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>d Mammoth Lou. rets. Our score! and it rn ing. The ’s lose money ads and sold it? Consider ices. Hat. y. Orchard Gm, m,.'l'earos, Or... .9399, Rye, Bush. .1- and Field Corn. Bed Meal. Cu“. Phosphate, Wigd. 'ollow. Mobs. Short. Whit... range. ust added a new cleaning machinv ction {tom roll» for steaming the m1 are now pro- 0 futnisb a But I flour. Gin on and be convinced. achinery Io rost Wood ency for £50 extensively sary to “V g. h0'0'0r9 amining out ' See 150.- late styles, nin in Can- Lepoiring. zdard SowilI EverybOd! hay Baum“ W. III” the Ratio-0| White C» San in" first clue order. and il'l luantity of CLO" l. \Vhoat, 016.0" r Y .L 41-1115 130 got our 90" :akfast Food. Intent: 3..“ M , ONTARIO. lachimry. MAN 'kot. . straw [’nmto, change! The horses have gone. and the voice of the § ton-mm has fled. There are no cattle on the hill. no sheep run down the lane. in its place is the voice 0‘ the builder. the bustle 0f bIJSiDOIS. the ,ound of the saw. the steam one gum, and the musical echo 0! the hammer. as it makes solid the iron rivets. And from the field where the farmer plowed not. long ago is rising the most complete cement plea: in the world, and the wofld is 325.000 miles around. TTTTTS BIGGEST TTTTTTT TTTTTT‘T TTT LTTTTTT IN THIS TTTTTTT T Ceme DURHAM THRILLS WITH PRIDE. l l This is a proud boost. for Canada“ but it is a prouder hour. for Durham. i The town is already feeling the new; throb of life which a large industry i always brings in its wake. Houses‘ are scarce. there is nor an idle mo - i in the place, and every one has the price in his pocket. Not. only is Dor- hatn unusually prosperous, but the wave of good time has touched the adjoining villages, and they are sing- ing the same chorus, late of work and plenty of money to do it with. And‘ thou: who know any that. the estohc lislimeui of the cement plant is large- ly rt'SlbUHD’ible for the whole hoeiness. W hen your correspondent met. Herr V. Hahn. proprietor of the Mioldaugh House. that. gentleman was explain- ing that every room in his hotel was taken. that gentleman woo explain- ing that every room in his hotel was taken. but chat he had a few stretch ielt. It’s a case of come early if you Want a front seat. in the Durham hotels to-day. A VISIT TO THE PLANT. It was 8.30 in the morning when We reached the site. J usc stop a minute! Turn back the pages of time u few days. On the 26th of September last. quietly. unostentatiously. the firs: shovellul of earth was turned for commencement of the works. Thirty the days after a. line of railway was completed from the Grand 'l:runk to f""‘ " the grounds. From (but day over 400 car loads of material halve arrived for the carrying on of the construc- tion. Four hundred cars ! “agons and mysterious cues. Four hundred cars, and Still there is more to fnliuw. Some of the material comes in a tiny box You could P“t in Sow H St. pocket. Some of it. coma ”Win: 011 two cars. one could’n car- U 1?. ._'ampson himself wouldn't be om emu two, three in liking it- .\r «1 this is the Spot where «men: Wm be made without. htndl, mid” aw xmvically. by the magic of much- ll m "m- Lmst brains of this 20th cent- Him The world has been hearing 111m}. ()f the cheapuess with Which Ant-Huang produce their manulact- Uni articles, how the! “0°“ “'0 Mani at will. Here the but plant! own game. THE SULIDITY 01" IT ALL. The National Portland Cement (I. -1 1; any believe that what is “ace it r the goose is sense for the 8nd“: ai.~l so thev have built their found?- tinus of éement. No buildinl 1'! “’ronaer than its foundation. ““1? ”Mr foundations are imporishsblool Timr gospel is. that buildings oroowd of cement are the cheapelh “”3 ‘5“! these foundations are th! Ilfoylut'i Md consistently built. “Wang ”1 ' 1 their own sclpol. ‘ I.-j‘ AH last fall the work was pun-130d. 0n as rapidly 53 possible. This 091:1“! We only thing thit hampered 1‘ II ”10 scarcity of men. Hundreds of tons of concrotmuo 1't‘mxesemed in the foundation. Some of them are 18 foot. deep und 2 ‘0 10 feet wide. The laugh It 1300 find who hold of eternity. III I“? City sand would co“ 39 i 190" 5‘“ nature has been good to tho huh.“ Portland Count Company, and aim then: :11 they "quip at I“? m r t Mun May lO.