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MAi'llINK Slllir CAIMLI.AC MACIMNI'; CIlMI'ANY 



L. Dolph operate a factory at Cadillac, 

 Mich., which produces slack barrel heading. 

 A few months ago the Cadillac Manufac- 

 turing Companj' lost its dry kilns and storage 

 rooms by fire and one of the accompanying 

 pictures shows the new concrete kilns in 

 process of construction. 



These kilns when completed will have a 

 capacity for drying 20,000 feet of green 

 lumber daily, a sufficient amount to produce 

 10,000 sets of 17% inch heading, or 15,000 

 sets of keg heading. This company is add- 

 ing new machinery, increasing the capacity 

 of its plant, and will produce the above 

 amount daily after October 1. 



The Cadillac Manufacturing Company is 

 one. of the foremost heading producers in 

 the country, and has its manufacture down 

 to a fine art, making all sizes of heading 

 from the smallest keg to the largest hogs- 

 head. The capacity of plant and variety of 

 sizes produced are not equalled by any other 

 mill in the state of Michigan. 



CADILLAC MACHINE COMPANY. 



In enumerating the industries allied with 

 lumbering in this section, reference must 

 needs be made to the modern machinery 

 plant at Cadillac, known as the Cadillac 

 Machine Company, which has been a matter 

 of successful evolution ever since its in- 

 ception twenty-five years ago, when lum- 

 bering in the Cadillac district was in its 

 infancy. It has steadily grown to large 

 proportions, as shown in the accompanying 

 pictures. 



The original base of the business was re- 

 pair and foundry work for the numerous 

 sawmills in that district, but during the last 

 few years it has grown to include general 

 foundry work, the manufacture of special 

 machinery, the building of steel charcoal 

 cars, and general iron work for chemical 

 plants, in addition to a large amount of the 

 usual repair work for sawmills, locomotives, 

 cars, etc., and is constantly increasing. 



riFFICE CADILLAC MACHINE COJirAXY. 



Within the last year the company has been 

 obliged to increase its capacity by the addi- 

 tion of a new concrete and steel machine 

 shop, 70 by 175 feet in size, both the in- 

 terior aud exterior of which are herewith 

 illustrated. This machine shop is equipped 

 with five drill presses, two planers, one 

 shap( r. nine lathes, one hack-saw, one steam 

 hammer, forges, punch and shears, bolt-cut- 



ter and wheel-press. The machinery is op- 

 erated by five electric motors, distributed 

 throughout the shop. 



The entire structure and equipment is 

 modern and substantial. A brick building, 

 •50 by 140 feet in size, contains the foundry, 

 pattern shop and storage room. The of- 

 fices and drafting rooms are in a neat two- 

 story frame building just erected, 20 by 

 50 feet in size. In remodeling and rebuild- 

 ing this plant, the Cadillac Machine Com- 

 pany has planned for a large increase in pro- 

 duction, is now anxious to take on a larger 

 line of special machinery and would be glad 

 to negotiate for the manufacture of special 

 tools and appliances with anyone interested. 

 Machincr.y for sawmills, flooring plants, 

 broom handle factories and chemical plants, 

 which are numerous throughout this section, 

 a very complete line of mill supplies and 

 power transmission appliances is carried in 

 stock. Structural steel work is also one of 

 the new features. One of the specialties 

 produced by this concern is double and 

 triple-deck iron beds, warranted bug proof, 

 for camp use. 



The principals of the Cadillac Machine 

 Company which, incidentally, is a partner- 

 ship, are Walter A. Kysor, who is the me- 

 chanical genius of the institution, and 

 Frank L. Farrar, who handles the office 

 work. Both these gentlemen have had long 

 experience, are eminently successful and 

 ari highly regarded by their fellow business 

 mee. 



INTKUIOK ok I'dtNniiV CADILLAC MACHINE COMPANY. 



INTERIOR MACHINE SHOP CADILLAC MACHINE COMPANY. 



