| Show exposi exposition tion exhibits of the redwood manufacturers co communicated it is doubtful if there is another manufacturing fac Tac turing firm as well represented at the panama pacific international EX position exposition as the redwood manufacturing company in practically all the principal palaces and in many of the county exhibits the products of this company serve to add to the general interest both inside and outside the immense machinery hall may be seen the tanks and pipes of the redwood manufacturers company there is in block 36 of this hall a remco tank of gallons capacity from which gallons of water are pumped per minute through a redwood stave pipe of twelve inches diameter at a velocity of eleven feet per second outside the hall to the east there is a 50 foot renico remco tower surmounted by a remco redwood tank of 30 gallons capacity and supplied through 1500 feet of remco machine banded red wood stave pipe with salt water for the cooling system of the hall A working model of the tower and tank is displayed inside the hall in block 36 there are interesting samples of remco machine banded pipe and remco continuous stave redwood pipe in machinery hall one of these a section of remco continuous stave pipe eighteen inches in diameter was taken from the main flow line of the city of logan utah in june 1914 after it had been in continuous service for twenty three years having been installed in 1892 A fine exhibit of products of the company is in the mines building this consists of three remco redwood tanks and two towers containing machinery and cyanide solutions in the hawaiian building the redwood manufacturers company has on display the tanks in which are exhibited the multi col ored fish of hawaii the tanks that supply the water for the immense panama canal concession are pro products of the company throughout the exposition grounds drainage is taken care of by remco machine banded pipe and the permanent sewers constructed ted on the grounds by the united states government are of remco redwood continuous stave pipe among the exhibits made by counties in which the redwood manufacturers company has noteworthy displays are those of humboldt and contra costa counties in the former the company has sections of machine banded redwood stave pipe with collars remco continuous stave redwood pipe as erected in the field remco bored redwood pipe with collars for acid transmission and a miniature remco redwood stave silo while in the latter has a miniature remco tank and tower and a miniature remco redwood stave silo the redwood manufacturers company and the excelsior wooden pipe company to whom it is successor has designed manufactured and installed redwood pipe and redwood tanks continuously since 1889 and has never had a pipe or tank failure the first installations of twenty six years ago are still in service in sound serviceable condition good for many years to come the companas comp anys plant is at pittsburg contra costa county and contains a tank factory pipe factory silo factory sash and door plant rail distributing system wharves where ocean steamers load and discharge and a drying yard containing at all times forty million feet of air dried redwood piled on sticks to season in its native climate this immense stock is replenished as fast as used so as to always have on hand a plentiful supply of thoroughly seasoned lumber stances can be cited and verified the modern remco is a vast improvement over the old fashioned flat tank the round hoops can be easily tightened in a few moments by screwing up the nuts 01 on the bands instead of the old way of hammering the flat bands with special tools and much labor the round hoops are much less 11 able to corrosion than the thin flat hoops with their greater exposed surface there are thousands of redwood tanks in use for water storage in wineries wintries win eries for wine and brandy storage and manufacture for oil storage on oil roofs for fire protection in ill factories in breweries by the railroads in fact in every place where tanks are used it was also demonstrated that tanks built of clear air dried redwood are not injured or affected by arid climates or extremes of temperature and that they resist im T A J exhibit of the red redwood manufacturers company in machinery hall panama pacific international exposition redwood has been used very extensively in tile the manufacture of tanks and pipe for the past sixty years beginning so far as any authentic record goes about the time that placer mining was at its height in california in the fifties all the early tanneries canneries tann eries were equipped with vats and tanks and at the present time every vat and tank in every tannery in california is built of redwood the krieg tanning company san francisco have in their tannery at present a battery of redwood tanks part wholly above ground leaching into others wholly buried which were installed in 1859 A recent thorough examination proved them to be entirely sound free from any decay and apparently good for fifty years more numerous similar in tion both in very dry and excessively wet localities cali ties it is this quality which has made them equally effective in nevada and nicaragua in arizona and tile the philippines in utah and oregon in montana and the ha wabian balian islands the highest awards given by the pana ma pacific international exposition for tank and pipe exhibits and silo exhibits were those conferred upon tile the redwood manufacturers company for general tank and pipe f exhibit and for silo exhibit the company was awarded gold nied medals als |
