The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-10-09
MINOUAS ROLLING MILLS.
THE NJ CULLoUGH IRON COMPANY's NEW
ENTERPRISE IN wlLMINGTON-OPERA-
TIONs TO BE COMMENCED IN FEW
AYs-DEsCR1PTION OF THE

TIONS TO BE COMMENCED IN FEW
| DAYs-DEsCR1PTION OF THE
NEW MILLS.
From Wilmington Commercial.
The new rolling mills of the Mccullough
Iron Co., at the foot of Seventh street, il
this city, will begin work regularly mex
week with two pairs of sheet rolls. Dur
ing last week the mills were started to tes
the machinery, and the first product was
satisfactorily turned out of the bar mill.
The opening of these rolling mills will
mark an important era in the industrial
history of the city, and their commence
ment of operations at this particular time
will be hailed with delight by our working
men, as it is another cheerful indication
of the anxiously awaited revival in trade
They are also among the largest, if not the
largest, sheet iron mills in the world, and
in the nature of their construction and
adaptation to the requirements of theil
work they are unsurpassed by any kindred
enterprise any where. They have been
built slowly and with great care, the Com
| pany being DESTROYS to secure permanency
| and strength rather than an early occupa-
| tion of the mills.
The new rolling mills have been named
the " Minquas P" from the name which the
| Christiana first bore, and also from tribe
of Indians which occupied this part of the
New World. Their site embraces between
eight and nine acres, extending from the
Christiana river, where there. is splendid
water front to the P, w. & B. Railroad, a
branch of which runs directly into the
yards. The mills are two in number-sheet
and bar mills. The sheet mill is 220 feet
long by 80 feet span, with a shed about IL
feet wide, extending the whole length of
the front. In this mill there are at present
three pairs of rolls-one so inch and two
"A inch. There are also two machines for
washing iron, patented by E. A. Harvey,
ESQ.,, which remove all dust from the iron,
making it as clean as tin and relieving the
workmen from that coating of dust which
is inseparable from them without the pro-
Beyond the Sheet mill, from the railroad,
is the bar mill, but connected with the
former by wing 50x40 feet, which will be
used for a bar yard. The bar mill is 1855
feet long with span of 70 feet, and 70
foot shed extending along the side. In it
there are at present four pudding furnaces
and one heating furnace, but others will be
added as necessity requires. In fact, there
they are capable of receiving, or which it
is designed to put in them but additions
will hereafter be made. There is also in this
mill one steam hammer, weighing 1850
pounds, rotary squeezer, and two trim
ming shears with independent engines and
with a capacity to cut off a bar Of iron 6x2
inches when cold.
The machinery is driven by two horizon
tai engines with cylinders 80 inches in d.
ameter and 60 inch stroke. They were
designed by E. A. Harvey, Esq, and en-
brace some new principles, being COM
bination of the Corliss with the Babcock
& Wilcox All the heaters are self acting.
Steam is generated from the waste heat
from the furnace, in Babcock boilers. The
fly wheels are 81 feet in diameter, and carry
belts SO inches wide, 1876 feet long, and
weighing 400 pounds, being among the
largest in the United States.
The buildings are covered on their roofs
and sides with galvanized iron, corrugated,
while the frame work is of the strongest
kind, we'll braced. The foundations are
laid in sulphur, and all that could possibly
give strength to the buildings was en-
ployed. The pitch is high, and an abund-
ance of light is afforded.
The product of these mills, as of the 9TH
ers operated by the Mccullough Iron Com
pany, will be the Best Refined Harvey's
Patent Cleaned Sheet Iron. This brand is
quite popular in the market, because of its
intrinsic value, and it is a remarkable fact
that while the various industries of the
country have been suffering, the McCul-
Tough Iron Company have felt the depres-
sion but little, and most of the time have
been running all their works day and night
At the present time they are behind with
their orders and are straining every nerve
to get up again. After the sheets are rolled
to the required thickness, those which it is
desired to galvanize are shipped to the
Company's extensive galvanizing works at
Philadelphia, where they are put through
the required process, and from this place
delivered.
One of the rules adopted by the McCul-
Tough Iron Company, and which they will
enforce in the Minquas Rolling Mills, is
that no man will be employed who uses
liquor as beverage, who sells liquor or
encourages the use or sale thereof. Most
of their employees in the other mills are
steady, reliable workmen, and they propose
to employ only the best here.