The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-08-16
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In the last Journal We gave few figures
from the census of 1870 in reference 10 the
foundry business A few more may prove
interesting. Ths total number Of foun-
dries Of all kinds in 2. 66A, with 2,946 Gu
polA furnaces. capable Of melting 9.sl4
tons of iron daily. The number Of car
wheels cast for the year ending May 81,
1870, was 472. lO6. Hollow-wars was man
ufsctured 10 the value of g, OO6, 94S.
There we're l, 2s6, III stoves made s, $50
cooking ranges, and 1851 hot-air fur
naces. Architectural castings, n, S45 tons;
agricultural castings, 40, 168 tons ma
chine castings, 107, 791 tons miscellaneous
castings, 63s, S96 tons. The total value Of
all foundry products was zoe, S43, 21s.
These figures will give some idea Of the i'm
msnsity Of the foundry business. The
coal used aggregated 662, Gal tons.
Pennsylvania heads the list of States in
the number Of establishments, having 624
foundries in her midst New York leads
Psnnsylvania in the amount of capital in
vested, the amount of iron used, and, what
We are more directly interested in, tho
amount Of wages paid. New York, with
IL, 622 employees in her foundriss, paid
81 42s, l29 - wages for the year an aver
aee Of nearly $3.50 per year. Pennsylvania,
Win 9, $50 employees, paid 4,952, 78S m
wages an average of nearly e6l% per year
"A difference of e76 per year in favor of
New York foundrymen. Ohio in third ON
the list, having 26S foundries, employing
5, O60 persons wages, @,668, 166 an aver
age for each person of nearly e665 per year,
or e25 less than New York. Massachusetts
il next ON the list, with lie foundriss. s.
TIA employees; wages, O., 286, sos, an aver
age Of nearly e616 per year, accounted for
by the fact that the steadiest running foun-
dries in the country are located in Massa-
chusetts. The wages Of foundrymsn in
Nevada average d, ITO per year. New
the year named made AZ, 69A stoves Ohio
being second on the list, 22S, 679, followed
closely by PsnnsylvaniA and Missouri
Pennsylvania takes the lead in all other
castings except malleabls iron.
The study Of these statistics In very in
tsresting to those DESTROYS Of being posted
in their trade, and We will from time TO
time refer to them.
THE Belfast (MAins) Foundry Company
contemplate m enlargement Of their works
A NEW machine foundry In being erected
in Petersburg, West Virginia. Will work
from six to eight mC.ders.
VIZ are pleased to make special mention
of Union No. 81, of London, Ontario. For
years it has been an up hill job for the few
good men in London to maintain even the
semblance Of Union but their persist-
sncy in finally rewarded, and No. 81 will
give Nos. 26 and % hard pull for supre-
macy in the Dominion. Long may she
flourish
A TRIKED, commenting on the article ON
Independent Molders" in the last j Journal,
relates an incident that happened in Scot
land An old moldsr, fully sixty years OF
boss, knowing him well, asked him if he
was Union or Society man He answered
that he never believed in it they were all
rogues and It cost % much. The boss said
to him, you should be worth something
handsome now. a. you saved ali that Others
paid into the society, and by keeping clear
Of the rogues." The old man had to hang
his head and acknowledge he had not .
penny and more than that, he could not
get job, because the society men would
have quit had he been hired 1t was rather
severe lesson for the old Independent, .
who, instead of receiving idle aliment and
supsrAnnuated benefits, found himself in
his old age o candidate for the poor house.
THB Greenleaf Foundry, at Brightwood,
near indianapolis, is progressing finely, the
roof having been placed on the main build
ing, which in 300x2O feet There will be
two additions, one 20Ox50 feet, and the
other 1O0x5O 1t is stated that over $500,
900 Of capital will be put into manufacto-
ries to be soon erected in this hourishins
suburb Of Indianapolis.
THE largest casting ever made in Harris
burg WAS turned out 1t the foundry Of the
Harrisburg Car Company. The casting ID
thirty feet long, two inches thick, about
eight feet wide, weighs about fourteen tons,
and is intended - . bed plate for the en-
CINE being constructed at the machine
works for the new water-works.
A KETTLE Of molten iron was tipped over
into puddle Of water at MurraYs foun-
dry, Fort Wayne, causing an explosion
which shattered every pane Of glass in the
building, and shook the walls to danger.