-â€" “ Gee. 113' " \s Henry Burnett spoke the ,- ohey ed. and turned to the II- t) the left at will. and as he ed the plow in this field near v11 of Durham, he left behind I, ht deep furrow. In the dis- the hillside. and the «tile on! the man spring grass,_ and the mt the hulding Material of the Future-â€"A Canadian 4 '. mpzmy Developing a Canadian Industry from Canadian Raw Materials. W816 morvell ous thing tbil. will the Toronto My 8.3!.) rmmi-Iu: lipâ€"and down the ug this. a tribute of this 20th can:- has been having grounds, saving them thousands of dollars. The foundations are built to the proportion of 5 of gravel to 3 of sand and one of cement. his snmply a case of mixing it. up and packing it between boards in any shape or width required, pull away the boards in a few days, and there iu the foundation complete. " 'l‘has's a ripe foundation,” said Superintendent Layton, as he picked up a big stone and hurled it. at the concrete. The splinters flew. but the missile left. no mark. The concrete was as hard as flint. The: older an apple gets the riper and softer it becomes; the older 3 con crete foundation gets the harder it grows, That’s the difierence between an apple and a concrete wall. 301‘ ONLY STRONG BUT CHEAP. The United States has built. many of her great. buildings before the va- lue. durability, cheapness. and vital- ity of concrete was known, and the National Portland Cement Company have proven that it can save money by using the article it advocates. ” See that building?” said Chief Engineer Bogardus, pointing to the auxiliary power house. “ There is a building with dimensions 105x73. Those foundations were hard in three and a half days. Had they been built of stone they would not have been complete within a month.” blocks.” Thus the National Portland Cem- em. p90pla claim that by using cem- em they have structures at. 35') per cent. less cost, 100 per cent. stronger and much more attractive in appear- ance than brick. As the foundations are unique in the history of factory building in Canada, so is the plant. It is all of the newest description. tluch of it is of the original designs of Enginee‘ Bogardus. and cannot be duplicated, as the plans for its construction are carefully locked away in the com- pany’s strong box in their new-made concrete vault in their office, which was once a farmhouse but is now taking to itself the dignity of red ink. rulers, plans. and the accessories of the strenuous mercantile exist- 0006. The smokestack is a huge afiair; itl will reach towards the blue nearly 200 feet, and will be one of the tallest in Ontario, This stack is of steel.‘ and will stand alone, without so much as a single guy. And in the erection of the stack the utility of cement is again shown. it will be held by anchor bolts that are fastened into 30 feet of solid concrete. In Uncle Sam’s land a tornado tore its way through a town. The wind neighborhood Visited the site the next day eXpecting to see the stack prostrate. But it was there, and the E town wags say : Not only will the stack be heldi erect by its foundations of concrete,i -e poets are moulded. be enclosed by these post-.3 slabs in God’s acre. PATRONIZED HOME INDUSTRY. Your correspondent has noted with pleasure that the company has pur- chased its material as far as it possi- bly could in Canada. Some of the. machinery, however. is not made in' the Dominion, netably the rotaries, i which are used for calcinating. These ' ' ' d may be dark ' ' ' but in plain English it simply means huge steel affairs 7O tfeet long, seven feet in diameter, ' cannon, and hollow at reach end. Here the marl and clay ; meet the fire for the first time, and are cooked to a cinder. I A ._ ___-LA- lllv VVV-uvâ€" - _ ; These rotax-ies !Great and grim the ‘xious to begin to whlrl. are eight. in nu mber y stood, as if an- ' Grim be- : the idler: upon which they revolve is ' 72,000 pounds. 6t They are made of hollow cement ax TOWERING MONSTER . massive machine is the Mills, which came from may. and which is not on thing’s straighter concrete foundations 21 feet 6 inches high. This mill is a. mysterious look- ing ufleir to the men whose know- ledge of machinery is limited. but the company claim it is the most perfect of its kind that money can key or the world produce. A SPLEKDID 8Y8 PEI. ”I don’t care a run about your strong points : guard the week once." was the advice at Northern general gave the colonel of a regiment in planning a. strategic move. The National Portland Cement Com pany have been paying attention to all possible leaks. “ Showme a man who cleans his boots and neglects his heels, and I’ll show 3011 a man without a guiding purpose,” is