Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-03

coal and limestone flor hux) are hoisted
in an apparatus worked by steam,
and dumped into the furnaces at the charg-
ing doors. In the storehouse beneath
a number of workmen break the ore and
stones into small fragments with hammers.
A breaking mill, however, is in process of
construction which will soon relieve the men
of this labor. The lime stone used here is
brought from Kelly's Island, and the coal
from the Mahoning Valley-the only kind
of bituminous coal that can be used in blast
furnaces without coking. The daily con-
sumption of coal by the entire works is from
$50 to I7O tons. These furnaces melt from
$4,000 to 10000 tons of ore per year, which
is made into pig iron and consumed in the
manufacture of bar iron and heads of rails;
and in addition, the Company use from 5000
to 5000 tons of pig iron and a great number
Of tons of old rail.
The office is a commodious brick building,
the headquarters of Mr.. W. j. Hayes, the
Company's bOOk-keeper at the mill. He at
tends to the shipping and receiving of ma
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the hands. Payment is made monthly, the
pay rolls averaging $4,000, for labor alone.
The number of hands employed in all de-
partments of the work is five hundred,
mostly Welsh and Scetchmen. Laborers are
paid Sl,6212 per day, and ''inside men" earn
from $3.50 to $500. The employees live in
the village and vicinity, in many eases
owning the houses they occupy. The Com
panY nave also erected some forty comforta-
bic tenements, near the mill.
The works were originally built by the
Jones Bros, but no toperated until the fall of
1863, when they p ssed to the firm of Stone.
Chisholm & Jones, which in Jan, 1864, was
merged in the Incorporated Cleveland Roll
ling Mill Company.
So much space is occupied with the fore
going description that we must be content
with the briefest ~allusion to the other, or
lake shore, mill of the Company. 1t is one
building 100 by $50 feet, and has machinery
for the manufacture only of railroad chairs
and rails. When run to its fullest capacity
it turns out 10000 tons of rails and 5000
of chairs. The machinery is not so heavy
as that in the Newburgh mill. There are
seven heating and eight double puddle fur
naces, and a machine shop. The saperin-
tendent is Mr.. Thos. Maher. The number
of hands employed is two hundred and fifty.
In both mills this Company furnish employ
ment to something like eighthundred men.
Estimating that five persons depend for the
neeessaries, comforts and ~luxuries Of life up
on the labor of each man, these iron works
support a community of four thousand men,
women and children-sufficient to populate
a town of no mean size and Importance.
The practical management of the works is
under charge of Mr.. Henry Chisholm, who
has lately returned from a tour of observa-
ton among the iron mills of England.
The value of articles manufactured and
sold yearly will not vary far from two and
a half million dollars. The COmpany's
office is in the Railroad building on Water
street, and their warehouse on River street.
They are now building a warehouse which
wfll be 40 by lis feet, of brick, four stories
high, on the corner of st. Clair and Water
streets.