Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-03
CLEVELAND MANUFACTURES.
IRON WORKS.
CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL con
DANX

CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL COM
PANY.
In pursuance of the plan of calling atten-
ton to the great industrial interests of this
city, as represented in its manufactures,
we come now to q mention of the Iron
Works ofthe above named Company. This
Company was incorporated by an Act of
the Legislature approved Nov. 9th, 1858.
The gentlemen named as incorporators are
A. B. Stone, Henry Chisholm, J. H. Wade,
H. B Payne and S. Witt. Capital stock of
the Company, s65O,OOO. An organization
was perfected January 1st, 1864, by the cleo
ton Of A. B. Stone, Preside mt; Henry CHS
holm, Vice President and General Superin-
tendent; and D. o. Cole, Secretary. The
Board of Officers is composed of the same
gentlemen at present.
The works operated by this Company
consist of two Rolling Mills, one of which
is known as the Cleveland mill and the
other as the N~ewburg mill; the first being
located on the lake shore at the intersection
of Wason street with the Erie Railroad
the other in the village of Newburg, six
miles from the city. The latter is the most
/ extensive mill. Indeed, it is a-mammoth
concern, we'll worth a visit, if only for curl
osity. Driving out to it over a road macad-
amized,with dross from the furnaces, packed
solid and worn smooth by constant heavy
wheeling, the visitor will notice the nuIner-
Gus tasty dwellings dotted on the roadsides
belonging for the most part to men con-
nected with the works,) some ii ne before
arriving at the compact village itself, which
owes its thrift and numbers mainly to its
proximity to the mill. The works include
a number of buildings, large and small, de
voted to the various branches of the trade,
covering an area of at least twenty acres,
situated near the tracks of the Cleveland
& Pittsburgh and the Mahoning division Of
the Atlantic 4 Great Western Railways,
with switches conveniently arranged for the
transportation purposes of the mill. The
business Of the establishment is the manu-
facture of railroad iron, such as rails, spikes,
chairs and tish-plates, or sp~lice-plates /;
beams, Orders and merchants bar; boiler
~rivets, bolts and nuts. The rails, beams
and bar and band iron are made in the Roll
ing mill, while the spikes bolts, nuts, etc,
are manufactured in a separate building
supplied with machinery of its owl. The
other appendages are two Blast Furnaces
with engine and cast-houses, hosting
house, etc, a Foundry, Office and store
house.
The Rolling Mill is a frame structure, or
rather an umbrella-like roof covering an
area of IFS by 500 feet. Entering at the
northwest side we traverse the extended
floor, looking with a wonder that does not
end with familiarity, at the machinery with
which it is fitted up. Lines ofnarrow rail-
road track run along the ground in every
direction, on which small hand-cars convey
metal to and from the different machines
and furnaces; great cranes swing here and
there, bearing the heavy Jumps of red-hot
iron from aRe set of machinery to another;
while begrimed workmen innumerable
ply their handicraft with the regularity al
most of the meehan cal forces around them.
Seven engines of various capacities furnish
the motive power of the machinery. The
rail mill consists of seven heating furnaces
and one train of three sets of rollers, between
which the iron is rolled into T rail. The
bar mill, for the manufacture of merchants
iron, ETC., embraces a squeezerJ two heating
furnaces, and one train of two pairs of roll
ers for heavy bridge iron and the like, and
an Their train of three pairs of rollers for rod,
band and light bar iron. Enormous steam
shears are in different parts of the mill for
cutting cold iron sets of saws for cutting
bars of hot iron, going through them as
easily as if they were sticks of cord-wood /;
a huge pounding machine for reducing
sand stone, etc, to cement, used in
making parts of a furnace that are i'm
p~ervious 10 heat; an apparatus for straight
enihg rails; and a variety of other useful
machines, among which We may name one
for punching holes in bridge iron. Until
within a few months such work was done
by drilling, a very slow process. Now, an
inch thick plate of iron is placed under a
plunger containing the die which comes
down with the weight of II. tons, cutting
a q AuSh II LloAC CdoC Nndh a 5lbt .
man cuts his gun-wads from a sheet of
heavy pasteboard. On the same principle
there is another punch for slOttihg railroad
iron for the spikes, making both holes at
one stroke. In this building also is the
machine shop, where the machinery in use
in the works is repaired. While the manu-
facture of rails is the speciality. band and
merchants iron generally is turned out OIL
an extensive scale. We noticed a great
number of beams six inches wide, nine
sixteenths thick and twentY-eight feet in
length, for roofing in the Union depot here.
All the furnaces in the mill are worked by
draft instead of blast. The capacity of the
Rolling mill for rolling rails is 10000 tons
annually, and 1000 tons of merchants iron.
Mr.. David l. Jones is the principal me-
chanic and draughtsman; his brother, Mr..
John Jones, is manager Of the rail mill and
its furnaces, and Mr.. B. H. Cornwell is fore
man of the puddle mill, merchant trains
and furnaces.
After this rapid walk through the Roll
ing mill we pass to other parts of the
mandatory, stopping next to examine the
Spike factory. This is a building IS by
go feet set apart for the manufacture of
railroad, ship and boat spikes, rivets, nuts,
and bolts. The machinery is driven by an
engine of 100 horsepower. There are
twenty furnaces, four to each stack, for
heating the iron to be worked. 1t is worth
making a note Of here, that the ovens are
filed up to the doors with sand, on which
the iron is laid to be heated by the fame
as it passes over it from the furnaces in
the back of the stack-a Western improve
ment, which has not yet found its way to
the workshops of the East! where the iron
is laid directly on the Goals in the furnaces
The other appliances in this factory comprise
three machines for making spikes, two for
rivets and bolts, and four for nuts, besides
eight machines for cutting the thread in
bolts and nuts-turning out in the ag
gregate 5000 tons annually of finished
spikes, bolts, nuts and rivets. A large pipe
running the length of the room heats it
with the exhaust steam of the boilers. Mr..
William Chisholm is superintendent of the
work done in this building, with Mr.. Robert