The workingman's advocate., 1874-12-05
TFEiR0N TRADE.
OHIO

Anna f,gpace. at Ssruthers Statio.sa. vas
blown "a N the 18th ult.
Ca7teright, HIcCnrdy & Co.'S new mill
was.sV be hghte4 up last week.
fhe Burgess Iron and Steel %, at
Portsmouth, recently pu: in Ehree-ton
roll
The Marietta rolling mill hA., an order
for 200 car Aoads Of railroad ir4u-
The Grafton Iron Company Is running
full forcs and making No. foundry.
The Gaylor rolling mill at Portsmouth
has closed for want Of ordezs4
Tae IRON and steel comexoy' furnace, at
Ironton, is so advanced that it could be
completed in six or eighs weeks.
Brown, Donnel Il Sos old mill. at
Youngstown, is not running for want Of
orders. Their new mill is running sing e
turn.
PENNSYLVANIA.
The second furnace of the Cambria Iron
Company at Holidaysbnrg, will soon be
blown out.
Tho Warwick Iron Company is about
erecting new anthracite furnace on its
grounds at Pottstown.
Wampum furnace, at Wampmm, Law
renee county. is bel x dried out after being
repaired, and will be blown in soon.
The Cherry Valley Iron Company, Lee
tonia. have Just finished the repairs on
their No. Furnace, and are now at work
on new hot blasts. No. is making an
extra quality of iron from native ore Con
siderable confidence is placed In report
that at meeting Of ths directors, about
four weeks ag,. they decided to start the
remaining furnace and the rolling mill
The repairs on both are nearly COM
l pleted and, no doubt, the report has
good foundation. This would give EN-
ployment to 200 men.
MISSOURI.
The extensive car works at St. Charles,
that began operations III April last. are
! doing fine business About 200 cars for
| the Iron Mountain road have been built,
and are pronounced hrst-class.
! The Scotia Furnace, at Leasburg, Craw-
ford county. made 2934 tons of pig iron
/ during the four months ended August 81.
This is charcoal furnace, 81 feet across
| the bOshes
The St. Louis Bolt and Iron Company
| have Just taken an order for $50 tons Of
| street rails fer La Sale, Illinois. Six
| of the most important competitions of
st. Louis were represented, including
Chicago, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and other
points.
The Springfield Iron Company are act
ively employed in the manufacture of
Silicon steel rails, and are running on full
time, with numerous orders ahead They
are Just completing a large order for the
H., ". & w. X. r.. and are preparing to
go to work on a two thousand ton
order from the Union Pacific Railroad
Company.
THE BELGIAN COAL AND IRON TRADE.
The Belgian coal merchants still CON-
plain Of the state Of the trade, and prices
continue weak. Nevertheless, the produc--
tlon ia said to be passing into consump-
ton, and stocks are not accumulating. A
strike for higher wages of miners IN u e.
vicinity of Alost, in East Flanders, by
which 300 persons have been thrown out
of employment, the loss Of wages being
30, O6O francs (f1, 200 per day, is said to-
be terminating, the men having returned
to work in several of the pits. The gen.
eral condition of the IRON trade has not
Improved, aud complaints are becoming
more numerous Some large orders have
been received from the Russian Govern .
ment for steel rails, it being understood
that the Cruezot Works have Just con~s