The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-01


Situated in the City of NEW CASTLE, PA,
between the Shenango and Neshannock
rivers at their junction, and erected at a
cost OF Two Hundred Thousand Dollars.
The Real Estate comprises nearly Is Acres,
and the Works have a capacity OF 900
TONS OF IRON and 5000 KEGS OF NAILS
per annum.
The following is a detailed List OF Build
inl,s and Machinery:
Mill Building, l%-xSi.
Wing Forge, lJOX1O.
Nail Factory Building, l&X65.
Nail Warehouse ttwo-storyI, lOOX1.
Iron Warehouse, lUUX2j.
Scrap and Clay Warehouse, 75Xls.
Office, Blacksmith shop and Carpenter
shop.
Stable for twelve head.
Seventeen Boiling Furnaces, -Four Heat
Six Double-iued Boilers in Mill. ~ inches
by IS feet.
Two Iron Stacks for same.
One Horizontal Engine in Mill, 70 inches
Cylinder, D feet stroke.
One Upright Engine in Mill, ~ inch CYL
inder, feet stroke.
One Pumping Engine Doctor
One Burden Squeezer.
One ls-inch Muck Train, complete
One Nail Plate Train.
one Bar Mill Train three high 10 and
Finch diameter, with Rolls for making
full assortment OF Bar Iron.
One Guide Mill Train, with Rolls for max
ing a full assortment Of Small Iron and
Hoops, (complete)
Muck, Spike, Plate, Nail Plate. BAY and
Small Mill Shears.
Fan for heating Furnaces.
Three large CRANES.
Rolls for grinding Fire Clay.
SPIKE FACTORY BUILDING.
One Railroad Spike Machine;
Two Boat Spike Machines;
Turning Lathe, latest pattern complete;
Spike Machines and Lathe.
The Skating, Betting, Pullies &c, In Mil
and Spike Factory are in good order
NAIL FACTORY.
Three Cylinder Boilers, - inch by - feet;
one Engine, l6-inch cylinder, q foot stroke,
Thirty-three Nail Machines;
Ten GrindStOnes;
One Majors Furnace;
One Annealing Furnace;
One Bluing Furnace;
Wrought Iron Shafting;
Cast Iron Pullies complete.
Foundation of stone.
The Buildings and Machinery are all in
good order, and the works could De started
i'm week > time.
The location of the Works as a Manufac-
turing Site Is unsurpassed. Being right in
the heart Ell Il district that produces one
sixth OF all the pig metal manufactured In
the United States, II has the advantage of Il
free selection of metal, and at prices below
those necessarily charged after Transports
ton to u distant market. Being near the
Lakes, the ores of Lake Superior can be de-
liyered at low figures. Block and Soft Coal
are abundant, and by n branch Of the Erie
and Pittsburgh Railroad, now completed,
can be delivered from the cars into the mill
without teaming. BY the same branch, the
manufactured Iron and Nails can be ship
ped TO all points from the door of the Ware
house without expensive teaming.
The large amount of Real Estate connect
ed with the works will afford ample oppOr-
/ tunity for their extension by the Building
of Blast Furnaces and other improvements
without the possibility Of ever being cralnp-
| ed for room.
To any one DESTROYS OF entering into the
. iron business the present opportunity l. Il
rare one, as the proprictOrs are too CNtcn-
siyely engaged in the Lumber ana Glass
business 10 give the manufacture of IRON
| their personal attention, hence the works
will he sold on advantageous terms.
DITIIRIDGE d CO..
New Castle, Lawrence County, Pa.
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