Emmet Flaherty preparing to pre-heat two blank pieces of hollow drill steel. In the background is an automatic oil-fired forge which will bring these blanks to an exact temperature for forging. From the hollow drill blanks, finished pieces of lugged steel are formed for use in rock drills.

O.A. McClain, left, watches as Jessie Belt shears bar steel for timber truck reinforcements. The extra stock of bar steel is in the backgound.