the utterance of n mod- ern'sage. The company are looking out for the heels, and obscure point- of the business. The machine shop, which is fully constructed, is self. containing. If any part of the plant becomes deranged it. is not necessary to send the broken part an 33'. It. is a-case of Johnny on the spot. and fixed at once. The stock room is also under careful supervision, and every part kept. in account. down to the smallest screw. A BRIGHT FUTURE. This is the ace of cement. Napoleon. the maker of empires and the unmaker of kings. sat. on his horse under the Egypian sky and. pointing to the pyramids, said : ” Men, 4,000 years look down on you." Napoleon has passed but the pyra- mids still stand inexouable, my steri- ous, defiant. laughing at the sun the wind or ram. Time knocks. But they don’t an- swer, This is an age of cement, and be- cause it is, buildings are being erect- ed with foundations as 91119 as those cf the pv1amids, now solid stone. The uses to which cement may be put areinnumerable. Canada is now awakening from her Rip Van Winkle slumber. is beginning to realize the vast posibilities for this article. and, taking a leaf from the book of the older nations. is uiiliziug the results of their experiments for her own ben- efit upon her latent resources. Cem- ent is now being used in all tranner of forms, and many believe that the business is but in its infancy. Rail- way corporaticns. who know no friends, save the dollar, haye tired of the immense sums necessary for the maintenance of repairs, and are build- ing their culverts of the solid article,‘ while monoliths of concrete have taken the place of the steel and iron bridges. Great skyscrapers, touching ‘ to the fringes of the clouds. are made 'of cement; mansions and humble homes, and then back to railroad ties again. The list in which cement may now be used is startling; locks dams sewers, culverts, break waters, retain- ing walls, piling, crib and gutter work, barn floors, barns. silos, reser- voirs, chimneys, and even roofs, and a much greater list might easily be mentioned. The growth of the~cement industry has been one of the business pheno- mena. of the present age. Steel has made tremendous strides. So has cement. . They go hand in hand. Scientists say that unless the sky- scrapers liave their steel work cover- ed with cement the life of the build- V“ vvavu- ing is shortened and catastrOphe invited. 80 steel is really dependent upon cement. This granted, the bus- iness in Canada is but in its infancy. Twelve years ago. if your corres- pondent is correctly informed, there was no Portland cement manufact- ured in Canada. It is eXpected that in this present year nearly 1.200.000 barrels will have been consumed here. It is gratifying tc notice that the wholesome sentiment, ”All things equal, support home industry,” is be- ing recognized among the cement consuming public of Canada. Germany with an area less than Ontario. has 80 Portland cement fac- tories, with exports of three million barrels and seventeen million con. sumed at home. In the United States a similar growth has been noticed, running from two million barrels in 1890 to 12,000,000 in 1900, and with a present increase of over 2,000,000 barrels a year. The National Portland Cement. Com pany is being built and will be carried on on Canadian capital. The com- pany’s stock was placed upon the market in a manner unique. It was not advertised in the sense of the usual page advertisements in the lead --- mLA-A ing city and pro zncial papers. There were no red lights or spectacular per- formances given by the promoters. The brokers did not even get a slice of it. The same old story of push and :enterprize. veni. vidi. vici, and the stock has been all subscribed and so I am informed. could easily be sub-1 scribed over again. There are 1,800! shareholders in the company, all ,Canadians. all sanguinge, all hopeful of the future of their country. The shareholders are men from all walks of life. lawyers, doctors. members of Parliament. members of the Legis- lative Assembly. farmers and city men. Men who will be personally interested, and in many cases able to assist in the sale of the article in which they are interested. In view of this gigmtic concern springing as it. were. into the public eye for the first time through the medium of this communication, it is THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. THURSDAY. HAY 22, 1902. A PHENOMENAL GROWTH. A CANADIAN CONCERN . )7 