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XOTICE TO C05TBACTORS. (to th agreement of Warren Brothers'
Kntlra U TierehT rfven that sealed i company. filed with this city. In ac-
Mds will be received by the council
of the city of La Grande, Oregon, for
the construction of '4.965 square yard?
of bitulithlc pavement on Main ave
nue, between west line of Fourth
atreet and east line of First Btrt, to
'gether with excavation, curbing anl
drainage, the same to be constructed
According to the plans, specifications
' and estimates on file In this office.
All bids to bs In by 8 .o'clock p. m.
April 12th, 1911, and each bid to be
accompanied by a certified check of
5 per cent of the amount of the bid.
The council reserves the right to re
ject any or all bids.
Attention of all contractors is called
cordasce with which agreement War
ren Brothers company agrees to li
cense all contractors desiring to bid
for the work" to lay tltulithlc pave
ment is accordance with its paUms
and the terms of said agreement '
La Grande, Oregon. April 6th, 1911
C. M. HUMPHREYS, ,
Recorder.
"7 YA Km. troubled with constipation
iwl tried all of the beat thvi-
;iaos in Bristol, Tenn., and tby could do
nothing lor me, wrne aum. x ii
Middlboro, Ky. "Two packages of Chm
ierlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets cureH
m. For sale bv all dealer.
NEW MACHINE SHOPS MODEL
OF EFFICIENCY
Money Expended Lavishly to Make La Grande Shops Productive of Greatest
Possible f amci with Accuracy Sptd and Convenience Up to the Xln
ute Machinery Installed Regardless ef Excuse.
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STEWARD'S OPERA HOUSE
One Night, Thursday, April 15
Yes, the Greatest Dramatic Hit of the
; . -. ' . Century is . ' '
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SQUAW
H.E.PierceCo,
MAIM
, Record Breaker
By Edwin Milton Royle , '
. The Play that Dazzled Two Continents
A Stirring American Drama in Four
' Great Acts
SEATS PLACED ON SALE TUESDAY
I PRICES: 50c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50
HACK AND
AMBULANCE
Uptown office Main 720
Residence phone Main 25
ElLBUSSEY
The George Palmer'
Lumber Company
Retail Department
We solicit your orders for Shingles, Rubberoid
Roofing, Deadening Felt, Building Paper
We are prepared to furnish and deliver material,
promptly. Phone Main 8.
How People Lose Their Money
By concealing it about their person; by
stowing it away in mugs, jugs, and jars; by
s sewing it up in skirts and ticks; by tucking
it under the couches and carpets, in cup
boards and bureau drawers; these are some
1 of the ways by which people lose their mon
ey, and sometimes THEIR LIVES.
How People Save Their Money
By depositing it in a good, reliable bank
Confident that this bank fully meets the
public's needs, we tender its services to all
who believe in keeping on the SAFE SIDE.
United States Nation'! Bank
La Grande, Oregon
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Perry Pneumatic Water Systems, Samson
Wind Mills, Deming Pumps, Richardson & Boynton
Warm Air Furnaces, Pipe Valves and Fittings, Gut
ters, Plumbing Fixtures of All Kinds, Full Assort
ment of Nickel Trimmings.
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SHEET METAL WORKERS
BAY 6
PLVMBERS, HEATERS,
Lavish outpouring of money thous
and after thousand under the direc
tion of skilled mechanics, has. made
for La Grande a machlneshop which
has no flaw, , has no better equipped
rival in the Northwest and though
some are larger, none have a greater
efficiency of- output than this shop
the 1160,000 O- W shop in the local
yards. Now that the establishment
has been set In motion to permit the
efficiencies of the new1 machinery to
be utilized while the final and finish
ing touches are going on, the residents
of La Grande should know and appre
ciate the fact that this city claims a
shop of unrivalled efficiency. .
Equipped with huge machines that
Individually run Into the thousands
each, laid out and set up on machani
cal plans that insure the greatest
amount of convenience to the work
men, it takes but a casual study of the
place to ascertain that one prime mo
tive dominated the builders namely,
that expense is not an Item,, but su
perior efficiency the goal. How well
the builders .and assistant . builders
builded Is a matter of public interest.
Thw wel-nlrh roachnd perfection.!
In the first place the shops, build
ing and equipment, were planned, made
and built in such a way that the work
men could accomplish the greatest
amount of work In the briefest time
possible and at the least expenditure
of physical labor. Hoists, rams carts
and trucks do the work of the muscle
and brawn in so many similar shops.
