All the repair work of the institution is performed in this department,
and in this shop are located the tinner, plumbers, carpenters, painters,
machinists, etc., all under the supervision of a first‐class foreman. The
tinner makes all the tinware used in the various departments of the prison
and attends to its repairing. As the entire institution is heated by
steam, the plumbers are kept constantly employed during the winter
repairing radiators and overhauling wornout steam pipes. As repairs and
improvements are constantly being made and as the prison buildings are
quite old, considerable carpenter work is also necessitated each year.
Perhaps the busiest men in this shop are the machinists, whose business it
is to see that all machinery, shafting, etc., are kept in repair, thus
reducing breakdowns to the minimum. This shop is run in an economical
manner and annually saves the state thousands of dollars.