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Show Canal Has Big 1 Repairing Plant Facilities at Balboa and Cristobal for Ship Work Are Described. Washington. The elaborate facilities facil-ities for the repairing of ships at the 1'anania canal are given In a bulletin of the Panama-canal authorities. The principal manufacturing and repair plant is located at Balboa, the Pacific terminal of the canal. It is adjacent to an inner harbor, which has an area sulticient to permit nccess to docks, which aggregate 7,500 feet in length. Including commercial ducks, repair wharves and coaling docks. A much smaller plant is located at Cristobal, the Atlantic terminal about one and one-half miles from the main commercial docks. A description of the plant at Balboa follows: The dock has a depth of 33 feet over the blocks at mean tide. High tide varies from 3' to 11 feet above mean tide. It is served by a 00-ton traveling travel-ing crane "h nn outside reach of five foil beyond the center of the dock. This crane is also capable ot traveling along the face of some of the repair wharves, thus facilitating the work of repairing vessels. For ships which do not require dry docking there are adjacent to the shops about 3,."0 feet of repair wharves. At regular intervals along the coping of the dry dock and the repair wharves iiie outlets for air. water and alternating electric current. A limited quantity of direct current can be supplied by two portable motor generating sets. Either compressed air or electricity can be supplied for operating auxiliaries on ships on which steam is Where refrigerating refrigerat-ing machinery is shut down, cold storage can be removed from the ship's boxes and stored in the canal cold storage ehouse nearby. The rTaio soups are centrally located lo-cated w-iili respect to the dry dock iiiid repair wharves. Ample track and crane services provide for handling work between shops and ships. Huge Traveling Cranes. The main metal-working shops (machine, (ma-chine, smitliery, and boiler shop) are provided with (iO-ton overhead travelling travel-ling cranes, while the foundry has a 25-ton overhead crane. As all the shops are equipped with as complete lines of power tools as are generally found in an up-to-date repair shop, only the larger tools will be given special mention so to give an idea o the maximum capacity of each department. de-partment. The machine shop is provided with a vertical boring mill capable of working work-ing IS feet in diameter, with an open side extension planer 10 feet by 3L' feet, and with a lathe l-'U-inch swing hy 05 feet between centers. No ship machinery is too large for the capacity capac-ity of this shop. This shop has a floor rrea of approximately GS.1S0 square feet. The smitliery is provided with a rOO-ton forging press with the ces-sary ces-sary furnaces to handle any work that the press is capable of. Billets '.'I inches square by 19 feet long are I ept in stock and can be worked un-r un-r this press; there are other ma- ihinery and tools usually found in a f'rst-class smitliery. There is also a department for spring making and a tool-dressing department that includes i M burning and electric tempering f lrnaces of the latest type. This shop has a floor area of approximately approximate-ly '.'(."vi square feet. The boiler and ship-fitting shops have a set of rolls capable of I 'tiding plates 3i inch by :-;o feet. 1 inch by 2t feet, or 2 indies hy U feet. Any size of ship or boiler plates or structural shapes can be worked by the other machinery, which Includes angle shears, punches, straightening rolls, plate planar, and bending machine. ma-chine. This shop has a floor area of approximately 4C.S00 square feet. The pipe shop Is outfitted for plumbing plumb-ing work and for pipe, copper and sheet-metal work of the highest classes. The door area of this shop Is approxomateiy 17,1-14 square feet. The foundry is equipped with a two-ton two-ton tropenas converter and one two-ton two-ton and one one-ton cupola, and the usual brass furnaces. There is an efficient sand-blast system for cleaning clean-ing castings, also gate saws, sprue cutters, and other modern equipment, Including annealing furnaces, core oven and moid-drying oven. The foundry can turn out castings as follows fol-lows : Bronze, brass or composition, Vi pound to l.ddti pounds; iron U pound to 2G.IKK) pounds; steel, 4 pound to 10,(100 pounds. In connection connec-tion with the foundry Is a pattern shop equipped to handle any and all classe.of pattern work. This foundry and .pattern shop together have a floor area of approximately 37.75S square feet. Woodworking Machinery. The planing mill and jpiner shop Is outfitted with the usual woodworking machines, including a 72-inch sawmill capable of handling timbers likely to be used in connection with ship work. This shop Was a Hoor area of approximately approxi-mately -t!).044 square feet. The oxy-acetylene plant has portable