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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. NEW SHOPS FULTON FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS Owned and Operated by the Engineering Department of N. P. PRATT LABORATORY ATLANTA, GEORGIA, - Situated On Georgia Railroad At Kirkwood - Directly on the main line of the Georgia railroad at Kirkwood, just east of the city limits anil on both of the Decatur electric car lines, has just been completed one of the most important of Atlanta’s many new and magnificent enterprises. These works designed, erected nnd equipped complete by the Engineering De partment of N. P. Pratt Laboratory, represent all that is most modem in machine shop and foundry practice. The buildings arc of steel nnd of fire proof construc tion throughout, and the equipment is second to no plant North or South. All ma chine tools being individually and electrically driven permit the unobstructed travel of massive overhead electric cranes for the handling of all classes of heavy work with ease and precision. The various departments have been designed nnd equipped to provide what has so long been needed in this section in the way of a complete Machine Shop and Foundry, capable of handling promptly, accurately and economically any work re quired of it. The works have beeu erected primarily to cover all branches of heavy machine shop and foundry work, aud particularly for the well known Pratt fertilizer machin ery and sulphuric acid appliances. In addition to this line of manufacture, they will cater to the wants of its many patrons in other lines of work, which its modem equip ment will enable it to care for to their best interests. The plant is also equipped to handle the demands of brick yards, quarries, mines, mills, etc., and will manufacture a full line of transmission, emshing nnd pul verizing machinery, Sugar Mill Machinery, Cement Mill Machinery, etc., etc. Inquiries are solicited for heavy castings in steel, semi-steel, iron, ' brass, bronzes and special alloys. Visitors and Others Interested are Especially Invited to Call and Inspect the Works, Where They Will Be Cordially Received by the Management The ■ pairs, aud The , cated at the office building of the city works of N. P. Pratt Laboratory, comer Au burn avenue aud Courtlaud street. The development of the Engineering Department of the Laboratory has been sharp, effective and heavy nnd the eutire South is dotted with large industrial en terprises of different kinds which have been successfully engineered and erected by this company. More tlmu thirty-eight chemical works, besides power plants, electric plants nnd similar industries, have been successfully put into operation by them, and the progressiveness and modem methods pursued have, won universal . recognition and favor. In 1897 the Star Foundry aud Machine Works was incorporated, and in Pe- eember. 1898, the title of the corporation was changed to Fulton Foundry and Ma chine Works. On January 1st, 1904, the N. P. Pratt Laboratory purchased the en tire stock of Fulton Foundry and Machine Works, and has since run the plant at its old stand on Marietta street. During this time demands made upon the plant were far in excess of the capacity of its equipment, and it was finally concluded to purchase the site, which has since beeu bought at Kirkwood, and erect thereon the modem works as shown and described above. Mr. George L. Pratt, the efficient vice-president of the Laboratory, will have personal direction of the entire business of Fulton Foundry and Machine'Works un der the general direction of the president, Mr. N. P. Pratt,'and thev will be assisted in same by Mr. W. L. Hancock, manager of shops.