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wire, etc. There are also manufactured a variety of 
alloysof steel with nickel, chrome, molybdin, etc., and 
a special steel for motorcars. This steel has a very 
high grade of elasticity and the cars made from it are 
distinguished by great endurance and safety in use 
combined with the smallest practicable weight of the 
car. The hartstahl made in Essen is famous for its 
toughness. It is used specially for dredgers, safes, 
etc. Besides these steels, there are goods made from 
cast and wrought iron and bronze, the latter being 
used especially for propellers and shaft castings. 
In 1904 there were in use in the factories in Essen 
about $,^00 tools and other machines, 153 steam- 
hammers with a “falling” weight of from 100 to 
50,000 kg., or a total of 250,223 kg. There w’ere 
also 66 hydraulic presses, 373 steam-boilers, 514 
steam-engines with a total of 44,111 horse-power, 
569 electro motors of together 8,219 H.P., 608 cranes 
with a total capacity of 6,512,900 kg. The total 
consumption of coal, etc., was 1,518,992 tons. 
The total consumption of water of the factory 
in Essen and the working men’s colonies belong¬ 
ing to it was in 1904, 14,397,034 cb.m., about 
96,500,000 gals. The gas-works, 
which are owned by the fac¬ 
tories, rank eleventh as to con¬ 
sumption of gas among the gas¬ 
works in (Germany. The electric 
works had in 1904 a capacity of 
9,974,795 kilowatt hours. Eor the 
traffic in the factories there are 
114 km. of rails, 44 locomotives, 
1,923 cars. The factories have 
direct railway connection with the 
th ree nearest stations of the gov¬ 
ernment railways and dispatch 
about 50 trains a day. 'fhe 
telegraphic system comprises 
21 telegraph stations, 37 Morse 
apparatus and 81 km. of wire. 
In 1903-04, 19,232 wire messages 
were received and sent. The 
telephone has 426 connections 
and 413 km. of wire. There are 
about 2,400 to 2,500 telephonic 
conversations a day. In the test¬ 
ing laboratories of the factories 
187,126 trials of their steel prod¬ 
ucts were made in 1904. In the 
chemical laboratories in 1904 
there were made about 40,000 
analyses and 180,000 tests. 
In the chemico - physical test 
office 5,000 examinations of a scientific or tech¬ 
nic character were made. In a third chem¬ 
ical laboratory gas and water is daily examined. In 
the shooting ranges there were fired in 1904, 31,876 
shots and 74,886 kg. powder consumed with 525,808 
cartridges, etc. The total output of Krupp’s coal 
mines in 1904 amounted to 1,886,894 tons. The 
iron ore works produced in 1904, 645,768 tons of 
various ores. In Krupp’s smelting works there were 
used in 1904 about 1,672 tons of iron ore a day from 
Krupp’s own mines. In the steel works at Armen, 
which Krupp purchased in 1886, a special cast steel 
is manufactured from Siemens-Martin steel and 
crucible cast steel. The main products are ship 
engines, locomotives, turbines and other machines. 
Pieces weighing, when finished, up to 25,000 kg. 
can be turned out. 
The works in Magdeburg-Buckan produce mainly 
cast steel in forms made of a special material instead 
of in billets. The cast steel so made is particularly 
used for iron-clad towers and batteries for coast de¬ 
fense, for wheels, crossings of street tramways, rail¬ 
ways, etc. 
TWO-FAMILY HOUSE—COLONY ALFREDSHOF 