interesting to note the strong person- ality of the directorate. Mr. A. F; McLean. M. P., Stratiord. Ont.. pres- ident of the Imperial Cheese Com- pany. Limited; Barlow Cumberland. viceopresident Niagara Navagation Company, Toronto. Ont; P W.Stan- hope. Ontario manager of the Mc- Cormick Harvesting Machine Co.. Torcnto. Ont.; W. F. Cowham. man- aging director of the Peninsular Portland Cement Company, Jackson. Mich; Gilbert McKeclinie, ex-M. P. P.. merchant. Durham, Ont. THE SECRET O!" ? UOCESS. Carnegie says: “If you wantto succeed. surround yourself with spe- cialists smarter than yourself.” It. is pleasing ts note without rflec- tion upon the directorate. that they have acted on Carnegie’s advice, and have. in all dodartmems of the con- struction work on the Durham mill secured the first men in America. This is the day of specialists. and the men engaged in the erection of the big plant here are specialists. The plans have been so accurately fol- lowed out that the heaviest machin- ery has been set in place without so much as stripping a thread in a bolt. On W. B. Bogazdus. chiefengineer falls much of the mantle of praise. ‘ir. Bogardus is a \oung man but has ulreadx crowded more experience IIICIF III. vuu‘- into his life than many men do in an entire existence. He is a geniusâ€"â€" that’s all there is about it. Mr. 80- gardus has already erected nine of the largest plants in America. Mr. Bogardus knows the business from the ground floor up, from A to Z. from stem to gudgton. and has assisting him in the engineering: staff M. De Lano. Jr., W. J. Maythnm. J. Train- or, \V. H. Sntlilf and A. Laidlaw. Mr C. E. Layton has been a valu- able aid to the engineering depart~ ment. and is also an expert by reason, of having assisted in the construction of many leading American plants. He has charge of all concrete and foundation wnrk. OWN THEIR OWN ROAD. The National Portland Cement Com pany own their own toad. cars and engine. and have lwen incorporated under Government, charter with full railroad privileges. The line was constructed by Barnabas Gibson, for over 30 years connected with the 1 Grand Trunk Railway. and while the road is not as long as the Trunk, it is, so Mr. Gibson boasts. just as strong and just as wide. It runs out to the marl bed. where the supply is absolu- tely inexhaustable. The other specialism who have charge of the various branches of consrruction are: G. McGrane, ma- chinery; H. Weiner, carpenter on buildings; W. Neufer.;carpenter on foundation and templets. THE SITE OF IT ALL. Nature has been good to the com- pany. and besides giving them sand and gravel for building, she has pro- duced a splendid flow of water, close at hand. Taking advantage of the kindly law of gravitation, and the gentle incline from the marl bed to the mill. the cars of marl will run without appreciable power to their destination. thus at one stroke lop- ] ping 03 a considerable item of expen- :.-L-“A“.O 'l'b v.- “ ‘v' _ diture. Gas and oil are distinctly traceable on the company’s land, and your correspondent would not be sur- prised if in the future the entire plant would be run. power generated, and light given, by these natural forces. This would mean an immense saving. A MODERN MARVEL. The way that the cement will be manufactured in Durham is little short of the marvelous. A few years ago it would have been looked upon as incaedible, and even to-day, with the most perfected methods on every; side, it will rank as the only mill in g . the world where the marl is scooped; l up by machinery, and by machinery I carried on and conjured with, until, it is at laSt emptied into barrels. and! all without the touch of human hand.l a All the human hand has to do with! it is to tie up the bag, or put the} head in the barrel. ' Besides a great saving of labor, the cement is in this way made of a uni- form grade, for. as one of the leading directors said, machines never tire ; ‘ thev don’t strike. don’t get moody ; they will not neglect their work, and when it is remembered that some Canadian cements have not been uni- form in gra .e or satisfactory in test, lthe adpotiou of machinery is looked ‘ upon as a shrew and successful bus- iness move. IN PLAIN ENGLISH. There are many technical terms used in the manufacture of cement. and this is the way the National Portland Cement Company will pro- duce their article. The marl is dredged by special machinery, which can dig up to the length of the hoist- ing chain, which is 