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Show Utah Central Machine Shps. The new machine shops of the Utah Centra railroad are now being fitted up with a lot of the finest and iuot cosily machinery of the kind that has yet found its way to our mountain city. This machinery wa3 manufactured by W. B. Bement it Son, of the Industrial Indus-trial Works, Philadelphia, Perm., especially for the U. C. shops, and consists of an iron planer, to plane 3G inches wide, 3G inches high and 10 feet long, with rack and pinion feed, countershaft, hanger, etc., the whole weighing 10,000 lba. A twenty -five inch swing lathe, sixteen feet bed, to turn eleven feet long between oentrea, rack and pinion feed, Ecrew cutting with countershaft and hangers; with a four jawed independent chuck for lathe, twenty-one inch diameter, weighing about 8,000 lbs. An upright drill, twenty-five inch, double-geered, weighing 5,300. A thirty-six inch hydrostatic wheel press, with fuage, crane,etc., weighing 11,000 lbs. A No. 1 bolt-cutter, with tap3 and dies, weighing 1,200 lbs. A forty-eight inch car wheel boring machine, weighing 7,500 lbs. Total weight is 43,000 lbs; costing in Philadelphia before shipment nearly $8,000. The machinery is driven by a twelve-horse twelve-horse power vertical portable engine, manufactured by Griffith and Wedge, of ZaneBville, Ohio. The works will be in full running order in about another week, and when the foundry, which it is expected will soon be added, is completed, they will be able to manufacture everything required on or about the road, except locomotives which will not be attempted at present. To furnish the requisite blast for the oupalo of the'foundry and the blacksmith black-smith shop, they have imported a No. 5 Sturtcvant blower, also manufactured by W. B, Bement & Son, Industrial works, Philadelphia. The shops are in charge of Nathan Davis, Esq., the master machinist, to whose cour tesy wo are largely indebted in-debted for the abovo facts. We wish success to this new branch of mechanical mechan-ical industry in Utah. |