Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-08-15
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The Iron Business in wheeling.
NO. 5.
THE MIRSOURI IRON WORKS

the pearls are here, ald that they VIII Oe even
tuslly gathered, are matters OF certainty
Hence, the only question Is, snail the present
citizens reap their portion Of the dement's, or
must Wheeling'S natural Wealtn continue to
slnmbeF and await the coming of future genera
lions ere il shall be disclosed The writer
hopeS and believes that such VIII not be the
cas-
We may venture safely to assert as act,
that IN 40 other eitv "a The Union, rs there 20
SSgry stad s,Jtl a busii.ess d0He zpoA sB4gH dl
iHrsstias,.t as has been found necessary IN con-
Quoting the majority of the extensive tnanutae-
turing establishments in Wheeling. And we
may add As another important fact in connec-
ton with the success Of manufacturing IN THIS
city, that, the product Of Iron, Nails and Glass
ware of Wheeling manufacture. commands an
ever ready market and at PrieeA, IN Gt9.est
sssry inataHeS ab0re 5ehat i paid far similar
articles, manufactured tlseirAers. DO mol snch
fsctS PROVE. yerY conclusiyeiy, that this city
contains the highest order of mechanical intel
lect, which i abundantly able, In connection
with other aae9uGiLed advantages II properly
DEVELOPED. TO place Wheeling in a position
worthy the envy Of any other manufacturing
city in the Union? And your correspondent
apprehends that such might Eose have been her
condition, had the immense amount OF money
been turned TO its Legitimate channel, that mas
been squandered upon soulless railroad eorpo-
rations, whose only aim seems to have been TO
hlch her people oil Lneif mems ANU tieH SLiO
their interests to the very yitals
Z However unpleasant il may be to the citizens
of Wheeling. generally, to Keep alive the re-
3InemLrance Of. the wrongs they have suffered,
wet one cannot look upon Wheeling as she a
and Wheeling as she might bTrs BEEN and ought
nov to be, and suppress the feelings Of indigna-
ton that spontaneously arise.
But, your correspondent, is forgetting HIM
self he started out in search OF the
And here they are, in the northern suburbs
Of the CITY, "om the bank of the Ohio" All,
here comes the superintendent Good morn
ing Mr. Todd, GOOD morning a.
''Well, Mr. Todd, have called to see what
Won are doing here; want to know all about
everything, and-:"
..Stop a. Idon't know everything a man
who has been cngaged in the manufacture OF
iron all his life and attends strictly to his own
business. has very little time left to devote to
| 'creFytdiug slse.' >"
[ Here "A" scratched his head very signiti-
cantIy, and was about to take the hint, but mus
tering all his courage, finally broke out as fol-
lows: 81 came 10
See Old Vulcan bare his mighty arm,
And hear lain sing
While he makes The iron ring,
And find out all about the manufacture Of
iron at the Missouri Iron Works Do you nm.
derstand me now r.
"Well, understand the last part Of your effu-
sion, but q, that poetry; it snacks OF crlno-
line and moonlight nights, and think you had
better let the iron business alone and go to VIII
ting love songs, provided you are smart enough
TO keen them hid from your wife But here,
"A, you see our .nain building which is 236 feet
in length, and Ito feet wide, containing the
machinery and furnaces. back Of which stands
an addition to the main building, Of about 30x5O
feet, Hat contains The boilers Of the larger en-
CINE, &C. The dwelling houses you see adjoin-
ing, or near the works, above and below, 81 IN
number, belong to the company, and are occu-
pied by the employees. Back OF, and inmedl-
ately adjoining the mills, we own about 40 acres
OF coal land containing throughout five and
half foot vein of the best quality Of stone coal
Now / viii take walk with You through the
works, where you can look for yourself
'sBIess my life, why that Is t+enendoHs cyl
inder, for even SO large an engine, Rdr. Iouo, 10
it not? Yours must be low pressure engine
was not aware that you used that KIND IN
.Now look here A. you ought to have been
in Wheeling when we started that famous me
Of steamers, the Union Line, as you would have
made first rdte stockhOlder-just about smart
enough. That's not steam cylinder, you
blockhead, tits blast cylinder, it blows the
fires in the furnaces
"Ohl-ah!-yes, ahem III understand, was
all your correspondent could 'get of, in reply
to this, and fearing another mistake equally DIS
astrous, he concluded that the old adage was
very wise one after all: keep your mouth smut
and no body will know you're fool And SO
thought it best to say nothing, and ''take notes
of the explanations as they were gwen
CAPACITY OF THE WORKS.
The machinery is driven by two steam engines,
the cylinder Of the larger one Being "a inches
lin diameter with n stroke of six feet, supplied
/ bv six boilers, % inches in diameter, and 26
| feet long; the other has cylinder 10 inches
4 feet stroke, and two boilers II inches IN diam
eter and 20 feet long. There are boiling .
heating and anncaling furnaces; full sets OF
rolls for muck bar, sheet iron and all sizes OF
round, square and fiat bar iron, from the SMALL
est IN to the largest Sheet iron made TO any
required thickness, and boiler plate of any thick.
ness and in width up to 50 inches.
There is one large hammer fSr forging blooms,
and four shearers, for cutting bars, trimming
sheet iron, and clipping nail plate
Ia connection with the rolling mill Is nail
factory, containing Il nail machines for cut
nails spikes and brads of all the usual sizes,
and one machine for making wrought spikes, oil
ievery required size. The works have capacity
for manufacturing 100 tons of iron and nails
pcraweek, but the average product is about 800
tons per month. The proportion of nails and
spikes is about 400 kegs per week. The finest
qualities Of their iron is made principally OF
metal brought from the iron mountain, in Mis-
souri, winch equals the pest IN tue MoTlu.-
They also get pig iron from Tennessee, Hanging
Rock, Western Virginia, Baltimore and the Ma
honing Valley, Pa. Their best iron is worked
exclusively with charcoal
FUEL.
The stone coal is taken from the hill which
rises Immediately back OF the works, and is let
down in the yard by means of a selfacting in
clined railway, at an entire cost OF two and three
quarter cents per bushel. The mills consume
II. a
Of charcoal per month. The latter costing FIVE
and half cents a buShcl. .#Il- s56z ~
THE NGRkET.
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