Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-12-25
.rhe lEtna iron and Nail Mill.

The .Etna Iron and Nail Mill.
by our old Employee
This institution is tangible exam
pie of the Darwinian theory. 1t is an
evolution of one enterprise out of an
other, and the result of the process is
about ss unlike its origin as are the
cruel hawks 10 the gentle doves from
which Darwin derives them. Ne will
note the process. In 1862 W. ". Hol-
loway, OF Bridgeport, Ohio, sold one
hundred acres OF land lying il little
north OF that town and fronting CD the
river 10 MeSSrS. ZimmernaH, Styboid
IL Halam. About this time The specie
mania OF people hereabouls WAS vine
yards, grapes, and ''wine that maketh
the neart glad. +" So the gentlemen
named organized company, in 1863,
under the title of the "W .liEg and
Belmont Grape and Wine and Mining
Association" to whom they sold lis
acres for $4,000. Lewis Jouts. Of
Wheeling, bought from Mr.. Woods Il
10 acre coal privilege, which ne also
turned over to the wine com mpdny. The
vineyard and wine part of The enler-
prise Was carried ON until the company
mad expended, including the cost u the
land, over $4,000, when it was found
to be practically failure. They still
had their land and their more valuable
coal. From this wine company, with
a number of additions, was evolved The
Etna Iron and Nail Company, to
whom the whole property Was turned
over at S50,0O0. In January, 1873, the
company was fully organized with w.
4
Rhodes, a. q. Robinson, l.. Spence, L.
L. Moffat and Daniel Davis as Di-
rectOrS.
Mr.. Holloway was elected President
and W. III. Tallman Secretary. In
March, 1S.o, hUnu...1 operations were
cOmmenI, I. ,..., 4 ...e l1alagemecit OF
Lewis Jones, E,q. The Mill WAS push
ed vigorously forward and on the 10th
day OF this December it made its trial
run. The mill proper is 2U0 feet long,
and 100 feet wide. In this building
are the four Heating furnaces and one
Annealing furnace, and the machinery
which consists of two sets OF muck
rolls, ~ inch train, and squeezer; one
sheet mill 20 inch train. This machine
ry is driven by six hundred horse.
power engine, 30inch bore and five and
"a half feet stroke, with fly wheel
wei Ching fOrty-Seven tons. One SIX
teen inch bar train, one 8 inch guide
train, with crusher, shears, lathe and
ther machinery are driven by another
engine, 81 inch bore and 81 inch stroke.
The steam is supplied from battery OF
five boilers, 26 feet long and AZ inches
in diameter, with two fiueS IN each.
The water for the boilers is brought
from the river into six large cisterns,
each by II feet, by an 8 inch steam
pump, j inch cylinder, II inch stroke,
with 30 strokes per minute, throwing
seven gallons to the stroke. The boil
ing department is wing building, One
hundred and eighteen feet long by six
ty-tive feet wide, and contains twelve
| boiling furnaces.
The power and capacity of this mill
is not surpassed by any other IN the
country. The warehouse is one hunu-
red anu ten feet long by seventy-five
wide, one end two stories high, the up
per story used fOr the offices Of the
company. The whole building is OF
brick and covered with slate. The pro.
ducts will be all kinds OF sheet iron, fire
bed and boiler plate, merchant iron
from 3-16 round and square up 10
inches. Flats from Linen 10 inches
wide, and of any thickness; L Raj
from TO 40 lbs. per yard; flat countel
sunk md punched rails, or any othel
kind i'll the country.
All the. machinery has been thor,
oughly tried and the first product ol
iron proves to be of excellent quality.
The company own 160 acres OF coal
and command the entrance to IL vast
field lying behind them. This Iuel Is
delivered directly from the bank into
all the bins. Upon their lands the
company have lald out town lots on
| twelve acres and have sold 20 lois,
upon II of which houses have been
built. There are also IL houses belong
ing to the company. With all thell
immense resources we do not see why
this. concern should not be one OF the
most prosperous in the country. They
expect TO commence building their Mai
department next spring.-IntetLigencer