relative to the proposed new hoisting cable for the Imperial-Empire Bhaft, the San Francisco Fran-cisco Scientific Ercss, saye: "An iron rope, weighing 9,500 pounds, has just been completed at Ilallidic's Wire Rope Works, in this city. It is five inches wido, one-half inch thick, and 2,000 feet (nearly half a mile) long. Ono hundred and fifty miles of 1 Oi guagc wire was used in its construction, it is tho first rope manufactured entirely en-tirely of California-made wire, and the largest ever turned out in America. It will be immediately shipped to Virginia Vir-ginia City, Nevada, for use in the Imperial-Empire shall of tho Imperial . Mining company. This California wire rope company are the only manufacturers manu-facturers of flat iron rope in the United States. They have now on the way from Europo improved machinery for making what is termed flexible wire rope. It will run 13 bobbins and lay up a rope of 144 wirPs, with l'.i wires iu the -strand. |