port-able electric welding and oxy-acetylene cutting outfits capable of handling han-dling emergency repairs. The plant develops approximately 400 cubic feet of acetylene per hour. 5.000 cubic feet of hydrogen per day. All classes of boiler welding are done. Large thermite welds can be performed. Main engine cylinders have been welded in place, both high pressure and low pressure, the welds being as extensive and as successful as the welds made in the United States on engine cylinders during the World war. This plant has a floor area of approximately 010 square feet. An instrument repair shop is maintained main-tained in which repairs are made to navigating instruments, clocks, gauges. typewriters and computing machines and other work of a minute character. In connection with this shop there Is a plating plant for zinc, copjier. nickel, silver and gold. This shop has a floor area of approximately 2,500 square feet. Located in the same building with the instrument repair shop is an electric elec-tric shop under the control of the electrical division, the facilities of which are available for the entire Panama canal. This shop is equipped for motor winding, switchboard work and making repairs to practically any kind of electrical apparatus. The floor area of this shop is approximately approximate-ly 3.400 square feet. There is a car shop equipped with all necessary machinery for the building build-ing of railroad cars of all kinds and also tiie repairing of all the rolling stock of the Panama railroad. In connection with this shop there Is a reroliing mill for rerolling bars and miscellaneous scrap material into rounds and flats. This shop has a floor area of approximately 01. SI!) square feet. There is located at both the Balboa and the Cristobal shops and connected connect-ed therewith a roundhouse where general gen-eral overhauling as well as minor repairs re-pairs are made to the locomotives of the Panama railroad. The air-compressor plant and dry- 1 dock pumping plant at Ealboa are located in the same building. There are two 5,000 cubic foot and one 2,500 cubic foot air compressors In use, driven by electric motors and one 2.500 cubic foot steam-driven compressor com-pressor which is considered only as an emergency unit. Up-to-Date Laboratory. There is a laboratory equipped with a 100,000-pound Riehle testing machine ma-chine and a Brinnell hardness testing machine and other equipment for making physical tests of all kinds. There are also available in another division of the Panama canal, laboratories labora-tories where chemical tests can be made of fuel oils, metals, etc. All shop tools are operated by electricity. elec-tricity. The larger tools are provided with independent motors and the smaller tools are arranged in groups and driven from countershafts. The current is obtained from a hydroelectric hydro-electric plant at the Catun spillway, supplemented by a Diesel-driven plant at Miraflores. The 23-cycie, alternating alternat-ing current is transmitted to the Balboa Bal-boa substation at 44.000 volts. At the substation it is transformed to 2.200 volts and so distributed through underground un-derground duct lines to the various shops, where it is further transformed, ! where necessary, to suitable voltages for use. The various speed tools in the machine ship are driven by direct current from rotary transformers within the shop. All other tools are driven by alternating current, generally gener-ally at 220 volts. Current at 220 volts Is available at all points along the water front for power purposes, and at 110 volts for lighting In the event of ships' generators being out of use. The storehouses (under the control of the supply department) carry on. hand a large stock of steel shapes, pipe, ship fittings, and supplies of every description. Steel plate is carried car-ried in stock in all thicknesses up to and including 2 Inches. Plates smaller than ?s-inclr vary by sixteenths and plates larger than ?g-Inch vary by eighths. The largest plates in stock are 72 inches by 10 feet by 2 inches thick. A large amount of steel billets is kept on hand in all sizes up to and including 24 inches by 24 inches by 19 feet. Structural shapes are carried car-ried as follows : I-beams, all sizes up to 27 inches; channels, all sizes up to 15 inches; ship channels, all sizes up to 12 inches; and angles, all sizes up to S inches by 8 inches by ?i-inch. There are also carried in the storehouses lumber of all sizes and miscellaneous equipment and supplies of practically every description that are used in the operation and maintenance main-tenance of the entire Panama canal. Irsdns Jn.rl New Buffalo Bill Memorial ' r . , - i ) n 1 1 ' ' -An it- - V V ' . v 't ' - 1 I , t - ' ii , T-',f - H ' , I ' , : I 1 t '' ' ' 1 . . i : : i ' ! ;: 1 :; ' .v..!ii.i.a itreetias Crow Indian chiefs on their in.-pei-tiou of the new Bu.Talo Cili '..' . mil. ei:ui at C"dy. Tiie niUM-um was dedicated July 4. I |