The building housing the costly array
of machinery Is built to give a mlxi
mum amount of comfort to the worker
good lights, sanitary vash rooms,
toilets and offices. j
The. structure Is of brick, measures,'
125x125 feet, its walls are about 25 feet
high and the distance from the peak
or the roof to the cement floor is 75
feet. A blacksmith shop adjacent!
to the , mam brick building is 66x66
feet, and is so built that material can
be speedily, conveniently and easily
shifted from lathe to forge.
A glare of daylight floods the build
ing, a feature of extreme delight to
workmen, who need no longer strain
their eyesight when there is plenty
of daylight without the walls of the
building. The first and paramount
point coming to the. notice of the
stranger within the place is the splen
did arrangement of every detail. ,
Machines, Monster and Perfect
Conclusive proof that the O-W lav
ished money to gain time is seen in
the very first piece of machinery to at
tract the notice as one enters the build
ing from the east entrance: true, one
has seen the transverse car tracks to
permit engines to run Into and through
the entire building b" motive powtr.
but it s trivial compared to the big,
huge, marvelous conglomeration of
machinery, electricity wheels and mo
tors that are combined in the making
of one piece of machinery, right near
the" door. It is called the drive wheel
lathe, and. strange to relate, does In
less than- one hour what required nine
hours to accomplish in the old shops.
Wonderful, isn't it, what modern mind
can do? In the first place this mod
ern stepping stone to Biieed and ca-
pactly.doea more than one thing at a
time. It . reams out two crank
pins at the- name time; another thing
that It does Is to cut swaths five
eighths inch deep in 2 big engine driv
er tires at a time. The driver Is swung
into place, mechanically, in the center
of the machine and one huge motor
operates the entire set of wheels nec
essary In the turning down of a wheel
tire. Little things like automatic
shut-offs, scaled nlacement of tools
and rests are minor details go to
make up the machine as a whole. .Ev
ery one knows that an axle with driver
attached, has the crank pin Wing bar
set so that they are not opposite each
other, yet this machine provides sep
arately driven reamers that operate
on both crank pins at the same time,
lessening the time required to turn
out the work. Small motors run each
drill and the matter of centering is
easily accomplished through gradu
ated scales. So much for this piece of
machinery, which requires close at
tention and careful explanation by the
learned mind to be fully understood
and appreciated.
Axles are driven Into the drivers
by machinery close by ' the lathe.
Anywhere from 40 to 200 tons pres
sure are applied by the turn of a
valve. (
Machinery Lifted Planer Head
Anothjr monstrous piece of rrathin
ery Is the rew plar.tr, a plane tfcs-t
runs 30 feu in a mnute. The parti
cular feaairnrlctt t'lis michin aside
from its wonderlul lower is tin fact
that the jlauer head has a power lift,
and the oM crank rnd thread method,
both slow r.J cui'i)trnome. Is over
come by th) turn of a lever willed np.
pile eufflci force to raise ami low
er the bulky lnvl with ea8e anO (lis-
! patch. .
Llhn I'll, to Date.
There ars several lathes; in fact the
list Includes; a 82-iiuh Putma i. a Si
inch American, an 18 Inch Putman, a
36-inch Schumacher and Boye.'and a
26-inch Bennet lathe and a car wheel
press. Each and every one regardless
of size or explicit purpose is provided
with appliances that to the machinery
trained or educated mind is another
expression of the rapid development
of what a few years since was thought
to be a model lathe. The old method
of cutting threads was to bring. down a
box of gears, learn from a graduated
scale what series of wheels to attach
to the machine, and then by a cum
bersome and dangerous methods
change the belt to the speed desired
out of the three or four as the case
may be. Today on the machines in-
stalhd here, the operator prepares
his machine' for thread cutting by
shifting a lever, dropping a pin and
then starts his machine. The laymen
even can eatch fhls masterly step to-
war d efficiency, Oa the old lathes
every change in speed meant "fussing"
with th hu hrnwln nff the main
line shaft pulley and "on another great
er or smaller pulley as the case might
be and then doing' the same sort of a
thing to the lathe pulleys. With these
lathes, a mere turn of a lever estab
lishes the speed desired for any grade
of work. Really wonderful again, don't
you think. So much for the lathes;
they cut thj schedule from the arrival
to departure of material In a startling
manner. '
Third in line perhaps are the three
radial , drills. Again the system of
change of gear is applied and six dif
ferent speeds are obtainable by the
dropping of a bolt no. change of belt,
you notice. No one can conceive of an
angle in which it would be impossible
to drill with these machines. One of
them Is a 60-inch drill and the other
two are 42 and 32-Inch, respectively. .
