Show J THE WESTERN PIPE STEEL CO by will C higgins it was the writers privilege during his recent trip to san francisco to visit and inspect the works of the western pipe steel company at richmond this is one of the largest manufacturing concerns on the pacific coast and one whose business reaches into almost every industrial zone in the western states including 1 ng alaska and mexico and even into south america and the orient at richmond the company operates an extensive plant which covers a floor space of by feet in which are located machinery for the manufacture of steel tanks steel riveted pipe and other special work the equipment including shears for splitting and cutting punches for single and multiple punching riveting machines lathes and drills as well as a tool repairing shop all of which are operated by compressed air or electric power with these machines great steel plates from twenty gauge up to one and a quarter inches in thickness are handled as easily and as quickly as well as with mathematical precision as a child could cut a piece of cardboard card board with shears or punch it full of holes with an awl the company specializes on well casing and water pipe all gauges from four to thirty inches in diameter and it manufactures dredge pipe up to seventy four inches in diameter from one inch steel as well as an irrigation pipe in ten foot lengths and from four to twelve inches in diameter the steel tanks made by the company are for every kind of use water waler oil and for milling purposes and range in size from a few gallons up to storage tanks of barrel capacity which are specially adapted for use in cyanide plants and leaching works another feature of the companas comp anys business is the manufacture of smoke stacks smelter flues flumes blumes and special work in steel plate according to specifications making a specialty of the complete installation of water work systems for municipalities and corporations as well as complete irrigation systems besides its large plant at richmond the company has another one equally as large at los angeles and one at taft california in all it employs men general sales offices are maintained at san francisco los angeles sacramento fresno and bakersfield ers field california where stock is carried |