| Show im loose ia IN ISO I 1 an A idaho foundry and factory factor Y I 1 i I 1 IM IN leis IN logo Ift 1014 ININ nampa idaho but a few years ago was a desert waste today it is a city as it were springing up as if by magic it is while still in its embryo state budding into a town of factories and becoming a commercial center and distributing point tor for jobbing houses some might be mentioned as going from salt lake but being foreign to the mining and kindred interests they will be passed what the mining review desires to speak of in particular is a new manufacturing institution of direct concern to the mining and milling interests of our sister state we refer to the establishment of the nampa foundry and machine works ltd of which the accompanying illustration hardly conveys a correct understanding of its size and importance the company is a comparatively new one having been formed only last year and is barely getting to work in the several branches of its business its president mr A R moore is formerly from chicago and was later associated socia ted with the capital foundry at boise of which he was the mechanical head three years ago his foresight lead him to change his location and find a more desirable railroad center in the little town of 0 nampa to which place he moved and established himself in a small way at the beginning and at once commenced to grow and expand with the result that he subsequently organized the present company last december associating with him as secretary E F stuart for a long time mechanical engineer for the trade dollar con mining company at silver city and fred G mock local banker as treasurer of the company mr stuart at once resigned his position with the trade dollar and turned his attention entirely to the work of the new company of which he became a member the establishment is one wherein drawings may be designed patterns made machinery or pieces thereof cast and the cast ings turned and worked to the finished product in the shortest possible space of time the factory and its importance may be better understood when it is raid ald that twenty experienced and proficient mechanics find employment in this who are of the best and receive the highest salary as a consequence three of these men med are engaged in the pattern maaring department more are employed in tho the ironwork iron work 7 4 at RM zm KS Z building of the nampa foundry and machine co ing department while still a greater number tare bare engaged in the depart department mento under the direct supervision of mr moore J H egbert who was formerly employed with the anaconda copper company com plIny in montana is the drafting engineer ond nd finds if quite up to his bis capacity to keep f from rom under the rushing orders that pile in upon him he is said to be one of abi th best men in his line to be had the foun drys principal princia al business is to do a general mining machinery and machinery repair business and gives g ives prompt attention t to rush orders a sample of which may properly be mentioned here an order was h received for a set of gears on thursday morning the patterns had to be made the drawings first made by mr egbe t af after ter the patterns the castings had to be made and then finished in the iron working wording department part Parti ment nent the work was completed and the manufactured parts shipp shipped ed on monday morning following the order was wap from a mining company which had to shut down operations pending the filling of the order the size ot the work possible to be supplied from the nampa foundry may also be illustrated when it is known that a nine foot sprocket wheel weighing pounds was made complete and furnished to T P F janney of the centerville Cent erville gold dredging company in boise basin idaho tor for its big dredge A top tumbler was manufactured for the boston idaho dredge at idaho city the weight of which was 1700 pounds A set of six sik foot gears was also cast and furnished to the blaine mining company co at placerville erville idaho an 82 inch pulley with a 17 inch face and a 40 inch di ameter pulley with 17 inch face were furnished to the trade dollar mine at silver city numerous mentions might be made of the orders already filled from this splendidly equipped establishment but space forbids it is enough to say all orders filled have given perfect satisfaction and the growing business has already practically outgrown the fac torys feet of f floor space the structure is of brick and substantially ly built when a mining review representative visited the factory recently it was turning out shoes for the stamp batteries of the trade dollar company the company is a builder as well as manufacturer and is at this ume time engaged in the construction of the dewey palace water tower at nampa which stands f feet high and has a capacity of gallons when this tower shall have been completed with its structural parts made of steel furnished by mr 11 J burt manager for the american bridge company of salt lake the nampa foundry will duplicate the dewey tower with one feet high and with a capacity of gallons also to be made ma de of structural steel for the city of dewey the work and workmanship is of the latest even to the use of pneumatic tools in the tower construction before mr stuart entered into the employ of the trade dollar company which position he held for over six years as mechanical ch anical engineer and acting superintendent he was master mecha mechanic nbc for an industrial company in the east for four years and was also on the oregon short line railroad for six years it is the business of the factory to turn out iron steel and brass casting of all kinds and character and do structural steel and sheet metal work make mining machinery and repairs and manufacture the moore interchangeable bushed steel wagon wheels which are said to be the best made the company is also manufacturer of the ferguson rotary mine and irrigation pumps an invention of A ferguson of boise of which the mining review proposes to say more later this in brief is some of the merits of 0 f a coming manufacturing industry located in the snake river valley surrounded by an immense mining section which we will watch grow with a just and pardonable pride |