. Other Machinery Galoret
The motor-driven lathes, the planer,
the radial drills are not all there is to
be found there by any means. There
Is an 18-Inch Bement Slattern an effi
cient bolt cutter, a car wheel barrer
and drop pit rams that manipulate the
monstruos trucks of a Mallet engine
with simple1 ease. These facilities are
provided In the round house, however,
and are not an Innovation but a neces
sary adjunct to the shop. The rams
radiate on tracks overhead so that no
piece of material too cumbersome to
handle with the muscle of human
hands, can be-swung Into any machine
speedily.
Three entrances for carwheels are
provided and to economize in space,
the dobrs through which they are run
by motive power, roil up and down
like a window shade. No lost motion
or misused space there, for certain.
That in brief, constitutes the floor
equipment.
' Blacksmith Shoo Adjoins.
"Wide lift doors separate the glare
of the blacksmith forges from the ma
chine shops, yet the two buildings are
readily thrown lnto.one. To the right
as one enters from the machine shops
are more monstrous tools. A seven
foot roller, massive in construction, is
made to turn out a boiler cover at any
desired curve by simply running a
sheet of iron or steel through it much
on the same plan as a clothes wringer.
Its power Is wonderful and its purpose
another step in that short cut to time
saver. A big shear and punch standB,
or rather will, when in place, at close
proximity to the door so that material
can be trucked to and from without
loss of time. In the center of tha
building Is the big steam hammer sunk
far into the ground so that its tre
mendous weight will be built on a solid
foundation. Big spaces of cement
f "
blocks hold the steam hammer in place
and It will be possible to see great
chunks of iron pounded into any de
sired shape by tb'is piece "of mechan
ism. ' There are many power hammers
in the country but few as large or as
up to date as this one. Then there are
a string of forges and the flres will
be fanned by the turning of a screw
and not by the pump handle route of
the forge you read about in story
books.
, Office Facflitto Excellent
Where this amount of machinery is
operated and where a crew of skilled
men work there must be a well-concerted
head of department, and in this
Instance this department will be sub
house In a well lighted and neat of
fice In one corner of the building. Here
working under supervision of Division
Foreman Watson, will be found the
machine, shop foremen and assistants.
Ed Thomas officiates as shop foreman;
he is able to draw up a requisition and
charge It to proper account out of a
list of 180 odd without reference to
books. He is the man that turns the
work out and the vast amount of de
tail falling on the division foreman's
shoulders is partly handled through
the shop foreman. Frank Leavlt is
his assistant - ,
: Wash rooms, clean towels and plen
Hof cl-sn hot and. cold water Is rr-
vlded for the employes.
The old round house, or aather tho
round house, for it Is not old, will be
utilized in the handling of regular ser
vice engines. Service repairs will he
done there and the ; boiler making
plant with Joe Whitby at Its head will
move headquarters to the building
with the blacksmiths. Engines that
come in from the runs will be housed
in the round house as heretofore and
it is only when they need overhauling
that they will be shoved into the new
shops. By the way It might be fitting
ly stated that few engines will ever be
sent to Alblna hereafter. . All over
hauling, of any description except the
installation of new fire boxes, will be
done here. This la Important, for it
places the local shows as the only
place outside of Alblna where this can
be done. So complete Is the equipment
and so efficient the foremen and work
men that no job, with the exception
noted, is beyond the possibility of the
local shops. So, one might go on col
umn after column elaborating on the
various phases of the mechanical pos
sibilities and capabilities of the L t
Grande shops but that Is a subject that
will be bandied in a short tlm? and
the fact that many homes are main
tained in comfortable circumstances
through the medium of the O.-W. pay
checks issued by reason of the shops
presence in La Grand".' '
BMQBassanMi
Martin &
Bradley
SANITARY PLUMBING
Phone black 3482
NEXT DOOR TO
CITY HALL
Cement Sidewalk
Construction
FIGURE WITH
Co Jo Barley
J H. PEfrRE,
La Grande s teading
Jeweler
Opposite U. 8. Lani Office on A dams Avenue.
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WENAHA LUMBER CO.
GREENWOOD & MADISON
Home Phone 421. Bell Phone, Main 732
Elder's
Fresh Hand-Rolled Choco
lates Can'f Be Beaten
Seeds
BtiYthmmBVlKind un money. If Aire Hie btst qualily'jf
Western Crown Seeds, also Timothy, Clow, Alfalli, tit.
Waters-StancMield Produce Co.
EXCLUSIVE AGENT'S