35 feet. It is loaded on cars by specially construe. ted machinery, in which compressed air pays an important part. From the marl bed to the works is a {all of 290 feet. and the cars will practically land themselves at the mouth of the receiving hopper, where l they are automatically emptied. These cars have a capacity of 70.000 pounds, and from the hopper the marl comes into contact with machinery which granulates it. after which it isl again dropped by gravrty into storage ‘ bins. which each contains enough to make 200 barrels. These bins are again discharged by gravity along into special mixing mills, where the proper amount of clay is added. On the same trestle on which the marl is receiyed large hoppers are provided {or receiving the clay. This is done W. Neufer.§carpenter on. in a manner similar to which the marl is handled. the clay being dis- charged by gravity into storage hop- pers. and into a disintegrstor. which granulates the clay. This clay is then dredged, and conveyed to the mixing mill. where it first meets'the marl. Provision has been made so that chemists can obtain an accurate analysis of the clay and marl. so that a proper amount of each may be de- termined for each mix. Means are also provided so that analysis of the mixture is checked. to he sure that a preper mixture has been made be- fore it is finally burned. This mix- ture goes into large storage tanks. which each contains acapacity of ‘200 barrels. This goes through tube mills. where the material is around so fine that 88 percent. of it will pass through a sleve of 10.000 meshes to the square inch. From these special grinding mills the material is taken to another row of large storage tanks. where a stor- ‘ age capacity at 1.600 barrels. besides that already mentioned, is provided. Then the stufi is taken by machinery and fed by automatic feeders into gi- gantic. rotary kilns. From these ro- tary kilns, in which the marl and clay are united by fusion. at a tem- perature of 3.000 degrees Fahrenheit, they discharge from the kilns into a conveyor, and are transported to the} grinding building. where the clinker is ground in the machines purchased from the Essen Krupp Gun Works. lGermany. From there, the material is automatically carried to tube mills for finishing, and from there it is taken to the warehouse automatical- l_v. These automatic carriages will distribute the cement to any bin in the warehouse, and in the passage from the bin to the car mechanism is again called in use; and so from the time it is marl to the moment It be- comes cement, and is placed in the warehouse, no human hand really takes part in the making. The whole process is upon the American lineâ€"- the elimination of labor. Electric light is now installed at the plant, and shifts are working night and day. steam being turned on for the first time to-day. MCRONALDâ€"In Bentinck. near Vickers, Thursday. May 15th. to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. McRnnald. a son. HUNTâ€"CUFFâ€"At the residence of the bride’s father. on Wednesdav. Mav 14. by Rev. Rural Dean Ryan. Mr. Herb. H unt. of Vickers, to Miss Margaret Cuff. of Aberdeen. Gonna. colds. hoax-Iona“, and other man niimcnts are quickly relieved by Vapoâ€"Creso Pane tablets. ten cents per box. All druzgisu At ve1y special prices. $2. 25 Ready ”to Wears go ing at $1. 65. $2 Ready-to-Wears going at $1 .45. Ready- -to-Wear Hats that are cheap at $1. 50 and $1. 60 will be sold for 81.15. Black Walking Hats were $1.00 and 81.25 are now 75c and 85c. HATS! HATS! HATS! J AS. IRELAND MARRIED. BORN. REUEUBER THE PLAQE - - LAIDLMV’B OLD OHIO. White Walking Hus with Fancy Dupe were $1.25 now 75c. Call md see them. . . This Week . . Ready-to-Wegrâ€"s. Deal Here Lawr) Mowers Paints Clauss Razor Sheep Shears Bicycles Miscellaneous Hardware. Conn: and deal at \he Hardware stern where you cu! get every- thing you require from t Needle to an Anchor. Every lawn in town can be made It great attraction hv using one of our Lawn Mowers. Our weekly supply of Ready- Mixed Paints has arrived. D9 not buy inferior paints when you can get Sherwin-“’illinml. Every man his own barber by using at 01:12:33 Razor. There in nothing to equal it. Secure 9. pair of our Sheep Shears and you can get a good price [or your wool. Two very fine Ladies‘ Bicyclol for sale cheap. See them. Just. to band an immenno ship- ment of Carpet. Beatvrs. Carpet Sweepers. Bicycle Supplies. Fish- iwhfi' fiche, Chums; Wheel Bar- rows. Etc. m: