Cassier's magazine (1911) (14760843921)

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Title: Cassier's magazine

Year: 1891 (1890s)

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Subjects: Engineering

Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.

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Mr. S. S. Rickley. In 1883 Mr. Jeffrey dis-posed of his interest in the Commercial Bank andacquired a controllinp interest in the LechnerAlining Machine Company, of Columbus. This en-terprise had been incorporated in 1878, with acapital stock of $50,000, the capitalization havingsince been successively increased to $150,000,$300,000, and $3,000,000; the concern bearing thenames of The Lechner Mining Machine Company,The Lechner Manufacturing Company, and TheJeffrey Manufacturing Company. The JeffreyManufacturing Company has extended its scopeuntil it now manufactures all kinds of heavymining, conveying, and electrical machinery, andoccupies a first-class plant covering about thirtyacres of ground, and employing from twenty-fivehundred to three thousand men. Mr. Jeffrey has always taken an active interestin the affairs of his home city, being a trustee ofvarious public institutions, and being a member ofthe Columbus Club, the Ohio Club of Columbus,and the Middle Bass Club of Lake Erie.

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JOSEPH A. JEFFREY, President of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company See Reverse Side. INDEXED Cassiers Magazine AN ENGINEERING MONTHLY Vol. XL DECEMBER, 1911 No. 8 THE NEW SHIP CANAL SAINTE By James Cooke Mill AND LOCKS AT SAULTMARIE ji*> OfcC*V THE greatest canals in theworld are in the north coun-try of America. By great-est is meant the most important inthe economics of transportation, forthese canals are not the longest, orthe deepest, or the most costly, nor•did their construction involve veryunusual or spectacular feats of en-gineering. But in point of tonnagepassing through them and in theirinfluence upon freight rates through-out the country no artificial water-ways ever made approach them, evenremotely. It is a surprising state-ment, but true nevertheless, thatthese important canals carry a fargreater commerce in eight months ofthe year than is borne by the SuezCanal, the Kiel Canal and the Man-chester Ship Canal combined in anentire year. If the commerce of theErie Canal,

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