The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-08-02

THE Besssmer works Of Cleveland us'
200 tons Of iron daily.

~ tOnB VI IrUu uAiAy.
END or A SrRIKK.-On the first OF May
last the puddlers ut work in the Phoenix
vile iron works struck for an advance Of
wages, and we learn from the Messenger of
last week that the men had again gone 10
work at work at previous prices, and that,
too, with the understanding that the lead
ers in the strike should not have work mt
any rate. There il something wrong about
this. Either there should have been no
strike ordered, or it should have been ad-
hered to. This shows the necessity for Or
ganization and unity Of acsion. II the
men who advised the strike were right,
they should have been sustained at all haz-
ards, and not sacrificed after resistance of
ten weeks. Thorough organization would
remedy all such evils.-POttsvtHe pa
Workingssdn.
As the importation Of foreign iron the
present year will be much less than that of
last year, on account Of the falling off in
the English surplus, the demand upon our
domestic production will be greater than
ever, and, taken In connection with the
enormous increase Of consumption, will
warrant any increased capacity in the blast
furnaces within the bounds Of possibility.
As to this increase, there were built in
1872 no less than l07 new furnaces, and SO
more were projected, and are being built
this season. There were also thirty-six
rolling mills built and twelve more pro-
jected. so that we have here q total of 1874
new iron works to be added to the previous
array, exclusive of all the additions to and
engagements Of old works, which in pro
ductive capacity are supposed to be equal
to new works.
TIE Elk Rapids Mich Blast Furnace
has been in operation now about two weeks,
and is found to be perfect in its construc-
ton. This enterprise was inaugurSted
about year ago. The proprietors are Mr..
Frank H. Head, and Writ Dexter, ESQ
of Chicago. Mr.. Head, who was Secre-
cary Of the Territory Of Utah under Gov
ernor Durkee, has had the personal charge
and supervision of the work Of construc-
ton. He is an active, enterprising bust
ness, and the new furnace will not fail to
flourish under his management. 1t has
cost about e75, 600, and has . capacity of
25 tons of charcoal pig iron per day, or
1900 tons per annum. The works are To-
Gated on Grand Traverse Bay, and use only
the Lake Superior ore. The company has
purchased large tracts of line numbered
land, and thus secured timber for their
charcoal and fuel for some time to come.
We are able to chronicle this new accession
TO the iron manufactures Of the northwest.
The Lake Superior iron mines are practi-
cally inexhaustible, and the ore is the best
in the country.
The following items are collated from
the Pottstown Ledger
There are fourteen furnaces in this city,
as follows Anna furnace at Pottstown,
owned by Pottstown Iron Company Lu-
cinda furnace, at Norristown, owned by
Messrs. Schall Norristown furnace, 1t
Norristown, owned by Hooven and Son
two Swedes furnaces, at Swedesburg, own.
ed by James Lanigan I; two William Penn
furnaces, near Spring Mill, and Sp-:.4e
Mill furnace. owned by Messrs. Hitner
two Plymouth furnaces, at Conshohocken
owned by Fulton & Co.. Montgomery fur
mace, at Port Kennedy, owned by Mont
gomery Iron Company two Merton fur
naces, opposite ConshohOcken, owned BY
Morehead & Co. Edgehill furnace, on tn,
North Pa. K. r., owned by Beck & Co.
In the days when iron was melted anC
manufactured in this part of the countrl
with charcoal, the number Of furnaces ant
FORCES in the upper end of Montgomery
and lower end Of Berks county, was quit,
large. A friend informs us that ON wa,
between Pottstown and SiesholtZville Their
were no less than fourteen Of these manu-
factories run by water, and situated on tn
Manatawny, Ironstone and west brancI
Of the Perkiomen Greek. OF these oil,
iron works, some Of them, Poole, Cote
brookdale, Glasgow, and others, were bull
and put into operation one hundred am
twenty-five to one hundred and fifty year
ago. Owing to the supply Of wood ben
exhausted, nearly or quite all of thes
works have fallen into disuse, and in som
instances have been dismantled and tor
! away SO many years ago that there
scarcely anything left to mark the sit
where they once stood.