Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — A GREAT WHEEL. [ARTICLE]

A GREAT WHEEL.

On* of the Largest of It* Kind ta Existence. Standing in the main shop of the Dickson Manufacturing company at Wilkesbarre, Pa., is one of the biggest wheels in the world. It reaches out of the wheel-pit almost to the skylight, far above the traveling crane, and dwarfs all other machinery in the place. It is 54 feet in diameter and will weigh when in working trim 200 tons. It was built for the Calumet & Hecla Mining company at Lake Superior. The object of this mammoth wheel will be to lift waste or tailings and fling them into the lake. It will elevate and discharge a sufficient quantity of sand every twenty-four hours to cover an acre of ground a foot deep. It is armed on its outer edge with 432 teeth. There are 448 Teel scooping buckets about its outer dreumferenoe. Jhe buckets are about 4 1-2 feet long by 21 incites deep. The lifting capacity will be 3,( 00,000 gallons of water and 2,000 tons of sand every twentyfour hours. The cost of the wheal in place at themines will not ba lraa than ttoo.ooa '