December i, 1909/ 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Mill Pond and Pen Stocks. 



Power Plant. Store- 

 house in Background. 



Main Factory, Miner Rubber Co. 



Factory Walpole 

 Rubber Co. 



THE NEW FACTORIES AT GRANBY. 



ABOUT fifty miles from Montreal, province of Quebec, in 

 the shadow of Mt. Yamaska, and divided in twain by 

 the rapid Yamaska river, lies the thrifty little city of Granby. 

 Of this city for more than twenty years Mr. S. H. C. Miner 

 has been mayor. An owner in most of its various industrial 

 enterprises, possessed of large land holdings, and deeply in- 

 terested in every phase, educational, religious or industrial, that 

 the life of his native town affords, Mr. Miner has governed 

 wisely and well. His latest enterprise — the factories of the 

 Miner Rubber Co., and the Walpole Rubber Works — while of 

 surpassing interest to his townsfolk, are also of great interest 

 to the rubber trade at large. Owning the land along the river 

 front for more than a half mile through the middle of the 

 town, it was natural that he should seek to drive the new mills 

 by water power. He therefore put in two cement dams and 

 a huge pen-stock, 1,000 feet long, to lead the water to the 

 turbines, which, under 32 feet head, will deliver 600 h.p. 

 of water power. In addition to this, the water power of the 

 electric light plant, 200 h.p., which is available except at night. 

 Furthermore, a 650 H.P. Goldie-Corliss engine will give steam 

 power for the factories. The steam plant itself consists of 

 three boilers, whose total 

 power is 700 h.p. 



The power plant is so ar- 

 ranged that the electrically 

 equipped machinery in all 

 parts of the works may be 

 run either by the water 

 wheels, the steam engine, or 

 by both in unison. Washers, 

 mixing mills, calanders — in- 

 deed, all machines are fitted 

 with motors so that the pres- 

 sure of a button starts or 

 stops any or all of them. 

 One of the most interesting 

 mechanical appliances in the 

 power plant is a new water 

 wheel governor, as sensitive 

 and effective as the best 

 steam engine governor. It 

 is something that all users of 

 water power have wished for, 

 but until recently considered 

 almost a mechanical impos- 

 sibility. 



The factory buildings proper run for about 500 feet along 

 the bank of the river and contain roughly 200,000 square feet 

 of floor space. The main building, a fine four story brick 

 edifice with square towers at either end, is designed for the 

 manufacture of rubber footwear, and will have a capacity of 

 20,000 pairs of boots and shoes for a working day of ten hours. 

 A similar building, but not as long, is the four story brick 

 edifice with a single tower, which will house the specialties and 

 mechanical rubber goods manufactured by the Walpole com- 

 pany. On a line with these buildings, and still further down 

 stream, ground is being broken for a reclaiming plant and 

 a last factory. 



The factories are equipped with the Rockwood sprinkler in 

 addition to the great fire pump, which has a capacity of 1,000 

 gallons a minute. The arrangement of the buildings is such 

 that there will be absolutely no carting. 



It is rarely that a manufacturer has either the knowledge 

 or the opportunity to plan factories so substantial in construc- 

 tion, so ideal in arrangement, and with such economies in op- 

 eration. Built of brick from his own yards, timber from the 

 product of his great lumber mills in Vancouver, erected from 

 architectural plans of his own, Mr. Miner has certainly created 

 a most practical and permanent monument for himself. 





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MIXER AND WALPOLE FACTORIES, LOOKING UPSTREAM. 



