The second largest manufacturing plant in TACOMA which is also the
largest plant of its description in the Pacific Northwest, is the
railway construction and repair plant of the Northern Pacific Railway
at South TACOMA. This enormous plant furnishes employment for 800 men
and manufactures and repairs everything in the line of motive power or
rolling stock for railroad use. A $60,000 building for an additional
boiler shop is now being erected to enlarge the facilities for locomotive
work. The shops of the Tacoma Eastern railroad and the Tacoma Railway &
Power Company are also located at TACOMA. Adjoining the Northern Pacific
plant is a large plant of the Griffin Car Wheel Works, and not far
distant from South TACOMA is the largest rolling mill in the State, the
plant of the Western Iron & Steel Works at Lakeview. Allied to this class
of industrial enterprises are numerous foundries and machine shops for
the manufacture of stationary and marine engines and boilers, machinery,
saws, architectural iron, bridges, and other products of brass, tin,
copper, iron and steel. The Puget Sound Dry Dock & Machine Company, of
TACOMA, operates the largest private drydock north of San Francisco.
[Illustration:
1—Washington Pipe & Foundry Company.
2—Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator Company.
3—Carstens Packing Company.
4—Elevator A and Tacoma Grain Company’s Flour Mill.
5—Pacific Starch Company.
]