The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-12-04

Puddi-rs at Wheeling are 10 get =, ~
per ton from this out.
The steel works in Troy were shut down
for repairs last Saturday evening. The
Rensselaer, rail mill will be closed in conse-
quence-
TN Monday morning Nov. % notices
were posted in the Albany aud Rensselaer,
iron and steel works that general reduc-
ton of prices paid to workmen in all de
partments would take place
The great iron and steel district Of France
IS in the department Of Loire, extending
from lie Creuzot on the north to St Etien-
ne ON the south. The two largest organi-
cations are those OF the Messrs Schneider
at LIE CreuZot and Messrs. Pesin, Gaudet
4 Co, (ately converted into stock com
panv) with works at several points between
Lyons and ST. Etienne. The only possible
reason for the establishment Of works in
tins section was the existance Of coal for
there are no native ores in sufficient guam
tIty or Of good enough quality to warrant
such great expenditure OF capital for plant
The coal, 70 IS IF a very poor quality, and
all the ores have to be brought from great
distances, involving extensive land car
rII.e. Yet with all these disadvantages,
the iron aud steel industry of the country
has been a successful one.
The Reck Hill Iron and Coal Company,
at OrbIsonla. Huntingdon County Pa. will
blow IN che of their new furnaces within
a month. These furnaces (twO) are among
the most complete IN the state, and are ex-
actly alike. They are IL feet at the boslies
and % feet high. The engines have 30
inch blowing and 60 inch steam cylinders.
One Of the leading Improvements in these
furnaces Is interchangeable power, gases
&c. This company mine their ores (hema-
ute and FOSSIL from their mines within
half mile Of the furnaces, running cars by
gravity direct from the mines TO stock
house Limestone is bought from quarries
aDont four miles distant, the fuel 10 coke
made by the Belgian ovens from the com
panys coxl, mined at the terminus of the
East Broad Top Railroad, twenty miles
from the furnaces. About four hundred
and % tons Of coal are shipped daily 10 the
eastern market IN addition to what is re-
CURED for e.-Sd,odrd'S Codl Journal.
RUSSIAN IRON MANUFACTURES.
n IcPoIt presented 10 J0O Iecnulcal 90
ciety II st. Peterhnrgh shows that large
portion OF the manufacturing establish
ments Of Russia are in the hands Of for.
elgners. In the district Of St. Petersburg,
foreigners own % out Of 80; IN the province
Of Moscow, % out Of AZ; In the district Of
the Nistula, out of IA; i'll the Baltic pro
vuces 2l- There are l67 works in Russis
tor the construction IF engines, exclusive
Of the imperial establishment, and three
fourths IF these make locomotives and
other railway plant. Large numbers Of the
locomotives used on Russian railways are
nevertheless made in this country. The
l67 establishments mentioned above ust
engines Of ov5r 5000 horse power, AMI EN-
ploy Al $50 workmen. They CONSUME
yearly 1873 600 tons of pig iron, 164, 800
tons q wrought iron, and l27 900 tons Of
| fuel The lronwurks Of the Ural alone
produce 20 per cent Of all the pig iron Oh.
tanned in Russia. but there room for many
mere lronworks IN that region, especially
since the discovery 1T large cJaltl.slds within
railway distance III them.